Ronak Kogta

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building cloud-native infrastructure across multiple unicorns.
  • Proven track record in scaling observability initiatives to petabyte levels.
  • Strong advocate for developer experience and modern enterprise tools.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Architect with expertise in cloud-native solutions and observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud Native InfrastructureObservabilityLlm StackCloud Native WorkloadsObservability InfrastructureKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringAwsCi/cd FrameworkCloud DesignInfrastructure ManagementDeveloper Experience

Other Skills

AI Driven Test AutomationAlgorithmsArchitectsBYOC OperationsBitcoinCC++CUDACompiler OptimizationComputer ArchitectureComputer ScienceContainerizationCustomer ExperienceDevOps CultureDocker

About

Ronak has been building platform initiatives across multiple unicorns, and following is list of active work, he has been involved in 1. Building LLM Stack platform, involving test automation, tracing, cost observability, RAG pipelines. 2. Cloud Native Infrastructure distributions that runs across multi-cloud, BYOC(bring your own cloud) and hybrid cloud as well. 3. Leading and building 5 pillars of observability initatives completely from opensource, and scaling it to terrabytes of logs/metrics 4. Providing modern tools for enterprise grade support, including migrations, developer platforms, business contract simplification, business process, SRE and Oncalls etc. 5. Building complete SDLC cycles (from code to production, testing to verification, CI/CD to progressive delivery, and security by design, cost and governance tools etc) 6. Mentored teams and individuals in last few years to drive organization by principles of ownership and bias to action 6. Innovation from prototype to production: Track record of delivering innovative & highly impactful product prototypes(0-1) to scaled products(1-n) 7. Most importantly, adept in taking constraints as a fundamental block, to build People >> Platform >> Product

Experience

Amagi

3 roles

Director

Promoted

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos

  • Manage platform of cloudport product
  • Migration of product to cloud native stack
  • Observability at petabyte scale (logs, metrics, traces, profiles)
  • byoc operations at world's largest media orgs powering events like olympics, laliga championships
  • effective platform ops (EKS upgrade, customer upgrades, security)
  • AI Driven test automation + AI Driven extreme systems engineering
Cloud Native InfrastructureObservabilityAI Driven Test AutomationBYOC Operations

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • I believe in following principle while leading as manager, and fellow engineer. People >> Platform >> Product
  • Zero Day Test Automation via LLM, Building LLM platform for supporting video/audio assets.
  • Handle cloudport platform initiatives, involving active collaboration with development teams, security initiatives and quality initiatives to ensure we have testable and reproducible infrastructure.
  • Our team built entire CI, release, and test infrastructure, for making platform continuously testable.
  • Our team handles BYOC, Hybrid, cloud native workloads for customers.
  • ultra focussed on building better developer tools and developer experience.
LLM StackTest AutomationCloud Native WorkloadsDeveloper Experience

Senior Architect

Nov 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Scaled Observability Infrastructure (Metrics/Logs/Events/Alerts/Profiling) to enterprise scale using Open Source components, powering our entire SaaS Managed and BYOC environments.
  • Build additional platform primitives like incident management, fleet management, release management, admission controllers to build platform iteratively and with velcoity
  • Taking an active part in democratizing knowledge across org by organizing/hosting internal tech talk series across org, and collaborated with teams to host internal hackathons for innovation, and led teams to build new ideas which ended up moving company's KPIs
  • Identified well paved paths by building a design library, and democratizing this knowledge as a checklist in designing new services.
  • Continuous tech debt and problem discovery which can have an impact on org, and executing it with agency.
  • Built a team that has allowed us to execute different impactful projects, meanwhile constantly delegating myself out of the job.
  • Built hands on understanding on operating large scale Kubernetes workload efficiently on top of AWS cloud.
Observability InfrastructureIncident ManagementKubernetesAWS

Sysdig

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

May 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

  • Working on changing Devops culture to data-driven SRE org.
  • Worked on making customers happy with reliable secure and monitoring product.
DevOps CultureMonitoring ProductAWSKubernetesSite Reliability Engineering

Thoughtspot

2 roles

Sr Developer Experience Engineer

Jan 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • ~ Designed, led, and handled first few GA versions of thoughtspot cloud from scratch.
  • ~ Worked on improving build systems (Bazel), and implement binary caching infra.
  • ~ Worked on building CI/CD framework using argocd and spinnaker.
  • ~ Worked on writing initial test framework for SaaS stack (Integration Tests, Infrastructure Tests, Unit Tests)
  • ~ Left shift security scanning to pre-commit level to catch compliance and security bugs at lower level.
  • ~ Worked on building cost governance in cloud.
Cloud DesignCI/CD FrameworkSecurity Scanning

Infrastructure Engineer

Aug 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • I joined ThoughtSpot India as one of first hires, and looked after its infrastructure globally, and played a key role in scaling both infrastructure as well as local team. I joined as an IC, but worked various hats during my tenure in first 18 months, involving building a collaborative culture, enabling fellow engineers to become productive, knowledge transfer on complete tech stack to newly opened head quarters.
  • Apart from this, I worked in developer experience team and used to tackle problems of product, developers, release engineers by building better tools, scalable CI and managing various platforms like K8s, AWS, GCP, Private Cloud.
  • Work:
  • 1. Worked on scaling our CI to cost Effective EKS setup powered by spot instances.
  • 2. Worked on building faster way to do build tooling for infrastructure team by a tooling framework nakama, which I primarily developed.
  • 3. Lead a v-team which upgraded gerrit, our core SCM to multi-site replication, to support geographical offices.
  • 4. Nebula is one of our joint team work where we are able to provision backends on any platform like bare metal, aws, gcp, vmware, azure, K8s etc. I've worked on AWS side of it, and made whole work run on spot instances reliably.
  • 5. I also worked in improving user experience on the side of nebula, while conducting surveys and tracking user journeys.
  • 6. 360 degree Infrastructure ops analytics.
  • I was responsible for building our initial visibility stack across engineering operations, that included CI visibility, Code Review visibility, core systems visbility.
  • Release engineers, Enginering leads and developers, who would have critical insights to their core pipelines.
  • Many of our strategic work in company relied on numbers crunched out by this workflow.
Infrastructure ManagementDeveloper ExperienceKubernetesAWS

Clouber

Principal Engineer

Jun 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs

  • I majorly implemented core features of our product and build a robust software delivery system of our pipeline.

Mobinet innovations pvt. ltd

Solutions Architect

Sep 2014Jan 2015 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • A social-startup working on applications of Music in healing process. I designed and assisted them with their technology requirements, which included mobile application design and website design.

Reniac, inc

Build Engineer

Mar 2014Aug 2014 · 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked on integrating hardware product with Operating systems and its services

Iiit hyderabad

2 roles

Head Teaching Assistant, Computer Networking

Promoted

Jan 2014Mar 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Designed Tutorial content for Intro to Computer Networks

Head Teaching Assistant, Operating Systems

Aug 2013Dec 2013 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Designed Tutorials and Assignments for basic intro to Operating Systems Course.

Cvest iiith

Research Assistant

Jul 2011Jul 2013 · 2 yrs

  • Invested our time on compiler optimizations and applied ourselves in existing frameworks for HPC. For eg. Legup FPGA Framework, Hybrid Cuda Framework

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Master of Science (M.S.) by Research — Parallel Algorithms

Jan 2011Jan 2013

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

upGrad.com

Product Maangement — Product Management

Jan 2016Jan 2017

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