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Mahesh S.

CEO

Yokohama, Japan14 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Accelerated deployment cycles from days to hours.
  • Led cloud digital transformation in safety-critical industries.
  • Built high-trust environments for engineering growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with expertise in DevOps and SRE for large-scale enterprises.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical Account ManagementCloud Platform EnablementDevopsReliability EngineeringKubernetesSecurityAws CloudformationAmazon Web Services (aws)

Other Skills

Technical Account MangementTechnical Project LeadershipSolutions ArchitectPlatform ArchitectureTech LeadAmazon EKSAWS LambdaGitOpsGitlabProduction DeploymentBuild AutomationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)KyvernoBashMicrosoft Azure

About

Technology is only as impactful as the teams who shape it. I believe the real value of cloud-native platforms, AI infrastructure, and automation emerges when engineers are empowered—with trust, clarity, and a shared sense of purpose. As a CNCF Kubestronaut and cloud-native leader, I focus on building resilient platforms that combine development velocity with operational excellence. My work spans SRE, DevSecOps, and platform engineering—helping teams streamline delivery while strengthening reliability, security, and observability at scale. At the heart of my journey is driving cloud and DevOps transformation for large-scale, safety-critical industries. In the automotive sector, I led cloud digital transformation and hybrid cloud migration initiatives—containerizing workloads on AWS EKS, introducing Kubernetes-based CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring teams in CNCF technology adoption. These efforts accelerated deployment cycles from days to hours, significantly reduced time to market, and brought MTTR for critical services down to just minutes. I’ve also helped evolve internal platforms into mature self-service products: embedding governance through policy-as-code, ensuring cost and security controls are automated in CI/CD, and scaling reliable developer experiences across global teams. I take pride in building high-trust environments where engineers grow confidently—through mentorship, technical depth, and shared ownership. Whether modernizing cloud foundations, enabling cloud-native transformations, or scaling governance across multi-cloud environments, I bring a structured, collaborative, and outcome-driven approach. For me, success means empowering teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions that truly meet user needs and move the business forward. Featured Expertise/ Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Driving reliability, observability, and incident response with a balanced focus on service health and delivery velocity Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE): Scalable cloud governance, platform operating models, and embedding policy-as-code guardrails across multi-cloud, Hybrid cloud environments Cloud Architecture & Operations: Azure: Landing Zones, Hub-Spoke network architecture, Bicep/ARM for IaC AWS: Multi-account strategy, IAM guardrails, EKS, VPC design, well-architected reviews Secure-by-design foundations, FinOps tagging strategy, logging/monitoring, and resilience patterns Leadership & Culture: Mentoring engineers, breaking down silos, driving alignment between teams Cloud-Native & CNCF: Kubestronaut, Cilium, Argo CD, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry

Experience

Rakuten

Lead - TAM (customer success)

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · Greater Tokyo Area · On-site

Technical Account MangementKubernetesTechnical Project LeadershipCloud Platform EnablementSolutions ArchitectPlatform Architecture+1

Tata consultancy services

Lead Technical Specialist

Feb 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Tokyo, Japan · On-site

DevOpsTech LeadAmazon EKSReliability EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWS Lambda+11

Rakuten

DevOps Technical Lead

Sep 2018Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · On-site

  • As a DevOps Lead Engineer, I oversee platform, hybrid cloud infrastructures, containerization, and Kubernetes implementation, ensuring smooth operations and efficient development. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining ML search and recommendations infrastructure for scalability and reliability. I lead containerization efforts with Docker for consistent application deployment. Managing Kubernetes clusters enables automated deployment and scaling. Establishing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and ArgoCD facilitates rapid software updates. Infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using Terraform ensure efficient resource management. Setting up monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack tracks system performance. Security measures are implemented to protect against threats and ensure compliance. Collaboration with teams ensures infrastructure meets their needs, fostering continuous learning. I act as a technical escalation point for complex issues, collaborating on incident resolution and conducting post-mortem analysis for preventive measures.
DevOpsLinux System AdministrationDocker ProductsGitJenkinsArgo CD+12

Appdirect

Security DevOps Engineer

Jul 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • AppDirect is the leading cloud service marketplace company dedicated to revolutionizing the way businesses run.
  • We offer a cloud service marketplace and management platform that enables companies to distribute web-based services.
  • The global network of AppDirect-powered marketplaces allows businesses to find, buy, and manage the best applications the cloud has to offer.
SecurityAWS CloudFormationDocker ProductsGitAnsibleJenkins+13

