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kishlaya kumar

@kishlayakumar

I build reliable multi-cloud platforms that scale SaaS systems and engineering teams.

India
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At CleverTap, I joined as the first DevOps hire and built a 20+ person Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and Security organisation supporting 2,000+ enterprise customers. I lead a multi-region AWS and Azure platform serving 40M+ requests per minute and 40B+ events per day at 99.99% availability.

I remain hands-on with the infrastructure strategy and code behind it, including Terraform, AWS CDK, GoFormation, Helm, Kubernetes, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery. I led four platform generations from bare metal through Docker and ECS to EKS, using staged migrations without customer-visible incidents.

I built self-service platform capabilities for 250+ engineers, reducing 60% of a two-day infrastructure ticket class to under an hour. I also automated alert response, cutting daily human pages from hundreds to roughly ten, and reduced monthly cloud spend from $3M to $1.7M while expanding regional capacity.

I started CleverTap's security and compliance programme, authored its infrastructure controls, and led first-pass ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR audits. Across infrastructure, security, and operations, I build the function, grow the team, and stay accountable for production outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Director, DevOps & Platform Engineering

Jul 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Leads a 20+ person organization across Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and Security, scaling infrastructure to serve 40M+ requests/minute and 40B+ events/day at 99.99% availability. Owns the multi-region EKS and AKS estate, GPU platform, observability, CI/CD, and security compliance programs.

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Associate Director, DevOps

Jan 2023 - Jul 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Scaled the platform to 40M+ requests/minute at 99.99% SLA, architecting multi-region deployments across AWS and Azure. Defined the org-wide SLA, SLO, and incident response framework, and grew the DevOps and SRE organization.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Pune logoUP

University of Pune

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

2011 - 2015

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, completed from 2011 to 2015.

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