Somnath Chakraborty

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led initiatives saving over $1.5M in cloud costs.
Designed multi-phase Disaster Recovery program.
Modernized developer experience with CI/CD practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and DevOps expert with a focus on cloud-native solutions.

Contact

somnathchakraborty.mail@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform ManagementCost EfficiencyDisaster RecoveryDevopsCloud Development

Other Skills

AWSAWS Savings PlansAgile EnvironmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon EC2Amazon ECSAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAnsibleApache CloudstackAzureAzure DevOpsBuild AutomationC

About

With over 15 years of experience in IT, I currently lead the India Platform organization at EarnIn as an Engineering Manager. My focus lies in Platform as a Service (PaaS), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Data Infrastructure, where I drive initiatives to enhance reliability, developer velocity, and cost efficiency. A key accomplishment includes leading the FinOps initiative, enabling over $1.5M in cumulative cloud savings while maintaining performance and resilience. My expertise spans cloud-native architecture, engineering management, and platform management. Passionate about enabling scalable, automated, and efficient systems, I collaborate with global teams to align standards and tooling for impactful execution. My mission is to create innovative solutions that support organizational growth and technological excellence.

Experience

Earnin

Engineering Manager Platform

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

Leading EarnIn’s India Platform organization across Platform as a Service (PaaS), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Data Infrastructure, aligning standards, tooling, and operating models with global teams to elevate reliability, developer velocity, and cost efficiency while scaling India execution and partnerships.
Spearheading the company’s FinOps initiative—establishing tagging standards, team-level cost ownership dashboards, anomaly management, and optimization playbooks—and delivering more than $1.5M in cumulative cloud savings via AWS Savings Plans/Reservations, rightsizing, and observability cost controls, while preserving performance and resilience at scale.
Designing and operationalizing a multi-phase Disaster Recovery (DR) program with explicit RTO/RPO targets, cross-region replication for core AWS services, Terraform-based automation, and validated drills/playbooks—elevating resiliency and reducing recovery friction across business-critical workloads.
Modernizing developer experience and delivery by adopting ArgoCD and deepening Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD, and GitOps practices—enabling rollbacks, policy guardrails, and progressive delivery—and achieving safer, faster, and more predictable releases with measurable uplift in developer throughput.
Contributing to Bengaluru co-site leadership—shaping local operating rhythms, cross-time-zone collaboration, and talent pipelines (internships and early-career mentorship)—supporting site growth and effectively doubling scale since joining, while maintaining strong uptime and operational excellence.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Data InfrastructureCloud SavingsDisaster RecoveryKubernetes+3

Amadeus

Engineering Manager

Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Performing the role of Engineering manager managing a team of 25 direct reportees,
responsible for the Devops platform engineering operations for Bangalore Unit.
Responsible for development and maintenance of Devops platforms hosting data processing product applications used by 30+ Airlines services.
Platform operations include creation and maintenance of Kafka topics, Openshift containers and
MongoDB databases which is responsible to collect live feeds from airlines and parse/process it for
further handling. Automation CICD deployment is handled by Jenkins pipelines.
Also responsible for data platform that includes development and maintenance of Azure landing zones providing Azure, services including Databricks, Azure ML, VMs and azure pipelines. Also leading data governance and cataloguing for the hosted data.
As part of SAFE methodology working closely with multiple Train’s POs, Scrum master’s, product owners and product managers to do requirement analysis, drive milestones based delivery and implementations.
Working very closely with the leadership to run Innovation and IPs initiatives, and leading thought leadership initiatives across the Amadeus BLR.
Proficient in technology, people, incident, and problem management.

DevOpsKafkaOpenshiftMongoDBAzureData Governance

Accenture

Application Development Associate Manager

Jun 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and developed end to end automated application deployment CICD solution using
Terraform, AWS code pipeline, bitbucket, Jfrog antifactory, CloudFormation and python. The
solution is used by the migration team as well as the client for deployment of 30 + applications
and to release regular upgrades for each application.
Designed and developed serverless architecture for Spring boot application utilizing ECS, ECR,
Fargate, Cloudfront, RDS, Elasticache, ALB and S3.
Managed the 10-member migration team (Agile model) as a technical manager and SME and
migrated entire client infrastructure and applications to AWS within a year and in four lifecycles.

TerraformAWSPythonServerless ArchitectureECSCloudFormation+1

Cognizant

Devops engineer, apache cloudstack engineer, open vms system administrator,

May 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India · On-site

Implementing private cloud solution for datacentres based on Apace Cloudstack.
Working on Devops tools to create end-to-end CICD pipeline using bit bucket, Jenkins, Maven, Kubernetes, Docker containers & IIS to migrate windows based legacy servers to private cloud automatically, migration of VMWare based servers to Cloudstack.
Worked as an L3 administrator for OpenVMS HP Integrity BL860c i2 Server Blade servers.

Apache CloudstackDevOps ToolsCICD PipelineKubernetesDockerDevOps

Igate patni

2 roles

Senior software engineer

Oct 2010 – May 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Leading a 10-member team as subject matter expert. Onsite coordinator (Oct, 2013 – Aug,2014). Working in SLA environment ensuring timely delivery of tickets (24x7 L3 support), involved in handling L1, L2 and Problem management incidents.