Nov 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• o Provided technical leadership for all infrastructure and design initiatives, guiding the Ops and engineering teams while coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure successful project execution aligned with organizational goals.
• o Accelerated a two-year corporate goal by delivering a Software Defined Infrastructure in just six months through the development of an Agile Infrastructure Framework and IaC using AWS CloudFormation, integrated with services like CodeCommit, Lambda, CodeBuild, and CloudWatch.
• o Maintained infrastructure health by ensuring critical software and services remained current (latest or n–1 versions), reducing risk and improving system stability.
• o Successfully migrated legacy data center environments and workloads to an IaC-based AWS cloud ecosystem, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• o Reviewed and optimized CI/CD pipelines, AWS CloudFormation templates, and SaltStack configurations, ensuring adherence to best practices and coaching team members to build scalable, maintainable systems.
• o Enabled the research team to deliver MVPs faster by resolving setup issues, leveraging existing tooling, and addressing early technical challenges to support faster prototyping and sustainability testing.
• o Led technical efforts in achieving AWS Well-Architected Review compliance and contributed to the organization securing AWS Competency Status.
• o Automated repetitive operational tasks using custom scripts and build setups with AWS CodeBuild, Lambda, Jenkins, and SaltStack states, improving team efficiency and reducing manual overhead.
• o Collaborated with development and program teams to architect solutions tailored to customer needs, providing insights on infrastructure, security, and cost, while proactively troubleshooting development-time technical issues.

Mar 2018 – Jul 2024 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• => Acquired by Symphony Technology Group (STG) and subsequently spun out as an independent entity under the name "Skyhigh Security," with the core business objectives, team, and ongoing work remaining unchanged throughout the transition.
• o Engineered infrastructure components—including configuration management tooling—with a strong focus on compliance and portability, ensuring seamless deployment and functionality within FedRAMP-compliant environments, including AWS GovCloud, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• o Played a key role in achieving AWS Security Competency status and securing the AWS Well-Architected designation for the organization. Notably, MVISION Cloud (formerly Skyhigh Networks) became the first CASB solution to attain the AWS Security Competency during this effort.
• o Owned and resolved high-impact production incidents across infrastructure, CI/CD, traffic management, capacity planning, and deployment pipelines to ensure rapid recovery and service continuity.
• o Maintained infrastructure in alignment with established security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and GDPR, ensuring compliance across critical systems and processes.
• o Designed and developed secure architectures tailored to meet the requirements of various regulatory bodies and security protocols.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Skyhigh Networks has been acquired by McAfee.

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• o Designed redundant & automated platforms for services running in AWS.
• o Enforced use of Chef for Infrastructure Automation & designed cookbooks.
• o Used Ansible for ad-hoc requirements like, deployments, patching, etc.
• o Engineered forward proxy solutions to scrape the web for data collection.
• o Evangelized docker container platform for applications.
• o Added monitoring capabilities using ELK.

Dec 2015 – Jun 2016 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• o Consulted various healthcare companies for environment security initiatives.
• o Designed and trained on Agile Development models for better software delivery.
• o Conducted POC’s on Hybrid Cloud based software deployments.
• o Recommended changes in Scrum process to improve productivity in Cross Geo Teams.
• o Been part of Advisory committee to decide on appropriate solutions & architectures.
• o Designed & secured the AWS infrastructure.
• o Designed High Available infrastructures using AWS Multi AZ’s.
• o Reduced Server Operation Cost in AWS for clients.
• o Worked on improving the Code Delivery and Deployment model.
• o Built redundant infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation.
• o Implemented Secure VPN services with additional security measures.

Sep 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• o Solely implemented and maintained multiple projects.
• o Maintained ad-hoc network of Hybrid Cloud, In-House & Remote Datacenter.
• o Initiated migration of servers from Rackspace to AWS.
• o Been part of the team to analyze & provide recommendations to various design changes.
• o Performed analysis & reduced project operation cost using Analytics data from various components in the infrastructure.
• o Designed and implemented Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery.
• o Conducted POC on Continuous Deployment.
• o Performed vital changes to load balancers, servers & applications to improve performance.
• o Introduced proactive monitoring using various tools and scripts.
• o Designed & presented the “Key Performance Indicators” of Operations Teams to the
• Higher Management.
• o Performed analysis and POC on various technology tools.
• o Automated most of the deployment process.

Dec 2009 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• o Administered & managed remote locations via VPN & SSH.
• o Implemented and managed Application Clusters, Mail services, etc.
• o Migrated legacy Java applications to newer platforms.
• o Migrated applications & servers to remote datacenters.
• o Performed Application Performance Tuning.
• o Initiated orchestrated deployments using build tools.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• o Provided implementation designs & tools required to various organizations.
• o Implemented various infrastructure services and trained the responsible teams to
• manage the same.
• o Performed POC and demonstrations on various infrastructure services. o Analyzed & troubleshoot’d variety of network issues.

Mar 2006 – Jan 2007 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• o Managed multiple Microsoft Windows services.
• o Scripted most of the reporting services.
• o Managed 200+ users using GPO & AD.

Jun 2005 – Feb 2006 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• o Sole owner responsible for Avaya Call Routers.
• o Performed Capacity Planning for CPO’s/Agents.
• o Was reporting directly to Regional Head – Operations.