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Mahantesh Patil

@mahanteshpatil

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Cloud cost and infrastructure leader optimizing cloud spend and operations.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead cloud cost strategy and infrastructure automation, partner with engineering and finance, and drive measurable cost and reliability improvements.

I am a cloud-cost and infrastructure leader with deep experience bridging engineering and finance to optimize cloud usage, reduce variance, and deliver cost savings across AWS and GCP. I was the first dedicated cloud-cost hire at The New York Times and lead strategy, tooling, and vendor partnerships.

Across roles I have led teams in delivery engineering, systems operations, and datacenter migrations, driving automation, production readiness, and reliability for high-traffic events. I have managed on-call rotations, P1 support, and cross-functional work with networking, database, storage, and infosec teams.

My accomplishments include major datacenter consolidations and migrations, CDN and infrastructure migrations, onboarding vendor tools for cost visibility, and building forecasting and reporting to provide actionable cost insights for engineering and finance leadership.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Analyst

Current

The New York Times

Sep 2018 - Present (7 years 4 months)

Led cloud cost management strategy as the first dedicated cloud-cost hire, reducing cost variance to under 10% and delivering actionable cost visibility and forecasting across AWS and GCP for senior leadership.

AWS GCP Terraform Vendor Management Automation

Lead Analyst

The New York Times

Sep 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years)

Led application migrations from data center to AWS/GCP, migrated SVN to GitHub and moved 35 services from Akamai to Fastly, automating deployments and ensuring production readiness.

Cloud Migration AWS GCP Terraform GitHub Fastly CI CD

Manager, Systems Operations

The New York Times

Sep 2012 - Aug 2016 (3 years 11 months)

Managed a 9-person infrastructure team providing 24/7 P1 support, automated infrastructure onboarding/offboarding, and supported site reliability and PCI compliance for high-traffic events.

Incident Response Monitoring Team Leadership Automation Jenkins SRE PCI Compliance

Lead System Administrator

The New York Times

Mar 2007 - Aug 2012 (5 years 5 months)

Drove datacenter migration and virtualization efforts, reducing physical servers from ~300 to 20 and achieving a fully virtualized, highly available infrastructure with rapid scale and failover recovery.

Virtualization Puppet Perl BASH Jenkins Automation Monitoring

Senior Technical Producer

The New York Times

Sep 2001 - Feb 2007 (5 years 5 months)

Managed newsroom CMS platforms, consolidated multiple CMS instances, and developed scripts and templates to support high-profile news events and content workflows.

Content Management Systems Scripting Templates

Database Developer

SmartPlug Systems

Oct 1999 - Aug 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Contributed to a 5‑member CMS team to implement a database-driven publishing system, optimizing queries, measuring performance, and providing user training.

Database Development SQL Performance Tuning Query Optimization User Training