Souurabh Kalal (SK)

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Reduced AWS costs by nearly 60% in six months.
Implemented end-to-end Karpenter for all environments.
Passionate about learning new technologies and solving complex problems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and cost optimization in SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsCost Optimization - CloudKubernetesLinux System Administration

Other Skills

Amazon ECSAmazon EKSAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon QuickSightAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache SupersetCCNACI/CDCdkCost ControlData ScienceDatadogDisaster RecoveryDocker

About

As a Devops Engineer at HotelTrader, I work with a team of engineers to ensure high availability and performance of the platform, managing and handling on-call issues across production, staging, and development environments. I have a Master of Computer Applications degree from IIS University and six years of DevOps experience in various domains and industries. I also implement and manage various tools and technologies, such as AWS, EKS, Kubecost, Terraform, Docker, Karpenter, and Velero, to optimize costs, enhance reliability, and enable disaster recovery. I have successfully reduced AWS costs by optimizing EKS and EMR clusters, and implemented end-to-end Karpenter for all the environments. I am passionate about learning new technologies and solving complex problems, and I aim to deliver scalable and reliable solutions that meet the needs and expectations of the customers and the business.

Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Hotel trader

2 roles

Lead Devops Engineer

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Sr. Devops Engineer

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Cost Optimization - CloudAWSTerraformCdkJenkinsMonitoring+8

Finbox

DevOps Lead

Mar 2024 – Aug 2024 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Heavily working on aws cost optimisation along with fixing initial phases of Infra to make it more robust and reliable.
Keypoints:
Terraforming
Centralised Monitoring/Logging
Centralised Alerting
Deployment
Security and Costing
Containerisation with EKS

AWSAmazon EKSAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleCost Optimization - Cloud+20

Noon - the social learning platform

Site Reliability Engineer III

Sep 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Managing and handling On call prod/stg/dev Issues.
Rectifying monitoring and alerting.
Cost cutting of AWS/EKS.
Best practices to implement EKS, Kubecost.
Implemented and managed end to end Karpenter for all the envs.
Implemented and managed "Velero" for Disaster Recovery.
Helm deployments using values file.

PrometheusAWSDockerHelmKubernetesDatadog+14

Wynk limited

2 roles

Principal Engineer - DevOps

Promoted

Dec 2021 – Jun 2022 · 6 mos

AnsibleEKSDockerKubernetesPrometheus/Grafana/AlertmanagerAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)+6

Senior Software Engineer - Devops

Apr 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Rivigo

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Achieved nearly 100% migration to docker across the organization.
Reduced AWS costs by nearly 60% within 6 months of a time period.
Setup Kafka cluster, kafka-ui(Landoop) along with monitoring. (kafka 2.11)
Implemented monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Alert-manager, and Grafana.
Ansible roles for one-click deployment of the application on EC2.
Migrated all static websites from AWS Elastic BeanStalk to S3 + CloudFront setup. Automated the process with Ansible.
Implemented Apache Superset from scratch along with DB migration from sqlite3 to MySQL,
automated dashboard permissions, monitoring, Scheduled email dashboards, Ansibalised setup, and user-based roles and access. (Superset Release–0.32)
Implemented domain security on emails for Phishing and hacking attacks. Complete verified setup of SPF/DKIM and DMARC.
Everything was running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Migrated Dev and stg environments on EC2+docker and Deprecated usage of AWS ElasticBeanStalk for non-prod.
Contributed to various existing Ansible roles.
Terraform Modules for EC2, RDS and AWS EB.

Cloudthing ltd.

DevOps Engineer

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Deployments on D365 Servers using VSTS.
Managed complete office infrastructure using Azure Intune.
Written ansible-playbooks and roles to automate java deployment.
Written multiple shell scripts to automate the provisioning of linux machines for various stacks.
Managed App servers and Web Servers: Tomcat, Nginx, IIS.
Management and deployment of various services on AWS including EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Route53, ELB& ALB, Cloudfront, SES, Autoscaling.
Management of various services on Azure.
Management of o365.
Infrastructure monitoring with Cloudwatch and Prometheus/Grafana.
Written a couple of systemd and init.d for services.
Drastically accelerated deployment using Jenkins and VSTS.