Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Led Infra360 to become a trusted Cloud Modernization Partner for 27+ global companies.
• Key Achievements:
• ➤ Reduced AWS costs by 40% for a leading digital lending platform
• ➤ Enabled 3x faster deployments with <10min MTTR using GitOps (ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform)
• ➤ Set up a self-managed Observability system to process 5M log events/minute for a Web3 client
• ➤ Scaled secure, policy-driven DevOps across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• ➤ Implemented cloud-native FinOps governance for BFSI, SaaS & Web3 clients

Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built in-house CLI tool for Tagging AWS resources in Python3 and made all AWS accounts 100% tagging compliant.
• Setup Containerised (K8s EKS) Infrastructure to deploy new applications for dev, test, stage and prod environments with 100% IaC using Terraform with best practices of Cost (Spot servers, Right sizing) and Security (IAM Roles, ServiceAccounts, Restricted Security Groups, NACL).
• Evaluated CloudHealth Control Tower by VMWare and Integrated it from scratch to manage all AWS accounts and GCP projects. Configured policy based governance for Zombie resources, Tagging, KTLO, Cost, Security, Containers and Operations. Also became - Certified Platform Administrator Associate - CloudHealth
• Shared cost and security best practices with teams in different Geos and reduced the AWS bill by $23k/month in two months.
• Performed Well Architected Reviews (WAR) for all accounts with AWS
• Worked on VPC, Subnet, Security Groups and NACL design
• Configured Security services - Macie, Inspector, Guardduty, Config, IAM, Organizations, WAF, SCPs, Security Hub and CloudFlare

Oct 2020 – Dec 2020 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Technical Skills: AWS, Terraform, Immutable Infra, Jenkins, Packer, Blue/Green Deployment, DevOps Tooling
• Built fully automated (using Terraform, Git and Jenkins) federated role-based cross-account IAM access through SAML (Gmail) for all employees
• Worked on One-Click deployment using Packer, Terraform, Jenkins declarative pipeline for immutable infrastructure for non-prod env
• Configured Blue-Green Deployment for production using Jenkins
• Built DevOps dashboard from scratch in Python/Flask to manage the Blue/Green deployment flow and provide metadata around services
• Automated the deployment of DevOps dashboard in ECS using Terraform and Jenkins

Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

• Working as Head of Operations and Head of DevOps in the current role.
• Set up DR (Disaster Recovery) for Housing.com and implemented AWS WAF and Cloudflare WAF for different platforms.
• Responsible for K8s migration, Logging, Monitoring, Alerting, Security, Cost, CI/CD, Automation, Uptime of all Platforms, Beta and Production env issues and taking Infra to the next level.
• Improved average uptime from 99.86 to 99.99 in the last 1 year.
• Planned and Scaled Infra for Housing.com to handle sudden 10x traffic through some marketing campaign with minimal cost in 1 week’s time.
• Migrated Proptiger and Makaan 40 APIs to Kubernetes platform with KOPS, Prometheus, Grafana in AWS
• Setup Kafka cluster for communication service
• Setup centralised logging using ELK with ElastAlert, Search Guard and setup ELK APM for Java-based APIs in beta and prod env. In this activity, we re-architected how the logging part was being managed earlier.
• Implementing Observability through ELK Stack, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry
• In the last 1.5 year, hired 6 people and managed a team of size 8.
• Reduced AWS bill by 45% for all 3 platforms
• Work with key stakeholders in tech to get their requirements related to dependencies on DevOps, prioritize them and get them implemented for smooth project completion by all tech teams.
• Do sprint and project planning every 2 weeks for all 3 platforms.
• Experience in handling lifecycle for signing contracts with 3rd parties for DevOps people on contract
• Done a PoC on Vault implementation for Secret management
• Managing 350-400 servers on AWS and 70 servers in local DC using Openstack.
• Made Trusted Advisor green in AWS for all 3 platforms for Security Groups
• AWS Aurora migration using DMS with rollback strategy
• Prometheus implementation for monitoring in Proptiger
• Troubleshoot various production issues related to Infrastructure and provided RCA/Resolution to those.
• Setup process to log all the production incidents.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• In the last 6 months, I have managed a team of nine members.
• Designed, standardized, implemented the VPC architecture, directory structure for IaC (ansible and terraform) and DevOps best practices across projects and organization which has the following features:
• Restricted security groups
• Automated SSH access
• Defined naming convention
• IAM roles on app/worker servers
• Jenkins Job deployment
• Zabbix Monitoring
• URL monitoring
• Monitoring of Target Group, RDS, Redis
• Auto Scaling and Spot servers in app and workers
• Tagging on all AWS resources
• Successfully built a model project to be followed by other projects with new design that was created. Managed the automation of Infra and deployment for 15 services, including new and old services.
• Code review is part of my daily activities and started sprint planning with sprint retro and effort estimations using JIRA.
• Designed, standardized and managed the automation of Infrastructure (S3 bucket and CloudFront) using Terraform and Deployment using Jenkins for 30 frontend dashboards.
• Designed, standardized and managed the automation of Deployment using Jenkins for almost 100 lambda functions using serverless.
• Reduced cost of AWS by 30% using combination of RI’s, Spot servers (using SpotInst), cleanup unused resources, optimizations in memory for lambda’s, right sizing of EC2, ElastiCache and RDS.
• Troubleshooted various production issues related to lambda and EC2. Also provided RCA and resolution to those.
• Defined policies for Onboarding of new joinees and access management for DevOps tools e.g AWS, CloudAMQP, Cloud MongoDb, NewRelic, Sentry, BitBucket, Jenkins etc.
• Designed and managed the JIRA integration for all projects.
• Designed and managed URL monitoring (SLA and response time) using Zabbix for internal and external URLs.

