Hi, I'm Alvin Jaison

DevOps Engineer | IaC Evangelist | Cloud Architect

📍 London, United Kingdom

I turn infrastructure into code, chaos into pipelines, and coffee into uptime. Specializing in cloud architecture and automation, I build systems that scale themselves, heal themselves, and let teams ship faster without the 3 a.m. pages. When I'm not wrangling clusters, I'm building applications that solve real problems.

Bridging the gap between development and operations through automation, infrastructure as code, and continuous improvement.

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Alvin Jaison
$ whoami
alvin.jaison

$ cat role.txt
DevOps Engineer

$ terraform plan
✓ Infrastructure ready

$ kubectl get pods
✓ All systems running

Technology Stack

The tools and platforms I use to build and manage infrastructure

☁️ Cloud Platforms

AWSAzureGCPEC2EKSLambdaS3VPC

🏗️ Infrastructure as Code

TerraformTerraform ModulesCloudFormationAnsiblePulumi

🐳 Containerization & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesHelmECSKustomize

🔄 CI/CD

GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CIArgoCDFluxCD

🔒 Networking & Security

VPC DesignIAMWAFSecrets ManagerHashiCorp VaultmTLS

🐧 Operating Systems

LinuxUbuntuCentOSAmazon Linux

📈 Monitoring & Observability

PrometheusGrafanaDatadogELK StackCloudWatchOpenTelemetry

🔧 Scripting & Languages

BashPythonGoTypeScriptGitGitHub

Core Competencies

Key areas of expertise and specialization

☁️ Cloud Infrastructure

  • Multi-region, highly available architectures on AWS
  • Well-Architected Framework reviews & remediation
  • Cloud spend optimization through rightsizing & spot strategies
  • Landing zone design for multi-account environments

⚙️ Automation

  • Provisioning reduced from days to minutes via modular Terraform
  • Configuration drift detection & auto-remediation
  • Self-healing infrastructure with auto-scaling & health checks
  • Runbook automation eliminating repetitive toil

🐳 Containerization

  • Production Kubernetes clusters with zero-downtime rollouts
  • Microservices decomposition & service mesh integration
  • Container image hardening & vulnerability scanning
  • Helm chart libraries for standardized deployments

🔄 CI/CD Pipelines

  • End-to-end GitOps workflows with ArgoCD & FluxCD
  • Pipeline optimization through caching & parallelization
  • Progressive delivery with canary & blue-green strategies
  • Shift-left security with automated SAST/DAST gates

🐧 Linux & Reliability

  • Production Linux administration & performance tuning
  • Observability-driven operations with SLIs/SLOs
  • Incident response & post-mortem culture
  • Security hardening & compliance automation

Career Highlights

Key achievements and impact delivered across organizations

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Architected multi-account AWS landing zones with centralized governance, enabling engineering teams to self-service infrastructure securely

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Led monolith-to-microservices migration onto Kubernetes, improving deployment frequency from monthly to multiple times per day

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Reduced CI/CD pipeline execution times by 70% through intelligent caching, parallelization, and infrastructure optimization

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Implemented comprehensive observability stack with custom dashboards and alerting, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) significantly

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Designed disaster recovery strategies with automated failover across regions, achieving RPO/RTO targets for business-critical workloads

Certifications

Industry-recognized credentials validating cloud and infrastructure expertise

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Associate — Cloud Architecture

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Infrastructure as Code

🦉 Open Source

Contributing to the community through open source software

OwlDisk — Fast Disk Space Analyzer for macOS

Author & Maintainer

A fast, open-source disk space analyzer built with Go and Wails. Features parallel scanning with 64 concurrent goroutines, an interactive D3 sunburst visualization, and accurate size reporting that matches macOS Finder.

GoWailsReactTypeScriptD3.jsTailwind CSS
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Engineering Principles

The philosophies that guide how I build and operate systems

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Cloud Native First

Design for distributed systems from day one — ephemeral, stateless, and horizontally scalable

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Automate Everything

If you do it twice, automate it. Eliminate toil so engineers focus on what matters

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Shift-Left Security

Bake security into pipelines and infrastructure — not bolt it on after the fact

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Observability-Driven

You can't fix what you can't see. Instrument first, then build confidence to ship fast

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Immutable Infrastructure

Never patch in place. Rebuild, replace, and roll forward with confidence

Let's Connect

I'm always interested in discussing DevOps practices, cloud architecture, or potential collaboration opportunities.

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