Mar 2023 – Aug 2023 · 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Planned and executed migration of 200+ Microservices to AWS running on 1400+ VM's and Nomad containers in the On Prem Datacenter & Azure Platform with in record 6 months period.
• Built & automated CICD pipelines on Gitlab & migrated from On-Prem Jenkins & Bitbucket based solutions to SAAS-based platform. AWS Infrastructure Provisioning automation for 200+ microservices on AWS using CFT, CDK/Typescripts. Integrated with SAST & DAST tools for vulnerability assessment and timely resolution.
• Created SOC & SIEM centralised security monitoring & alerting infrastructure for 50+ AWS accounts across multiple businesses. Built a low cost centralised logging & monitoring infrastructure on AWS using Elastic Search, Kibana, Kinesis, Firehose, Fluentbit & Lambda functions.
• Created DevSecOps culture and mindset across the development organisation. Built DevSecOps team from the ground-up across MENA & EU region. Transformed the existing Infrastructure & Operations team from a service delivery mindset to a product & platform based organisation.
• Built lean AWS Cost culture across the organisation and managed AWS budget of over USD$2M/year.

Jun 2022 – Feb 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Goodworker is a startup initiative from Temasek a global Investment bank owned by the Government of Singapore to help more than 300M blue-collar workers in India find and get jobs through technology.
• Built secure, highly available & scalable AWS Cloud Infrastructure & CICD Platform from the ground up to improve developers' productivity and drive agility & speed.
• Provisioning, integration & deployment automation, self-service using Terraform, Type Scripts, Helm Charts & GITOPS principles on Gitlab. Automated observability & 24/7 Critical Incident Management by integrating NewRelic, Jira, OPSGENIE & Slack.
• Engaged with third-party White Hat Hackers, ISO 27001 auditors to drive security audits & quarterly VAPT assessments for all microservices, cloud systems & network Infrastructure.
• Built lean cloud cost culture, defining engineering & operational excellence processes, coordinating with technology vendors and driving capacity & cost optimisation.
• Built a Top-Notch organisation from scratch by hiring a highly talented team and setting them up for success.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Transformed 2B US$ Datacenter Infrastructure & Public Cloud division of UHG from a manual and service-based organization to a product-based and self-service-based organization.
• Saved YOY Opex cost of US$10M by automating 38+ functions across the breadth of Datacenter Infrastructure & Public Cloud.
• Enabled entire Datacenter Infrastructure services as API, UI & CLI for more than 20K developers across UHG. Built-up Self Service Single Front Door UI Provisioning Platform for all Datacenter Infrastructure products & services using React JS & Node JS declarative & reusable components.
• Automated Public Cloud Landing Zones & Public Cloud Accounts provisioning across AWS, Azure & GCP using Terraform & Cloud Formation reusable modules.
• Developed AIOps platform to provide Predictive & Preventive Analytics and Self-Healing using Influx DB time-series-based log aggregation, Kafka Streaming, Apache Flink for stream analytics, AWS S3 data lake & ML Models. Integrated the platform with Incident Correlation Engine, ServiceNow & Stackstorm based Autoremediation Platform.
• Built Incident Auto Remediation platform for more than 1/2 million YOY Incidents integrating Stack Storm Orchestrator, K Native Serverless platform & ServiceNow. Built CICD Pipeline automation using the GITOPS principle, Jenkins, Tekton, Artifactory, XL deploy & XL release to automate Kubernetes build, deployment & production releases.
• Built from the ground up a team of Software Engineers, Infrastructure SMEs, Solution Architects & Data Engineering & Science Engineers across multiple locations to drive Global Datacenter Infrastructure & Public Cloud Automation.

Apr 2015 – May 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Automated AWS Cloud Infrastructure provisioning, Landing Zone OU & Accounts provisioning for 2000+ applications, Infrastructure & Security devisions across 13+ AWS regions across the globe.
• Automated and reduced AWS platform provisioning SLA from 4 weeks to less than 4 hours per account per region that helped 20+ brands of expedia to migration more than 70% of the application by 2019.
• Saved YOY cost of US$ 2M on VMware licensing migrating entire VM provisioning from VRA to Opensource Orchestrator StackStorm.
• Built a self-service platform for over 5000 catalog requests/month using StackStorm Orchestrator. Built self-service & automation platform for Compute, VMware, IAM, Openshift, Kubernetes, Network, Storage, and Databases across Global Data Centres & AWS Cloud.
• Managed 24/7 Infrastructure production operations with 99.99% uptime for 50K+ VMware Computes, 1500+ ESXi Hosts, 100+ Domain Controllers, 25+ Domain, Microsoft Active Directory Services, ADFS, Chef, and SCCM across 3 Global Datacenters & 1500+ VPCs on AWS regions.
• Built from the ground up & lead cross-functional teams of System Architects, Infrastructure Engineers, Software Architects & Developers in India, London & Romania.

Feb 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• I was co-founder & CTO to build up a start-up venture Quantm Technologies for SMB Market in the USA.

Apr 2010 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Managed the IT Engineering & Operations team across South Asia to provide technology services to JLL business. I was responsible for Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Office 365, Network, Servers, Security, Databases, End User Services, Contact Centre Services, SAAS based SCM & CRM applications.
• Built highly cost optimised residential property listing & search portal on AWS. Migrated Vendor Management & bidding system for real estate project management division on GEP. Integrated 16+ corporate offices across India on Verizon Global MPLS Network.

Sep 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Successfully delivered Technology M&A of Trammel Crow Meghraj with Jones Lang LaSalle. Integration included IT Infrastructure, APAC Data Centers, IT help desk, Network, Security & End-user computing Integration. Achieved 30% cost savings on capital & operational cost of US$ 3 MN integration project.

Aug 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

• Successfully executed data centre migration projects for global clients with a CAPEX budget size of up to US$4M. Achieved both capital & operational cost savings by offshoring IT resources, infrastructure & applications services to India. End to end Project Management using Prince-2 Methodology with project planning, budgeting, costing, solution designing, execution & controlling project's critical activities.

Apr 2005 – Aug 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Automated Sun Solaris System Build Process for multiple datacenters in EMEA & APAC region.I was responsible to build and drive the UNIX Engineering team to provide 24*7production support across global data centres of Sun Solaris Servers, AIX, Veritas File System, Storage, SAN, NAS, & Backup environments running mission-critical financial applications.

Nov 2003 – Mar 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Transitioned IT Infrastructure engineering projects & Infrastructure support functions from Fidelity UK to India. Built-up Disaster Recovery & resiliency planning for global data centres. Capacity Planning & Performance Monitoring of Global Unix environment.

Apr 2001 – Oct 2003 · 2 yrs 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Worked for REUTERS in London(UK) for over 2 & 1/2 years to support Sun Solaris Datacenter Infrastructure. I also executed Sun Solaris-based infrastructure deployment projects for FORTIS BANK in the Netherlands & for World Bank.

Jun 1999 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• System Administrator with DOT COM Startup Indiamart in New Delhi. This was the place where I groomed my skills on various technologies including Sun Solaris, DNS, Perl, Shell Scripting, Apache, IIS, Samba, Linux, Windows & other Technologies.