Mallikarjuna Muchu is a results-driven Cloud DevSecOps Engineer with more than 20 years of comprehensive IT experience, specialising in CI/CD automation, cloud engineering, security integration, and large-scale infrastructure delivery. He is highly regarded for designing and building scalable, robust, and highly available systems that support complex enterprise environments. His expertise spans Azure, AWS, DevSecOps tooling, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes orchestration, and end-to-end automation. Throughout his career, Mallikarjuna has led the development and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, and CloudBees Jenkins, supporting modern application stacks including Java, Python, .NET, Angular, Drupal, PEGA, and microservices. He has deep experience integrating SAST and DAST tooling such as SonarQube, Trivy, Qualys, Contrast, and Tidelift to enforce strong security and quality gates across delivery workflows. His hands-on skills extend to artefact management (JFrog, ACR, ECR), containerization (Docker, Kaniko), and deploying applications to AKS and EKS using Helm and ArgoCD. Mallikarjuna is highly skilled in infrastructure automation, leveraging Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible to provision and manage cloud resources with reliability and consistency. His SRE experience includes implementing observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and OpenTelemetry to gain full visibility into application performance and system health. He also brings strong scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, and PowerShell, often developing automation to streamline deployments, extract pipeline metrics, and enhance DevOps insights. His professional experience spans major organisations such as the U.S. Department of Labour, BlueCross BlueShield, and NielsenIQ, where he delivered CI/CD modernisation, Kubernetes-based deployments, cloud resource provisioning, security governance, and performance engineering. He has also led QA and RPA initiatives earlier in his career, building automation with Blue Prism, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Selenium, and UFT, bringing a unique full SDLC perspective that strengthens his DevSecOps leadership. Mallikarjuna holds multiple industry certifications, including Terraform Associate (2024), AWS Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), and several RPA platform certifications. He also holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Known for his communication skills, analytical mindset, and ability to solve complex technical challenges, he consistently delivers high-quality solutions that enhance automation, security, and operational efficiency.