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon

• We manage the setup of almost 50 microservices.
• We believe in writing code and using latest tech/tools to automate our infrastructure.
• Responsible for day to day operational task related to scripting, automation and deployment.
• Responsible for optimizing the AWS costing. Recently reduced AWS cost to half.
• Responsible for managing/creating different environment for production, staging, dev and QA
• We dynamically create cloud formation scripts for different environments from a single code base.
• Responsible for backup/restore of Postgres DB data.
• Right now our primary role is of a site-reliability engineer and we are moving towards complete automation using latest tools in the market.
• We are using Ansible to configure our servers.

Apr 2015 – Sep 2015 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Make efforts to build a self-healing and self-managing system.
• Written Shell Scripts for Backup/Restore for Cassandra and Elasticsearch and automated it.
• Did configuration optimization for Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Tomcat, Spark and Kafka.
• Write CloudFormation scripts for all the stack components and set up Auto Scaling for all the clusters in the architecture.
• Implemented the Disaster Recovery process for all the components in the architecture. If any server in any cluster goes down, it will bring up a new server with the same state in just 5 mins.
• Implemented SonarQube to review the quality of the code and JMeter to do the load testing.
• Done POC on Packer, Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins.
• Started on Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce) and played with HDP Sandbox Environment. Also learnt Core Java concepts.

Jan 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

• Gained hands-on experience of various technologies involved in the project’s life cycle (design, development, operations, monitoring, testing etc)
• Developed ability to quickly take hold on client’s stack, grasp new technologies and new skills irrespective of the work load
• Worked closely with managers, engineers and collaborated with them to provide development, operations support/services to many clients at the same time and consulted/served them with in- depth knowledge, creativity and innovation
• Investigated and resolved many complex and multi-faceted issues faced by various clients
• Got recognition from the manager as a most trusted, responsible and quick learner person
• Managed, maintained, monitored and enhanced infrastructures/environments for various clients and provided them automated solutions in support of critical customer facing applications and environments
• Performed various tasks related to automation, deployment, continuous integration, continuous delivery using agile methodology and other Linux based administrative tasks
• Maintained up-to-date documentation on deployments , processes and standard operating procedures
• Skills : Chef, vagrant, Jenkins, Nginx, Tomcat, Solr, Redis, Logrotate, Nagios, Zookeeper, Cassandra, Storm, HAProxy, SupervisorD

May 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Gained a thorough understanding of the business domain
• Gained hands-on experience of various technologies involved in the project’s life cycle (design, development, testing etc)
• Testing and debugging the code as and when required.
• Gained hands-on experience on development & integration of Web Applications based on Python and other technologies.
• Provided technical and implementation support as and when required.
• Gained a thorough understanding of the new age frameworks, learn new technologies and implemented them as and when required.
• Skills : Python, Django, C, Data Structures, Algorithms, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Facebook API’s, Sphinx, Crispy forms, Haystack and Solr search, Dajax, Dajaxice, Django AutoComplete Light