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DevOps leader and Cloud & Platform Architect delivering scalable, compliant platforms.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior platform/cloud role where I can lead cross-functional teams, drive secure multi-cloud architectures, optimize costs, and scale CI/CD and observability to increase developer velocity.

I am a DevOps leader and cloud & platform architect with 12+ years driving enterprise-scale cloud transformations across healthcare, finance, media, and SaaS.

I design secure, HIPAA- and compliance-aware multi-cloud architectures using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm and IAM integrations, and I build CI/CD frameworks that accelerate delivery while protecting production stability.

My work has delivered measurable outcomes: improved uptime and delivery speed (30%+), 90% faster deployments in many contexts, and $300K+ annual cloud savings across platforms through cost optimization and platform re-architecture.

I mentor and scale cross-continent teams, establish golden-path delivery frameworks, and obsess over observability, secrets management, and automation to reduce toil and increase developer velocity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead DevOps Engineer

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HiLabs

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year)

Heading DevOps for Pune operations, managing a 5-member cross-continent team and architecting multi-cloud HIPAA-compliant infrastructure that improved uptime and delivery speed by 30%+. Delivered re-architecture reducing deployment effort by 40% and drove $300K+/year cloud cost savings across platforms.

AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform Helm CI CD Tekton Jenkins

Lead DevOps

Velotio

Mar 2021 - Oct 2024 (3 years 7 months)

Eliminated ~70% testing delays by provisioning ephemeral EKS environments via Terraform and Buildkite, cut feedback cycles by 60%, reduced pre-merge bugs by 45%, and achieved 30% logging cost savings through Datadog archiving.

EKS Terraform Buildkite Datadog CI CD GitHub Observability Cost Optimization

Senior DevOps Engineer

Dish

Jul 2018 - Feb 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Deployed Artifactory on GKE to enable cloud migration, created reusable GitLab CI libraries reducing pipeline setup time by ~66%, and built Kubernetes SLO dashboards to improve performance visibility for SRE and leadership.

GKE Gitlab CI Kubernetes SLOs Artifactory CI CD Monitoring Automation

Associate DevOps Consultant

Virtusa

Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 (6 months)

Led on-site requirement gathering for Emirates NBD, automated client infrastructure with Chef to reduce manual provisioning by 60%, and deployed multi-region Vault+Consul for secrets management achieving full audit compliance.