Kashif Khan

I’m a Software Engineer II with 5 years of DevOps & Platform Engineering expertise, and I focus on building scalable developer platforms that speed up onboarding and production delivery. At Ultimate Kronos Group, I led organization-wide adoption of multi-platform Backstage templates (Java, .NET, Python, Angular), driving 20+ team adoption and cutting onboarding time from 7+ templates to 24 hours (86% improvement) while increasing deployment frequency from bi-weekly to 2–3x per week (150% improvement).

I also architected infrastructure and automation that improve both velocity and security—expertise across Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Google Cloud. I implemented an AI-first security pipeline for language-agnostic artifact detection (SonarQube SAST scanning and container image scanning), reduced vulnerability incidents by 30–40%, eliminated critical pre-production vulnerabilities, and cut security review time by 50%; meanwhile, I created 5 reusable Terraform modules adopted by 20+ teams, reducing provisioning from 1–2 hours to 10 minutes (and lowering infrastructure team dependency by 60%). In my earlier role as a DevOps Engineer, I built CI/CD and platform foundations using GitLab CI/CD and release-please templates, standardized pipelines across 15+ services (reducing deployment time by 40%), optimized Docker images (80% reduction), and established centralized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Site 24x7 across 50+ services.