- DevOps Engineer with 14+ years of experience, including 8+ years in infrastructure management and Kubernetes.
- Proficient in running Kubernetes on large scale production environments, automating DevOps tasks, and implementing progressive delivery strategies.
- Skilled infrastructure architect with hands-on experience designing solutions on AWS and Kubernetes platforms from scratch.
- Experienced in Site Reliability Engineering — leading incident response, conducting postmortems, and driving improvements for infrastructure availability.
- Designed and built platform engineering tools to boost developer productivity and reduce on-call workload.
- Proficient in microservices architecture, event-based systems, CLI tools, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Open-source contributor with contributions to Kubernetes, Stolon, and Micronaut.
Skills
Platforms: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Cloudflare, Karpenter
IaC & GitOps: Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Ansible
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Argo Rollouts
Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Structured Logging
Languages: Go, Python, Shell, JavaScript, Java, SQL, HCL
Techniques: Progressive Delivery (Canary & Blue/Green), Chaos Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, Edge Functions, Security Audit
Achievements
- Achieved 28%(~60K/month) savings in EC2 by reducing the memory requests of few apps and configuring the karpenter provisioner to delete the empty nodes soon
- Improved performance, reliability and observability of 100+ showcase envs. Saved 26K/month by introducing efficient autoscaling strategy to 100+ showcase envs
- Saved ~$14K/month by reducing cross-AZ data transfer in K8s cluster using pod topology spread and topology aware hints.
- Increased site reliability by implementing progressive delivery with canary and blue/green deployments with automatic rollback.
- Replicated an environment with 100+ microservices and 50+ stateful apps from VMs to Kubernetes, enabling rapid business expansion to new countries.
- Migrated 50+ HA Postgres clusters and 100+ Redis instances from Kubernetes to VMs with zero downtime and data loss.
- Built CLI tools that streamlined app deployment in Kubernetes clusters for 20+ teams and 100+ developers.
- Earned patent rights for SAP Adhoc Analysis — a prototype built in personal time that was later recognized and productized by SAP.
- Kubernetes Trainer at Thoughtworks; Official internal trainer for SAP HANA platform in SAP Labs.
Certifications
CNCF Kubernetes (Kubestronaut)
Achieved Kubestronaut status by earning all five CNCF Kubernetes certifications! 🚀
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
- Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA)