Saurabh Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India9 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
Proven track record in automating compliance and operational efficiency.
Strong experience in Kubernetes and microservices deployment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with strong DevOps and SRE expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ios DevelopmentKubernetesMicrosoft AzureAzure Devops ServicesSoftware InfrastructureSystem MonitoringCicd

Other Skills

Amazon CloudWatchAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)AzureBashCloud ApplicationsComputer NetworkingContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Data StructuresIBM CloudIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Infrastructure as code (IaC)JenkinsLinux System AdministrationPowershell

About

· 9 years of experience working on cloud technologies with the principle of “You build it, You run it”. That means along with software development, well versed with DevOps and SRE principles. · Experienced in solving infrastructure related problems, operational overheads and designing monitoring solutions with SRE principles. · Hands-on experience in creating, deploying, and monitoring microservices using container technologies Docker and Kubernetes. . Having work experience in DevOps Tools like Jenkins, Docker, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, Ansible, HAProxy, Terraform. Have used these technologies to create a sustained production environment. · Involved in Linux administration, Jenkinsfile creation for CI/CD, and collaboration with a demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships.

Experience

Tesla

Senior Software Development Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer II

Apr 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

· Led the creation of secure and compliant infrastructure for a new Microsoft Defender service, overseeing provisioning, monitoring setup, privacy reviews, and implementing CI/CD for seamless incremental updates. This led to service GA on time and with all security compliance check in place
· Aligned with PMs and designers, created a whole new consumer onboarding flow for Defender iOS App. This helped in increasing number of new consumers onboarding to app.
· Improved sign in flow in enterprise ios defender app which significantly reduced customer reported issues
· Migrated from managed agent to open source Secret CSI driver for our mobile backend service that runs on cross geo kubernetes clusters seamlessly. Promoted open source usage which reduced operational overhead.

SwiftiOS DevelopmentKubernetesPython (Programming Language)System MonitoringSystem Deployment+3

Site Reliability Engineer-II

Dec 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

· Contributed to the Cross-platform team, enabling new signatures like Snort for malicious samples on Linux, MacOS, and Android labs, overcoming challenges posed by the complex network architecture. This helped in increasing researchers capability to identify and analyze network related malicious samples.
· Developed and implemented multiple automation solutions utilized organization-wide by Microsoft Defender teams, addressing compliance issues and enhancing operational efficiency. One of the major automations was for AzSecPack Mitigation (Compliance). With this automation, time to mitigate AzSecPack missing from VM issue reduced to 10 minutes from 1 hour. Also it enabled teams
to do bulk installation of AzSecPackon on VMs.

Microsoft AzureAzure DevOps ServicesAzurePython (Programming Language)Computer NetworkingPowershell+1

Vmware

Site Reliability Engineer

Feb 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka · On-site

· Designed and implemented a monitoring solution for diverse components
of Software Defined DataCenter (SDDC) as part of the SRE team, enhancing the reliability and performance of the customer-centric product. This helped in reducing our SLA, proactive detection of issues and giving an industry standard operations experience to customers.
· Regularly authored runbooks automating common troubleshooting steps for SDDC issues, optimizing operations and reducing resolution time.
· Implemented an end-to-end integration test pipeline for new SDDC bring-ups, ensuring seamless and error-free deployment for improved reliability.
· Developed component frameworks in an automation tool, empowering the operations team to create efficient remediation runbooks tailored to specific SDDC component issues.
· Worked on NSx infrastructure to resolve network related issues in SDDC, this includes configuring switches, VLAN setup and routing configurations.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)Software InfrastructureVMWare ESXiVMware vCenterSystem Monitoring

Gigsky

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Mar 2019 – Feb 2020 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

· Designed and implemented Kubernetes architecture for microservices deployment, establishing two-way SSL communication for enhanced security.
· Authored Jenkinsfile for CI/CD pipeline, automating microservices deployment and ensuring efficiency in the process.
· Actively presented cloud infrastructure demos to senior leadership, contributing to a better understanding of project capabilities.
· Coordinated with Developers and QA Testing Team to resolve issues related to build setup and environment configuration.

JenkinsKubernetesCICDIBM CloudLinux System AdministrationIdentity and Access Management (IAM)