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Pinku Daimari
Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer
Summary
Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer with 13+ years across systems administration, hosting infrastructure, and cloud-native architecture. Founder of three companies spanning IT consulting, marketing/hosting, and security services. Focused on making infrastructure boring — automated, observable, and resilient enough that nobody gets paged at 3am. Holds 14 industry certifications spanning cloud, networking, and offensive security.
Experience
Founder & CEO — DB Analytica
2023 — Present
- Built and lead an IT consultancy delivering web development, digital marketing, managed IT services, UI/UX, and QA for small-to-mid-size clients.
- Designed the firm's own delivery framework — fixed-scope proposals, infrastructure-as-code by default, and documented handovers.
- Personally leads cloud architecture and DevOps engagements: migrations, cost audits, and CI/CD pipeline builds.
Founder & CEO — OffensiveSecurity.US
2020 — Present
- Launched a subscription-based penetration testing service — on-demand pen test procurement without long-term contracts.
- Runs vulnerability assessments, security audits, and incident response for client infrastructure alongside the core DevOps practice.
Founder & CEO — Apex Media Group
2019 — Present
- Founded a marketing and hosting agency offering outsourcing, administration, consulting, and hosting tailored per client.
- Managed the transition of the agency's own hosting stack to a cloud-native, infrastructure-as-code setup.
Senior DevOps Engineer — Nimbus Cloud Solutions
2015 — 2019
- Owned CI/CD pipelines and container infrastructure for a portfolio of SaaS clients, moving deployments from manual scripts to fully automated Terraform + Ansible workflows.
- Reduced average deployment time from 45 minutes to under 6 by re-architecting the build pipeline around parallelized stages and caching.
- On-call lead for production incidents; introduced blameless postmortems that cut repeat incidents by roughly a third.
Systems Administrator — Meridian Hosting
2011 — 2015
- Managed shared and VPS hosting infrastructure for several thousand customer accounts across LiteSpeed and MariaDB stacks.
- Handled first-line incident response, backups, and security patching; built the internal monitoring dashboard the team still references design patterns from.
Certifications
Skills
Cloud architecture
DevOps / CI-CD
Kubernetes & containers
Infrastructure as code
Security / pen testing
Scripting (Python/Bash)
Quick facts
- Experience13+ years
- Companies founded3
- Certifications14
- AvailabilityOpen to contract work
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