Apr 2025 – Dec 2025 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Led sub-team of 5 engineers, distributed tasks, provided technical guidance, and mentored team members on platform engineering best practices
• Leveraged Devtron CI/CD tool to establish sophisticated deployment strategies including canary deployments and sticky canary solutions, along with developing an in-house release manager for controlled, progressive releases.
• Established production-parity environments including a Pre-Production and Central Stage Environment with 100% feature equivalence, reducing environment maintenance overhead by 50%.

Feb 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Led complete infrastructure modernization by executing 100% migration of all services (platform, backend, frontend, data) to containerized EKS infrastructure with zero downtime deployment strategy.
• Implemented comprehensive EKS optimizations including Karpenter for 30% resource utilization improvement, KEDA for autoscaling, NodeLocal DNS cache reducing latency by 50%, nodepool optimization, and k8s-event watcher.
• Standardized Jenkins CI/CD pipelines through comprehensive revamp, reducing deployment times by 40%, implementing one-click pipeline creation system, and achieving 100% automated deployments for all services.
• Developed "Platform Monitor," a unified New Relic dashboard providing real-time visibility into all production changes across AWS, EKS, CICD, and other systems with user attribution for improved incident resolution.
• Created "ZK Police," an internal K8S validation tool that tests against 60+ golden rules across 20+ clusters, automatically detecting misconfigurations and providing clear remediation steps.
• Implemented "Border Security Force," a security monitoring system that continuously scans all internet-facing resources across AWS accounts, identifying and remediating unintended public exposures.
• Automated key operational tasks including CloudWatch alarm creation, resource tagging enforcement, log ingestion pipelines, cost alerting mechanisms, and backup systems, reducing manual operations by 80%.

Oct 2023 – Jan 2024 · 3 mos

• Created an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on top of Backstage using TypeScript along with service discovery and reconciliation engine on Crossplane to enhance availability, fostering seamless collaboration and incorporating robust CI/CD practices.
• Played a pivotal role in Kubernetes management, including the addition of a custom-based scheduler to the EKS cluster and the introduction of Karpenter. Established and managed GKE clusters.
• Led the successful migration of CDN services to Google Cloud Compute using Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code (IAC), optimizing resource allocation while transitioning away from AWS CloudFront & Akamai.

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · 8 mos

• Executed the Cloudflare migration, creating and managing the entire infrastructure on Google Cloud for improved performance and reliability.
• Orchestrated the Vercel migration, ensuring the efficient hosting and deployment of all services on self-managed EKS clusters.
• Made significant contributions to cost optimization initiatives by implementing efficient resource allocation strategies and fine-tuning monitoring processes with Coralogix.

May 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• Created more than 65 problems on Data Structures & Algorithms, guiding over 8000 students in clearing concepts and solving problems.

Feb 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Patiala, Punjab, India

• Organised various tech events and worked as a problem setter for Coding rounds.