Ashish Ryot

DevOps Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure | Agentic AI Systems

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and platform tooling for high-traffic enterprise applications. Expertise in AWS platform engineering, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and AI-integrated architectures. Recently focused on Agentic AI enablement, designing Model Context Protocol (MCP) architectures using Zero-Trust principles, implementing guardrails, kill-switch mechanisms, and secure execution boundaries to safely integrate AI agents with production systems. Strong track record of building internal developer platforms, improving deployment safety, observability, and release velocity across large microservice ecosystems.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services | Client: United Airlines | Nov 2019 - Present

  • Designed secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) architecture for integrating AI agents with enterprise systems, implementing Zero-Trust access patterns, execution guardrails, and kill-switch mechanisms
  • Designed and automated multi-account AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and Terraform across ECS Fargate, EC2, Lambda, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Harness, and TeamCity supporting blue-green, canary, and multi-environment release patterns
  • Led migration of critical internal services from on-prem to AWS, improving availability and reducing operational overhead
  • Designed and expanded AutoDeploy, an internal DevOps platform used across 40+ environments, enabling release registration, pod management, and automated release governance
  • Implemented real-time ECS microservice observability dashboards inside AutoDeploy, exposing Blue/Green production deployment metrics
  • Reduced release prep time from 6–8 hours to under 30 minutes by restructuring the CI/CD workflow
  • Shortened production deployment cycle to ~15 minutes using automated approvals, rollback logic, and pre-deploy validations

Web Development Intern

Arena Info Solutions | May 2016 - July 2016

  • Built dynamic web applications using Python and MySQL
  • Handled frontend authentication and session management

Skills

AI & Platform Architecture

Agentic AI Systems
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AI Tool Orchestration
Zero-Trust AI Architecture
AI Guardrails
Kill-Switch Design

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS
ECS Fargate
Lambda
EC2
VPC
Route53
S3
DynamoDB
CloudFormation
ECR
ALB/NLB
IAM
Terraform
Docker

CI/CD & Automation

GitHub Actions
Harness
TeamCity
Python
Bash
PowerShell
Git
JIRA
Artifactory

Monitoring & Other

Datadog
CloudWatch
AppDynamics
Akamai
F5
Postman
Fiddler
Linux
Unix
Windows
Cloud Cost Optimization
Distributed Systems

Education

M.S. in Computer Science

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL | 2019

GPA: 3.718 / 4.0

B.Tech in Computer Science

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India | 2017

Percentage: 83%