Hey, I'm Murali

I like to get my hands on anything and everything. I'm passionate about reverse engineering and automating things that makes sense to be automated and I travel at times.

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Featured Projects

Spotter - EKS Spot Scheduler

Production-grade ARM64 spot instance scheduler for EKS worker nodes. The goal is to achieve 70-80% cost savings as compared to on-demand instances.

CloudFormation Lambda EKS EC2-Spot

GitHub PyPI

cfn2iam - IAM Policy Generator

Tool to generate minimal IAM policy to deploy a CloudFormation stack from its template. This policy can be used to create the service role that can be used for the stack.

Python Boto3 CloudFormation

Live Tool GitHub

EC2 Pricing Dashboard

A static website that displays current AWS EC2 Linux On-Demand prices across multiple AWS regions. Automatically updated weekly using Github Actions.

Python GitHub Actions EC2

Live Dashboard GitHub

cfn-cur - Recover stuck CloudFormation stacks

Tool to generate CLI commands to recover CloudFormation stacks stuck in UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state [Selected part of an internal hackathon while at AWS].

Python CloudFormation Boto3

GitHub PyPI

Tech Articles

Making API Calls during CDK deployments

Guide on making API Calls during stack deployments using the interface AwsSdkCall with best practices and behind-the-scenes

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Troubleshooting EC2 Windows in CloudFormation

Detailed troubleshooting guide for resolving CloudFormation signal failures on Windows EC2 instances during stack deployments

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CloudFormation Stack Recovery

Guide on identifying resources to skip during continue-update-rollback operations in failed CloudFormation stacks.

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Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

G-P

Sep 2025 - Present | Remote

Cloud Support (DevOps) Engineer - 1

Amazon Web Services

May 2022 - Aug 2025 | Remote

Contributed to AWS CDK open source repo - resolving bugs and adding features across ECS and EKS modules
Troubleshot complex customer issues, optimized cloud environments, and guided AWS customers on best practices
Inducted as CloudFormation Subject Matter Expert (SME) since July 2023
Conducted CDK training sessions for 50+ internal teams and enterprise customers
Sole developer of an internal automated QuickSight dashboarding pipeline

Software Developer

Thoughtline Technologies

July 2019 - April 2022 | Trivandrum, India

Migrated legacy VB-based billing systems to .NET, improving performance by 30%
Reverse-engineered and re-wrote third-party JAVA APIs to .NET along with MS SQL server DB migration and schema changes to improve performace.
Developed Python web app for graph data visualization to get a comprehensive view of the dependency graph of various modules in .NET - Source
One of the first developers to get certified in AWS