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Pinku Daimari

Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer

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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 & CEODB 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 & CEOOffensiveSecurity.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 & CEOApex 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 EngineerNimbus 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 AdministratorMeridian 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

CEH — Certified Ethical Hacker CEH Master CPENT LPT (Master) CNDA Advanced Network Defense (CAST 614) RHCE RHCSA CCNA CCNP MCSA: Windows Server 2016 MCSA: Windows Server 2012 MTA: Networking Fundamentals MTA: Windows OS Fundamentals

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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