Open to DevOps Internships · 2026

Arpanel
Franklin

DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Designing and operating production-grade CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, and observable cloud infrastructure on AWS — from commit to cluster.

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Arpanel Franklin

Greater Noida, India · B.Tech CSE

15
GitHub Repos
9.0
CGPA
3+
DevOps Projects
2029
Graduation
KubernetesTerraformArgoCD JenkinsAWSAnsible
Actively building · AWS CCP in progress
Expertise

Technical Stack

Production-grade tools across orchestration, cloud, CI/CD, and observability — understood as systems, not just a list of names.

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Cloud & IaC

TerraformAWS EC2VPCIAMS3 BackendDynamoDB LockRDSCloudWatch
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Orchestration

KubernetesArgoCDHelmHPAStatefulSetsIngressPVCRBAC
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CI/CD & GitOps

JenkinsGitHub ActionsArgoCD App-of-AppsDeclarative PipelinesTrivyGitLab CI
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Observability

PrometheusGrafanaAlertManagerCloudWatch LogsDashboard Design
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Containers & Automation

DockerAnsibleDocker ComposeMulti-stage BuildsBashPython
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Security & Networking

Trivy Supply-chainIAM Least-privilegeJWTSSL/TLSNginxTCP/IP · DNS
Work

Featured Projects

End-to-end infrastructure and automation — with real metrics, real debugging, and real links you can click.

01 — FEATURED

Full-Stack GitOps Pipeline

Zero-touch CI/CD for a real-time 3-tier chat app. Jenkins builds and scans, ArgoCD syncs, Prometheus watches — fully automated from git push to running pod.

60%Faster deploys
30sDrift detection
45%Lower MTTD
⚡ Real Debugging Story StatefulSet pods were failing intermittently — MongoDB couldn't reach its volume. Root cause: the PVC was not yet bound when the pod initialized. Fixed by adding an initContainer that blocks startup until the volume is confirmed ready, eliminating the race condition entirely.
Key Achievements
✦ Jenkins declarative pipeline — automated image tag & DockerHub push
✦ ArgoCD App-of-Apps — 100% config drift detected within 30s
✦ Trivy integrated — blocks Critical CVEs before they reach any env
✦ Prometheus + Grafana dashboards for pipeline & app health
✦ AlertManager crash-loop & deploy-failure alerts live
KubernetesJenkinsArgoCDTrivyPrometheusGrafanaHelmDockerNode.jsMongoDB
02

Multi-Environment Terraform Architecture

Production-style IaC across Dev / Testing / Prod with reusable modules, S3 remote state, DynamoDB locking, CIDR-isolated VPCs, and CloudWatch baked in.

90%Code reuse
8minProvision time
3Isolated envs
TerraformAWS VPCEC2S3 BackendDynamoDBHCL Modules
⚡ Real Debugging Story First terraform apply on testing env failed — remote backend S3 bucket didn't exist yet. Learned bootstrap must run first. Added a README guard and sequenced bootstrap as a mandatory pre-step in the workflow.
03

Hybrid Cloud Automation Factory

Terraform provisions EC2 instances, Ansible configures them — OS-agnostic roles targeting Ubuntu and Amazon Linux simultaneously with full Docker Compose environment parity.

70%Config time saved
2 OSSimultaneously
TerraformAnsibleDocker ComposeAWS EC2UbuntuAmazon Linux
⚡ Real Debugging Story Ansible playbook worked on Ubuntu but silently failed on Amazon Linux — different package manager paths. Fixed by adding ansible_os_family conditionals. First time writing truly cross-platform idempotent roles.
System Design

Architecture Thinking

How the GitOps pipeline actually works — from git push to self-healing observable cluster.

👨‍💻Developergit push GitHubSource of truth ⚙️Jenkins CIBuild · Scan · Tag 🛡 Trivy Scan 🐳DockerHubImage registry updates manifest 🔄ArgoCDApp-of-Apps GitOps sync & deploy KUBERNETES CLUSTER IngressNginx FrontendReact pods BackendNode.js MongoDBStatefulSet 💾 PVC OBSERVABILITY STACK PrometheusScrapes metrics GrafanaDashboards AlertManagerCrash alerts scrape metrics from cluster LEGEND CI pipeline GitOps sync Data flow Observability
Background

Education

2025 – 2029
B.Tech — Computer Science Engineering
Bennett University, Greater Noida · CGPA: 9.00 / 10.00
Focused on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and DevOps practices alongside core CS fundamentals. Active in open source, infrastructure automation, and system design.
Say Hello

Get in Touch

Open to DevOps internships where I design, deploy, and debug real infrastructure.

Looking for teams building real systems — pipelines, clusters, observability — where I can contribute from day one. Fluent in English and Hindi, learning German.

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Target: Q3 2026 · In active preparation

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Target: Q4 2026 · In preparation

Languages
English — FluentHindi — NativeGerman — Learning
Backend Skills
Spring BootMongoDBREST APIJWT AuthNode.js