Apr 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · On-site

• + Built and scaled the SRE Data team from the ground up; led architecture design, OKR planning, and hiring efforts while spearheading the DevEx charter to enhance reliability and developer productivity.
• + Lead contributor in building and scaling CRED’s Kubernetes ecosystem using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and Karpenter - powering 50+ data and open-source workloads with built-in observability.
• + Drove open-source adoption by migrating multiple SaaS platforms to an in-house Spark, Flink, Airflow, and JupyterHub setup - reducing infra and licensing costs by ~$100K annually.
• + Spearheaded full-stack infra modernisation and cloud cost optimisation for a CRED subsidiary - driving ~60% cloud savings, moving legacy monoliths to a resilient containerised stack with zero downtime, unifying observability, streamlining CI/CD by moving to CRED’s internal platform Caterpillar, standardising developer tooling, and strengthening the org’s security posture through improved governance and security controls.

Apr 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

• + Owned end-to-end data infrastructure, serving as the single point of contact for 50+ data team members - driving infrastructure design, platform development, cost optimisation, and ensuring compliance across all environments.
• + Drove onboarding and infrastructure enablement for key data platforms - SaaS solutions like Databricks, Astronomer, MonteCarlo, and Fennel, along with internal platforms such as Batch, RTP, Recon, and the ingestion framework (Kinesis, Firehose, Glue) - ensuring secure access, reliable networking, and BAU operations.
• + Oversaw SRE on-call operations - driving incident triage, RCA, improving documentation, security patching, readiness drills for high-traffic events (e.g., IPL) and well-architected reviews. Collaborated closely with developers to resolve deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Developed internal automation frameworks to enhance reliability and speed:
• + GitOps-driven performance testing framework for cross-account microservice and datastore cloning, improving test velocity and reliability during peak traffic.
• + IaC-based AWS account provisioning framework enabling one-click environment setup and bootstrap infra, cutting setup time by ~70%.
• + Python-based Kubernetes upgrade CLI with automated pre-checks and validations, reducing manual effort and improving upgrade velocity.