Hello, I'm
Amar Sattaur
Staff DevOps & Platform Engineer
Deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline architecture, and cloud infrastructure automation. Technical leader with hands-on implementation skills.
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Staff DevOps & Platform Engineer
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About Me
# Introduction and background
I'm a Staff-level DevOps and Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline architecture, and cloud infrastructure automation. I have a proven track record of executing zero-downtime EKS cluster upgrades across multiple major versions and leading cross-cloud migrations.
As a technical leader, I combine hands-on implementation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders and mentor engineering teams. I design reusable CI/CD frameworks that accelerate development velocity.
Available for new opportunities
Notable Achievements
Cross-Cloud Migration Leadership
AWS-to-OCI migration at FinTech company100% Uptime K8s Upgrades
10+ major EKS version upgradesCI/CD Standardization
Reduced service onboarding from days to hoursCritical Incident Leadership
Led resolution of a major P1 production outage at a publicly traded financial services company within my first month—initially without production access. Obtained emergency credentials through proper escalation, led war room calls over a weekend, and restored payment processing services. Maintained real-time documentation for regulatory compliance and developed remediation plan presented to the board.02.
Experience
# Where I've worked
January 2025 - PresentCurrent
Staff DevOps Engineer
@ Mogo Financial
- Architected and evolved a multi-environment platform on AWS/OCI (EKS, RDS, RabbitMQ, object storage), defining patterns for new services, cron jobs, and integrations used by multiple product teams while owning uptime, scalability, and security for customer-facing financial platforms.
- Drove platform-wide Kubernetes upgrades (EKS 1.26 → 1.33), planning and executing control plane and node group rollouts with zero downtime—aligning applications, operators, and Helm chart dependencies while validating API deprecations with Pluto.
- Standardized and scaled CI/CD as a shared platform capability, implementing organization-wide GitHub Actions and ArgoCD patterns, managing self-hosted runners via ARC across AWS and OCI, and establishing safe deployment strategies for high-traffic services.
- Led cross-cloud infrastructure migration from AWS to Oracle Cloud, defining the migration strategy, provisioning IaC-managed resources, and coordinating cutover procedures with minimal disruption to production workloads.
- Acted as primary DevOps partner to product and engineering leads, translating business and regulatory requirements into infrastructure changes, establishing environment standards, and unblocking teams with access, tooling, and shared platform services—reporting directly to the COO on delivery timelines and blockers.
- Influenced engineering-wide practices as a staff-level contributor, reviewing designs for new services, mentoring engineers on infrastructure-as-code and reliability patterns, and serving as the escalation point for complex infrastructure and incident response.
December 2022 - January 2025
Platform Engineer (Contract)
@ Independent Consulting
- Performed zero-downtime EKS upgrades spanning v1.24 to v1.30, including control plane and managed node group rollouts with pre-upgrade API compatibility validation.
- Orchestrated a complete AWS account migration using Terraform with community EKS modules, consolidating resources and eliminating infrastructure sprawl.
- Designed reusable GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for Python, Go, and TypeScript applications—implementing Docker layer caching, conditional job triggers, and GHCR publishing—reducing average build times by 35%.
- Implemented Karpenter with custom NodePools and NodeClasses, enabling intelligent cluster autoscaling and reducing compute costs by optimizing instance selection.
- Deployed foundational cluster infrastructure: ingress-nginx, external-secrets (AWS Secrets Manager), external-dns (Route53), cert-manager, and argocd-image-updater for automated deployments.
- Integrated CastAI for comprehensive cost monitoring and optimization recommendations across EKS workloads.
December 2021 - December 2022
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
@ Narvar
- Led the end-to-end redesign of CI/CD infrastructure: refactored CircleCI pipelines with caching and artifact sharing, authored standardized CircleCI Orbs, and migrated deployments from raw kubectl to self-managed ArgoCD.
- Implemented semantic-release automation, enabling automated GitHub Releases with conventional-commit-based changelogs and eliminating manual versioning overhead.
- Authored base Helm charts with sensible defaults, feature flags, and JSON Schema validation, packaging in OCI format for distribution via Artifactory.
- Administered multiple Artifactory instances—configuring Okta SSO, PostgreSQL HA backend, retention policies, and automated vulnerability scanning.
- Drove cost optimization initiatives, identifying and remediating orphaned EBS volumes, idle EC2/RDS instances, and implementing preventive automation.
- Delivered technical presentations to executive leadership and mentored development teams on container adoption through workshops and embedded support.
May 2021 - December 2021
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
@ Exiger
- Led the migration from IBM Cloud to GCP/Kubernetes, architecting the transition strategy and minimizing downtime during core application stack cutover.
- Engineered CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipelines with semantic versioning and automated testing, reducing build times by 40%+.
- Migrated from static Jenkins workers to ephemeral build nodes, eliminating workspace pollution and significantly reducing build failures.
- Authored standardized Helm charts that became the deployment template for all Kubernetes workloads across the organization.
- Strengthened security posture through granular IAM policies (least-privilege) and GKE Workload Identity implementation.
- Championed Terraform adoption with Terraform Cloud, standardizing infrastructure deployment across IBM Cloud and GCP environments.
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Tech Stack
# Tools and technologies I work with
Container ecosystem tools/platforms
KubernetesExpertDockerExpertHelmExpert
Cloud Platforms
AWSExpertGCPAdvancedOracle CloudAdvanced
Infrastructure as Code
TerraformExpertCloudFormationAdvancedWrote my own onceLiterally wrote the thing
CI/CD & Automation
GitHub ActionsExpertArgoCDExpertJenkinsAdvanced
Observability
PrometheusAdvancedGrafanaAdvancedDataDogAdvanced
Languages I'm familiar with
BashExpertPythonAdvancedGoIntermediate
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Projects
# Things I've built
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Blog
# Latest technical articles and insights
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Interactive Terminal
# A real shell experience - try 'ls' or 'help'
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Get In Touch
# Let's connect
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# Ways to reach me
I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities, DevOps challenges, or just connecting with fellow engineers. Feel free to reach out!