Sunil Thorat

DevOps Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in DevOps and SRE.
Expert in orchestrating cloud-native solutions and micro-services architecture.
Proven track record in enhancing CI/CD pipeline efficiency.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and SRE expert in cloud-native and SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud-native SolutionsCloud SolutionsSoftware EngineeringCloud MigrationSite Reliability EngineeringCloud InfrastructureInfrastructure AutomationBuild And Release EngineeringQuality Assurance

Other Skills

KubernetesCI/CDTerraformPrometheusGrafanaDevSecOpsAzure BicepMonitoringSecurity PoliciesAzure DevOpsAzure PoliciesIncident ResponseAgile PracticesInfrastructure as CodePython Flask

About

> Experienced IT professional with over a decade of expericne and expertise in DevOps and SRE, profi cient in orchestrating cloud-native solutions and micro-services architecture. > Adept at designing and implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, and managing complex, scalable SaaS infrastructures across multiple geographies. > Strong background in Python development, infrastructure automation with Terraform, and creating monitoring and debugging tools. > Recognized for my dedication, ability to learn quickly, and enthusiasm for solving challenging technical problems with creative solutions.

Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Nvidia

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Leading DevOps initiatives for the core GeForce NOW team, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud gaming services.
Architecting and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for seamless software delivery, reducing deployment time and enhancing developer efficiency.
Driving Kubernetes-based automation, leveraging Jenkins, FluxCD, Terraform, Helm, and other modern DevOps tools.
Implementing robust observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Backstage for proactive issue resolution.
Defining best practices for security, compliance, and DevSecOps, integrating vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, and incident response frameworks.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams, influencing architectural decisions, and guiding best practices in cloud-native development and deployments.
Streamlining the SDLC pipeline, automating workflows, and enhancing system resilience through intelligent scaling and failover mechanisms.

KubernetesCI/CDTerraformPrometheusGrafanaDevSecOps+2

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer II

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Contributed to the setup of Copilot Studio services' entire stack, including comprehensive monitoring and alerting which facilitated onboarding new customers from these regions, potentially driving a significant increase in monthly active users (MAU) and revenue.
Contributed to the Azure Bicep modules GitHub public repository by writing a module for creating Azure resources which benefits the broader Azure Bicep community.
Implemented recommendations from all Secure Future Initiatives(SFI) Waves to ensure all services comply with required security policies.

Azure BicepMonitoringSecurity PoliciesCloud SolutionsSoftware Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Planned and migrated 100+ repos and CI/CD pipelines from GitLab to Azure DevOps ensuring no impact to development and deployments.
Implemented various Azure policies and monitoring techniques to secure Azure resources which also helped 30% cost saving.

Azure DevOpsCI/CDAzure PoliciesDevOpsCloud Migration

Nuance communications

4 roles

Principal DevOps SRE Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Managed and supported cloud native multi-geo distributed microservices based production environments, handling 10M+ requests per day.
Led an SRE squad of fi ve members, implementing Agile practices to enhance team collaboration and improve incident response effi ciency.
Developed comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems and incident response processes, improving incident detection and resolution times by 50%.
Led incident response efforts during critical outages, restoring services quickly and implementing measures to prevent future occurrences by RCAs and Post-mortems.
Implemented high availability and disaster recovery solutions and achieving 99.99% uptime and ensuring business continuity with upholding SLA, SLO, SLIs.

MonitoringIncident ResponseAgile PracticesSite Reliability EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Senior DevOps Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr

Championed the adoption of CI/CD best practices across multiple teams, leading to a 50% increase in deployment frequency with pipeline templatization that includes code-quality, security scans, compliance checks and testing stages.
Successfully implemented IaC using Terraform, resulting in more consistent and reliable infrastructure deployments.
Defined and implemented branching and versioning strategies including best practices to speed up development and automated release management.
Developed web app tools with Python Flask to help in monitoring, debugging.

CI/CDInfrastructure as CodePython FlaskDevOpsInfrastructure Automation

Build And Release Engineer

Nov 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs

Setup and managed large scale Jenkins servers.
Migrated build workflows and pipelines from legacy CI tool( AntHillPro) to Jenkins for enterprise products.
Setup and managed windows packaging InstallShield scripts.

JenkinsCI/CDLinuxBuild and Release Engineering

Senior QA specialist

Apr 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Developed a Pytest-based automation framework from scratch for UI and API tests, enhancing test coverage and reducing manual testing efforts by 40%.

Automation FrameworkPythonQuality Assurance

Nvidia

Mobile SQA Engineer

Jul 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Contributed to Python based Automation test framework to automate functional and non-functional tests of Tegra chipset based Android mobile devices.
Power consumption and Performance benchmarking and analysis with competitors.

Automation TestingPythonQuality Assurance