Poorva Bhandari

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Nearly a decade of experience in DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure.
Expertise in AWS for building scalable infrastructure.
Proven leadership in driving efficiency through automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert with a focus on automation and scalability in SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsInfrastructureDevopsCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsAmazon CloudWatchAmazon EC2Amazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache KafkaAutomated solutionsBashBlackduckCI/CDClickHouseClickhouse

About

With nearly a decade of experience in the DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure domain, I specialize in leveraging AWS to create robust and scalable infrastructure. My skill set includes writing automation scripts, building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring seamless deployment processes. I have taken on leadership initiatives, successfully navigating and overcoming challenges, and continuously learning from failures to aim higher and higher. I am passionate about driving efficiency and innovation through automation and cloud solutions. I aspire to create sustainable and resilient infrastructure and mechanisms, adhering to best practices and compliance standards. Thriving in dynamic environments, I am committed to continuous learning and applying new technologies to achieve excellence.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Cisco

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Part of the Data Platform team, building and maintaining storage for the Cisco Umbrella suite of products (Clickhouse
clusters spanning 4 regions and hundreds of nodes).
Manging clusters spanning 1200+ AWS instances capable of processing over 6M
records per second at peak and storing around 45TB/day
Tech stack:
AWS, Confluent Platform (Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker), MSK, Clickhouse,Terraform, Ansible, Go, Python

AWSConfluent PlatformKafkaTerraformAnsibleGo+2

Telstra

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

Being a part of the DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure team, my role as a software engineer is to
ensure smooth operability of the application from platform perspective.
Automated infrastructure provisioning (Infrastructure As A Code) using Ansible &
AWS Cloudformation.
Troubleshooting incidents / issues & providing resolutions (RCAs) with proper
documentation & runbooks.
Having experience in designing and building cloud native solutions using AWS services.
Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment of
applications and services.
Implement monitoring and alerting solutions for cloud-based applications and
infrastructure.
Collaborate with operations and security teams to ensure alignment with
organizational goals and standards.
Optimizing AWS Cost by usage analysis , scheduling shutdowns, utilizing features
like ASG, instance sizing.
Leading team to deliver milestones & mentoring team members.
Set up DevOps tools like Nexus , Jenkins.
Established spot-fleet integration with Jenkins
Carried out RBAC implementation for 10+ Kubernetes Cluster.
Implemented Aqua Enforcers for all K8s clusters using GitOps & FluxCD.
Implemented Gitleaks for detection & prevention of hard-coded secrets in git repos.
Implemented pipeline to create CIS hardened AMIs

AnsibleAWS CloudFormationCI/CDMonitoringKubernetesJenkins+2

Software Engineer

Feb 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

As a Devops /Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, I ensure smooth operability of application from platform perspective and also analysing costs, maintainability & compliance

Avaya

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

Being a part of Agile development team, my role as an platform engineer is to make
sure of successful deployment /installation of the product on supported platforms keeping
security, functionality intact.
Work with developers, testing team and peers to design and develop automated
solutions.
Collaborate and work with Cross-functional teams.
Provide communication on all escalated platform issues.
Installation, configuration & upgrade RHEL OS keeping it up-to-date or
vulnerability free.
Building customized RPMs.
Find & Fix vulnerabilities and license obligations introduced via third-party libraries
and executables using Blackduck.
Performed software composition analysis via Blackduck.

RHEL OSAutomated solutionsBlackduckInfrastructure

Infosys

Associate Consultant

Dec 2017 – May 2018 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Using AWS Lamba, automated deployment/creation of EC2-instances and backup
upload to S3.
Automate deletion of EC2-instances kept idle for more than 2 days.

AWS LambdaEC2S3Cloud Infrastructure

Atos

2 roles

Cloud Deployment/DevOps Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Being a part of PaaS development team, I develop blueprints which automate software installation process and resolve dependencies among softwares installed so that clients can smoothly carry out their projects without worrying about dependencies among the platform components.