Hi, I'm Utkarsh Agarwal

🚀 Senior Platform Engineer | Kubernetes | Azure | Terraform | GitOps

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🧠 About Me

Senior Platform Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms across Azure and AWS.

• 🔧 Owned and scaled 50+ Kubernetes (AKS) clusters for enterprise-grade workloads
• ☁️ Governed 78+ Azure subscriptions, enforcing security, compliance, and cost controls
• ⚡ Delivered 35–45% cloud cost optimization through architecture improvements and automation
• 📈 Improved deployment velocity by 30% by modernizing CI/CD and GitOps workflows
• 🛡️ Ensured 99.9% platform availability using SRE practices (SLO/SLI, observability, incident response)

💡 I specialize in Platform Engineering, building self-service developer platforms, and enabling teams to ship faster with reliability and governance.

🚀 Strong focus on:

• Kubernetes platform architecture (AKS)
• GitOps-driven delivery (Argo CD)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu)
• CI/CD pipeline design & standardization
• Developer platforms using Backstage

I enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving system reliability, and building scalable cloud platforms that support high-growth products.

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🏆 Certifications

• 🟦 Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• 🟦 Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
• 🟦 Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
• 🟪 HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• ☸️ Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• 🔁 GitOps Fundamentals & Enterprise

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⚙️ Tech Stack

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☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

• Azure (AKS, App Services, Key Vault, Networking)
• AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, S3)
• Terraform / OpenTofu (Modular IaC, Remote State, Policy as Code)

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☸️ Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Orchestration:
  - Kubernetes (AKS, EKS)

Packaging and Networking:
  - Helm Charts
  - Ingress Controllers
  - Istio (Service Mesh)

GitOps:
  - Argo CD

Developer Platform:
  - Backstage (Self-Service Platform)

Cluster Management:
  - RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
  - Multi-cluster Management
  - Autoscaling (HPA, Cluster Autoscaler)

## 🤝 Let's Connect

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/utkarsh-agarwal-ua0235  
📧 Email: utkarsh1agarwal@gmail.com