Pankaj Pandey

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure management.
Proven track record in cost optimization and security compliance.
Strong leadership in DevOps practices and team mentoring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert in SaaS with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and automation.

Contact

pankaj.ever4@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesAmazon Web Services (aws)Security

Other Skills

AWSFinOpsISO 27001GitOpsAI-driven automationWAFCost OptimizationDBOpsAI for DevOps / MLOpsPrompt EngineeringGBOpsCloud SecurityIstioPython (Programming Language)Vault

About

As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Khatabook, I contribute to building and maintaining scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. With deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud cost optimization, and infrastructure automation, I focus on ensuring system reliability and compliance with industry standards. Collaborating with teams, we implement advanced monitoring solutions, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and enhance infrastructure security through tools like Prowler and WAF. Over three years at Khatabook, I have led pivotal projects, including migrating services to Kubernetes, setting up cluster autoscaling, and driving security tool adoption. My mission is to enable seamless operations, improve cost efficiency, and empower teams to achieve strategic goals. Dedicated to fostering innovation and best practices, I aim to align infrastructure initiatives with organizational growth.

Experience

11 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Khatabook

3 roles

DevOps & Data Platform Manager

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos

DevOps Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Led end-to-end infrastructure management across AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and PostgreSQL with a strong focus on scalability, security, and automation.
Established FinOps practices to monitor, optimize, and reduce infrastructure costs while maintaining performance.
Ensured compliance with ISO 27001 standards, strengthening infrastructure security and governance.
Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) setup with defined Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and tested failover strategies.
Built and enforced processes for RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and Change Management to improve system reliability and accountability.
Spearheaded GitOps adoption for both infrastructure provisioning and service deployment in EKS, ensuring consistent, auditable, and automated delivery pipelines.
Integrated AI-driven automation into infra tools, accelerating deployments, anomaly detection, and operational efficiency.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to establish DevSecOps practices and proactive monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/EFK stacks.
Mentored and managed DevOps teams, improving technical skills and delivery excellence.

KubernetesAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Lead DevOps Engineer at Khatabook

Aug 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs

Migrated all services to Kubernetes
Kubernetes version upgrade
Setting up Karpenter for cluster autoscaling
Upgrading version of all critical Kubernetes components
Monitoring of all Kubernetes infra using prometheus, grafan
CICD setup for all types of deployments
Helping the company in compliance audit
Process setup and Documentation for achieving infra-best practices
Setting up the roadmap for DevOps, Infra & Infra security
Cost Optimization of cloud, other paid applications and infra tools
POC and implementation of security tools
Helping the team to achieve the roadmap
Sprint planning and task distribution for sprint
Implemented WAF for all applications
Helm based deployment for all applications
Automation for day-to-day manual tasks
Exploring new tools which can make the life of a Developer easy in terms of Logging, Access, Monitoring, Troubleshooting
Istio Service Mesh implementation in Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Security

Meesho

2 roles

DevOps Engineer III

Apr 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Setting up Kubernetes cluster
Experience in Autoscaling of infra based on traffic
Experience in Building highly scalable and resilient infra at Meesho
Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Git=> Jenkins => S3/Jfrog)
Experience in managing AWS and Google Cloud
Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ and SQS for messaging system
Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Sensu, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, Nagios, Hystrix
Experience in Configuration Management tool like Ansible
Experience in log aggregation using Log rotation, ELK.
Experience in VPN, Tunnel configuration and Ldap tools like FreeIPA, VPC, TGW
Experience in Python and Bash scripting
Experience in infra automation using Terraform.
Experience in Linux admin
Experience in Data Base like Postgres, Mysql, Redshift, MongoDB, Hbase
Experience in handling important credentials using Tools like Vault and keypass
Experience in Containerization of micro services using Docker
Experience in Cloud security using tools like CloudTrail , WAF, Inspector, TruffleHog, Guard Duty

DevOps Engineer II

Sep 2018 – Mar 2019 · 6 mos

Experience in Autoscaling of infra based on traffic
Experience in Building highly scalable and resilient infra at Meesho
Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Git=> Jenkins => S3/Jfrog)
Experience in managing AWS and Google Cloud
Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ and SQS for messaging system
Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Sensu, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, Nagios, Hystrix
Experience in Configuration Management tool like Ansible
Experience in log aggregation using Log rotation, ELK.
Experience in VPN, Tunnel configuration and Ldap tools like FreeIPA
Experience in Python and Bash scripting
Experience in infra automation using Terraform and cloudfront
Experience in Linux admin
Experience in Data Base like Postgres, Mysql, Redshift, MongoDB
Experience in handling important credentials using Tools like Vault and keypass
Experience in Containerization of micro services using Docker

Treebo hotels

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

CI/CD automation through Jenkins
Responsible for cloud costing and budgeting for the entire engineering organization. Achieved considerable cost savings by using reserved instances as well as time scaling / autoscaling of nodes
infra automation using Ansible and Terraform
FreeIPA and Ldap configuration
Setup multiple Mongo Cluster
Implement log aggregation and unified search via the ELK stack. The architecture was able to scale and handle Several GBs worth of logs every day.
Setup and managed messaging system RabbitMQ
Autoscaling based on custom metrics
Monitoring- Nagios, Sesnu, HPOVO, Uptime, and CloudWatch for alerting and monitoring
Containerization of application in docker
Nginx and Haproxy configuration

Flipkart

Application Engineer

Aug 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Configuring alerts for servers, DBs, Networks and Applications.
Writing SQL, PL SQL and Shell scripting for reporting.
Application monitoring and troubleshooting.
Writing Python script for parsing JSON data
Writing an automation script for fetching data from the messaging queue and processing it by alerting the data.

Stmicroelectronics

Software Trainee Intern

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Noida

Server, Network devices and website performance monitoring and alerting using BAC tool, HPOM tool, HP virtual user generator, Site Scope tool, NNM tool
Patching and upgrading monitoring agents on close to 5000 servers
Writing shell script for automation and custom alerting