Tarun Koshy
About
An ambitious and enthusiastic individual with an Electronics and Computer Science Master’s degree from University College London. A quick learner and a committed team player with a passion to learn and grow. Approximately 3 years of experience as a DevOps engineer with experience across the full software development life cycle (Dev + Sec + Ops + QA). Strong interest in DevOps and MLOps.
Experience
DevOps Engineer
Zand, Dubai, UAE (Launch of the first fully licensed digital bank in the UAE)
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
- Managed deployments for the corporate banking portal and payment hub, providing immediate support for production issues to ensure seamless operations.
- Enhanced Grafana dashboards to support the troubleshooting and investigation of production issues by adding detailed metrics and visualizations, enabling quicker diagnosis and improving system reliability.
- Collaborated with vendors to implement banking and cryptocurrency related applications on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), using Helm to simplify deployments and manage configurations.
- Developed a load testing suite using k6 for core banking, corporate portal, and payment hub APIs. Identified bottlenecks via Kiali and optimized connection pool configurations, pod resources, and autoscaling policies, increasing end-to-end throughput by 300%.
- Enhanced application security by migrating hard-coded secrets to HashiCorp Vault, enabling secret rotation and secure injection into Kubernetes pods.
- Led the migration of existing CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, aligning with updated standards and improving team efficiency by consolidating workflows within GitHub.
QA Automation Engineer
Zand, Dubai, UAE
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
- Designed and implemented an automated testing suite for the corporate banking platform using Selenium (Java), integrating it into the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to enhance deployment reliability.
- Developed and scheduled a daily automated API testing job using Newman, ensuring consistent validation of functionality and system reliability.
Full Stack Developer (Intern)
Zand, Dubai, UAE
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
- Contributed to the development and maintenance of the corporate banking platform using Spring Boot and Vue.js. Enhanced user experience by implementing new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring code to improve performance and maintainability.
Education
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic with Computer Science
University College London (UCL), UK
Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
- Integrated Lane Change Prediction Model: combined state-of-the-art object and lane detection models with a custom LSTM to predict future vehicle bounding box locations and subsequent lane changes using only dashcam footage (Distinction in Final Year Project – Python)
- Finalist at the Cisco University Challenge 2019: represented UCL as the lead software engineer to create an android communication platform using Cisco Webex (24-hour hackathon – Java)