About - Arun Madhu | DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer

Arun Madhu

DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer

Professional Summary

Arun Madhu is a seasoned technology professional with a distinguished 18-year career, initially built at the forefront of the digital cinema revolution. His extensive background spans hardware integration, complex system deployment, and international technical team management, providing a unique, ground-level perspective on system reliability and performance.

During his 9+ years with GDC Technologies in Singapore, Arun served as a Product Deployment Manager, where he was responsible for deploying mission-critical cinema servers across Southeast Asia. This role honed his expertise in ensuring high-availability systems, managing Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and providing Tier-2 support for complex technical issues.

Career Transition & Current Focus

Driven by a passion for automation and software development, Arun has successfully pivoted to a DevOps and Backend Developer role. For the past 3+ years, he has been architecting and maintaining cloud-native solutions for international clients.

Technical Expertise

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Azure Digital Ocean Docker Jenkins Prometheus Grafana

Development

Python Django Django REST Framework PostgreSQL HTML/CSS/JS C#

18+

Years in Digital Cinema

Years DevOps

Years at GDC

Countries

Languages

Tamil (Native) English (Professional) Japanese (N5)

What You'll Find on This Blog

Cloud Infrastructure

Building and scaling cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, and Digital Ocean

Python & Django

Best practices in backend development with Django REST Framework

DevOps & Automation

CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and monitoring strategies

Career Transition

Lessons from moving from hardware engineering to software development