Parasdeep Singh

DevOps Engineer

Portfolio: parasdsingh.github.io

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

GitHub: github.com/parasdsingh
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/parasdsingh
Email: parasdeep29@gmail.com
Poetry: silencecalling.me

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A DevSecOps terraformer who has fallen in love with life, its 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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DevOps Consultant

Kumamoto University

Aug 2025 — Present

Technical architect and developer on miXai-learn, a ¥20.9M KAKENHI-funded international project developing socially assistive robotics for embodied learning.

Design and construct on-premises server infrastructure for the LA-ReflecT research platform, including Docker Swarm orchestration, Cloudflare integration, and nginx, serving distributed research teams across three Japanese universities
Lead the design and delivery of the robot integration system for miXai-learn, enabling socially assistive robots to respond intelligently to student learning events through LLM-driven gesture selection, a configurable event trigger architecture, and real-time hardware telemetry streaming
Architect the reflection evidence layer across the full stack, pairing session photography, conversation transcripts, and gesture timelines with the LA-ReflecT analytics platform; piloted in live research sessions
Mentor academic researchers in DevOps culture and enterprise practices, leading codebase migration from GitLab to GitHub with CI/CD pipelines, and establishing contribution protocols and version control standards across partner universities in Japan and Europe

Senior DevOps Engineer

Aotal Ltd.

Aug 2021 — Aug 2025

Holding the reins 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 across 50+ services, reducing infrastructure costs by ~33%, eliminating recurring quarterly upgrade disruption, and enabling developer self-service through a full Terraform rewrite
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 Ltd.

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
Rebuild the DevOps team's reputation across four product teams with distinct tech stacks, establishing it as a reliable and trusted engineering partner
Mentor and support juniors in technical best practices, and operational protocols
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
Design and deliver a custom infrastructure pipeline for the New Product Development team, built around their divergence from the existing codebase

Software Engineer

Gentrack Ltd. (Global)

Dec 2016 — Sep 2019

Grew from graduate engineer to DevOps culture driver across Gentrack's global product teams, spanning enterprise software delivery and automation infrastructure.

Build a CI pipeline from scratch using Python, AWS and Jenkins, establishing the primary benchmarking tool for all production releases
Create a test harness extension to the CI pipeline for customizing automated performance tests written for JMeter
Develop enterprise-level Billing and CRM software in Java Spring Hibernate and C#, including an SFTP integration with Windows Component Services, delivered for the Australian and Singapore electricity market
Break down locally-hosted monolithic programs into cloud-hosted micro-services with deployment automation using Terraform and best security practices
Build a SaaS application to provision CI pipelines across multiple products using Jenkins Job DSL, AWS Boto3 and Terraform
Guide product teams in adopting DevOps as a culture; mentor and lead interns in producing a proof-of-concept SaaS application

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Bachelor's in Information and Communications Technology

Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland

2014 — 2017

Consecutively awarded PASS Facilitator of the Semester
Teaching Assistant for Java and GoF design patterns
Awarded the Runner-Up Dean's Prize at the Faculty of Business and IT for an industry project with Gentrack

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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