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Bala Hariharan
Bala Hariharan

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How DevOps, GenAI, and Terraform Helped Me Become a Rising Star

Grateful to wrap up this year with some milestones across DevOps, cloud automation, and GenAI that I’m excited to share.

Drove end‑to‑end automation across multiple projects, including GenAI-powered runbooks and cloud cost-optimization workflows, and received an internal R&R award for consistently resolving complex cloud and migration issues under tight timelines.

At Texas Mutual, led the DevOps transformation as a Rising Star awardee: designed the entire AWS infrastructure using Terraform, implemented Azure DevOps pipelines, and enabled smooth deployments by closely collaborating with Dev, QA, business, and client teams while delivering ahead of schedule.

Strengthened my cloud foundation with 4 certifications this year:

Google Cloud – Professional Cloud Architect

AWS – Solutions Architect Professional

AWS – Generative AI Specialty

Microsoft Azure – Security Engineer Associate

Continued contributing to the developer community by sharing learnings from real-world AWS deployments, cost optimization, security, and infrastructure-as-code, and I’m now actively working towards expanding this impact through more blogs, talks, and open knowledge sharing.

If you’re interested in AWS, DevOps, or GenAI in production (Terraform, Azure DevOps, multi-cloud, cost optimization), I’d love to connect, collaborate, and create more community-focused content together.

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