Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• KwikRise’25 -⚡️Trailblazer Award⚡️
• ➨ Strong leadership, technical expertise, and cross-functional collaboration to drive innovation, resilience, and operational excellence across the technology & business landscape.
• ➨ Leading and managing the DevOps/SRE/Information Security/Release-Tools & IT teams for MobiKwik and Zaakpay digital payment platforms.
• ➨ CISO | lead and manage information and cyber security strategy.
• ➨ Shaping infrastructure by implementing automation and modernisation to achieve business growth readiness, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and addressing every aspect of security.
• ➨ Focus on delivering reliable infrastructure services with minimal latency, robust security, operating at optimal cost and ensuring 4 9’s of availability for MobiKwik having 150+ million user base.
• ➨ Reduce infrastructure & operational spend by ~20% over a defined period without compromising performance, availability, or security.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

• Led DevOps, Security, Release Tools, and IT teams, driving excellence in Gaming and Play to Earn/Crypto-Native verticals.
• Responsible for building:
• ➨ DevOps
• Strategising, designing and implementing highly efficient solutions for business continuity.
• Scaling up the DevOps team - A common team is responsible for system administrator, database administrator, network administrator, security professional, tech ops, system architect, cloud administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, automation etc.
• Operate cloud infrastructure and IT within optimal cost.
• CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline for realtime business analytics and monitoring & alerting.
• ➨ Cyber Security
• Security focus on Enterprise, Network, Infrastructure, Application & Data security.
• Running Private and Public Bug bounty programs.
• Scaling the security team to implement continuous, proactive security measures.
• ➨ Tools
• Build Fast - Continue delivering high-quality releases by tools automation pipeline without manual interaction and saving 100+ hours of engineering team every month.
• Robust Mobile Device lab to execute automation test cases, Performance and benchmark of apps.
• ➨ Corporate IT
• ITAM, security, audit and controls.
• ➨ Built & Scaled:
• Rush by hike (https://rush.network) : hyper-causal games gaming platform for skill-based games.
• Crypto-Native infrastructure for NFT, blockchain transaction and custodial user wallet.

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsible for Infrastructure & Security.
• ➨ Scaling up the DevOps platform & team.
• ➨ Building and scaling security engineering
• ➨ Lead IT the team.
• ➨ Lead the Release-Tools team.
• ➨ Automation first and 10x readiness.

Oct 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Led DevOps team at Hike. Focused on providing a reliable infrastructure having under single digit millisecond latency and 4 9’s of availability for Hike Messenger having 100+ million user base, delivering over billion messages a day.
• ➨ Led and developed automation to quickly and rapidly deploy application changes.
• ➨ Kubernetes In Production.
• ➨ DevSecOps - Optimal security practices within the specified budget.
• ➨ Operate cloud infrastructure within optimal cost.
• ➨ Built a real-time analytics data platform from ingestion to processing.

Feb 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Led the entire tech stack migration from AWS cloud to GCP without any downtime.
• ➨ Migrated 8000+ CPUs workload, 3Petabyte+ of data, 150+ databases nodes/clusters(MySQL, MongoDB, MongoS, HBase, Cassandra, Redis) and 150+ micro services.
• ➨ Responsible for scalability of Messaging infrastructure. Business growth curve from 1000’s of users to millions of users.
• ➨ Leading efforts towards maintaining service uptime at par or above SLA while keeping latency at minimum by harnessing power of cloud and automation.

Jul 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon,Haryana · On-site

• Designed and built scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available infrastructure and systems for the commerce platform.
• ➨ GoIbibo
• ➨ PayU India
• ➨ RedBus
• ➨ Tradus
• ➨ ibibo Social Network & Games.

Jan 2008 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• Managed linux administration for 400+ servers, 150+ MySQL database servers. Bash scripting, SQL analyst and data migration specialist between the different platforms for clients:
• ➨ Meltwater - Deals in media monitoring and business intelligence software
• ➨ International Asset Systems (IAS) - A web platform for the transportation and logistics industries.

Jul 2007 – Jan 2008 · 6 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India