Chandraprakas Meher

Director of Engineering

Gurugram, Haryana, India14 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in cloud infrastructure management and DevOps practices.
  • Proven track record in Kubernetes migrations and CI/CD implementations.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional team environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Specialist with a focus on SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsInfrastructure Performance EngineeringKubernetes MigrationCi/cd Pipeline Setup

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithm DesignAmazon CloudFrontAmazon Web Services (AWS)Boto3C++CI/CDChefCross-functional CoordinationCross-functional Team LeadershipDockerElasticSearchGitHelm ChartsJava

About

Cloud Specialist, with specialisation in managing end-to-end infrastructure operations using multiple cloud services and rack servers including but not limited to Amazon Web Services(AWS), Google Cloud Computing(GCP), Alibaba Cloud, VMWare Technology stack:- Cloud Computing, DevOps, Infrastructure Setup, Python, CI/CD, Automation, Private Cloud, Virtualisation CI/CD: Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Travis, CircleCI Virtualization: Docker, Kubernetes Firwall: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon WAF AWS: Relational Database Service(RDS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Kubernetes Service(EKS), Elastic Container Services(ECS), Elastic Container Registry(ECR), API Gateway, WAF, Route53, Classic Load Balancing (ELB), Application Load Balancing (ALB), Cloudformation GCP: Compute Engine, Virutal Private Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE), Stackdriver Log Pipeline: ELK Queuing System: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon Simple Queuing Service(SQS) Web Services: Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS Alerting and Monitoring: Prometheus, NodeExporter, Grafana, Datadog, Cloudwatch, OpsGenie, PagerDuty Project and Bug tracking tools: Jira

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Netomi

2 roles

Director of Engineering - Devops

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Senior Engineering Manager - Devops

Apr 2022Apr 2025 · 3 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Lead the DevOps, SRE and Infrastructure Performance Engineering team, providing day-to-day direction, coaching, and guidance to ensure delivery of high-quality, reliable, secure, and efficient solutions
  • Develop and maintain engineering processes and procedures for the team, ensuring that industry standards and best practices are in place and followed
  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions and design, develop and implement secure and reliable solutions for the team
  • Develop and maintain key performance metrics to measure and manage team performance
  • Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, secure, and efficient solutions
  • Identify and implement strategies to improve the team’s processes and performance
  • Monitor and analyze team performance and provide feedback and mentorship to team members
  • Manage and track budget, resources, and project timelines
  • Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team
  • Utilize knowledge of DevOps, SRE and Infrastructure Performance Engineering principles and technologies to ensure the team is delivering high-quality solutions.
People ManagementTeam BuildingOperational PlanningTeam MentoringCross-functional CoordinationCross-functional Team Leadership+3

Zeta suite

Engineering Manager Devops

Apr 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Managed the migration of entire applications stack running on legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes Cluster
  • Setup the CI/CD pipeline using ArgoCD to deploy applications into Staging/Preprod/Production
  • Managed the integration of application/infra metrics to be available on Prometheus
  • Managed the integration of application/infra alerts with “OpsGenie”
  • Worked with “SpringBoot” and “Jetty” framework applications and co-ordinated a smooth migration from Legacy to Kubernetes Environment without a downtime
  • Coordinated with the Dev Engineering managers to reduce the application issues like analysing the high application response time, analysing the frequent incidents in Prod/Preprod and reduced the number of incidents by almost “80%”
  • Coordinated with the Dev team to setup “load test” environments to fine tune the resource utilization and scaling policies
  • Coordinated with the QA and Devops team to set up a “canary deployment” strategy using ArgoCD on Production/Preprod for all the applications. The build could only be promoted once the sanity was green
  • Setup the “Active-Active DC” architecture for our on-premise infrastructure
People ManagementTeam ManagementJavaTeam BuildingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Kubernetes+2

Hackerrank

Lead Devops

Jan 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Designed the kubernetes infrastructure taking into considerations “scalability”, “reliability”, “performance” and “security”
  • Coordinated with the application teams to breakdown one big app into smaller chunks (microservices)
  • Coordinated with the QA team to stabilize their test suite environment by implementing Jenkins over Kubernetes
  • Designed the CI/CD pipeline on Jenkins for build and deployment to different environments and integrated with Slack for command based on-request build and deployment using Hubot
  • Migrated the entire application stack from “AWS EC2” to “kubernetes” infrastructure
  • Scaled up the test taking platform by “5x” i.e from “5000” concurrent candidate logins to “25000” concurrent candidate logins
  • Implemented the web firewall with alerts for protection against “Denial of Service”(DOS) and “CDN” for serving static frontend assets on “Akamai”

Freelance, self employment

DevOps Consultant

Jun 2018Jan 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Media.net

DevOps Engineer

Aug 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Implemented “Docker Swarm” on physical dell poweredge servers running Linux for migrating the existing application stack on docker
  • Coordinated with the “Hadoop” Development team to helm them migrate their infrastructure on “AWS EC2” for better “scalability” and “performance”
  • Setup monitoring stack on “Nagios”, “Grafana”, “node_exporter”
  • Setup “CI/CD” for deployment of code releases using “puppet 2.7” and later migrated the same to “puppet 4.0”

Softtek méxico

Software Engineer

Dec 2015Aug 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Writing backend web applications on “python” using “flask framework”
  • Responsible for client handling, requirement gathering via direct client interaction, implementation of prototypes and approval form clients.
  • Individual contributor for multiple client projects, worked on various technologies – Python, C++, Java, Docker
  • Deployment of Staging, Pre-staging and Developer Server builds through Subversion and Bamboo configuration.

Cognizant

Associate Engineer

Jul 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore

  • Working with the frontend team to integrate their routes with the backend APIs
  • Involved in “performance testing” of applications before production release
  • Giving demo to the client about the feature release and ensuring a smooth rollout to staging environment
  • Worked closely with the QA team to resolve several bugs raised by them during staging/UAT deployment

App associates

Junior Software Engineer

Mar 2011Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Working with the senior developers to optimize the existing applications to improve “API performance”
  • Improve database queries
  • Responsible for understanding and enhancing the older backend applications

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