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Darshan Pawar

@darshanpawar

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I build and scale cloud-native platforms as a Staff Platform Engineer, specializing in Kubernetes, GitOps, and SRE.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a platform engineering role where I can modernize Kubernetes-based systems with GitOps, CI/CD standardization, and SRE practices—delivering reliable, cost-efficient environments and strong developer experience.

I’m a Staff Platform Engineer with 6.9+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I specialize in Kubernetes platforms, GitOps, infrastructure automation, CI/CD standardization, and SRE for large-scale distributed systems.

I deliver platform modernization that improves deployment velocity, reduces cloud spend, and elevates reliability and availability. I’ve built and standardized Kubernetes platforms supporting microservices, implemented multi-region deployments and high-availability practices, and integrated DevSecOps and reliability engineering into CI/CD workflows to reduce critical vulnerabilities.

My work also focuses on Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and Developer Experience—creating self-service capabilities through reusable templates, governance, and standardized onboarding and deployment patterns. I bring strong observability and incident-response experience using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry to drive faster MTTR and sustained operational stability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff DevOps Engineer

Current

Altimetrik

Jun 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Built and standardized a Kubernetes platform across AWS and GCP supporting 35+ microservices, improving deployment consistency and developer experience. Standardized CI/CD and GitOps workflows with GitLab CI, Cloud Build, Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD, and operated SRE/incident response and reliability initiatives to improve service stability.

Kubernetes AWS GCP GitOps CI CD Gitlab CI Cloud Build Helm Terraform ArgoCD Istio Service Mesh AutoScaling DevSecOps Reliability Engineering SRE Prometheus Grafana Datadog GKE VPC NVIDIA GPU Operator

Senior Cloud Consultant

Torry Harris Business Solutions

Sep 2021 - Jun 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Built and operated scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including migrating monolithic applications to microservices on Kubernetes to improve scalability and platform reliability. Automated provisioning with Terraform/Terragrunt/Ansible, built observability with Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog/OpenTelemetry, and delivered multi-region DR achieving 99.99% uptime with reduced RTO.

DevOps Engineer

CGI

Sep 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years)

Administered AWS and Azure infrastructure for production deployments and infrastructure automation, including containerizing applications with Docker and deploying to Kubernetes. Built monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Grafana, automated workflows with Python and Bash, and supported CI/CD and incident management including RCA for production issues.