Nov 2024 – Sep 2025 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Leading the DevOps,SRE teams at MindTickle, responsible for the maintenance of production infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering tools.

Jan 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hybrid

• Built a self serviceable cloud platform on top of AWS and Gitlab.
• Lead the design and deployment of a centralized observability platform using CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, and Hosted Graphite, enhanced visibility across AWS accounts and slashed MTTR by 30%.
• Designed and deployed a self-service CI/CD platform on AWS (EC2, EKS, Fargate, RDS, Lambda, VPC,Cloudwatch,Route53), automating configuration management, security, monitoring, reporting, and logging, reducing deployment times by 40%.
• Created a standardized code review process for 30+ projects, enhancing collaboration among developers and contributing to an increase in code quality by 35% with a notable reduction in security vulnerabilities by 25%.
• Identified and eliminated redundant block storage across AWS Accounts, automated the purging of unwanted storage, which reduced an annual cost of $150,000 while enhancing overall performance.

May 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hybrid

• Defined the SLA, SLO, and SLI for the microservices platform, improving system reliability by 10%. Designed an effective DR setup that strategically aligned with the Business goals .
• Pioneered Immutable Infrastructure implementation for the microservices platform, resulting in an overall 99.99% service availability and vastly enhancing overall reliability for the customers.
• Implemented Gitops for Terraform projects with Atlantis which resulted in faster
• change rollouts and reduced the need for rollback by 90%.
• Leveraged AWS GuardDuty to automate threat monitoring and remediation,
• reducing threat detection and response times by 70% and ensuring continuous protection against emerging threats.

Apr 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chennai Area, India · On-site

• Collaborated closely with customers to understand their video production workflows and requirements, delivering customized technical solutions. Pivotal in onboarding new customers and enhancing operational efficiencies for existing clients.
• Developed tailored technical solutions integrating Dalet's OVP product suite with customers operations, focusing on high-performance, and operational efficiency which resulted in onboarding 4 new customers in 6 months.
• Accelerated the performance of ad-tech log ingestion service by 5x by architecting shards thereby reducing the reporting time of analytics data from 24hrs to 4hrs .
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to integrate new product features for customer workflows, accelerating customer onboarding time by 55% and reducing churn by 5%.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai

• Led the security implementation efforts for cloud based healthcare software.
• Instrumental in the implementation of security practices in the SDLC for a cloud based healthcare application, Evangelized threat modeling and threat analysis thereby reducing security related bugs by 80%.
• Directed the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) adaption to standardize the scoring of identified security vulnerabilities thereby increasing the Software quality by 20%.

Apr 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Led a team of developers and testers for re-architecting an application for cloud scale.
• Led the migration of a monolithic application to a microservice architecture thereby increased the availability of the application to 99th percentile .
• Added automated security testing to the deployment pipeline based on OWSAP top 10 , thereby hitting a perfect score of 100% during risk assessment.
• Managed the QA team for implementing an API testing framework with Cucumber for 5 microservices, enhancing the reliability and performance of the SaaS application.

Jun 2006 – Feb 2014 · 7 yrs 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• As a full stack developer developed SaaS software systems that is scaleable , secure and responsive.
• Played a key role in designing and developing cloud-based applications, particularly developing REST API’s capable to support millions of users.
• Improved the application response time by introducing static caching and object caching across different layers of the SaaS applications.
• Architected a data migration toolset to migrate large set of customer data for newly onboarded customers which helps in 2x the customer acquisition.
• Optimized the data layer response times by introducing shards and RO clusters which results in handling 3x more traffic during peak hours.