Apr 2021 – May 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• As a Technical Leader built & mentored a high performance team of Engineers, specialized in managing multiple large-scale Kubernetes production environments with a focus on Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure & microservices architecture, primarily serving banks and financial institutions. Expertise spans Kubernetes surround systems, including CNI, secrets management, service mesh & Traffic management and observability.
• In addition to Kubernetes infrastructure, owning the Cloud charter with primary area of focus towards AWS & Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) including cloud cost optimisation.
• Drove augmentation of existing observability stack for better SLO computation and alerting strategies based on SLOs, enabling faster root-cause analysis.
• Led major security initiatives across the organization pertaining to IaaC (Terraform), CI/CD, Cloud, Container & Kubernetes Security improvements leading to reduce Developer friction & improved audit and security posture of the Core Platforms.
• Responsible for the end-to-end security charter, ensuring robust, multi-layered security from cloud infrastructure down to the Kubernetes level, in alignment with Zero Trust Principles & industry best practices and regulatory standards.
• Played a pivotal role in architecting and launching a Payments service for
• one of the largest banks in India on Cloud & Kubernetes with Security & SRE best practices.
• Led Scaling from front of Core platform to seamlessly handle 10x traffic
• surges during high-profile events like IPL and other major promotions.
• Role also includes effective stakeholder management, engaging both internal teams and external clients to ensure alignment, transparency, and shared goals. Committed to driving innovation, enhancing operational excellence, and fostering a secure, resilient infrastructure.

Apr 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr

Dec 2014 – Apr 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Led transition with a team of DevOps Engineers of a monolithic web hosting platform to a microservices architecture using Kubernetes/OpenShift and Kong API Gateway, modernizing practices with DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies.
• Led a multi-year initiative applying PCI-DSS controls across 20+ products, covering OS, SSL/TLS, and HTTP hardening, along with container hardening techniques and AV solutions.
• Established OpenShift standards and best practices, focusing on multi-tenancy, resource control, and baseline container security, including tools like Atomic OS, CIS Benchmarks, K8s Network Policies, and Twistlock.
• Built a next-gen metrics platform with Prometheus, defining SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and APDEX scores to enhance monitoring and alerting.
• Built a next-gen metrics platform with Prometheus, defining SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and APDEX scores to enhance monitoring and alerting.
• Led AWS migration for critical domain registration components, conducting PoCs on AWS BYoIP and Fargate, and implemented NAT-as-a-service solutions.
• Designed a geo-load-balanced solution with Cloudflare load balancers for enhanced scalability and redundancy.
• Architected a secure credit card storage vault using Docker, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Twistlock, and Hashicorp Vault, implementing a Defense-in-Depth strategy.
• Drove disaster recovery (DR) project in a colocated data center, selecting tools like Foreman/Katello for data center automation and evaluating PostgreSQL tools such as Barman, Repmgr, and PGPool-II for database reliability.
• Optimized Elasticsearch and Kibana with Hot-Warm-Cold architecture, scripted fields, and Metricbeat, and evaluated TimescaleDB for timeseries data to replace RRD-based metrics for large scale log ingestion platform.

Apr 2014 – Dec 2014 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Built Anonymity Networks for Amazon Labs to anonymize crawlers for competitive pricing analysis.
• Managed Amazon's collocated data centers spread across the globe. Implemented multi-gateway load-balancing for egress HTTP traffic using Iptables and Linux policy based routing.
• Built large scale Log analysis Solution using the ELK Stack and automated using Python scripting.

May 2009 – Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• As a Linux systems engineering managed a local data-center & render farm consisting of 60 servers, 200+ node render farm, storage infrastructure (EMC / GlusterFS), Cisco routers and firewalls, switches, wireless devices, Video conferencing & VoIP hardware.
• Primarily responsible for L7 Load-balancers and High Availability with HAproxy + HeartBeat & L4 LVS Loadbalancing.
• Managed VPN/network connectivity & site-to-site VPNs located across the globe.