Ajay Dhungel
Toronto, ON · dhungelajay@gmail.com
DevOps Engineer · 9x AWS Certified · AWS Community Builder
Summary
9x AWS Certified Platform & DevOps Engineer and 4-year AWS Community Builder. Maintains SOC 2-compliant EKS and serverless platforms, builds agentic AI systems on Amazon Bedrock, and drives infrastructure automation at scale; presented at AWS Summit Toronto 2025 and 2026.
Professional Experience
Freelance Platform & DevOps Engineer
Upwork | Remote February 2026 - Present
- Led full EKS engagement for a client — architecture design, technology selection, implementation, and documentation across compute, networking, and storage layers.
- Diagnosed and resolved GitHub Actions pipeline failures across multiple client engagements, covering runner issues, EKS integration, Helm/Kustomize chart deployments, and SNS-Lambda-Slack alerting pipelines.
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.
Cloud Engineer
Genese Solution | Kathmandu, Nepal March 2022 - December 2023
- Architected and operated serverless microservice platforms on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFormation), serving as primary AWS engineer across 10+ 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.
Projects
openclaw-lightsail-setup | AWS Summit Toronto 2026 | Terraform, Ansible, Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lightsail
- Automated full deployment of the OpenClaw personal AI assistant on AWS Lightsail — Terraform provisions the instance, static IP, firewall, and Bedrock IAM role; Ansible configures agents, MCP skills, and Telegram in a single terraform apply.
- Integrated Claude Sonnet via Amazon Bedrock with Telegram, Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar), and Notion MCP for a multi-agent personal assistant; demo presented at AWS Summit Toronto 2026.
bedrock-agents-collab | AWS Summit Toronto 2025 | Terraform, Amazon Bedrock, Python
- Built Terraform infrastructure for a multi-agent collaboration system on Amazon Bedrock; demo presented at AWS Summit Toronto 2025.
- Provisioned Bedrock agents, orchestration layer, and supporting AWS infrastructure fully as code.
k8s-gitops | Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Jenkins, EKS
- Implemented a full GitOps lifecycle on AWS EKS, deploying FastAPI, Nginx, MongoDB, and Redis via ArgoCD App of Apps.
- Provisioned and managed cluster infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt; automated deployments through Jenkins pipelines.
railsflow-ci | GitHub Actions, EKS, Helm, Terragrunt, Ruby
- Built a production-grade CI/CD pipeline for Ruby on Rails targeting EKS with Helm chart deployments.
- Automated test, build, and deploy stages via GitHub Actions with Terragrunt-managed infrastructure.
ai-cv-tailor | Claude Code, Claude API, LaTeX, XeLaTeX | Active
- Built an AI-native CV tailoring pipeline — drop in a job description and Claude reads the JD, makes tailoring decisions, and compiles a submission-ready PDF.
- Master resume lives in a single LaTeX source; Claude adjusts the title, summary, and bullets per role using a variant library, keeping the master untouched.
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, AWS Community Lounge — Building a Personal AI Assistant with OpenClaw on AWS; ~200 attendees; Community Lounge sessions ranked highest CSAT at Summit
- FIFA World Cup 2026 Volunteer | Pre-Match Ceremonies, Toronto Stadium (Jan 2026 – Jul 2026)