Shailesh Thakur

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in designing scalable cloud infrastructure.
  • Proven track record in automating deployment processes.
  • Strong leadership in driving DevOps transformations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with a strong focus on DevOps automation and scalability.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesTerraformMicrosoft AzureAwsDevopsCloud ComputingJavaLinux

Other Skills

Amazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaApache NiFiApache SparkArgoAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)BashCC++ContainerizationContinuous DeliveryContinuous Integration

About

šŸš€ DevOps Architect I | Cloud Platform Strategist | Reliability & Security Lead | Infra Design, Platform Engineering & Automation I am a builder at heart, with 9+ years of deep, hands-on DevOps experience spanning cloud infrastructure, backend development, and platform engineering. As a Senior DevOps Engineer II, I don’t just integrate tools. I design, code, and deliver end-to-end solutions that enable teams to ship faster, safer, and smarter. šŸ› ļø What I’ve Engineered: • Built internal DevOps tools using FastAPI and Django, enabling automation, reporting, and provisioning platforms used across multiple teams. • Designed and coded IaC frameworks using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible, separating provisioning and configuration for cleaner, scalable infrastructure. • Developed GitOps pipelines using Argo CD, Helm, and Kubernetes, driving infrastructure rollouts with PR-based workflows and version control. • Wrote automation scripts in Python, Bash, and PowerShell to handle provisioning, deployment, monitoring, security audits, and incident recovery. • Architected zero-downtime blue-green deployments, and DR automation strategies with real-time validation and rollback mechanisms. • Migrated enterprise workloads from legacy VMs to hybrid Kubernetes clusters, dramatically improving scalability, observability, and release velocity. • Rolled out Azure Lighthouse and cross-tenant governance with fully automated ARM/Terraform workflows, enabling secure client onboarding at scale. • Implemented Monitoring as Code using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana—integrating alerts, dashboards, and auto-healing from code. šŸ’” More Than Ops – I Code. I Build. I Architect. I bring together the best of both worlds—Dev and Ops. Whether it’s writing APIs with FastAPI, building CLI tools, provisioning infra with Terraform, or creating dashboard-as-code pipelines, I ship clean, tested, production-grade code. I don't rely on tools—I write them when they don't exist. 🧭 My Mission To drive platform maturity, resilience, and automation at scale. I’m passionate about mentoring engineers, leading transformations, and building self-service platforms that free up dev teams and accelerate innovation. šŸ’¬ Let’s connect if you're building something serious—or just want to nerd out about architecture, CI/CD, or how to replace a 3-week manual deployment with a 3-minute pipeline.

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

O9 solutions, inc.

2 roles

DevOps Architect

Promoted

May 2025 – Present Ā· 1 yr 1 mo

Senior DevOps Engineer II

Jul 2020 – Jun 2025 Ā· 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Redesigned infrastructure strategy by decoupling provisioning and
  • configuration, migrated to Terraform for IaaC while retaining Ansible for
  • scalable config management. Led the transition to a hybrid VM +
  • Kubernetes architecture, introducing Helm and Argo CD to establish
  • GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines. Integrated ExternalDNS for automated,
  • dynamic service discovery and replaced legacy load balancing with
  • HAProxy, significantly improving scalability, reliability, and deployment
  • velocity.
  • Drove the migration of client applications from legacy VM infrastructure
  • to a robust hybrid cloud environment, integrating Kubernetes for
  • enhanced scalability and flexibility. Designed and implemented a high-
  • performance Blue-Green deployment strategy, ensuring seamless
  • infrastructure provisioning, data integrity validation, and flawless traffic
  • migration with minimal downtime. Incorporated Infra and Configuration
  • changes to fully support the transition, accelerating deployment cycles, and
  • improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across diverse
  • environments.
  • Architected and led the implementation of Azure Lighthouse to enable
  • secure, scalable cross-tenant access for all new Azure clients. Built
  • production-grade ARM templates, automated client delegation
  • onboarding, and enhanced Terraform modules for seamless integration.
  • Rolled out across 60+ environments with zero disruption, reducing
  • deployment time by 40% and boosting operational efficiency and
  • centralized governance at scale.
  • Designed and implemented a Proof of Concept (PoC) for Azure DNS
  • Resolvers, enabling seamless domain resolution for domain-joined
  • machines without disrupting service discovery. Delivered a scalable, high-
  • availability solution with minimal changes to the existing architecture.
  • Successfully transitioned the solution to production with zero
  • downtime, significantly enhancing service continuity and exceeding client
  • expectations.
Elastic Stack (ELK)InfrastructureGitHubKubernetesTerraformMicrosoft Azure+7

