Paresh Ratnakar

DevOps Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India10 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Over 14 years of IT experience in DevSecOps.
Expert in integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
Strong leadership in fostering security-first culture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevSecOps expert in the Healthcare and Financial Services sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevsecopsSecurity IntegrationCi/cdInfrastructure AutomationCloud Architecture

Other Skills

SASTDASTSonarQubeTrivyAmazon Web Services (AWS)JenkinsGitLabGitHubDockerKubernetesGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Amazon EKSIriusRiskDefect DojoDependency Track

About

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, I am passionate about bridging the gap between development, operations, and security to build resilient, secure, and scalable systems. I specialize in embedding security and compliance into every stage of the software development lifecycle, ensuring products are both efficient and safeguarded against vulnerabilities. Currently, I am part of an innovative security and compliance team where we focus on delivering Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for integrating and enhancing security through state-of-the-art tools. My expertise lies in leveraging tools like JFrog, JFrog Xray JAS, SonarQube, GitHub Advanced Security, GitLab Security, IriusRisk, Datadog, and Renovate to implement effective Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and DevSecOps practices. With over 14 years of experience in IT and a strong background in DevOps and security, I thrive in roles that demand technical acumen, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. My goal is to enable organizations to adopt a “security by design” mindset, minimizing risks while maintaining agility and innovation. Feel free to connect if you’d like to discuss DevSecOps strategies, emerging security tools, or best practices for embedding compliance into CI/CD pipelines. Let’s secure the future of technology together!

Experience

10 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Roche

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Security Leadership:
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering a security-first culture.
Collaborate with security architects and teams to define and implement security strategies and best practices.
Stay up-to-date with emerging security threats and trends, and recommend appropriate countermeasures.
Embedded Security Tool Expertise:
Be a hands-on expert in embedded security tools, such as SonarQube, Mend, Sysdig, IriusRisk, Defect Dojo, and Dependency Track.
Configure, maintain, and optimize these tools to ensure effective security monitoring and analysis.
DevSecOps Integration:
Integrate security tools and processes into the DevSecOps pipeline, ensuring that security is considered throughout the development lifecycle.
Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate security testing and remediation activities.

SASTDASTSonarQubeTrivyAmazon Web Services (AWS)Jenkins+8

Accenture baltics

DevOps Technical Lead

Oct 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs · Riga, Latvia

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement CI/CD pipelines for software delivery, using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency.
Managed version control systems (e.g., Git) and implemented branching strategies to support collaboration and code management.
Implemented and monitored application and infrastructure metrics ensuring high availability and performance.
Resolved complex technical issues related to build, deployment, and release processes, working closely with development and operations teams.
Implemented containerization using Docker, enabling consistent deployment across different environments and simplifying application maintenance.
Participated in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings, fostering a collaborative and iterative work environment.
Conducted code reviews and implemented quality assurance practices, improving code reliability and reducing errors.
Implemented security best practices, including access controls, encryption, and vulnerability scanning, to ensure a robust and secure development environment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)GCPTerraformJenkinsDockerCI/CD+1

Nice actimize

DevOps Specialist

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos

Designed and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps.
Managed Kubernetes clusters (on-prem & cloud) for microservices deployment, autoscaling, monitoring, and performance tuning.
Built secure, scalable cloud architectures on AWS and GCP, including VPC design, IAM, EKS/GKE, load balancers, and serverless components.
Troubleshot complex environment issues for developers and QA, improving deployment success rates and reducing turnaround time.
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
Integrated security tools (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning) into CI/CD to improve code quality and vulnerability detection.
Collaborated with R&D teams to prototype, test, and optimize application deployment strategies.
Streamlined release management processes, resulting in faster delivery cycles and fewer production incidents.
Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki, and CloudWatch.
Improved cost efficiency through right-sizing, automation, and cloud resource optimization.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesCICDDevSecOpsCloud ArchitectureCI/CD

Accenture

2 roles

Team Lead

Nov 2021 – Mar 2022 · 4 mos

Microsoft Azure

Cloud Senior Analyst

Jan 2019 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Working with Development and Test teams to create fully automated CI/CD Pipelines using Openshift and Jenkins.
Introducing pipeline and automation best practices, putting together an introduction to Docker and Kubernetes on AWS/IBM CLOUD/Google cloud.
Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects
Using Docker, Jenkins, VMWare, RHEL, OpenShift, Kubernetes, & Github.
Developing Docker images to support Development and Testing Teams and their pipelines, distributed Jenkins.
Working closely with Architecture, Development, Test, Security and IT Services teams
Designing the solution to migrate the monolith application in OpenShift container platform.
For a large IT Services organization, designed solutions to migrate monolith applications in OpenShift container platform using DevOps tools automation practices and tooling to manage the solution deployment.
Create CI-CD pipelines with to build, test, quality check, deploy, rollout and route applications
To enable a CRM migration from on-prem to the cloud for a large technology solutions provider, designed the required automation via scripting and configured the CI/CD pipeline to migrate application servers to AWS.
For a large, globally distributed banking institution, built and launched Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu). Setup and built AWS infrastructure resources such as VPC, NACL, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS. Built application and database servers using AWS EC2 and create AMIs using terraform scripts and maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Microsoft Azure

Cognizant

2 roles

Programmer Analyst

Apr 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Associate

Apr 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

 Built and launched of Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring the instances with respect to the project.
 Planed, deployed, monitored, and maintained Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMWare Vm's as required in the environment.
 Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC, NACL, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
 Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
 Build application and database servers using AWS EC2 and create AMIs using terraform scripts.
 Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
 Configuring, Managing and Scheduling CRONTABs for App Accounts and Backup management on a regular basis.
 Install, configure, upgrade, maintain, monitor and tune performance for Linux Servers (Red Hat) utility software and server hardware including installing patches and corrective service.
 Respond to problems and apply appropriate operating system fixes and patches as necessary.
 Examine various server logs and determine if any corrective action is required.
Install, configure and maintain server firewall and other security software. Identify and provide technical resolution for potential security breaches. Establish and monitor security and apply appropriate fixes.
 Perform administration tasks and troubleshooting related to VMware, physical hardware, and Amazon AWS infrastructure

Mphasis

Splz Associate Infra Engg

Aug 2015 – Apr 2016 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

To be an active value added member in a challenging environment, which gives explorative and innovative technologies to learn intern gives chances to implement the same to reach the goals of the organization
Having years of relevant experience in Solaris/Redhat Linux System Administration. Presently working as a Unix/Linux Administrator in Mphasis till 22nd April.

Softenger

System Administrator

Dec 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

To be an active value added member in a challenging environment, which gives explorative and innovative technologies to learn intern gives chances to implement the same to reach the goals of the organization
Having relevant experience in Solaris/Redhat Linux System Administration. Presently working as a Unix/Linux Administrator in Mphasis till 29th July 2015 on softenger payroll.