● Available immediately · APS Visa · Paris

Sambathkumar
PALANI
LLMOps & DevOps
Engineer

8+ years building scalable cloud infrastructure,
AI pipelines and Kubernetes systems at scale.
Master's in Cybersecurity & Cloud — ESILV Paris 2025.
No work permit required for employer.

sambath@paris ~
$ whoami

👤 Sambathkumar PALANI
🎓 Master Cybersecurity & Cloud — ESILV Paris 2025
📍 Villiers-sur-Marne, Paris, France
🛂 APS Visa — no work permit required
✅ Available immediately — CDI / CDD / Interim
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$ cat experience.txt

🏥 NHS UK — 14+ K8s clusters · 42 microservices
🏦 SAB Bank — DevOps platform · GitLab CI/CD
🤖 Sahanaz — LLMOps · RAG · LangGraph · Ollama
🛡️ BlackFox — Ransomware DR · Ansible · GCP

$ kubectl get skills --all

● Running kubernetes 14+ clusters (EKS/AKS/GKE)
● Running langchain RAG + LangGraph agents
● Running terraform AWS · Azure · GCP
● Running mlflow LLMOps tracking
● Running prometheus observability stack
● Running github-actions CI/CD pipelines

$ cat impact.log

📉 Cloud costs reduced -33%
🚀 Deploy frequency improved +90%
⚡ Incident resolution time -45%
🔄 Ransomware recovery time <4 hours
📦 Projects delivered 18+

$
8+ Years Experience
18+ Projects Delivered
33% Cloud Cost Reduction
14+ K8s Clusters Managed
// expertise

Technical Skills

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AI / LLM Stack
LangChain LangGraph RAG Ollama Hugging Face FAISS ChromaDB MCP
📊
LLMOps / MLOps
MLflow Model Monitoring A/B Testing RAGAS Model Versioning
☁️
Cloud Platforms
AWS EKS Azure AKS GCP GKE Lambda CloudWatch
⚙️
IaC & Automation
Terraform Azure Bicep Ansible Python Bash
🚀
CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Flux ArgoCD
📡
Observability
Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager Datadog MLflow

Experience

Mar 2025 — Present M2 Internship · ESILV
LLMOps & DevOps Engineer
Sahanaz IT Solutions · Paris, France
  • Built end-to-end LLMOps pipelines with LangChain, RAG, and FAISS on AWS infrastructure
  • Developed agentic AI workflows using LangGraph with Azure IoT Hub integration
  • Implemented LLM evaluation with MLflow and CloudWatch — tracking response quality in production
  • Orchestrated AI microservices on Kubernetes AKS with full GitOps traceability
May 2022 — Aug 2023
DevOps Engineer
Evalueserve · Bangalore (Client: SAB Bank, Saudi Arabia)
  • Built self-service CI/CD platform reducing onboarding from 2 days to 2 hours
  • Prometheus + Grafana across 14+ K8s clusters — 45% faster incident resolution
  • ML pipeline setup and model artefact management with Data Science teams
Jul 2018 — May 2022
Lead DevOps Engineer
Mediwave Digital · Pondicherry, India
  • 14+ Kubernetes clusters · 42 microservices · NHS UK healthcare · 99.9% uptime
  • Reduced cloud costs 33% · improved deployment frequency 90%
  • Canary + blue-green deployments · Terraform IaC · Jenkins + GitLab CI/CD
Jul 2017 — Jun 2018
Junior DevOps Engineer
Sysvine Technology · Chennai, India
  • Python automation scripts reducing manual effort by 40%
  • CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins for Python applications
// built

Projects

🚗
AI Driver Exam Tracking System

Real-time vehicle tracking using YOLOv8 and multi-camera bird's-eye view to evaluate driver exam compliance. Mathematical path deviation detection with GPU cluster CI/CD pipeline and MLflow experiment tracking.

Python OpenCV YOLOv8 Roboflow MLflow GPU Cluster
🏭
Digital Twin — Water Treatment Plant

Real-time digital twin for industrial water treatment using Raspberry Pi edge devices. AI prediction models for equipment failure, chemical dosing, and filter replacement — transforming reactive to predictive maintenance.

Raspberry Pi Python MQTT ML Real-time Dashboard
🛡️
Ransomware Recovery Automation

Disaster Recovery as Code for BlackFox Partners. Ansible playbooks for ISO system snapshots, CI/CD pipeline storing encrypted backups in GCP Filestore. Full system restoration within 4 hours of ransomware attack.

Ansible GCP Filestore CI/CD ISO Backup Python
🤖
Local AI Job Hunt Automation

Full automation pipeline fetching jobs from 8 sources, scoring by relevance, and generating tailored cover letters using DeepSeek via Ollama locally. Zero cost, zero privacy risk, daily desktop notifications.

Python LangChain Ollama DeepSeek RAG
// writing

Tech Blog — DigestSamDex

Simplified technical writing on DevOps, Security and Cloud. → digestsamdix.pages.dev

Apr 24, 2026 · sys Admin, linux Latest
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How to Create Non-Interactive & Restricted Shell Users in Linux — a practical guide to hardening Linux systems by restricting user shell access for security and compliance.

Linux Security sys Admin
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Secure File Upload Pipeline

Building a Secure File Upload Pipeline with Jenkins, Docker & AWS — end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with security controls for file handling in cloud environments.

Jenkins Docker AWS Security
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Feb 1, 2026 · info
Port Knocking

Port knocking — hiding open ports from Nmap scans. A stealth security technique that keeps services invisible until a secret knock sequence is detected.

Security Networking Linux
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Available immediately for CDI, CDD, or interim missions.

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