Intuit india

Application Operations Engineer 2

Nov 2019 – Feb 2020 Ā· 3 mos Ā· Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managed and maintained AWS infrastructure operations and services at Intuit India.
  • Developed automation scripts using Ansible, Chef, and Terraform for software deployment.
  • Collaborated with development teams to ensure software applications met quality and security standards.
Elastic Stack (ELK)GitHubAmazon Web Services (AWS)TerraformSpinnakerKubernetes+5

Paytm

DevOps Engineer

Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 Ā· 1 yr 2 mos Ā· bangalore Ā· On-site

  • Developed ELK as a code, with terraform and ansible
  • This project included moving from AWS pass to self managed Elasticsearch Cluster for logging
  • all the application logs and setting up watchers on it
  • Designed the setup and infra for blue green deployment in terraform and ansible
  • Worked with development teams for application on boardings by setting up applications on
  • boarding templates and checklist to be adhered to by dev team
  • Actively was taking on calls and prod issues one of the major prod issues being redis going out
  • of connections
  • Which I handled by first identifying the boxes making connections to redis, finding the one with
  • least connection and draining it first from LB and then increase the max_connections from redis
  • cli without impacting production
  • Wrote Jenkins pipelines for application deployments be in Kubernetes or Virtual
  • Machines
  • Was also actively working on tickets and SLA, supporting and helping
  • TechOps team for their debugging issues
  • Monitor the company's infrastructure and applications using DataDog Prometheus and
  • Grafana for alerting and graphing
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters to deploy and manage containerised applications and services
  • Setting up all the host level monitoring, alerting and also developing custom plug- in
  • Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all production work orders.
Elastic Stack (ELK)GitHubTerraformPython (Programming Language)DevOpsterragrunt+6

Bankbazaar.com

DevOps Engineer

Aug 2017 – Sep 2018 Ā· 1 yr 1 mo Ā· Bangalore

  • Expertise in LXD (next generation system container manager) and LXC ( linux containers)
  • Have a good working experience with SCM like GIT and SVN
  • Extensively worked using AWS services along with wide and in depth understanding of each
  • one of them
  • Platform as a Service , Use collectd & prometheus to monitor the hypervisors, and platform
  • hosts, both ways and make sure they are available 99.9% of time,ALL the containers on
  • compute production to be put on the custom images with krb and other updates
  • Responsibilities:
  • Service On Boarding ,L3 support to platform related issues ,DHCP and DNS Configuration
  • LXD Upgrade and Supporting the Data Center Team for Firmware
  • Upgrade.Supporting on LXD Level issues,Action on all the Alerts
  • Implemented automation using Configuration Management tools like SaltStack.
  • Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development
  • process.
  • Assisted development team with creating and rolling out timely solutions.
  • Resolved customer issues by establishing workarounds and solutions to debug and create
  • defect fixes.
SaltStackDjangoLXCPythonAmazon Web Services (AWS)Elastic Stack (ELK)+4

Hewlett packard enterprise

DevOps Engineer

Dec 2015 – Aug 2017 Ā· 1 yr 8 mos Ā· Bangalore India

  • Database and Middleware setup for E.ON Customer, providing DBaaS and MWaaS as Service,
  • End to end Delivery Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines
  • Writing Shell Scripts and Powershell Scripts for automated deployment of the applications and
  • their configuration
  • POC on docker containers, 12 factor app which included developing a cloud native app with
  • 12 factors and deploy it in docker.Creating HPOO flows, CODAR Topologies.
DockerCloud ComputingJavaSpring Framework

Vbm technologies pvt. ltd.

Linux Evangelist

Jan 2015 – May 2015 Ā· 4 mos Ā· Noida Area, India

  • My Responsibilities were to deliver 2 day workshop to the targeted colleges and give the students a hands on experience on Redhat 5.7
  • Teaching Experience:
  • Have delivered 2 day workshop on RHEL 5.7 in Eight colleges so far (Christ University Bangalore, D.Y. School of Engineering Academy Ambi Pune, Vignan institutes of technology Nalgonda Hyderabad, Ram Meghe institute of technology Amravati Badnera, B.R Harne College of Enginerring and Technology Kalyan, Kommuri Pratap Reddy Institute of Technology Ranga Reddy dist Hyderabad, J.T.Mahajan College Faizpur, St.Jhon College of Engineering and Technology Palghar Mumbai, Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology Nagpur)
Red Hat LinuxJavaLinux

Education

ICFAI University

Bachelor — Technology; Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

Amar Jyoti English Medium School

High School — Science

Jan 1993 – Jan 2008

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