Ajay Dhungel
Toronto, ON · dhungelajay@gmail.com
DevOps Engineer · 9x AWS Certified · AWS Community Builder
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 3 years of professional experience, 4+ years of AWS exposure, and a 4-year tenure as AWS Community Builder. Maintained SOC 2 compliance across EKS and serverless platforms, drove AWS DevOps Competency designation as an AWS Partner engineer, and built agentic AI systems on Amazon Bedrock; presented at AWS Summit Toronto 2025 and 2026.
Professional Experience
DevOps Engineer
Deskree Technologies Inc. | Toronto, ON March 2025 - February 2026
- Delivered 99.9% production uptime by leading AWS platform operations across EKS, RDS Aurora, VPC, and ALB.
- Engineered modular Terraform stacks with dev/prod Terraform Cloud workspaces, automating plan/apply workflows, centralizing secrets via AWS Secrets Manager, and bringing all untracked resources under IaC control.
- Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Next.js, TypeScript, and Python MCP server services, automating builds, tests, and ECR delivery; bootstrapped EKS clusters with Ansible and deployed ArgoCD via App of Apps for GitOps.
- Reduced monitoring and infrastructure costs by centralizing observability with CloudWatch and Container Insights, developing Python Lambda functions to route alarms to Slack, and rightsizing resources.
- Maintained SOC 2 compliance via Vanta, triaging and remediating flagged controls to ensure continuous audit readiness.
- Enforced least-privilege IAM across multiple AWS accounts under consolidated billing as the sole DevOps engineer, managing users, roles, and policies for all engineering teams.
Cloud Engineer
Genese Solution | Kathmandu, Nepal March 2022 - December 2023
- Architected and operated serverless microservice platforms on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFormation), achieving 99.9% availability across multiple client accounts.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and multi-service deployments for Cross River Bank using Terraform, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, and Jenkins, cutting manual release effort.
- Led 45+ AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews, producing architecture diagrams in Lucidchart and Draw.io to surface risks and align clients with AWS best practices.
- Hardened security across multiple client AWS environments by executing IAM audits and vulnerability assessments, implementing data protection controls in regulated cloud environments.
Education
Lambton College | Post-Graduate Certificate in DevOps For Cloud Computing | 2025 Dean’s List
Tribhuvan University | Bachelor of Information Management | 2022
Technical Skills
IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, CloudFormation
Containers: Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, ArgoCD
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitOps
Scripting: Python, Bash, Linux
Cloud: AWS (EKS, ECS, RDS Aurora, Lambda, VPC, ALB, ECR, Secrets Manager, IAM, SES, Bedrock)
Observability: CloudWatch, Container Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, alerting
Security: DevSecOps, SOC 2, Vanta, shift-left practices
Certifications
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional | Sep 2024
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | Jan 2026
- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional | Jan 2026
- AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate | Oct 2025
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate | Sep 2025
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate | Feb 2025
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | Jun 2023
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) | Dec 2023
Community & Accomplishments
- AWS Community Builder (2023–2026) | Community Builders Profile
- All Builders Welcome Grant | Amazon Web Services, 2025; attended re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas
- Speaker: AWS Summit Toronto 2025 — Multi-Agent Collaboration on Amazon Bedrock
- Speaker: AWS Summit Toronto 2026 — Building a Personal AI Assistant in Minutes with OpenClaw on AWS
- Early access and beta testing for Kiro and Amazon Q