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Nimret Sandhu

@nimretsandhu

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Senior technical leader driving cloud operations, reliability, and cross-functional engineering teams.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior leadership roles in cloud operations or engineering where I can drive reliability, architecture strategy, mentor teams, and deliver secure, scalable production systems while partnering with business stakeholders.

I am a senior technical leader with 30 years in the software industry, focused on cloud operations, reliability, and delivering client-focused backend and mobile software. I prioritize innovation and creativity while evangelizing technologies such as Java and Docker and methodologies like Continuous Delivery, Scrum, and Kanban.

I've managed P&L up to $10M, grown companies from single employees to 200+, and led teams across observability, DevOps, and cloud migrations at organizations including Zonar Systems, Smartsheet, eSentire, Dev9 and others. I have hands-on experience architecting and operating production systems in AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments, with responsibility for uptime, security, and cost.

I bring a track record of technical and people leadership—mentoring 24x7 teams, delivering ML and security services, achieving compliance (FedRAMP, SOX, SOC 2), and driving business development and strategic partnerships with major cloud and platform vendors.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Director, Technical Cloud Operations

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Zonar Systems

Apr 2021 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Accountable for GCP spend, security, architecture, and operations to ensure uptime, reliability, and availability of Zonar products, providing strategic and architectural direction for production systems.

Google Cloud Platform Cloud Architecture Cost Management Site Reliability Security Incident Response Kubernetes CI CD

Senior Manager of Engineering

eSentire

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 (11 months)

Led teams delivering 24x7 web services and ML-driven cybersecurity solutions using serverless and managed AWS infrastructure, improving operational reliability and deployment velocity.

AWS Serverless Machine Learning Infrastructure DevOps Agile SDLC Monitoring CI CD

Senior Manager of Software Development

Smartsheet

Aug 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Managed the Observability DevOps team and data streaming services to provide real-time BI insights and supported GovCloud FedRAMP, SOX and SOC 2 compliance for Smartsheet infrastructure.

Observability DevOps AWS Compliance Monitoring CI CD

Vice President of Technology

Dev9

Jul 2017 - May 2018 (10 months)

Led business development and delivery for server and cloud projects, established KPIs, managed partner relationships (Google, AWS, Docker) and oversaw AWS migrations and enterprise Java delivery at clients like Disney.

Cloud Migration AWS Java DevOps Business Development KPIs Partner Management Team Leadership

Director of Technology

Dev9

Dec 2015 - Jul 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Directed client delivery and P&L management (~$10M), led teams building microservices, real-time analytics, cloud monitoring and multiple AWS/GCP migrations across enterprise clients including Expedia, T-Mobile and Amazon.

P&L management Microservices AWS GCP)Architecture

Senior Solutions Architect

Dev9

Feb 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 10 months)

Provided architecture and delivery leadership for scalable JVM-based REST APIs and identity management projects, and evaluated HSM-based encryption POC for on-premise vs AWS HSM solutions.

Java REST APIs Identity Management HSMs AWS Performance Testing JVM

Senior Mobile Consultant

OptionsHouse

Jun 2013 - Feb 2014 (8 months)

Delivered iOS and Android app releases (v3.1–3.8), implemented push notifications, crash reporting, and upgraded networking libraries to improve app stability and feature delivery.

iOS Android Push Notifications AFNetworking Mobile Development Release Management

Senior Solutions Architect

Dev9

Feb 2011 - May 2013 (2 years 3 months)

Led multiple teams on infrastructure automation (Puppet), developer SDKs for Android devices and performance testing for high-traffic e-commerce platforms.

Puppet Infrastructure Automation Performance Testing Technical Leadership DevOps

Senior Manager

All Star Directories

Mar 2009 - Feb 2011 (1 year 11 months)

Worked on enterprise Java applications using MySQL, Spring/Hibernate and Grails on JBoss, and integrated OpenCMS for content workflow and management.

Java Spring Hibernate MySQL Grails JBoss

Senior Architect

Vantos

Dec 2007 - Feb 2009 (1 year 2 months)

Built a Vagrant-based development stack and implemented HA, symmetric encryption, REST services and OSGi to streamline testing and increase deployment reliability.