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Som Agarwal

@somagarwal

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I build secure, reliable cloud platforms and DevSecOps teams for enterprise SaaS, fintech, and regulated banking.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm targeting Head of DevOps, Director of Platform Engineering, and SRE leadership roles in high-growth global organizations, with opportunities to build secure, reliable cloud platforms, scale teams, and drive DevSecOps and FinOps transformation.

At Simpplr, I lead DevOps and Security for an enterprise SaaS platform, owning the roadmap, tooling budgets, and a team scaled from 3–4 to 12 engineers with zero attrition.

I delivered 40%+ AWS cost reduction through Graviton3, Savings Plans, Karpenter autoscaling, and rightsizing, while keeping spend within plan as workloads grew. I also built Internal Developer Platform foundations that reduced deployment lead time by about 60%.

I’ve designed multi-account, multi-region AWS platforms, disaster recovery architecture, and SLO/SLI governance that delivered 99.99% uptime across 500+ customer environments and reduced MTTR by over 40%.

Earlier, I built and led DevOps teams supporting UPI, FASTag, national KYC, and regulated banking infrastructure at Paytm Payments Bank. Across fintech, logistics, banking, and SaaS, I combine hands-on cloud engineering with DevSecOps, compliance readiness, FinOps, and AI-assisted automation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Director – DevOps & Security

Current

Simpplr

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 8 months)

Owned full DevOps & Security P&L, built team from 3-4 to 12 engineers with zero attrition, delivered 40%+ AWS cost reduction via FinOps, architected IDP and multi-region DR, achieved 99.99% uptime across 500+ customer environments, and led DevSecOps transformation.

Deputy General Manager – DevOps

Paytm Payments Bank

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Built and led a team from 10-12 to 35+ engineers for mission-critical regulated banking systems (UPI, FASTag, national KYC) with zero attrition, implemented DR site and database HA/DR architecture, directed compliance audits and incident management, and standardized CI/CD across 10+ squads.

AWS Data Center MySQL PostgreSQL HA DR RBI Compliance CI CD NOC Runbooks Disaster Recovery RTO RPO Targets Business Continuity Planning Incident Management Monitoring Alerting

DevOps Specialist & Technical Lead

HCL Technologies

Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Automated secure infrastructure provisioning for enterprise banking environment using Terraform and Ansible, implemented DR site with defined RTO/RPO targets, improved compliance posture, and established monitoring standards for EU-regulated systems.

Terraform Ansible Compliance Monitoring Disaster Recovery RTO RPO Targets Regulated Banking

DevOps Specialist

OpsTree Solutions

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Designed scalable AWS architecture for India's largest logistics platform, implemented RBAC with SAML-based SSO, Terraform IaC, and cost optimization programs reducing infrastructure spend.

AWS Terraform SAML SSO RBAC Cost Optimization

Senior Engineer – DevOps & Platform

Excelsoft Technologies & RH International

Jan 2006 - Dec 2017 (11 years 11 months)

Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube), ELK & New Relic monitoring, and managed SaaS/IaaS production infrastructure across enterprise education and B2B platforms for 10+ years.

Jenkins Docker SonarQube ELK New Relic CI CD SaaS IaaS