Cloud DevOps Engineer at Amazon Elastic Beanstalk SME Interviewer Mentor Team Culture Advocate With over 10 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, and infrastructure automation, Nihar Karra is a seasoned technologist who believes that great systems are built by great teams. Currently working at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Cloud Engineer, Nihar helps global enterprises architect, optimize, and automate their mission-critical applications on the AWS platform.

He has led large-scale transformations from legacy systems to modern, containerized microservices architectures using Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible , and AWS native services. His work spans industries like fintech, aviation, and e-commerce, helping teams improve reliability, reduce downtime, and scale with confidence.

Beyond CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, Nihar is passionate about something often overlooked in tech: emotional intelligence in engineering teams . He’s led cultural transformation initiatives, coached engineers at all levels, and advocates for psychological safety, empathy, and sustainable team practices.

When he’s not automating infrastructure or speaking about DevOps culture, you can find him:

📺 Binge-watching the latest Netflix series with his family 👶 Making memories and playing with his adorable little one

“The best systems aren’t just built with code — they’re built with care, collaboration, and emotional intelligence”