Apr 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

• I’ve had the opportunity to work with a diverse range of global and enterprise clients across various industries, contributing to impactful projects and digital solutions.
• Notable Clients:
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG) – UK | 3 years
• Uxforms.com – UK | 6 months
• State of Guernsey (SOG) – UK | 6 months
• Clear Channel – UK | 3 months
• John Deere – Pune, India | 3 months
• Jio – Navi Mumbai, India | 6 months

Dec 2018 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Remote

Mar 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Transformation to Microservices Architecture: Spearheaded the successful transition of Bonzai from a monolithic system to a cutting-edge microservices architecture, enhancing scalability and agility while reducing deployment complexities.
• Infrastructure Design and Support Expertise: Held the pivotal role of designing and ensuring the robustness of Bonzai's business infrastructure. Provided day-to-day support for the entire infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
• MongoDB Cluster Configuration: Designed and implemented Ansible roles for the seamless configuration and management of complex MongoDB clusters. These clusters included primary, secondary, config servers, and MongoDB arbiter servers.
• Efficient Monitoring and Alerting: Implemented a robust monitoring and alerting system using Zabbix, Ansible, and PagerDuty for both Linux and Windows environments. Proactively detected and resolved issues to ensure system reliability.
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Established and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible, streamlining code deployment processes and accelerating development cycles.
• Optimized Redshift Performance: Actively managed and optimized Redshift, including implementing backup strategies, vacuuming, and routine data cleanup, ensuring optimal performance and data integrity.
• SLA Monitoring: Introduced SLA monitoring capabilities with statuspage.io to effectively track and communicate service level agreements, ensuring transparency and reliability for stakeholders.
• Multi-Region Deployment Strategy: Successfully executed the migration of applications from a single AWS region to a multi-region setup, reducing latency and achieving region failover resilience using AWS Route 53's Geo DNS feature.
• AWS EC2 Windows Management: Proficiently ran and managed Windows instances on AWS EC2, ensuring their stability, security, and availability.

Jun 2011 – Mar 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• In my role as a Platform Engineer and Lead at Vserv.com, I've played a vital role in driving transformative initiatives that improved our infrastructure, efficiency, and security:
• AWS Migration: Successfully moved a significant part of our production system to AWS, boosting scalability and fault tolerance.
• Centralized Logging: Implemented a centralized logging solution, collecting logs from 4000+ servers, simplifying log management, and providing valuable insights.
• Deployment Automation: Automated deployments for 4000+ servers using Git hooks, reducing deployment time from 8-9 hours to 15 minutes.
• Instance Manager: Developed Instance Manager, dynamically scaling spot instances from 100 servers during off-peak to 4000+ during peak demand, addressing AWS auto-scaling limitations.
• Version Control Transformation: Migrated from SVN to Git and introduced Git flow for developers, enhancing collaboration and code management.
• Kafka Cluster: Established a Kafka cluster for real-time data transport, aiding click fraud detection and campaign optimization.
• Security Compliance: Implemented security benchmarks following CISecurity guidelines, leading to an ISO 27001 certificate for finance and engineering.
• Data Warehouse: Created a data warehouse using HP Vertica for historical campaign data storage, facilitating data-driven decision-making.
• Infrastructure Optimization: Managed DNS migration from Netica to Dyn.com and CDN migration from AWS Cloudfront to TATA Bitgravity, achieving cost savings.
• Automation and Innovation: Identified, delegated, and executed automation tasks, fostering operational efficiency and innovation.
• My tenure at Vserv has been marked by strategic initiatives that have enhanced our infrastructure, security, and efficiency. These achievements have positioned Vserv as an industry leader, and I remain committed to driving innovation and excellence for our organization's continued growth and success.

Jun 2011 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Linux System Admin
• Php-Mysql Developer
• Amazon Cloud Computing

Aug 2010 – Jun 2011 · 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

• Started as a PHP Software Engineer and transitioned into Platform engineer, where I discovered my passion for infrastructure management and operations.
• Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
• Infrastructure Management: Administered and maintained 20+ Debian-based servers supporting legacy products and core business operations
• System Operations: Managed daily operations including software releases, system upgrades, security patches, and deployment processes across Linux environments
• Technical Troubleshooting: Resolved complex issues involving Linux systems, NFS, Java applications, and deployment pipelines, ensuring minimal downtime
• Monitoring & SLA Management: Implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions providing real-time visibility into system performance, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution to meet internal SLAs
• Server Deployment: Configured, optimised, and maintained 20+ production servers running on Ubuntu, Debian and Centos, ensuring optimal performance for legacy applications and services
• Debian Package Management: Mastered dpkg-based deployment processes following the acquisition of Mobango.com, becoming proficient in creating and managing Debian packages for application deployment and distribution
• Technical Environment: Linux (Debian), NFS, Java, PHP, dpkg, Debian Package Management, System Monitoring Tools
• This role strengthened my expertise in Linux system administration while building a foundation in infrastructure reliability and operational excellence.