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Vishal Porwal

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Senior DevOps & SRE specialist building scalable cloud-native systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on SRE/DevOps role where I can build scalable, secure cloud-native platforms, lead CI/CD and observability work, and contribute in collaborative agile teams with clear ownership and growth opportunities.

I am a results-driven DevOps and SRE specialist with 14+ years designing, building, and operating cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes and Docker, with experience at Microsoft and AT&T Ad Tech. I focus on migrating monoliths to microservices, implementing resilient CI/CD pipelines, and driving observability at scale.

I have led secure, scalable platform initiatives including feature-flag systems, automated end-to-end CI/CD with Azure DevOps, Concourse and Jenkins, and integration of Kafka/RabbitMQ for event streaming. My work has improved performance (including a cited 50% performance boost) and reduced API latency through caching strategies.

I prioritize secure, observable operations—instrumenting with OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, centralizing logs in ELK, enforcing Kubernetes RBAC and NetworkPolicies, and maintaining vulnerability patching and image hardening. I collaborate cross-functionally in agile teams and produce runbooks, on-call guides, and production-ready automation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Engineer II

Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd

Jun 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 1 month)

Segregated auction and sell-side services from a PHP monolith into Kubernetes namespaces, migrated PHP APIs to ASP.NET Core boosting performance 50%, and automated end-to-end CI/CD with Azure DevOps and Concourse to enable secure, zero-impact rollouts.

Kubernetes Docker Azure DevOps C++Java Helm Prometheus OpenTelemetry CI CD SonarQube

Technical Specialist

Xandr India (AT&T Ad Tech)

Jun 2020 - Jun 2022 (2 years)

Architected and deployed cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes, implemented Redis/Memcached caching to cut API latency 60%, and automated CI/CD with Jenkins and Concourse including security and quality gates.

Kubernetes Docker Jenkins Concourse Redis MemCached Kafka Prometheus Grafana Helm

Contributor Software Engineer

Sabre Travel Technologies

Jan 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 4 months)

Modernized a PHP monolith and migrated workloads to AWS to improve scalability and security, optimized MySQL with read replicas and indexing, and introduced Redis caching and cache-warming strategies.

PHP AWS MySQL Redis Docker REST APIs PHPUnit SonarQube Caching Performance Tuning

Senior Software Engineer

Technicolor

Jan 2014 - Jul 2017 (3 years 6 months)

Developed a PHP rule engine, containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes, automated CI/CD with Bamboo, and integrated Memcached to improve page load times by 40%.

PHP Docker Kubernetes MemCached Bamboo SonarQube PHPUnit CI CD Performance Optimization

Senior Software Engineer

Ascendum India

Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 11 months)

Integrated PayPal and Authorize.net payment gateways, developed secure REST endpoints with OAuth/SSL, and automated deployments with Jenkins and Git hooks to enforce branch protection.

PHP REST APIs OAuth Jenkins MySQL Payment Integration SSL Git

Software Developer

Rave Infosys / Webdunia / Syscraft Info Systems

Jan 2006 - Dec 2011 (5 years 11 months)

Delivered LAMP-based solutions including multilingual portals, e-commerce and CMS modules, designed MySQL schemas, and applied Redis/Memcached caching to reduce database load.

LAMP PHP MySQL Redis MemCached CMS Web Development Performance Tuning

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Mahakal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science completed at Mahakal Institute of Technology, Ujjain, with focus on software engineering and systems design.