Ajay Dhungel

Toronto, ON · (437) 870-6261 · dhungelajay@gmail.com

Summary

I select the right fit for the problem, keep systems practical, and avoid unnecessary complexity. I automate what makes sense, build for failure, and treat monitoring and cost control as first-class requirements. Scaling and HA are valuable, but over-engineering isn’t. I take pride in what I ship and fully own the systems I operate. Always open to learning new things. I also believe communication is the greatest skill when building amazing products.

Focus Areas

  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes and container platforms management
  • CI/CD: End to end robust pipelines development with tests and safe releases
  • Infrastructure as Code: Modular IaC development with secrets management
  • Configuration Management: Design and maintain flexible config systems
  • Scripting: Bash/shell scripting along with Python to automate repetitive tasks
  • Security First: Secure infrastructure planning and delivery (shift-left method)
  • Cost Discipline: Right-sizing, efficiency, and long-term sustainability

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

Deskree Technologies Inc. | Toronto, ON May 2025 - Jan 2026

  • Led AWS platform operations (EKS primary; ECS and Lambda supporting) to deliver 99.9% uptime and cost-efficient production systems.
  • Designed modular Terraform/Terragrunt stacks and Terraform Cloud VCS workflows, cutting config drift by ~80%.
  • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests, and deployments, halving release time.
  • Centralized observability via CloudWatch, Container Insights, and custom metrics, reducing monitoring costs by 30%.
  • Deployed Kong as external API gateway and used Lens for daily Kubernetes operations.
  • Owned infrastructure design, monitoring, incident response, and AWS cost optimization with scalable, reliable architecture.

Cloud Engineer

Genese Solution | Kathmandu, Nepal March 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Led design and operation of scalable, cost-efficient AWS infrastructures (EKS, ECS, Lambda) ensuring 99.9% uptime.
  • Automated provisioning and deployments using Terraform, Terragrunt, and CI/CD pipelines, cutting release cycles by over 50%.
  • Implemented centralized observability and cost optimization with CloudWatch, Container Insights, and rightsizing, reducing expenses by 25-30%.
  • Supported clients as an AWS Partner engineer, guiding Well-Architected reviews and aligning systems with AWS best practices.

Cloud Engineer | AWS Support

Swostech Solutions | Kathmandu, Nepal April 2021 - March 2022

  • Architected AWS solutions for client WAFR reviews and Sendy/SES email platforms, achieving 99.99% uptime on EC2 instances.
  • Led database migrations to RDS using schema conversion tools, optimizing costs through rightsizing and efficiency tweaks.
  • Provided daily Linux server troubleshooting and support for multi-client environments, ensuring operational reliability.
  • Built scalable microservices architectures to support diverse client services and workloads.

Education

Post Graduate Certificate, DevOps for Cloud Computing Lambton College, Toronto | 2024 - 2025

Bachelor of Information Management Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu | 2017 - 2022

Tech Stack

Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP

Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab

IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenTofu

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Loki, CloudWatch Container Insights, Athena

Data Stores: RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache (Redis), S3, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, DocumentDB

Kubernetes Ecosystem: eksctl, Helm, Kong, ArgoCD, Lens, Karpenter, Kustomize, nginx-ingress, AWS Load Balancer Controller

Scripting & OS: Python, Bash, Linux

Networking & Middleware: AWS ALB, nginx, Route53, VPC, Security Groups

Community & Speaking

AWS Community Builders Program

  • AWS Community Builder since 2023 | Community Builders Profile
  • Speaker at AWS Summit Toronto 2025 and AWS User Group Toronto
  • ABW Grant recipient 2025; attended re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas
  • Early access and beta testing for Kiro and Amazon Q