Tej Tandel

DevOps & Release Engineer — Toronto, ON

Tej
Tandel

I ship production releases on Azure DevOps by day, and build cloud infrastructure on AWS + Terraform on the side.

See my work Resume ↓
4+yrs in release engineering
99.5%uptime sustained
100+releases / month at peak

01 Selected Work

Cloud Resume Challenge

Frontend → Infra →

Serverless portfolio site — static frontend on S3, HTTPS via CloudFront + Route 53, and a real-time visitor counter powered by Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

S3 · CloudFront · Lambda · API Gateway · DynamoDB
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Terraform VPC + EC2

Repo →

Secure, multi-AZ VPC provisioned entirely with Terraform, hosting a static site on EC2 with least-privilege IAM.

Terraform · EC2 · VPC · IAM

Terraform EC2 & S3 Stack

Repo →

IaC deployment combining EC2 compute with S3-backed storage and remote state management.

Terraform · EC2 · S3 · Remote State

More on GitHub →

Work-in-progress Docker and Kubernetes projects as I expand container orchestration skills.

02 Experience

Feb 2026 – Present

Configuration Specialist — Scotiabank

  • Directed deployment pipelines across QAT and Production in Azure DevOps, scaling to 100+ release cycles/month at peak.
  • Administered Git and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for release packaging and version control.
  • Reduced release risk by aligning deployment windows across 6–7 concurrent teams.
  • Resolved production incidents via log analysis, driving root-cause fixes and controlled rollbacks.
Apr 2022 – Jan 2026

RPA Configuration Analyst — Tech Mahindra (Scotiabank)

  • Sustained 99.5% uptime across 50+ production processes through proactive monitoring.
  • Managed change tickets through CAB approval, ensuring full compliance.
  • Migrated 160+ processes to Windows Server 2019, minimizing downtime.

03 Skills & Certifications

CI/CD & Release

Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins, CAB Management

Cloud (AWS)

EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, DynamoDB

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Ansible

Containers in progress

Docker, Kubernetes

Scripting & Systems

Python, Bash, Linux

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C03 · May 2025
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) in progress

04 Let's talk

Looking for DevOps, Release Engineering, and Platform Engineering opportunities.

tejtandel14@gmail.com

+1 519-870-6667 · Toronto, ON, Canada

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