Hardik Maru
Cloud Architect · DevOps/SRE Engineer · GenAI Infrastructure Specialist
India · remote-first · 9+ years hardware → software → cloud → GenAI
Cloud infrastructure, built to be talked to in plain language.
Nine years across hardware support, enterprise software engineering, and cloud consulting have converged into one focus: designing AWS infrastructure that's highly available, cost-aware, and increasingly operable through natural language rather than console clicks.
Day to day that means Terraform modules with remote state and DynamoDB locking, GitOps pipelines authenticated with keyless OIDC, and EKS/ECS workloads tuned for reliability. Layered on top: Anthropic Claude and OpenAI-based agents — including a Model Context Protocol server that exposes AWS services as LLM-callable tools — that turn "provision a staging VPC" into something an agent can actually do.
Currently demonstrating my skills by building and operating BlueprintAI through Suhrad Enterprise as freelance work, and open to work as a Cloud Architect, Staff DevOps/SRE, MLOps, or GenAI Infrastructure specialist — remote or across Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and GCC mandates.
Where the infrastructure was built
- Founded and run a cloud consulting and AI automation practice covering AWS architecture, DevOps transformation, and GenAI product development.
- Delivered multi-environment AWS architectures — EC2, EKS, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Bedrock — for enterprise clients.
- Built BlueprintAI, a live Claude API-powered SaaS product for automated blueprint generation.
- Developed an MCP Infrastructure Automation Agent exposing AWS services as LLM-callable tools.
- Implemented GitOps pipelines with GitHub Actions and keyless OIDC authentication.
- Integrated Bedrock-backed agents for automated Terraform plan review and stale state-lock diagnosis.
- Delivered cloud infrastructure consulting and DevOps solutions for a major municipal utility authority serving greater Detroit.
- Designed AWS-based infrastructure for enterprise workloads, improving reliability and cutting deployment lead time.
- Established CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows, reducing manual release effort.
- Produced architecture documentation and runbooks adopted as operational standards by the client.
- Developed enterprise Java applications and RESTful backend services for internal business processes.
- Designed relational database schemas and optimised SQL queries for reporting pipelines.
- Built web application features and system integrations for SME clients.
- Developed backend modules in Java, contributing to frontend implementation end-to-end.
- Installed, configured, and maintained hardware, operating systems, and LAN/WAN infrastructure.
- Laid the networking foundation later formalised through CCNA certification.
Infrastructure that runs, and agents that operate it
A production SaaS product that generates structured blueprints using the Anthropic Claude API, deployed on AWS with secrets managed via Secrets Manager and a React/TypeScript frontend.
Exposes core AWS services — EC2, S3, ECS, CloudWatch — as LLM-callable tools, enabling natural-language provisioning, querying, and remediation without console access.
A CLI that pulls logs from AWS, GCP, and Azure, then hands them to an LLM for anomaly detection, security triage, cost insight, and free-form chat.
Multi-env (dev/staging/prod) Terraform, with GitHub Actions assuming AWS IAM roles via OIDC — no stored access keys. Bootstrap applied to a live account, with automated stuck-state detection and a PR plan-reviewer that flags risky changes.
Enterprise e-commerce and DevSecOps reference platform: storefront, admin console, developer portal, TypeScript API, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker Compose, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Helm, GitOps, and observability.
Production-shaped ALB + Auto Scaling web tier: multi-environment, private subnets, WAF, IMDSv2, with CI/CD and automated tests.
Static site deployed to AWS S3 + CloudFront through GitHub Actions, authenticated with OIDC-based IAM instead of long-lived credentials.
A growing collection of S3-focused infrastructure projects, starting with a compliance-oriented Terraform data lake (raw/curated/analytics zones, KMS, Object-Lock CloudTrail audit trail) targeting PCI-DSS/SOC2/GLBA-style controls.
A compute tier that detects, drains, and replaces unhealthy EC2 instances automatically: ALB health checks trigger Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks, which two Lambda handlers and an SSM Automation runbook use to drain, terminate, relaunch, and re-verify capacity without human intervention. Terraform plan validated (73 resources, 0 errors); includes a k6 load test, a live ASG activity dashboard, and a 100-scenario use-case catalog.
Production internet radio streaming platform with 1,000+ live stations, running on real AWS auto-scaling infrastructure — an Application Load Balancer fronting an Auto Scaling Group that scales EC2 capacity with traffic. Also deployed as a multi-cloud live example on AWS App Runner and GCP Cloud Run.
Pick a country and a vibe — 80s Synth, Jazz & Lounge, Lo-fi & Chill, Latin, News & Talk — and stream matching live internet radio stations in the browser. Pulls station data from the Radio Browser API, ranks by popularity, and auto-skips dead or offline streams.
Upstream contributions
PRs merged into other maintainers' repos — 27 public repositories overall, contributions across 6 OSS projects.
Stacked PRs adding Decodable query support: explicit withModelType: overloads, paginated queries, richer error context, and a deployment-target bump.
GB200 / Ubuntu runtime fixes: idempotent Helm installs and Kubernetes 1.35 support.
view PRs ↗Fixed a stack-buffer-overflow, an incorrect statvfs block size, and a path-traversal issue.
Error API adoption for client-facing server errors, plus a troubleshooting doc for a context-refresh workaround.
view PR ↗The stack, by category
Cloud Platforms
IaC & GitOps
AI / GenAI
Containers & Orchestration
Programming & Backend
Security & Networking
Credentials
Hobbies & Interests
Construction Consulting
12+ years consulting on construction projects for small and large NGOs, with a personal interest in acquiring property and long-term asset appreciation.