Jenson C S

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in infrastructure management.
Expert in Kubernetes and cloud platform implementations.
Proven track record in leading high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in cloud technologies and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure ManagementTeam LeadershipDevops

Other Skills

Active DirectoryAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApacheArchitectureAutomationCI/CDCentOSChefCloud ComputingCost ManagementCost VisibilityDNSDashboard DevelopmentData Center

About

Dynamic engineering leader with over a decade of experience in platformization and infrastructure management. Known for driving significant infrastructure transformations and pioneering platform developments at Sharechat. Demonstrates exceptional capability in building and leading high-performing teams, with a keen focus on enhancing operational efficiencies and implementing org-wide cost-saving initiatives. Adept at navigating fast-paced environments with a metrics-driven problem-solving approach.

Experience

12 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

5 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Sharechat

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs

Engineering Manager

Mar 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

● Lead a team of 25 FTE + dynamic 5-10 consultants.
● Re-architectured monolith infrastructure to a micro-level architecture and reduced infrastructure level
management overhead.
● Re-architecture CI, CD, Monitoring, Networking, and cost visibility for stability and usability.
● Implemented a support portal and streamlined the incoming requests to gather metrics and ease of
communication.
● Hired and groomed a team from 7 members to 25 and created a pod-wise problem-solving group internally.
● Took initiative and designed an internal developer self-served platform called atlas to reduce developer wait time on infra support.
● Responsible for all the infrastructure-related vendor management such as GCP, AWS, Cast,
Granulate.Redis..etc
● Responsible for vendor negotiation and contract signing flow for the DevOps team.
● Worked on a few critical evaluations of projects like ServiceMesh, Scylla, Redis..etc
● Built an internal caas team for self-hosted components from scratch.
● Expertise in running large-scale workloads on Kubernetes.
● Built an internal cost visibility dashboard for team and services to track cost.

KubernetesInfrastructure ManagementVendor ManagementCost VisibilityTeam LeadershipMicroservices Architecture+3

Gojek

Product Engineer

Apr 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Implemented and managed production ready, highly available Kubernetes cluster in GCP
Implemented Service mesh using envoy + consul
Automated 90% of infrastructure work using terrafrom + internal automation orchestrator(proctor)
Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and Managedreleases of Helm packages.
Works with Google tools (GCP) and assist in building nfrastructure for various applications
Works with Amazon AWS tools and assist in building infrastructure for various applications
Develop software tools that integrate with IAAS control plane to manage infrastructure
Work with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and QA Engineers in an Agile team environment
Familiar with TCP/IP networking, firewalls, switching, and routing
Building tools and processes around CI/CD pipelines involving integrations with gitlab
Developed, maintained and enhanced pre and post build scripts (Ruby, Shell and Go)
Created a Continuous Delivery process to include support building of Docker Images and publish into a GCR + Artifactory
Orchestrated and managed IAC for Go-Jek
Part of huge infrastructure migration team (Planning +Execution)
Part of containerisation migration team
Leading IAC + Migration pod(team)
Heavily worked on Chef, Ansible for Configuration

KubernetesGCPTerraformCI/CDDockerHelm+4

Storat.com social marketplace

AWS Engineer / Devops engineer

Oct 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Jr.Linux System Administrator

Feb 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

Functioned as Jr.Linux systems engineer to maintain system services and performance.
Installing, configuring, upgrading, maintaining data replication with MySQL DB.
Write the Administrative shell script and make schedule with Cron job.
Responsible for backing up server configuration files and MySQL DB through Cron scripts.
Create and manage user accounts, granting and revoking privileges to users.
Establish and maintain backup and recovery policies and procedures.
Monitor the database servers' load, memory, disk space availability and uptime.
Support for technical queries from local development team through web based email ticketing system and act upon to resolve the issues.
Schedule backups and make sure backups are completed successfully.
Installed, configured and administered internal chat applications Open fire with LDAP.
Installed, configured and administered LDAP with NFS for developer’s home directory.
Perform software installation, upgrades and maintenance on Linux Servers
Monitoring the servers and Linux scripts regularly and performed troubleshooting steps
Installing and configuring open source tools Apache, FTP, and NFS server.
Installing and configuring mongo DB, PgSql.
Installing, configuring, maintaining and backup SVN.
Installing,configuring,maintaining clear OS(firewall)
Installing, configuring, managing SAMBA.
Network troubleshooting using traceroot,nslookup,dig,ping,ifconfig,route,etc
Create and configure E-mail id for new joiners as per request.
Data Compressing, Backup and recovery using tar and rsync,zip command.
Recover data from corrupted OS (windows/Linux).
Bit bucket repository configuration.
Configure SVN, Git, and Mercurial for local development team with eclipse/netbeans.
Configure local android development setup with eclipse.
Hosted many virtual servers in cloud technology with AWS EC2, S3, RDS, ELB and many other cloud hosting provider (RACKSPACE,Inmotion,Hostgator,Godaddy) based upon project requirements.