Harsh Thakkar — DevOps Engineer

I am a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with 7+ years of experience building, scaling, and securing cloud‑native platforms for high‑traffic, mission‑critical environments. My core strengths span Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD automation, observability, and cloud security, with a consistent focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. Representative achievements across Qualcomm, VMware, MPL, and Quantiphi include: 1. Designing Kubernetes‑based platforms with production‑grade scaling, security, and availability. 2. Building multi‑architecture Docker images (e.g., amd64/arm64) and creating a Jenkins Shared Library to standardize CI/CD workflows and automate deployments across multiple application repositories, improving release consistency and developer velocity. 3. Delivering cost optimization on EKS via Karpenter, cutting compute spend by ~20%. 4. Productionizing Apache Superset, Strimzi, ClickHouse, and Airflow, enabling scalable analytics and orchestration for data teams. 5. Accelerating infrastructure delivery through reusable Terraform modules and standardized CI/CD, improving provisioning efficiency by ~40%. 6. Leading incident response during high‑traffic events (e.g., IPL, World Cup), maintaining performance at extreme scale. I enjoy mentoring engineers, maturing operational practices, and partnering with product and data teams to ship secure, reliable, and scalable systems. I also share guidance and conduct 1:1 mentorship sessions through Topmate: https://topmate.io/thakharsh I also write technical articles on Medium: https://harshvijaythakkar.medium.com/

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and DevOps expert with a focus on high-traffic, scalable systems.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 7 yrs 9 mos