May 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Leading multiple charters in Infrastructure org, defining product roadmap, performing design reviews. and stakeholder management.
• Cloud Platform team:
• Tech: Java(Spring boot), React, Go(for CLIs), Python, Airflow, Elasticsearch APM
• 1. Leading development of Just-In-Time access management application.
• Grants a user time boxed access post reviews to resources like Kubernetes, DB, CICD, AWS for particular action.
• This strengthened security posture to meet evolving compliance regulations.
• 2. Implemented advanced deployment mechanisms:
• Slow start - used by applications that need warm-up before handling huge amount of traffic
• Configurable max surge
• 3. Enhanced database resource provisioning process. Architecting, guiding and migrating databases as per needs to appropriate options(GP2, GP3, IO1).
• Reduced cost by USD XXXXX/yearly
• 4. Enhanced platform to detect sensitive information
• DevOps team:
• Tech: Kubernetes, Kong, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Loki, Thanos
• 1. Kong API Gateway:
• > Leading development of following custom plugins:
• custom authentication
• signature validation(per device)
• circuit breaker
• centralized rate limiting on multiple parameters and windows.
• > Enabling Brotli and gzip compression from API Gateway to applications leading to cost reduction of USD XXXXX/yearly
• 2. Improved release management process for easier rollback to desired version with its respective configurations.
• 3. Introduced Kyverno for enhanced policy validation and mutations
• 4. Integrated Blue-Green deployment strategy using Argo rollouts.
• 5. Completed POC on using AWS Database Migration Service.
• 85+ days of on-call experience
• Mentorship/Evangelism:
• 1. Trained new joiners(7) in the onboarding program for 4 days.
• 2. Evangelist on multiple areas of current stack.

May 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Optimus:
• Developed a full stack application to ingest CMDB data, profile and strategy inputs and provide insights on landscape overview, migration and pricing strategies for customers looking to move to Google Cloud. The application will reduce ~2 weeks of work to 24 hours per interaction.
• Responsible for full stack development using Angular, Python, protocol buffers(for RPCs and message formats), blaze, spanner and borg.

Jul 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• DevOps engineer in Open VisaNet project(one of Visa’s Key initiative that will support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move from existing mainframe to distributed architecture). It is the next generation payment processing platform.
• Responsibilities:
• 1) Creating/redesigning CI/CD infrastructure with reduced delivery time and high reliability.
• 2) Experienced in managing production and non-production servers. Developing and integrating config as a service into CI/CD.
• 3) Developing SDKs for various tools in Golang for Dev/QA teams. Collaborated with architects for HLD/LLD of deployment and security-related automation applications.
• 4) Worked with the pentest team to identify various vulnerabilities in the existing stack and developed fixes in 2 months as opposed to the suggested 1 year timeline.
• 5) Successfully filed 1 trade secret (Intellectual Property) with Visa.
• 6) Worked in an agile environment collaborating across India, US, UK, and Singapore.
• Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Monitoring tools(evaluation phase), Splunk, Cassandra, Aerospike, Jenkins, Go

Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Linesight(Risk Analysis Product for Border Security Forces)
• Developing ingestion services for by using ABNF grammar, MongoDB and Nifi which helped in improving parsing rate of Airline Cargo messages to 99.4% for Linesight.
• ActiveInsights PharmaTrack
• Developed CI pipeline by integrating Jenkins with Bitbucket, Amazon ECR, Nexus artifact manager and SonarQube Scanner.
• PoC: Elastic stack for the application.
• ClearPath Forward Fabric
• Developed fix for Nagios CVEs(CVE-2016-6209, CVE-2016-10089).
• Automated the testing process for CPF Fabric which eliminated manual time effort on 1055 tests.

Feb 2016 – Apr 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed python and shell scripts for monitoring Dell servers under development.