Niraj Thakar

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in SRE and DevOps.
  • Expert in building end-to-end observability frameworks.
  • Proven track record in driving digital transformation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on SRE and observability engineering.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringAutomationCloud Applications

Other Skills

Cloud MigrationGen aiPython (Programming Language)GrafanaMachine LearningAlgorithmsData MiningArtificial Intelligence (AI)AIOpsSQLJavaScriptjQuery.NETC#C

About

With over a 15 years of experience spanning Application Development, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), I specialize in designing and implementing observability strategies that empower organizations to achieve resilience, efficiency, and scalability. For the past 10 years, I have been leading SRE and Observability initiatives, ensuring seamless monitoring, automation, and reliability across complex IT ecosystems. My expertise lies in connecting the dots across IT infrastructure, platforms, applications, and networks, crafting holistic observability solutions that provide deep visibility, reduce downtime, and enhance operational excellence. 🔹 Passion & Vision I am deeply passionate about building end-to-end observability frameworks that break silos and provide actionable insights. I thrive on enabling teams to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues proactively, leveraging data-driven approaches to improve system performance and user experience. 🔹 Core Focus Areas ✅ Full-stack Observability (Infrastructure, Platforms, Applications, Networks) ✅ SRE Best Practices (SLI/SLO, Incident Management, Toil Reduction) ✅ IT System Design & Automation ✅ DevOps & CI/CD (Bridging Development & Operations) ✅ AI & ML in Observability (Driving intelligent insights) Always eager to explore next-gen observability and reliability engineering, I believe in making IT systems self-healing, intelligent, and efficient. Let’s connect to discuss SRE, Observability, and IT Resilience!

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Wells fargo

3 roles

Principal Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Principal Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Vice President

Jan 2021 – Mar 2026 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Site Reliability EngineeringAutomation

Cognizant

2 roles

Sr associate

Jul 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Associate

Nov 2014 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Hewlett-packard

2 roles

Technical Consultant

Jul 2010 – Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Working at Olympia Techno Park Chennai branch...

Project Trainee

Jan 2010 – Jul 2010 · 6 mos

  • I have been selected in final placement at HP.

Ally

Technology Lead

Jul 2010 – Dec 2020 · 10 yrs 5 mos

  • During my tenure at Ally I have worked with them most talented people and played various different roles from support analyst to SRE lead. I have been tech lead for mission critical applications, responsible for driving digital transformation and automation journey and integration and migration lead. I have also played important role migrating apps on public cloud and my favorite role was as SRE lead where I was responsible to drive SRE transformation.

Reliance industries limited

TCP Assistant

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Postgraduate Degree — Artificial Intelligence

Apr 2023 – May 2024

Institute Of Technology Of Nirma University Ahmedabad

MCA — Master of computer Application

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

Nirma University

Master of Computer Applications - MCA — Computer Science

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Site Reliability Engineering & Automation

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience