Prasad Uplenchwar

Associate Consultant

Pune, Maharashtra, India4 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

4x Microsoft Azure certified professional.
Expert in designing CI/CD pipelines and cloud solutions.
Proven track record in optimizing DevOps workflows.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud solutions and CI/CD automation for enterprise environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud ComputingCi/cd

Other Skills

AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleArtifactoryAutomationAzure AI Foundry AgentsAzure DevOpsBitbucketBug TrackingC (Programming Language)C++Chef AutomationChef Automation (Ruby)CloudSmithCommunication

About

Certified Cloud & DevOps Engineer over 4 years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, cloud solutions, and automation frameworks. Skilled in Microsoft Azure (4x certified – AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-900, AI-900), Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, J frog, Nexus/IQ, SonarQube and Terraform. Experienced in building scalable cloud-native applications, automating deployments, and optimizing DevOps workflows to accelerate delivery in enterprise environments. Passionate about leveraging Azure and DevOps best practices to drive digital transformation and business value. Passionate about enhancing DevOps workflows and ensuring infrastructure efficiency. Let’s connect!

Experience

Infosys

Sr. Associate Consultant - Azure & AWS DevOps Developer

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Partnered with cross-functional teams (Payments, Cards, KYC, QA, Prod Application teams) to onboard applications to the DevOps platform, implement CI/CD pipelines and perform production deployments.
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins using shared libraries and Azure DevOps templates to automate build, test, and deployment processes across AWS and Azure services (App Services, Function Apps, AKS, EKS, OpenShift/Kubernetes).
Developed GitHub Actions workflows and reusable composite action templates from scratch, enabling scalable and standardized build/deploy automation.
Provisioned and configured self-hosted GitHub runners on cloud VMs using Terraform, managing secure integrations with credentials, PAT tokens, and service accounts.
Ensured code quality by integrating SonarQube into CI pipelines, enforcing static code analysis, unit test coverage, and vulnerability scanning.
Managed artifact repositories with JFrog Artifactory and Cloudsmith, standardizing package management and artifact lifecycle for builds and deployments.
Integrated APIs from GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps to design and build a centralized DevOps Hub dashboard, enabling unified visibility for engineering teams.
Explored and prototyped AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry + OpenAI, applying them for automation of daily DevOps workflows and productivity tasks.
Implemented policy-based governance for cloud infrastructure by integrating OPA (Open Policy Agent) with
Terraform in GitHub Actions workflows, enforcing restrictions on instance region, size and other configuration
parameters.

TerraformJenkinsAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsSonarQubeJFrog Artifactory+4

Cognizant

2 roles

Associate(Tech Lead) - DevOps Engineer

Jul 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Worked as a CI/CD DevOps Engineer, managing and optimizing enterprise-grade CI/CD platform tools including GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus/Nexus IQ, SonarQube, OpenShift (OCP), HashiCorp Vault, JFrog Artifactory, Jira, ServiceNow, and Trident.
Key Contributions:
Managed and administered CI/CD platforms to meet business and client requirements for a US Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) project Client.
Implemented process automation and configuration management using Ruby scripting for Chef cookbooks and Ansible playbooks on the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency.
Developed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy, automating build, test, and deployment pipelines for Maven Java applications, Gradle services, and Python MkDocs documentation projects.
Performed deployment updates and configuration changes across Chef Server, Chef Automate, and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) to maintain stable and compliant environments.
Managed and supported Helm release deployments on Kubernetes clusters (OpenShift OCP), ensuring reliable, consistent, and scalable application delivery.
Improved CI/CD pipeline efficiency and security by automating checks and integrating Cycode, SQ, Nexus IQ, JFROG X-RAY and SEDATED security tools to enforce DevSecOps best practices.
Managed automated daily and weekly backups of Nexus Repository to AWS S3 and EFS, strengthening disaster recovery and data resilience.
Collaborated with DevOps platform vendors including CloudBees, Sonatype, GitHub, and SonarSource to evaluate,
integrate, and optimize CI/CD tools, ensuring alignment with business requirements and enhancing automation
capabilities.

GitHubJenkinsNexus IQSonarQubeOpenShiftChef Automation+4

AWS DevOps Intern (GenC)

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos

Gained hands-on experience with AWS Cloud services and DevOps tools for building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
Designed and implemented a complete “Splunk-AWS” infrastructure by integrating Splunk with AWS environments to create dashboards, reports, and charts for log metrics and monitoring.

AWSSplunk