Vidhi Patel

About Vidhi Patel

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and automating resilient, secure, and scalable cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.I specialize in Kubernetes-based platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code automation, and enterprise CI/CD architecture that enables organizations to deliver software faster, more securely, and at global scale.Throughout my career, I have built and optimized cloud-native systems for high-traffic, mission-critical platforms in financial services, enterprise SaaS, and global payment infrastructure. My work focuses on creating highly available multi-region environments, implementing DevSecOps practices, and building automated infrastructure that reduces operational risk while accelerating innovation.Key areas of expertise include:• Kubernetes platform engineering and multi-cluster orchestration• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and GitOps automation• CI/CD pipeline architecture with secure release engineering• DevSecOps, compliance automation, and supply chain security• Observability and reliability engineering with enterprise monitoring platforms• Cloud-native microservices and event-driven architecturesI have led large-scale cloud transformations, migrated legacy systems to containerized microservices, and implemented automated deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary releases. My work has helped organizations reduce deployment times, improve system reliability, strengthen security posture, and optimize cloud costs.Beyond engineering, I’m passionate about mentoring DevOps teams, standardizing cloud-native best practices, and building internal developer platforms that empower teams to innovate quickly and safely.Always interested in connecting with professionals working in:Cloud Engineering | DevOps | Platform Engineering | SRE | DevSecOps | Kubernetes | AI-driven Infrastructure Automation

Experience

1. Sr Devops Engineer

   Bank of America

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Designed and deployed an AI-powered digital transformation platform on AWS using EKS, Lambda, and event-driven architectures, enabling scalable multi-region processing for banking services including payments, loans, and customer applications.• Architected secure, highly available cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, provisioning VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPN connectivity, and encrypted RDS and S3 storage, ensuring compliance with SOX, PCI-DSS, and FFIEC standards.• Built fully automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Helm, and Argo CD, implementing blue-green and canary deployments, reducing deployment time by 28% and eliminating manual release errors.• Implemented DevSecOps practices including SAST/DAST scanning, SBOM generation, vulnerability management, and AWS Secrets Manager integration, reducing critical security findings by 13%.• Established enterprise observability and AIOps monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, defining SLIs/SLOs and reducing MTTR by 35%.• Migrated legacy banking systems to cloud-native microservices on AWS EKS, implementing autoscaling (HPA/VPA) and integrating AWS SageMaker for predictive analytics.• Mentored DevOps teams on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native best practices, creating reusable IaC templates, runbooks, and deployment standards.

Education

• Gujarat Technological University (GTU)

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science