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Parag Salgaonkar_

role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
focus: Infrastructure, Reliability, Scale
path: Data Engineer → DevOps → SRE (8+ yrs)
next: AI/ML + Reliability Engineering
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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
$ 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
$ 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
$ cat ./contact.yml