Resume

Senior DevOps & Operability Engineer · Cloud & Kubernetes · Download PDF →

Cloud DevOps and Kubernetes specialist with 7+ years of experience — including overseas exposure — driving scalable, secure, and efficient cloud-native solutions. Strengths across AWS/Azure migration and cost optimization, Kubernetes & OpenShift operations, CI/CD for microservices, disaster-recovery automation, and end-to-end observability.

Experience

Senior Operability Engineer · Equal Experts

Nov 2025 — Present

Build and operate the infrastructure behind a data platform processing huge volumes of data.
Provision and manage infrastructure for multiple MCPs (Model Context Protocol servers).
Manage and operate Kubernetes environments supporting data and ML/AI workloads.
Build automated, per-dataset infrastructure so each dataset gets its own reliable, repeatable pipeline.
Own end-to-end monitoring and observability across all of these services.
Run CI/CD using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy.

Senior DevOps Consultant · Emirates NBD (ENBD)

Apr 2025 — Oct 2025

Built several Terraform modules for the AWS landing-zone setup.
Designed the landing-zone architecture following AWS whitepaper best practices.
Installed OpenShift clusters in a disconnected AWS environment.

Senior Infrastructure Consultant · Thoughtworks

Jul 2018 — Mar 2025

Led on-premises to AWS migrations across multiple projects and built reusable Terraform/Terragrunt modules (security groups, S3, SNS, SQS).
Re-architected and scaled Elasticsearch, saving around ₹5L / month; cut non-prod AKS cluster costs ~60% via an automated stop/start scheduler.
Automated cross-region disaster recovery for a 6–10 TB PostgreSQL RDS, plus Elasticsearch and MongoDB DR strategies.
Cut onboarding from 4–5 days to 2; trimmed CI/CD load by fixing and removing redundant pipelines; integrated Vault CSI for secrets.
Built a private bare-metal Kubernetes cluster (ingress-nginx, Grafana, Prometheus, Harbor) with Docker images and Helm charts.
Established an independent deployment path, cutting time-to-prod from a month to a week; decommissioned a bottleneck microservice with zero downtime.
Upgraded the Istio service mesh from dev to prod in under 2 weeks; integrated SonarQube and Polaris for code-quality and delivery metrics.
Led a migration from Docker Desktop to Colima for 200+ team members; ran Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform workshops as a global trainer and acted as a liaison between development and infrastructure teams.

Key Skills

Cloud & IaC

AWS Azure Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Packer Vault

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes OpenShift Docker Helm Colima Istio service mesh

CI/CD & Observability

GitHub Actions Octopus Deploy GoCD Jenkins Grafana Prometheus New Relic SonarQube

Languages & Data

Go Clojure Kotlin Bash JavaScript React Spring Boot Kafka PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Elasticsearch Linux nginx

Domain Experience

Retail Finance Banking Data / ML

Education & Certifications

BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications) — 80%
Diploma — 93%
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (CSAA)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)

Publication

POSIT arithmetic on hardware — a Verilog module implementing the POSIT number system (an alternative to floating point). CARRV 2020 paper →

Languages

English Hindi Telugu Marathi