Hayden Paul

Cloud Engineer | DevOps Specialist | AI/ML Practitioner
Chennai, IN.

About

Highly motivated Cloud Engineer with 1+ years of experience in designing, deploying, and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Proven ability to leverage AWS, Azure DevOps, Docker, and AI/ML to enhance system reliability, automate processes, and drive significant efficiencies. Currently contributing to AI agent implementation at Factana, seeking to apply advanced cloud and DevOps expertise to complex engineering challenges.

Work

Factana® - Empowering Digital Journey
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Cloud Engineer

India, India

Summary

Currently leading the implementation of N8N AI agents to automate complex workflows and enhance operational efficiency within the cloud environment.

Highlights

Spearheading the integration of N8N AI agents, driving automation for critical business processes and reducing manual intervention.

Factana® - Empowering Digital Journey
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Junior Cloud Engineer

India, India

Summary

Managed cloud infrastructure deployments and optimized CI/CD pipelines, contributing to enhanced system performance and developer productivity.

Highlights

Enhanced cloud application monitoring by integrating Selenium automation with XPath selectors, enabling twice-daily health checks via cronjob and proactive detection of silent failures.

Optimized Angular UI deployments using Docker multi-stage builds, reducing image size from 3.3GB to ~50MB and streamlining artifact delivery to production VMs.

Streamlined CI/CD processes by implementing Azure DevOps pipelines with a self-hosted agent, enhancing control over build environments and optimizing static HTML page deployments.

Contributed to infrastructure automation initiatives, focusing on scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions.

CODE SECURE
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DevOps Engineer Intern

Chennai, Anna Nagar, India

Summary

Contributed to DevOps initiatives, focusing on code reusability, security posture, and infrastructure as code practices.

Highlights

Selected as one of 2 out of 70 applicants for a highly competitive DevOps Engineer Internship, demonstrating strong technical aptitude.

Achieved 90% code reusability across projects through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation, saving an average of 15 hours per project setup.

Reduced security vulnerabilities by 70%, validated through rigorous penetration testing, enhancing system integrity and compliance.

Education

ANNA UNIVERSITY
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

B. Tech

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Grade: 8.3/10.0

Courses

Cloud Computing

Data Analytics Visualization

Artificial Intelligence + Practicum

Functional Programming

Big Data Management

DON BOSCO
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

HSC

Computer Science

Grade: 8.6/10.0

Awards

Published a research paper on "A Novel Approach Text to Sign for Hearing Impaired"

Awarded By

www.ijaem.net (ISSN: 2395-5252)

Published research on innovative text-to-sign language translation for hearing-impaired individuals.

Smart Indian Hackathon Participant

Awarded By

Smart Indian Hackathon

Participated in a national hackathon, demonstrating problem-solving and technical skills.

National Level Symposium Project EXPO Winner

Awarded By

National Level Symposium

Awarded for a project showcased at a national-level symposium, highlighting innovative solutions.

Microsoft Coding Competition Winner

Awarded By

Microsoft

Achieved recognition in a Microsoft Coding Competition utilizing cloud domain expertise.

Certificates

AWS: Solution Architect Associate (SAA – C03)

Issued By

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Great Learning: DevOps

Issued By

Great Learning

KodeKloud: Docker

Issued By

KodeKloud

Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, PostgreSQL), Azure DevOps, Cloud Computing, Serverless Architecture.

DevOps & CI/CD

CI/CD Pipeline Setup, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform (IaC), ArgoCD, GitHub Webhooks, Self-Hosted Agents, YAML, Nginx, Containerization.

Programming Languages

Python, Java, C, JSON, YAML, Shell Scripting.

Automation & Monitoring

Selenium Automation, XPath Selectors, Web-based Testing, Cronjob, Synthetic Monitoring, SRE Principles, N8N AI Agent Implementation.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

NLP, ML (Machine Learning), AI Agents, ChatGPT (LLM Integration), Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Big Data Management.

Databases

PostgreSQL, DynamoDB.

Operating Systems & Tools

Linux, Server Administration, Git, Docker Hub, Visual Studio Code.

Web Technologies

Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CORS.

Projects

AI-Augmented DevOps Assistants in Azure CI/CD

Summary

Integrated AI Agents as DevOps Assistants within an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline, powered by ChatGPT (LLM) to automate error analysis and resolution.

Fullstack Serverless To-Do App on AWS

Summary

Developed a scalable and cost-effective full-stack To-Do application leveraging a fully serverless architecture on AWS.

Microservices Trading Decision Making Software

Summary

Developed a microservices-based trading decision-making software with advanced deployment and recovery capabilities.

End-to-End DevOps Integration for High-Availability Hosting

Summary

Implemented a comprehensive DevOps solution for high-availability hosting, streamlining code deployment and infrastructure orchestration.

Hayden Paul