Cloud & Security Engineer building scalable infrastructure.

Specialized in AWS CloudFront, WAF, and high-performance CDN architectures. I secure and optimize systems handling billions of requests.

Pratik D. Gavali

About Me

I am a Senior Cloud Engineer based in Pune, India, with a deep focus on bridging the gap between infrastructure performance and security.

Currently at Hostin Services (Cloud.in), I lead migrations and security hardening for enterprise clients. My philosophy is simple: infrastructure should be invisible, secure, and lightning-fast.

4.4+ Years Experience
100+ Domains Migrated to CloudFront
1.2B Daily Requests Handled

Skills & Tools

My technical stack focused on Security, Performance, and Automation.

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Cloud Platforms

Deep expertise in AWS ecosystem and edge networking.

AWS CloudFront EC2 S3 Lambda@Edge Azure

Cloud Security

Implementing Zero Trust and L7 protection.

AWS WAF Shield Advanced GuardDuty KMS IAM
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DevOps & IaC

Automating infrastructure provisioning and deployments.

CloudFormation Terraform Python (Boto3) CI/CD
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Observability

Data-driven insights and proactive alerting.

CloudWatch Athena Glue Nagios

Featured Projects

Selected engagements delivered while at Hostin Services

Real-world infrastructure challenges solved at scale.

Hindustan Times Migration 🗞️

Migrated a massive media publishing platform from Akamai to AWS CloudFront with zero downtime.

35% Latency Reduction
AWS CloudFront Lambda@Edge Migration
FinTech Security Hardening 🏦

Designed WAF rules and DDoS protection strategies for CoinSwitch & Airpay to meet compliance.

99% Malicious Traffic Blocked
AWS WAF Shield Athena Logs
E-Commerce Auto Scaling 🛒

Optimized Clients infrastructure for high-traffic sale events using proactive scaling.

1.2B+ Daily Requests
VPC Load Balancing Auto Scaling Route 53

Certifications

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AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Amazon Web Services • 2025
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Amazon Web Services • 2022
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft • 2021

Ready to secure and scale your infrastructure?

I am currently open to opportunities in Cloud Security, SRE, and DevSecOps roles.