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Parag Salgaonkar_
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cloud
AWS · Terraform · ECS · K8s
languages
Python · Go · Bash
ops
CI/CD · Observability · IaC
certs
AWS x2 · CKAD
ai/ml
LLMs · RAG · Knowledge Graphs
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history --career
2023 — present
active
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Osano Inc. Arlington, VA
- Migrated all infrastructure to Terraform; reduced API costs by 20% at 1.2B requests/month scale
- Built Docker image pipeline with GitHub Actions for secure org-wide base images
2021 — 2023
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
WireWheel Inc. Arlington, VA
- Designed multi-region AWS infra for a Privacy Consent platform using CDK — flagship product, Fortune 500 clients, ~30M req/day
- Reduced AWS costs by 30% through VPC endpoints, ALB consolidation, cross-AZ traffic reduction
- Formalized on-call with PagerDuty; built incident response runbooks and SOC-2 compliance
2019 — 2021
DevOps Engineer
WireWheel Inc. Arlington, VA
- Migrated EC2 monolith to microservices with Terraform, EKS & Helm
- Transitioned Kubernetes to ECS; built internal tooling for releases, backups, DR
2017 — 2018
Data Engineer
WireWheel Inc. Arlington, VA
- Built Python/Flask apps for resource discovery across AWS, GCP, Azure for GDPR compliance
- Created NLP summarization service with spaCy for privacy policy ranking
2017
Software Developer
JIFSAN (FDA/USDA) College Park, MD
- Developed a Python backend using Pandas and MySQL with FDA/USDA to provide nutritional transparency for processed foods
- Implemented Jenkins pipelines for AMI builds, testing, and deployment on AWS (EC2, RDS, ALB)
# education
M.S. Telecommunications Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park — 2018
B.E. Electronics & Telecom Engineering
University of Mumbai, India — 2016
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ls -la ./skills/
cloud/
AWSAzureGCP
iac/
TerraformCDKCloudFormation
lang/
PythonBashGoJavaScriptC
containers/
ECSKubernetesEKSGKEkOpsDocker
cicd/
GitHub ActionsCodePipelineJenkinsGitLabCircleCI
observability/
CloudWatchSumoLogicPagerDutyFluentd
ai-ml/
LLMsRAGNeo4jspaCyKnowledge Graphs
# certs:
AWS Developer
AWS Solutions Architect
CKAD
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cat ./contact.yml