Parasdeep Singh

DevOps Engineer

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A DevSecOps terraformer who has fallen in love with life, it's storms and rainbows alike.

I've spent considerable years evangelizing the DevSecOps culture in different teams and tribes, learning to give the right medicine to each and making the shift from anxiety to agility, from chaos to clarity.

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Technical Consultant
Kumamoto University - Research and Education Institute for Semiconductors and Informatics
Aug 2025 — Present
Bridging corporate DevOps expertise with educational AI research, supporting a ¥20.9M international collaborative research grant exploring learning analytics across distributed physical and virtual learning environments.
  • Architect on-premises server infrastructure for LA Reflect platform serving research teams across Japan
  • Design Docker Swarm deployment with Cloudflare and nginx for research platform domain, ensuring robust platform availability
  • Migrate legacy codebase from GitLab to GitHub and introduce DevOps fundamentals with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
  • Engineer local AI infrastructure for Mistral 7B deployment in Docker with API interfaces in line with researchers' inference and data privacy needs
  • Mentor academic researchers in DevOps culture and enterprise practices, establishing contribution protocols and version control standards
  • Collaborate remotely with Kyoto and Kyushu universities, and partners in Europe
Senior DevOps Engineer
Aotal Ltd.
Aug 2021 — Aug 2025
Holding the reigns of DevOps & Infrastructure in production, while providing a nourishing and dependable atmosphere for all technical and non-technical teams.
  • Design and construct the future infrastructure of Aotal, in collaboration with internal stakeholders
  • Manage the complete lifecycle of Aotal's Helm - Kubernetes - Terraform - AWS backend single-handedly, resolving technical debt accumulated over years
  • Architect and execute comprehensive infrastructure migration from legacy EKS to AWS Fargate, handling 50+ services with legacy cross-account integrations, while delivering significant cost optimisations and developer velocity
  • Work fully remotely with the development and operations teams in New Zealand
  • Provide 24/7 on-call support for Aotal's critical systems serving clients across New Zealand, Australia and the USA
  • Mentor the Auckland based operations team with DevOps best practices and guide them through legacy migrations
DevOps Engineer
Stuff
Sep 2019 — Aug 2021
Leading operational DevOps and rapport with four contrasting teams in Stuff's Auckland office solo.
  • Ensure the highly available stuff.co.nz website serving over two million customers every day remains available and pristine
  • Work remotely with the wider DevOps team, while working closely with developers in the Auckland office
  • Build and maintain Stuff's critical legacy infrastructure in AWS using Docker, Puppet and Concourse
  • Build and maintain Stuff's new infrastructure in GCP using Kubernetes, Jenkins and Terraform
  • Configure and maintain a highly sophisticated CDN network using Akamai and Varnish caching
  • Provide on-call support utilizing a NewRelic and ELK based monitoring stack over PagerDuty
  • Work closely with and enable the New Product Development team in their trailblazing engineering journey
DevOps Engineer
Gentrack Ltd. (Global)
Jul 2018 — Sep 2019
Spreading DevOps as a culture in the company and be the key drivers of automation and security in the rapidly growing enterprise.
  • Break down locally-hosted monolithic programs into cloud-hosted micro-services with deployment automation using Terraform and best security practices
  • Build a chief SaaS application to provision multiple CI pipelines for a product using Jenkins Job DSL, AWS Boto3 and Terraform
  • Guide and assist product teams into their journey of adopting DevOps as a culture
  • Mentor and lead interns over 3 months, in producing a proof-of-concept SaaS application
Software Engineer
Gentrack Ltd. (Global)
July 2017 — July 2018
Building an enterprise-level Billing and CRM solution as part of an Agile cross-functional team for the Australian and Singapore electricity market.
  • Successfully deliver an enterprise market-ready solution in the Australian and Singapore electricity market in due time as part of a cross-functional team
  • Work with an In-house legacy programming language inspired by IBM's UNIBASIC and UNI-data
  • Develop an enterprise-level Java Spring Hibernate project that follows BDD for Billing and CRM
  • Implement an SFTP interface in conjunction with existing Windows Component Services written in C#
DevOps Engineer
Gentrack Ltd. (Global)
Dec 2016 — Jul 2017
Building an automated deployment and testing pipeline from scratch for a legacy enterprise-level Billing and CRM solution, and a Selenium testing framework.
  • Successfully build a CI pipeline using Python, AWS and Jenkins which serves as the primary benchmarking tool for all builds released into production
  • Create a test harness extension to the CI pipeline for customizing automated performance tests written for JMeter
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Bachelor's in Information and Communications Technology
Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland
2014 — 2017
The Level 7 program had Software Development as my major stream.
  • Awarded The 2017 Runner-Up Dean's Prize at the Faculty of Business and IT, MIT for industry project with Gentrack
  • Attained grade A+ in 11 out of 27 papers and a persistent A in the rest
Senior High School Year 12
Government Model Sr. Secondary School 35-D, Chandigarh
2010 — 2012
Graduated with distinction in the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education. My majors were Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Minors being Computer Science and English.
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"I had the privilege of working with Paras during a critical period as we rebuilt and migrated our Kubernetes infrastructure. His technical expertise, thoughtful approach, and calm under pressure were pivotal in ensuring a smooth migration and set us up for seamless ongoing operations."
Dion Short
Chief Technical Officer at Aotal / SnapHire
"Paras is a bright and enormously talented addition to any team. His calm and pleasant influence along with a willingness to help others was apparent during the time I worked with him on Stuff's product team. Paras has the ability to both focus on the details as well as maintain a high-level perspective of issues that can arise from certain technical choices. He is highly proficient in DevOps and has a knack for being able to translate complex technical issues into lay terms for non-technical stakeholders."
Dr. Sumedh Kanade
Senior Frontend Developer at Stuff
"I met Paras on the day he came in with a group of students from MIT to apply for one of our summer internship roles. He started as one of two interns in Product Development who worked together to build the 1st iteration of Gentrack's Cloud CI/CD pipeline in AWS. Paras stayed at Gentrack post university and progressed from Graduate Engineer to an Intermediate level role before pursuing new adventures at Stuff. He was always eager to learn new technologies (especially in the DevOps context) and is confident and able to share his opinions and views in a technical discussion."
Jan Behrens
Chief Technology Officer at Gentrack