Athul Cyriac Ajay

Resume

Athul Cyriac Ajay

Site Reliability Engineer | Platform Engineer | Backend Developer

📧 athul8720[@]gmail[.]com | 🐦 @athulcajay | 🐙 athul | 📍 Kochi, Kerala, India

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Professional Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

KnowBe4 | January 2024 - Present | Kochi, India

  • GitLab Geo Infrastructure: Implemented distributed version control across multiple regions, reducing latency for global development teams by 80% and improving collaboration efficiency
  • CoPilot Metrics System: Built system that extracts GitHub API data (copy events, chat events) to calculate AI adoption metrics, providing visibility into developer productivity trends and identifying cost optimization opportunities across engineering teams
  • Multi-Region Infrastructure: Architected Terraform modules for AWS Global Database and Global Accelerator, enabling teams to deploy production-grade multi-region infrastructure without manual configuration, reducing deployment overhead by 85%
  • CI/CD Optimization: Accelerated and stabilized infrastructure deployments by enhancing internal deployment tools and optimizing GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Documentation & Standards: Authored comprehensive Terraform tests and infrastructure documentation, standardizing deployment practices and reducing onboarding time for platform engineers
  • Monitoring & Alerting: Designed and implemented error tracking monitors in DataDog for proactive incident detection and alerting
  • Part of the Developer Experience/Release Engineering Team

Platform Engineer

Frappe | May 2022 - December 2023 | Mumbai, India

  • Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Implemented solutions that drove enterprise customer acquisition and contributed directly to company revenue growth
  • Deployment Automation: Developed automation scripts for efficient ERPNext deployment, making builds 4x faster
  • CI/CD Integration: Integrated Docker build CI to optimize the build process, achieving a 5x increase in speed
  • VPN Feature Development: Authored and maintained the VPN Feature, expanding customer access to Frappe Cloud
  • Customer Instance Management: Managed self-hosted customer instances, overseeing maintenance activities to ensure seamless operations
  • Incident Management: Led incident management, creating and tracking outage incidents with a keen focus on ISO Compliance

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University | 2018 - 2022 | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

  • College: College of Engineering Kidangoor
  • Award: Best Outgoing Student Award

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | August 2024
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate | March 2025
  • AWS Certified Developer Associate | October 2025

Open Source Projects

Waka Readme

  • 1,700+ GitHub Stars - GitHub Action for profile metrics
  • Self-updating GitHub Action that displays coding statistics on profile READMEs
  • Widely adopted by the developer community for showcasing development activity

Archie

  • 1,200+ GitHub Stars - Minimal Hugo theme
  • Clean, fast, and responsive Hugo theme (powers this website)
  • Popular choice for developers and bloggers seeking minimalist design

Shelby

  • 180+ GitHub Stars - Fast shell prompt for UNIX/macOS
  • Lightweight and performant shell prompt written in Go
  • Focused on speed and simplicity for terminal users

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

  • Python - Advanced proficiency with Django, FastAPI frameworks
  • Go - Backend development, CLI tools, microservices
  • JavaScript - Frontend and backend development
  • SQL - Database design and optimization

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS Services: S3, Lambda, SQS, RDS, ECS, EC2, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Route 53, VPC
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
  • Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose
  • CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
  • Version Control: GitLab, GitHub
  • Operating Systems: Linux distributions, macOS

Databases & Frameworks

  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite
  • Backend Frameworks: Django, FastAPI
  • Frontend Frameworks: Vue.js, React

Monitoring & DevOps

  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Container Orchestration: Docker Compose, basic Kubernetes

Key Achievements

Performance Improvements

  • 80% latency reduction in global development collaboration through GitLab Geo implementation
  • 85% reduction in deployment overhead via Terraform automation
  • 4x faster ERPNext deployments through automation scripts
  • 5x speed increase in Docker build processes

Open Source Impact

  • 3,000+ combined GitHub stars across major projects
  • Active community contributions to developer tools and utilities
  • Technical writing for major platforms including Twilio and LogRocket blogs

Technical Leadership

  • Standardized deployment practices reducing onboarding time for platform engineers
  • Led incident management with focus on ISO compliance
  • Designed monitoring systems for proactive incident detection

Contact Information

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