# Kirthikraj Kamaraj

> Software Engineer @ BulkMagic | Cloud, Infrastructure & MLOps | CI/CD, Linux Systems, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform | Production Systems at Scale

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kirthikraj

About
𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘜𝘕𝘠 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘵𝘰𝘯. 

𝘔𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦:

kubectl get pods -A
kubectl logs -f <service>
kubectl describe deployments <app>
kubectl rollout restart deployment <app>
kubectl top nodes


…𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩, 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦-𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺.

🔧 Languages
Python, SQL, PHP, JavaScript

☁️ Cloud Platforms
AWS, GCP

🗄️ Databases
Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS RDS

🛠️ DevOps & Infrastructure
Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Git, Bash, SonarQube, Grafana, GitHub Webhooks, Ubuntu Linux

📚 Core Areas
Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, OOP, DBMS

🎓 Certification
AWS Solutions Architect

𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 Cloud Engineering, Software Development, DevOps

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ BulkMagic
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States
▶ Migrated monolith to a distributed microservices-based architecture, leveraging AWS Lambda, Cognito, and Twilio.

▶ Containerized application using Docker and deployed on AWS ECS with ALB, reducing downtime by 35%.

▶ Administered IAM roles and security groups to enforce access control and enhance system security.

▶ Modularized and managed over 20+ Terraform resources into reusable module blocks, reducing infrastructure code duplication by 40%.

▶ Led system monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana, reducing incident detection time by 75%.

▶ Mentored 2 junior cloud engineers and established documentation standards, boosting team velocity and knowledge sharing.

▶ Configured Route 53, ACM, and ALB to support multiple storefronts and internal services such as Stripe and SMTP, ensuring secure and scalable communication across services.

▶ Managed CloudWatch monitors to track application performance, system health, and resource utilization, ensuring optimal uptime and rapid issue resolution.

▶ Managed Kubernetes clusters with Helm and Argo CD for container orchestration, and ensuring high availability

▶ Provided on-call support for production workloads on AWS ECS and EKS, resolving customer-impacting incidents within SLA

### Research Assistant @ Binghamton University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Binghamton, New York, United States

### Software Developer Intern - Information Technology Services @ Binghamton University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Binghamton, New York, United States
▶ Led redesign and development of Binghamton University’s IT Help Desk website serving over 12,000 peak users using OmniCMS, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, improving page load speed by 25% through lazy loading and caching

▶ Developed in-house service status monitoring system using Python, Flask, Oracle, and REST APIs to provide updates on IT Help Desk services and internal systems, reducing manual update time by 40%. Applied OAuth 2.0 for authenticated access

▶ Analyzed website metrics of 18,000 users; Built Streamlit dashboard to display frequently accessed services

### Site Reliability Engineer @ SBF
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

### SRE Intern @ Gustovalley Technovations
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

### Data Networking Intern @ Thakur College of Engineering and Technology (TCET)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kirthikrajkamaraj

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Last updated: 2026-03-21