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Andrew Adhikari

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Secure software factories · Kubernetes platforms · Build infrastructure

Twin Cities, MN · andrewadhik@gmail.com
LinkedIn · GitHub

Profile

I build and operate secure delivery infrastructure for enterprise software, combining platform engineering, secrets management, and automated security checks.

Experience

Cohesity formerly Veritas

Software Engineer · DevSecOps function | June 2022–present

  • Manage Kubernetes platforms across VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, and Amazon EKS, including upgrades, certificates, and capacity.
  • Architected a segregated 120-host build environment with Ansible automation, MFA, and privileged access controls.
  • Led a HashiCorp Vault migration across 64 servers and 5+ CI pipelines, eliminating static credentials.
  • Lead security scanning across 14 product lines. Hardened 20 container images, reducing shipped CVEs by approximately 90%.
  • Maintain pre-merge validation infrastructure supporting 4,000 engineers across 1,800+ production-shaped hosts.

RBC Wealth Management

Production Support Engineer & Application Analyst | June 2021–June 2022

  • Improved GitLab CI pipelines for Spring Boot releases on OpenShift, reducing average runtime by approximately 40%.
  • Built blue-green deployment stages with health checks and rollback, and brought 60 application servers under Ansible management.
  • Automated PagerDuty-to-ServiceNow incident handoffs, saving 30 minutes per page.
  • Led Log4Shell remediation across 80 applications and three critical systems in five days.

Technical focus

Kubernetes · Helm · ArgoCD · Terraform · Ansible · AWS · GitLab CI · Jenkins · HashiCorp Vault · Qualys · Coverity · Black Duck · Trivy · Python · Bash

Education & certification

M.S., Management Information Systems — Florida State University
Expected December 2026 · GPA 3.97

B.S., Cybersecurity — St. Cloud State University, 2020

CompTIA Security+ CE

Military service

U.S. Air Force Reserve · Senior Airman
Career Development Technician, 934th Force Support Squadron