Nikhil Gupta

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 13 years of experience in enterprise software development.
Expertise in multi-cloud environments including AWS and Azure.
Proven leadership in building high-performance engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in cloud engineering and AI-driven solutions.

Contact

nikx.gupta@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud IntegrationAi DevelopmentArchitecture ModernizationMicroservicesSecurity EngineeringCloud MigrationArchitecture DevelopmentMentorshipDigital TransformationCloud EngineeringApplication Architecture

Other Skills

Design SpecificationsPublic CloudTechnical DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Cloud ConsultingAIEnterprise SearchAI WorkloadsStrategic PlanningSecurity SolutionsCompliance EngineeringMCP ArchitectureAI AgentsCompliance

About

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn, I leverage my 13+ years of experience in enterprise software development and my multi-cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions for the world's largest professional network. I have a strong background in polyglot programming, having worked with various languages and frameworks such as .NET, Java, Go, Node.js, and Python, as well as full stack development using MEAN, MERN, Spring Boot, and Go with Gin. In addition to my technical skills, I also have 4+ years of experience in people leadership, mentoring, team collaboration, and building and retaining high-performance teams and engineers. I have a proven track record of converting improved architecture designs into implementation, evangelizing and adopting cloud-native patterns and best practices, and using open-source technologies and tools such as Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, Apigee, and SonarQube. I am passionate about technology, innovation, and learning, and I enjoy exploring new places, things, and people.

Experience

17 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Staff Engineer

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban

1. AI Transformation & Cloud Integration:
Led the digital transformation and cloud migration of critical LinkedIn pillars (e.g., Marketing Engineering, Sales Engineering) by integrating AI-driven enterprise search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and large language model (LLM) components onto scalable cloud platforms.
2. Architecture Modernization & Optimization:
Reverse-engineered legacy systems to identify external dependencies, modernized AI workloads, and restructured applications for scalable and intelligent microservices-based architectures with advanced AI search and reasoning capabilities.
3. AI Roadmap and Microservices Evolution:
Developed strategic roadmaps to transform monolithic services into modular, AI-powered microservices, optimized for low-latency reasoning, high-relevance enterprise search, and intelligent service communications.
4. Security, Compliance, and Intelligent Engineering Solutions:
Engineered AI-driven solutions to address complex security and compliance challenges during Azure cloud migration, building intelligent products that automated compliance checks, reduced operational toil, and ensured governance around LLM-based systems.
5. Agents for Enterprise
Developed Enterprise MCP roadmap for creating a distributed MCP Architecture and, creating certified agents registry which can be pulled and invoked from various AI IDE tools like Claude, Codex. Adhering to compliance and enforcements for DLP policies across enterprise
6. Coaching, Mentorship, and AI Uplift:
Conducted coaching, mentoring, and pair programming sessions to upskill teams on cutting-edge AI technologies, including RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation (LLM Judge), reasoning engines, and cloud-native AI architectures.

Design SpecificationsPublic CloudTechnical DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Cloud Consulting+2

Walmart global tech india

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Oct 2021 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Digital Transformation for Connexus Pharmacy Product of Walmart across 5000+ Walmart Store Chain
2. Evangelizing / Training / Pair programming sessions on New Technologies and Frameworks for the team
3. Reverse Engineering current Architecture, Identify External Dependencies and Modernize Applications and Services
4. Creating Roadmap to Transform Legacy Service to Service Communications into microservices and optimize for performance
5. Leverage Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB for microservices and Azure as target Cloud Platform.
6. Implement Cloud Automation using IAC like Terraform

Design SpecificationsPublic CloudTechnical DesignCloud ServicesDigital TransformationMicroservices

Wells fargo

Vice President Cloud Engineering

Jan 2016 – Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

1. Providing strong People leadership as wells as Technical Mentoring to the team.
2. Manage Performance Evaluation and feedback for direct reports.
3. Building a strong Digital Transformation team from scratch.
4. Develop solutions that can reduce costs and decrease response times for the organization’s IT platforms / Lobs.
5. Leading Digital Transformation Team to help transform multiple products and services to Cloud and bring Reliability as well as increasing Performance.
6. Prioritize work for the team, including collaborating with cross border/cross functional teams.
7. Proposing Architecture and Design to different stakeholders for multiple Lines of business, Application Managers, DevOps Engineers.
8. Design/Modification/Re-Architect of New/Existing Application for PaaS / CaaS enablement on platforms like Azure/ AWS/Kubernetes (Managed VMWare Tanzu).
9. Use Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud / .NET Core / NodeJs and MongoDB / ElasticDB for microservices.
10. Implement Cloud Automation using Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure Templates
11. Integration of OnPrem Jenkins CI-CD with Azure Devops and AWS CodePipelines to bring seamless deployment through multi cloud architectures.

Design SpecificationsPublic CloudTechnical DesignCloud EngineeringDigital Transformation

Accenture

Senior Technical Lead

Jun 2015 – Jan 2016 · 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

1. People and Performance Management for Cloud Migration Team and build cloud capabilities.
2. Creating reference architecture for various Cloud Services Integration and Transformation
3. Revamped application to support cloud readiness.
4. Creating end to end solution from development to release planning and creating toolchains.
5. Working closely with each Application Stakeholder to ensure delivery on time.
6. API Design and Development to support intra-cloud and extra-cloud application integration

Public CloudCloud Migration

Calance

Senior Technical Lead

Oct 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

1. Design & implementation of Application Architecture.
2. Understanding and conversion of complex Fortran routines for contour calculations to C#.
3. Interaction with Microsoft UI offshore team on weekly basis and status call on daily basis.
4. Leading Calance India team & reporting to offshore Calance manager in US.
5. Requirement Analysis & Preparation of Technical Design Document.
6. Deployment of application on azure.
7. Involved in 80% development efforts and create code coverage tests.
8. Created Performance Analysis and Load Testing reports.

Public CloudApplication Architecture