Sahil Pugalia

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Expert in GRC automation and compliance solutions.
  • Proven track record in optimizing complex infrastructures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in DevOps and GRC automation within the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Governance, Risk, And Compliance (grc)Cloud OperationsEngineering LeadershipLeadershipIncident Management

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationApacheCCommunicationComplianceConfiguration ManagementCybersecurityData StructuresDecision-MakingEngineering ManagementFinTechForward LookingIT StrategyInterpersonal CommunicationJob Skills

About

A hands-on engineering leader with over 15 years of experience, I specialize in driving innovation in DevOps, product development, compliance, and security. Known for crafting unconventional, out-of-the-box solutions, I transform high-cost, complex infrastructures into lean, scalable, and secure systems. My career has focused on optimizing infrastructure, reducing costs, and leading compliance-driven product development, combining technical rigor with strategic vision to create high-impact solutions. As Co-Founder, I am now dedicating my expertise to the GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) automation space, where we equip organizations with our advanced tooling to streamline compliance, integrate security seamlessly, and proactively mitigate risk—ultimately maximizing operational efficiency. My leadership style is hands-on and product-focused, committed to building solutions that leverage the latest in Technology, cloud, compliance, and security to deliver sustainable value. I'm always eager to connect with like-minded innovators and leaders in the tech and security ecosystem to push the boundaries of what’s possible in compliance automation and product excellence.

Experience

Regodit

Co-Founder|CEO

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · United States · Remote

  • Building advanced GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) automation platform that streamline compliance, integrate security, and proactively mitigate risk to maximize operational efficiency—complemented by professional services for tailored support and implementation.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)Cloud OperationsSecurityCompliance

Arcesium

Principal Engineer

May 2021Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

LeadershipEngineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementCloud OperationsIncident Management

Goldman sachs

Vice President Technology

Jul 2018Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Devops Geek
LeadershipCloud OperationsAWS CloudFormationIncident Management

Bidgely

Lead Production Operations

Apr 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Pro-actively monitor availability and performance of Bidgely’s production servers,application stack and analytics infrastructure for 24 x 7 x 365 uptime.
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and real-time resolutions for issues related to cloud infrastructure, systems, network and application stack.
  • Deploy internal and external monitoring solutions, automation scripts to maintain high - availability for production systems.
  • Undertake periodic upgrades, data backups, deployment
  • and release management.
  • Collaborate with engineering team on architecting infrastructure deployments for existing and new projects
  • Strive for excellence in production operations by adopting best practices, staying ahead of curve with new technology trends, and anticipating future challenges.
LeadershipCloud OperationsIncident ManagementAWS CloudFormation

123 greetings

Senior Expert/Devops - Technology

Mar 2014Mar 2016 · 2 yrs · Greater Kolkata Area

  • In summary currently I am playing the role chief architect who designs the server architecture and optimizes both from the user experience perspective as well as takes care of the business objectives. I am continuously hunting for new solutions which keep the site up to date with cutting edge of technologies. Also responsible for maintaining the integrity and security of servers and systems used for the development of and the running of 123Greetings and other associated domains/Affiliates/Products and Services.
  • RESPONSIBILITES AT WORK:
  • Architecture and Design:
  • Setup Design, plan, and implement sophisticated information and infrastructure systems to support business strategies. Handling projects like clustering, virtualisation, high availability, centralized storage, etc.
  • System Deployment & Development:
  • Responsible for deployment, maintenance, monitoring & troubleshooting of all Linux Severs (AWS).
  • Database Administration and Optimization:
  • Perform database administration functions on MySQL, including general maintenance, performance tuning, availability, backup & recovery, and data warehousing administration
  • Working on development of automated throttling of web traffic in order to increase availability.
  • Security and Backup:
  • Assessment of security of existing and proposed systems. Recommending and implementation of proactive plans to resolve vulnerabilities.
  • Responsible for secure and threat free site.
  • Responsible for Data/File securities/Back-Up Management.
  • Automation and Continuous Integration with Auditing:
  • Automation of processes and maintenance using Bash, Perl.
  • Audit and report Amazon Cloud Service performance on daily-weekly-monthly, frequently from SLA governance, Cost optimization, Health Check, Sizing, Data Transfer and Reporting perspectives.
LeadershipCloud OperationsIncident ManagementAWS CloudFormation

Myntra.com

Software Engineer

Apr 2013Feb 2014 · 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Primary responsibility of making systems available scalable and secure on production and non production environments.
  • RESPONSIBILITES AT WORK:
  • Automation / Optimization
  • Setup of Varnish Cache for a large portion of total traffic serving.
  • Developed simple scripts for handling regular “Happy Hour” sessions, reducing manual efforts.
  • Developing web interface for varnish cache invalidation.
  • Performance Optimization
  • Myntra, being a fashion store, serves a lot of images on the website, through edge servers. Many images are minified regularly but due to scale are missed to. Worked to make sure no non-minified image is ever served.
  • Developed “hostgrouping” concept and application for easing and pacing up deployments across the organization.
  • Worked on rabbitMQ to improvise on the efficiency of image minification.
  • User Experience
  • Worked on development of automated throttling of web traffic in order to increase availability.
  • Worked on HAProxy for customized error page development in order to improve User Experience.
Cloud OperationsTechnology PlatformsIncident Management

Bsb portal pvt ltd.

Devops Engineer

Dec 2012Apr 2013 · 4 mos · Gurgaon

  • Precisely working in-between developers and infrastructure team in order to support and automate development and release tasks and streamline processes.
  • Responsibilities Taken:
  • Deployment Planning
  • Looked into the architecture and security update release for bare metal, in the sense of planning releases to ensure zero downtime.
  • Tools/Config Management Setup:
  • Setting up of Chef, client server model, in order to manage different environment servers.
  • Set up trac, for documentation and internal wiki.
  • Access Management on Network
  • Worked on VPN setup for the entire office in order to enable flexibility to of work time and place.
Job SkillsTechnology PlatformsIncident Management

Yahoo!

Senior Service Engineer

Jul 2009Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Hands on with RHEL and FreeBSD administration and internals on huge production scale infrastructure, managing their system configurations and setting up kickstart processes. Maintenance of the infrastructure composed of setting up and managing alerts & notification with monitoring tools like Nagios. Troubleshooting, a part of maintenance, included interpretation system condition by looking at system activity report. Scripting using Shell and Perl for automating and CI using SVN in order to make life easy for all was something that got me a pat on the back.
Job SkillsTechnology PlatformsIncident Management

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE — Computers

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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