Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Hybrid

• Steered a cohort of 5-10 architects through 23 EMEA engagements, contributing hands-on code for Network, Security and DevOps automation while maintaining an average CSAT score of 9.63/10.
• Standardized cloud deployments by developing reusable IaC artifacts (Terraform, Golang, Lambda, State Machines) for large-scale enterprise deployments.
• Reduced SaaS migration costs by 15% (USD 63k/month) via compute rightsizing and network optimization.
• Modernized network architecture for 100 internet-facing apps to a distributed edge model, cutting DDoS protection costs by 48% and securing USD 250k in ARR.
• Built a Terraform automation for a financial customer, slashing AWS account provisioning time from 45 to 8 minutes.
• Automated EKS workflows and CI/CD for a digital asset bank, reducing onboarding time from 6 hours to 15 minutes.

Feb 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hybrid

• Introduced DevOps strategy for Westwing's OMS division, spread across four geographical regions (Spain, Italy, Germany, France).
• Developed framework for managing lifecycle of Bash Scripts while offering integrations with OpsGenie, Slack and AWS RDS. The solution enabled 5 development teams in the company to fully automate daily database operations.
• Migrated warehouse management applications from on-premise to AWS cloud by leveraging EKS, Amazon RDS, Terraform, ElasticBeanStalk and Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.
• Developed Terraform based IaC workflows for deploying new services on AWS Elastic Container Services (ECS).
• Coordinated cloud migration efforts across two development teams based out of Munich and Warsaw (15 software developers)

Mar 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

• Worked on SAP Cloud Platform initiatives in Data and Backing Services around Cloud Foundry PaaS (Platform as a Service) and Bosh
• Developed a GoLang CLI to monitor and cleanup orphaned cloud resources on several IaaS platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS and OpenStack) which led to ~15% cost savings/month.
• Improved developer productivity by implementing CI/CD best practices using Jenkins, TravisCI, Github, Python and Concourse.
• Contributed to security analysis and improvements for product deployments on OpenStack & AWS.
• Introduced Docker based tooling for lifecycle management of development environments.
• Explored eBPF framework for observability in Linux systems and presented at Openstack Summit, May 2018.

Jul 2016 – Mar 2017 · 8 mos · On-site

• Developed sentiment analysis systems for reviewing Amazon reviews with Python framework.
• Scaled the engineering team from 3 engineers to 10+ engineers.
• Established foundations for AWS cloud based deployment and DevOps enabled operations.
• Collaborate with VP Engineering to align business needs with technical designs and roadmap.

Oct 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · On-site

• Responsible for design and development of a PaaS (Platform as a service) offering that simplifies end to end lifecycle management of CMSs in an organization. Technologies used: Apache Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, CakePHP, ActiveMQ, AngularJS, Docker, Jenkins.

Jan 2011 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos · On-site

• Led development and research of Boxupp – a browser based DevOps tool built on top of Vagrant. Boxupp enabled creation of customised development environments using Puppet, PuppetForge and AngularJS, with backend in Java.
• Boxupp’s RnD helped Paxcel Technologies win a PaaS migration project, resulting in $250k revenue.
• Developed Java based application to implement real time feed processing systems for Stocks Portfolio Management application, with 95% accuracy for 2500 stock records in 4 minutes.
• Automated deployment process for cloud scale services using Jenkins for improved consistency, efficiency, and scalability, decreasing deployment time by 30%.