Manik Dham

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Proven track record in cloud infrastructure and DevSecOps.
  • Expert in managing high-impact teams and platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert in the Fintech sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureLeadershipInformation SecurityDevops

Other Skills

Global Infrastructure ManagementTechnology ManagementInfrastructureE-CommerceLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)IT ManagementSenior Stakeholder ManagementCybersecurityTechnical LeadershipKubernetesBoard RelationsSoftware Architectural DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)AI Gateway strategyRegulatory Compliance

About

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact teams and platforms. Proven track record in Cloud (AWS/GCP) Infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps, SRE, cost optimization, Application and IT security, developer productivity and IT Operations. Trusted partner to CTO, Product, and Business leaders on strategy, execution, and operating cadence. Proven track record of owning multi-team orgs (50+ engineers), delivering reliable, cost-efficient, and secure platforms, and enabling AI/ML workloads at scale.

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

Styli

Head of DevOps, SRE and Security

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Head of DevOps, SRE and Security

Paytm

Vice President - Infrastructure, DevOps and SRE

Sep 2025Mar 2026 · 6 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Owning end-to-end infrastructure, platform, and AI enablement for Risk, Agentic Customer Support, and Merchant HelpDesk teams across 15 AWS accounts
  • Defined and executed AI Gateway strategy aligned with company growth and product roadmap; implemented TrueFoundry as enterprise-wide solution across Paytm entities and migrated workloads from self-hosted LiteLLM to multi-AI gateway architecture
  • Manage high-scale infrastructure supporting Risk operations at 4,000 TPS and Agentic Customer Support at 150 TPS with 99.99% availability
  • Migrated customer support from legacy platform to next-generation agentic platform utilizing LLM frameworks, successfully transitioning 50% of the customer support traffic.
  • Experience with ML Ops and LLM Ops best practices, ensuring smooth deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of large language models in production environments.
  • Experience with AI-Inference platform such as Groq for deployment of Gen AI models.
  • Manage GPU infrastructure including H200 servers on AWS for self-hosted LLM model deployment
Global Infrastructure ManagementTechnology ManagementInfrastructureE-CommerceLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)IT Management+9

Lendingkart

Senior Director of Engineering - Infrastructure, Data and Security

Jan 2023Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Lead cross-functional team of 50+ engineers across DevOps, Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, Managed Services, IT Operations, and Security while managing ₹60 crore annual IT budget with full P&L accountability for Cloud and IT Department Spend.
  • Orchestrated enterprise-wide cloud migration from AWS to GCP, managing multi-cloud infrastructure across both platforms while optimizing cloud spend by 30% annually through strategic cost management initiatives
  • Established organization-wide Incident Management and Change Management frameworks, improving operational stability and reducing incident resolution time
  • Built Security Operations Centre (SOC) from ground up using Google SecOps Chronicle, creating centralized security monitoring and threat detection capabilities
  • Deployed comprehensive security stack including Palo Alto Prisma Cloud (CSPM), Sentinel One (EDR/XDR), iZooLogic (Threat Intelligence and Digital Risk Management), Akamai WAF(Web Application Firewall), and Jumpcloud (Identity and Device Management)
  • Modernized Data Lake architecture by migrating from EMR-based infrastructure to scalable S3-based setup with CDC pipelines, reducing operational overhead and improving data processing efficiency
Information SecurityAmazon Web Services (AWS)Regulatory ComplianceSenior Stakeholder ManagementMicroservicesCloud Infrastructure+35

Rupeek

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Jan 2022Dec 2022 · 11 mos · Hybrid

  • Led Platform Engineering Team focusing on DevOps, SRE, Developer Tools, DBA, and Performance Engineering.
  • Scaled team from 1 to 20 members, managing AWS infrastructure across 8 accounts and achieving 25% month-on-month cost optimization.
  • Automated Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Consul, Vault, Jenkins Groovy, and supported ISO 27001 compliance.
Information SecurityAmazon Web Services (AWS)Regulatory ComplianceSenior Stakeholder ManagementMicroservicesCloud Infrastructure+29

Director of DevOps

Jan 2020Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Hybrid

  • Implemented DevOps best practices to ensure the seamless deployment of secured and scalable technology for India's fastest growing asset-backed digital lending platform.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance the Fintech compliance of the technology infrastructure, paving the way for future innovations.
  • Spearheaded the migration of critical systems to a hybrid cloud environment, optimizing performance and reliability for Rupeek's operations.
Information SecurityAmazon Web Services (AWS)Regulatory ComplianceSenior Stakeholder ManagementMicroservicesCloud Infrastructure+27

Coviam

2 roles

Director of DevOps

Promoted

Jul 2016Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Led DevOps strategy for a leading e-commerce player in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Managed a cross-geographic team of 22 Engineers across DevOps, Database, and Performance teams.
  • Migrated core architecture from data center to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Built a team of 9 DevOps Engineers and managed Coviam Products.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Regulatory ComplianceSenior Stakeholder ManagementMicroservicesCloud InfrastructureTechnical Leadership+24

DevOps - Lead

Nov 2015Jun 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Transformed DevOps standards for Blibli.com, leading eCommerce player in South-East Asia.
  • Built technology evangelism path within InfraOps Division to enhance End User Experience.
  • Developed software deployment and delivery pipelines for Web, Android, and iOS swim lanes.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Stakeholder ManagementMicroservicesCloud InfrastructureTechnical LeadershipDistributed Systems+16

Relevance lab

2 roles

Technical Lead - DevOps

Promoted

Oct 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Led DevOps Automation activities for Scholastic and Scholastic International, migrating applications to AWS Infrastructure.
  • Implemented DevOps Configuration Management and Build and Release pipeline for eCommerce division.
  • Enhanced end User Experience management through Application Monitoring and Performance Tools.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Stakeholder ManagementCloud InfrastructureTechnical LeadershipSoftware Architectural DesignTechnology Leadership+6

Senior DevOps Engineer

Feb 2014Oct 2014 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Led DevOps and User Experience Management for Scholastic, implementing monitoring tools like Nagios and Grafana.
  • Setup monitoring setup for International division across multiple AWS regions, ensuring SLA compliance.
  • Automated configuration management using Chef for AWS architecture, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud InfrastructureDevOps

Ness technologies

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Transitioned to DevOps model, leading application performance and monitoring tools for both in-house data center and Cloud environment.
  • Migrated and maintained cloud architecture based on Amazon AWS, supporting multiple applications
Amazon Web Services (AWS)DevOps

Software Engineer

Jul 2010Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Supported operations activities for leading publishing and assessment services at Pearson Education.
  • Worked on Weblogic and Jboss portal and portlet architecture for technology operations at Ness Technologies.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless operations and support for critical services.
  • Developed and implemented innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and productivity in the technology operations team.

Education

Bharati Vidyapeeth University College Of Engineering, Pune

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jul 2006Jul 2010

Apeejay School

C.B.S.E. — Computer Science

Jan 1992Jan 2006

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