About

Kunal Killekar is a skilled DevOps Engineer with over 3 years of hands-on experience in supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS and Azure leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. He is a Microsoft 3x Azure Certified professional with expertise in AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. Kunal has a total of 11.28 years of relevant experience, including 7+ years of experience in training students on Cloud technologies like AWS and Azure. He has trained over 200 students in cloud-based services like AWS, Azure, and scripting languages like Python, Bash, and PowerShell. He has also organized technical events and conducted workshops for students to develop and enhance their interpersonal and technical skills. Currently, Kunal is working as a Software Engineer-II (DevOps Engineer) at ConnectWise, where he is responsible for supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS and Azure. Prior to this, he worked as a DevOps Engineer at BeCloudReady, where he was involved in provisioning cloud infrastructure using IaC tool like Terraform, automating deployment of Flask applications using Python, Boto3, and AWS, and deploying applications on remote servers using configuration management tools like Ansible and CloudFormation. He also has experience in hosting static websites using S3 service and CloudFront to reduce user end latency. Before moving into the industry, Kunal worked as an Assistant Professor at Maratha Mandal Engineering College, Belgaum, where he trained students in cloud-based services like AWS and Azure and scripting languages like Python, Bash, and PowerShell. He also supported weekly lab sessions, contributing to student engagement, comprehension, and learning objectives. Kunal holds a Master's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. He is a proficient user of AWS, DevOps, Ansible, Software Engineer, Terraform, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, CI/CD, Flask, Web, and infra.