Rajkiran Parasnis

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India22 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in technology leadership
Expert in DevOps and cloud-native transformations
Proven track record in API management and security

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecom Infrastructure Leader with expertise in DevOps and API management.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsApi DevelopmentCloud Computing

Other Skills

SecurityPeople ManagementProject ImplementationTechnical AnalysisEngineering ManagementHybrid CloudIT Service ManagementIT Infrastructure DesignTechnical LeadershipManaging AssociatesAzure DevOpsCI/CDMiddleware IntegrationAzure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Performance Management

About

I am a senior technology leader with 20+ years of experience driving DevOps, platform delivery, and cloud-native transformations at scale — especially in high-volume, digitally complex environments like telecom. At Jio, I’ve led cross-functional teams spanning DevOps, API engineering, platform security, and infrastructure operations. My leadership spans delivery oversight, stakeholder management, and agile execution across hybrid cloud environments including Azure, GCP, and private cloud platforms. I’ve been instrumental in modernizing middleware platforms, managing integrations using Apigee, NodeJS gateways, VPNs, and security layers — often coordinating across PMO, cloud, network, and OS teams to deliver high-resilience platforms. While I work closely with engineers and architects, I focus on strategic delivery, DevOps culture, agile governance, and infra scalability. 🔹 Core Strengths: Leading DevOps strategy and CI/CD delivery using Azure DevOps Cloud-native application rollouts and hybrid infra coordination API platform modernization and secure integration pipelines Program and stakeholder management across business & tech units Observability, compliance, and infrastructure scalability I bring a mix of strategic clarity and delivery excellence — the ability to understand systems deeply, align teams effectively, and execute at scale.

Experience

22 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Jio platforms limited (jpl)

2 roles

General Manager | API Management Platforms | DevOps | Hybrid Cloud

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Responsible for L3 support management for 5 distributed production & DR environments, handling daily API traffic of approximately 7000 TPS, securely exposing over 1000 APIs for authorization, authentication & transactional purpose to the internet for Jio.
Set up the Enterprise CI/CD pipeline for the API platform using Azure DevOps, reducing release cycles to every alternate day in a week from previous cycle of around 2 months.
Mentored and guided over 30 engineers, fostering technical growth, leadership skills, and teamwork.
Managed multiple initiatives for API and cloud migration, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructure development.
Active participation in SDLC with Agile methodologies, from feature design to production deployment.
Performing root cause analysis for Production incidents and participation in incident calls.
Built strong working relationships with multiple teams, streamlining work processes.
Application, Network & security architecture design reviews with the Infosec team & multiple stakeholders for multiple integrations.
Led the team through feature design, architecture, and security perspective.
Planned and managed projects & tasks, approved code releases, mentored team members.

SecurityPeople ManagementProject ImplementationTechnical AnalysisEngineering ManagementHybrid Cloud+6

Senior Manager- Dev-Ops & Infrastructure Lead

Sep 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

Hired, mentored, developed & built a world-class team to work both independently and in collaboration.
Drove L3 support/DevOps team at Reliance Jio API Gateway platform, a multi-site central platform providing services by exposing REST based APIs to the mobile apps like JioSaavn, JioCinema apps to Jio Subscribers (B2C),JioSecurity, Hotstar i.e. Partners(B2B) like Facebook, Paytm, bill desk and Employees (B2E).
. Led the DevOps CI/CD pipeline development using tools & technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab & Nexus repository during its first iteration.
Collaborated with the API development team, operations, external partners, network security, Information security and host of other teams for providing seamless experience to the Jio’s consumers, external partners and employees.
Built & migrated API Management platform on cloud using Azure's APIM, Application Gateway and Functions which are all PAAS/SAAS services hosted on Microsoft Azure.

Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)SecurityPeople ManagementProject ImplementationCloud ComputingTechnical Analysis+11

Jio

Deputy General Manager-API Management Platform | DevOps | Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure | App Support

Apr 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · Hybrid

Projects completed:
Migration to Azure DevOps & executing containerization strategy for the API Platform.
Migration to Azure Cloud for selective services using Hybrid Cloud approach.
Collaboratively working across multiple teams with multiple LOBs at Jio on fast paced projects following the Agile methodologies.

Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)SecurityPeople ManagementProject ImplementationCloud ComputingTechnical Analysis+11

Ibm

Watson Cloud Technology and Support Engineer

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Supported IBM Watson AI Infrastructure which included Linux, DB2 ,cloud, storage, clustering and networking technologies.

CommunicationCloud ComputingTechnical AnalysisHybrid CloudComputer ScienceTechnology Services+6

Intel corporation

Systems Engineer

Sep 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs · Bangalore · On-site

Provided project & KTBR (Keep the Business Running) support for MicroStrategy Business Intelligence environment infrastructure mainly focusing on Linux iServers cluster environment in development, QA & production environment.
Built & configured Linux Servers remotely using HP ILO or on-site personnel as per the customer’s requirements or build guide.
Active directory user administration for authentication on Linux/Unix using Quest Authentication Services (QAS/VAS).
Coordinated with the applications admin & developer teams for various activities on the MicroStrategy Infrastructure side.
Implemented SOX controls on the SOX scoped iServers (Linux Application Servers) as per the guidelines from the security teams.
Worked on escalations and root causing issues.
Configured & troubleshooted, networking, SSH, PAM, NFS, SAMBA/CIFS, Tomcat-Apache (basic) on Linux servers.
Forward engineered and conducted POC for upcoming versions of SuSE Linux OS specific to Intel standards.
Developed shell scripts for automating repetitive task or providing a work-around for a bug in the application.
Initiating & conducting training on Linux OS Administration for junior admins and other teams within the organization.

Active DirectoryShell ScriptingProblem SolvingLinux System AdministrationInternet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)IT Infrastructure Design

Novell

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Apr 2006 – Aug 2010 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Successfully managed and maintained Novell's internal IT infrastructure for Mumbai office.
Managed Netware 6.5 servers running on HP Proliant hardware, Dell and HP desktops workstations, Dell, HP and Toshiba laptops, Cisco 2500 and 2600 series routers, switches and Printers.
Provided IT support to Novell's internal work force and India Support Centre.
Monitored and fixed various basic networking related issues on routers and switches.
Provided round the clock IT support to the India Support Centre, which worked 24X7.
Documented and maintained hardware inventory for Novell Mumbai Office.

Product SupportCommunicationNovell clientNovell NetwareProblem SolvingTechnical Support+2

Ags sundyne technologies (p) ltd aka verixo technologies

Systems Engineer

Sep 2003 – Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

Key Accountabilities:
Involved into analysis, deployment, configuration, support and fixing of server centric software used for the thin clients.
Management of internal networking infrastructure of the company.
Assisted development team to resolve customer issues and lent training to customer system administrators on software solutions on Windows Terminal Services and Linux SDM (Sundyne's Display Manager).
Simulated customer environment in labs for troubleshooting purpose.

Systems EngineeringPre/Post Sales EngineersPresales Technical SupportLinux