Darshan Kumar

About Darshan Kumar

SR DataOps|DevOps Engineer | Cloud Engineer|Airflow|MLFLOWHands-on Experience:Big Data Technologies: CDP, AWS EMR, HDP, Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, YARN, HDFS, RANGER, OOZIE, Airflow, HBase, Hive.MLOps & ML Lifecycle: Model training, deployment, monitoring, retrainingTools & Frameworks: MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Airflow, DVCManaged and supported a 200+ node Big Data cluster deployed using CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) across YARN, HDFS, Hive, HBase, Ranger, and OozieExpertise in Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and Hadoop for large-scale data processing.CI/CD & GitOps: Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions. Implemented GitOps workflows with Argo CD for automated and declarative application delivery on Kubernetes.Kubernetes-Based Infrastructure: Application deployment, scaling, monitoring, and rolling updates on Kubernetes clusters (EKS, CDP Private Cloud Base)Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for provisioning cloud and on-prem resources, including AWS, IAM, S3, EC2, EMR, and Kubernetes resourcesConfiguration Management: Automated OS and application configurations using Ansible, including patching and application rolloutsMonitoring & Logging: Proficient in Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK stack for observability, alerting, and proactive troubleshootingDevSecOps Practices: Integrated security checks and scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines (image scanning, secrets detection)Programming/Scripting: Python (data pipelines, automation), Shell scripting (administration and orchestration)Database Administration: MySQL, Redshift, Postgres, HBase, Hive – performance tuning, backup & restore, schema management

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   Apple

   Dec 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Government Engineering College Hassan

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2012 — 2016