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Akash Sonawane

@akashsonawane

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I build reliable cloud-native platforms, CI/CD systems, and self-service infrastructure on AWS.

India

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I'm building Airtel’s CDE platform through containerized microservices across Kubernetes, AWS, Airtel Cloud, and OpenShift.

I architected a standardized Jenkins and Helm CI/CD framework used by multiple teams, improving deployment consistency and reducing onboarding effort. My end-to-end pipelines brought infrastructure setup, build, and deployment time down to one hour.

At NICE Actimize, I designed AWS infrastructure and operated EKS as a shared platform for teams working on Surveil-X. I reduced environment provisioning from three hours to 35–40 minutes through Terraform automation and helped lead an MSK migration to a secure architecture.

I automate operations with Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins, and have deployed GitLab Community Edition with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Jenkins integrations. I also contributed to AWS cost optimization that reduced costs by a third.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Current

Airtel Digital

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Designed and deployed containerized microservices on Kubernetes and OpenShift, architected a standardized CI/CD framework with Jenkins and Helm, and automated operational workflows using Python and Bash. Reduced AWS costs by a third and cut infrastructure setup, build, and deployment time to 1 hour.

Kubernetes AWS OpenShift Jenkins Helm Terraform Python BASH Gitlab PostgreSQL Redis Cost Optimization CI CD

DevOps Engineer

NICE Actimize

Oct 2024 - Aug 2025 (10 months)

Designed and maintained cloud-native infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, operated Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, and automated infrastructure lifecycle management. Led Kafka (MSK) migration to secure architecture and improved developer experience by reducing environment provisioning time from 3 hours to 35-40 minutes.

AWS Terraform Kubernetes Amazon EKS EC2 RDS S3 EFS Lambda Route 53 Load Balancers VPC IAM Docker Kafka MSK Ansible Jenkins CI CD

Associate Software Engineer - DevOps

NICE Actimize

Jul 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Managed Terraform IaC for the Surveil-X platform, automated deployment with Ansible, and maintained developer pipelines for various products. Modified Ansible playbooks to eliminate rework and reduced Jenkins node count, resulting in significant cost reduction.