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Abhishek Kesare

@abhishekkesare

Lead MLOps Engineer with 8+ years building reliable cloud infrastructure, automation, and ML-ready pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own cloud and MLOps delivery end-to-end—IaC automation, CI/CD, observability, and production reliability—while building scalable ML/GenAI workflows with strong collaboration and cost-aware engineering.

I’m a Lead MLOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and DevOps platforms for large-scale production systems. I focus on building repeatable, secure deployments and dependable operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

My core strength is Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation: I work deeply with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform, and ARM/Bicep to deliver secure multi-environment infrastructure. I’ve also built and operated highly available microservices and event-driven architectures using Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native services with a strong emphasis on reliability and cost optimization.

In production, I own the fundamentals that keep systems healthy—monitoring, alerting, logging, auto-scaling, incident troubleshooting, and performance tuning. For example, I implemented traffic-based Kubernetes autoscaling and introduced pub/sub for resilience, cutting costs dramatically while improving system robustness.

I also bring strong MLOps and GenAI exposure to delivery: I’ve built MLOps pipelines, model monitoring for data drift/model drift, and POCs for Vertex AI and Gemini. Across healthcare and analytics domains, I collaborate and lead cross-functional teams in agile environments, guiding design patterns, code reviews, and L3 support so products ship stably and evolve safely.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer (PKB)

Current

IKS Health

Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Built and supported the PKB enterprise RAG chatbot on Google Cloud for insurance-claims FAQs and claim-status assistance. Developed serverless/microservice architecture, implemented MLOps pipelines, and added model monitoring for data/model drift.

Google Cloud Run Gemini)Kubernetes Terraform Python RAG Weaviate MLOps Monitoring For Drift

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

IKS Health

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Designed and maintained the Whisper (ASR Platform) cloud architecture on GCP for healthcare transcript generation. Implemented traffic-based Kubernetes autoscaling achieving 20x cost reduction, and built production CI/CD and resilient Pub/Sub-driven architecture.

Kubernetes AutoScaling Google Cloud Pub Sub Vertex AI Gemini)Terraform CI CD TF IDF Word2Vec BERT Sentence Embeddings

Senior DevOps Engineer

RoyalCyber

Mar 2023 - Feb 2024 (11 months)

Led DevOps delivery for a large-scale sports analytics data pipeline ingesting on-prem and cloud sources. Designed scalable Dataflow (Apache Beam) pipelines to BigQuery and implemented Jenkins/Terraform/Kubernetes CI/CD with production monitoring and incident resolution.

Apache Beam Google Cloud Dataflow BigQuery Pub Sub Terraform Jenkins CI Docker GKE SQL Optimization

Associate Software Engineer

Abzooba India Infotech

Nov 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Built and operated the Xpresso.ai MLOps platform infrastructure, enabling deployment of machine learning models from development to production. Developed secure AWS environments using Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK, deployed microservices on EKS with Helm/Kafka streaming, and improved logging and health-checks using ELK and FastAPI.

AWS CDK AWS CloudFormation Terraform Amazon EKS Kubernetes Helm Jenkins ELK Stack Vault fastAPI

AWS DevOps Engineer

Aarete Technosoft

Sep 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 2 months)

Delivered AWS and DevOps solutions for Payment-Intelligences 2.0, an insurance-claim automation platform for U.S. citizens. Implemented infrastructure automation using Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible and EKS Helm deployments, including streaming logs and centralized logging with ELK.

AWS Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Amazon EKS Helm Jenkins Linux Shell Scripting ELK Stack

Junior DevOps Engineer

LinuxWorld Informatics Pvt Ltd

Oct 2018 - Aug 2020 (1 year 10 months)

Supported DevOps automation and cloud migration work across internal and client environments. Automated Linux provisioning and patching with Bash/Ansible, maintained Jenkins CI/CD and Docker images, and implemented monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.