Harshit Anand

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led cost optimization initiatives saving millions.
Architected and automated large-scale deployments.
Expert in multi-cloud infrastructure management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert specializing in cloud infrastructure and cost optimization in the SaaS industry.

Contact

harshitanand00@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cost OptimizationDevopsCloud MigrationInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AzureConfluenceCost Usage DashboardData StructuresDocker SwarmElasticSearchElasticsearchEvent ManagementGitGitHubGithubGitlab

About

🚀 DevOps Leader | Architecting Seamless Deployments & Driving Operational Excellence 🌐 Managing Infrastructure & OE at Acko General Insurance. Passionate about leveraging technology for cost optimization and waste reduction across multiple clouds. Excels in architecting and automating large-scale deployments, driving transformative initiatives for enhanced productivity.

Experience

Nielsen

Member of Technical Staff 3

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Acko

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jan 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

Led the WOW (War on Waste) project, identifying cost reduction areas and implementing strategic measures across accounts and tools for enhanced efficiency. Minimized waste and optimized expenses for project-wide effectiveness.
Designed and managed a robust Cost Usage Dashboard [CUD] architecture, utilizing end-to-end integration with multiple collectors.
CUD seamlessly integrates essential tools including AWS, Kubecost, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, and PagerDuty. By orchestrating the data flow and visualization, it facilitates efficient analysis of cost and resource utilization of all resources based on LOB.
As part of central DevOps Infrastructure team migrated AWS managed Redis to Self Managed Redis saving 75 % of the total cost.
Actively mentored peers during reviews as well as informal group discussions, and provided guidance to juniors in task breakdown and execution.

AWSGitHubJIRAConfluencePagerDutyKubecost+4

Oyo

2 roles

Devops Engineer 2

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Engineered a Kubernetes-based solution employing Custom nodes resulting in better fragmentation
and utilisation of resources and saving 15+ million dollars of the yearly cost.
Led & Managed Infra and OE for multiple EU companies acquired by Oyo (Traum-Ferienwohnungen,
Bellvilla, Dancenter, LARS)
Migrated the LARS (Leisure Group acquired by OYO) Infrastructure running on Physical Datacenters to
Azure Cloud resulting in better Availability, Security and Cost.
Led the successful migration of Dancenter, a recent acquisition by OYO, from a physical datacenter to
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), orchestrating the end-to-end architecture design for a multi-region
company at the infrastructure level.
As part of the central DevOps Infrastructure team, maintained various data storage services, including
Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Kafka, and facilitated their one-click creation and maintenance
using Terraform and Python.
Led the development of a centralized DevOps portal for automated resolution of Access & Infra Requests. Leveraged Slack Integration to reduce manual overhead on the team by 85%
Creation of Jenkins, Gitlab Pipelines for Pipelines as Code with Automated flows for SonarQube, deployment across PreProd/Prod/Blue-Green systems.
Facilitating inter-cloud service communication by establishing cloud connectivity across multiple clouds.