Culture machine media pvt. ltd

DevOps Engineer

Aug 2016Jul 2017 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Role: DevOps Engineer
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • 24X7 monitoring of AWS Cloud application maintaining the up-time within SLA
  • AWS Cloud accounts management, IAM user creation, IAM policies and IAM Roles creation for secure AWS resources access.
- AWS Cloud Infra security
  • PagerDuty – Notification configuration and management
  • NewRelic – Notification configuration and management
- Riemann - Event centric push based network monitoring tool
  • Azure Cloud services – Azure Resource Manager, Virtual Machines, Virtual Network (Vnet), VM Availability Sets, etc
  • AWS Infrastructure cost management through AWS Cost Explorer
  • Jenkins for CI and CD.
  • ELK stack - For centralized log management
- Implementation of AWS Cloud security practices
  • Shell Scripting and Python scripting for adhoc tasks
  • Standalone Hadoop cluster management, configuration, monitoring
  • EMR Hadoop cluster administration and management
  • AWS EC2, S3, EMR, RDS, SES, ELB, API Gateway, Lambda Functions services experience
SecurityAWS CloudFormationDocker ProductsGitJenkinsGrafana+12

Druva

Cloud Operations Engineer

Feb 2014Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Role: Cloud Operations Engineer Duration: 2 Years 6 months
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • 24 x 7 monitoring for Cloud servers and maintain product with No Downtime
  • Setting up VPC – migrate project from EC2-Classic to VPC.
  • Networking in VPC – TCP/IP , NAT , Routing, VPC peering
  • Capacity planning, maintenance activity planning, support and Security in Cloud.
  • Develop scripts to automate deployment and configuration changes using modern technologies such as SaltStack
  • Interacting with other team members including Development, Quality Assurance, Consulting and Product Management.
  • AWS Cloud and Azure Cloud services cost optimization.
  • Cloud Server hardening and security compliance management
  • Set up of Virtual Networks in Azure cloud
  • Set up of Azure Cloud services
  • Set up of Load balancers in Azure cloud
  • Automation tasks using scripts in salt-stack server automation tool
  • Setting up the Nagios monitoring tool for Server and service monitoring
  • Involves in problem solving , troubleshooting and root causing the product issues
  • Log analysis for product related issues.
  • Works closely with Development team to understand infrastructure requirement to deliver set up on time.
  • Work in team to deliver things on time. Making decisions on time as per priorities in project.
  • Working closely with Development team to troubleshoot any application related issues.
  • Works towards highly available cloud application with high performance.
  • Taking audit of security policies in Cloud and insuring the security in place.
AWS CloudFormationGitJenkinsAmazon Web Services (AWS)TerraformBash+7

Xoriant solutions pvt ltd

Linux System Engineer

Apr 2013Feb 2014 · 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • In xoriant I have worked on project called JUNOWALLET which is number 1 reward app company in world.
  • I working here as linux system engineer support where my work areas are AWS-EC2, app deployment on HEROKU platform as services, maintaining heroku servers.
  • Monitoring node.js app using NODETIME heroku add on which is performance monitoring app for node.js.
  • Monitoring heroku server dynos using NEWRELIC monioring tool.
  • Maintaining the JOYENT cloud server smart machines for the project.
AWS CloudFormationGitJenkinsAmazon Web Services (AWS)BashProduct Operations+3

Persistent systems

senior system admin

Aug 2009Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • I was associated with Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune for around 3 years 9 months. In persistent I have worked as senior system administrator.
  • I have worked 4 projects in Persistent Systems. I have worked there as infrastructure set up engineer for most of the projects. I have 2.5 years of experience in web service/ project infra set up on AWS-EC2 and all amazon web services. I have around 9 months of experience in configuratio and administration of HADOOP clusters. I have knowledge with atleast 2.5 years of experience in Installing, Configuring, and maintaining services such as mainly Amazon Web Services ( EC2 ,S3,EBS,SES,RDS etc) , Apache etc.
  • Worked on Disaster Recovery Plan for application in AWS
  • I have experience in the maintaining production and development servers of the web applications.
  • Also have done frequently analyze log to identify suspicious behavior of the app in term of errors or unwanted usage.
  • I have written scripts to automate the most of work related to system management , monitoring etc.
  • Planning for and performing backups, restores and disk imaging RAID etc.
  • I have experience in scaling applications in Amazon Web Services
  • General Linux systems administration-level knowledge and system level debugging skills
AWS CloudFormationGitJenkinsAmazon Web Services (AWS)BashProduct Operations+3

Education

WIT

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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