Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked as a Principal DevOps Engineer in the Core Platform (Olympus) team, responsible for delivering a Kubernetes-based platform capable of running stateless workloads across multiple clusters and zones.
• Contributed as a core architecture team member, focusing on traffic management, observability, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and EKS.
• Led a team of 8 engineers in the development of Heracles, an in-house scalable traffic management product for managing edge, ingress, and egress traffic, built using Cloudflare APIs, Kong, Istio Egress Gateway, and the Kubernetes Operator framework. Able to achieve 50k RPS without downtime.
• Contributed to the development of a secure CI platform producing enterprise-grade artifacts, integrating SAST, DAST, Docker CVE scanning, KubeSec, TFSec, and Docker signing for security and compliance.
• Played a key role in the development of an in-house Zone Management and Monitoring tool based on Google SRE principles, enabling monitoring of internal and external APIs with SLO, SLI, error budgets, and tracing capabilities.
• Contributed to a scalable logging solution capable of collecting terabytes of logs daily from over 300+ microservices in each production zone, using Fluentd, Kafka, S3, and Elasticsearch.
• Participated in the POC and successful production rollout of VictoriaMetrics across multiple zones, validating its scalability and integrating it into the monitoring ecosystem.

Apr 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dec 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed and built a production-grade Kubernetes platform from scratch using Ubuntu, kubeadm, and Terraform, incorporating centralized logging (Graylog/ELK), monitoring (Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, Grafana), Helm packaging, and Spinnaker-based continuous delivery pipelines.
• Automated and managed streaming and batch data platforms including Apache NiFi and Debezium, improving deployment speed and operational efficiency.
• Led infrastructure and application automation initiatives, utilizing Terraform and Ansible to drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Developed automation frameworks and internal tooling using Golang, Python, and Shell scripting to streamline engineering workflows.
• Strengthened incident management processes by building robust troubleshooting playbooks and reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Integrated and maintained CI pipelines with Jenkins to ensure seamless build and deployment cycles.
• Implemented CD pipelines using Jenkins 2.0 and Spinnaker, achieving zero-downtime deployments.
• Set up and optimized observability stacks including Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Graylog, and the ELK Stack to enhance system visibility and alerting.

Jul 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Maintained high-traffic, complex infrastructure environments, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum system performance.
• Designed, developed, and managed high-availability microservice clusters, optimizing for scalability, resilience, and reliability.
• Built a fully automated Kubernetes platform supporting zero-downtime deployments, centralized logging, monitoring, traffic shadowing, and service mesh integration.
• Led cloud cost optimization initiatives, including the development of an in-house AWS cost analytics dashboard, enhancing visibility and control over cloud expenditures.
• Designed and developed Volkh, an internal tool enabling on-demand production-grade Kubernetes cluster provisioning across AWS, GCP, and bare metal environments.
• Created and scaled Fleet and Flot, two proprietary CI/CD tools to deploy hundreds of microservices seamlessly across Development, Staging, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Strong expertise in CNCF tools such as Envoy, Istio, Ambassador, Helm, and Telepresence for service management and development workflows.
• Implemented comprehensive observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Sensu, and the ELK stack for logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Actively managed production outages, DDoS attack mitigation, and capacity planning for critical infrastructure services.
• Hands-on experience with key technologies such as Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Jenkins.
• Proficient in Python and Shell scripting for infrastructure automation and tooling development.

Jun 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Set up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Python, Docker, and GitHub, improving deployment consistency and reducing manual effort.
• Developed automated on-premise Debian package build systems using Docker, Shell scripting, and Python, accelerating internal release cycles.
• Designed and implemented automated data backup, disaster recovery systems, and led large-scale on-premise product deployments across multiple customer sites.
• Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform and implemented AWS Config for compliance management, strengthening infrastructure governance and security.
• Administered and scaled MySQL databases; deployed and optimized Apache2, Nginx, and Tornado servers to improve application performance and reliability.
• Built and managed a private Docker registry, and orchestrated Docker Swarm-based container fleet management for scalable service deployments.
• Managed RabbitMQ and Mnesia databases for reliable job queuing, and optimized Celery and Gunicorn configurations for efficient asynchronous processing.
• Conducted REST API and WebSocket load testing using Locust, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks for better scalability.
• Deployed and fine-tuned the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and faster incident diagnostics.
• Implemented Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) using Microsoft Intune, configured SSO with Azure Active Directory, and set up automated Ionic app builds for Android and iOS.

Aug 2012 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

• Developed a distributed command-line MVL framework for PHP AGI development on top of the Asterisk telephony server.
• Implemented WebSocket integration with Asterisk for real-time live call monitoring dashboards.
• Designed and implemented a many-to-many calling algorithm to support Aam Aadmi Party’s national calling campaign, enabling scalable volunteer-caller management.
• Automated backend operations and monitoring using Nagios, New Relic, and FreePBX, improving system reliability and reducing manual interventions.
• Centralized call logs using Elasticsearch, enabling efficient search, analysis, and troubleshooting of telephony events.
• Led new architecture design and implementation initiatives to enhance system scalability, observability, and performance.