Hi, I'm Rohit Verma

DevOps/SRE Lead • UPI @ Paytm • Cloud & Platform Engineering

DevOps/SRE leader with ~14 years of experience building reliable, cost-efficient platforms with focus on High Availability, Automation, and Microservices. Deep FinTech exposure on UPI at Paytm—owning Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps (Argo CD/Rollouts), service mesh (Istio/Nginx/HAProxy), autoscaling (KEDA), Kafka/Redis, ELK Stack, and observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos). I make data-driven architectural decisions, drive migrations, implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible/SaltStack), harden security, and ship experiments safely. Strong communicator with proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams. I also build for fun: bitresearch.ai and devxops.tech.

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14+
Years of Experience
10+ years
Automation
AWS
Cloud Platforms
4+
Certifications

▸Career Highlights

Led the UPI migration from physical DC (PPBL - Paytm Payments Bank) to AWS Cloud—architecture, networking, data, cutover, and post-migration optimizations with High Availability (HA) design.

Progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts (canary/experiments) + KEDA autoscaling for traffic bursts in microservices architecture.

Security & compliance: IRSA, least-privilege IAM, TLS, CIS baselines, CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management); strengthened security posture with certifications like PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 compliance.

Automation & IaC: Implemented comprehensive Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, and SaltStack; automated 90% of infrastructure provisioning.

Cost & reliability: right-sizing, ALB/NLB logging strategy, S3 lifecycles; MTTR/SLA dashboards in Grafana; data-driven decisions for capacity planning.

Hands-on with Istio, Kafka, Redis, Aerospike, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Nginx, HAProxy, ELK Stack, Thanos.

Successfully handled multiple production incidents with quick resolution, root cause analysis, and preventive measures.

Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to deliver business-critical solutions.

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Career Highlights

140M+
Daily Transactions
High-scale UPI platform
30%
Latency Reduction
Performance optimization
25%
Cost Savings
Infrastructure efficiency
40%
MTTR Improvement
Reliability & observability
~14+
Years Experience
50+
Microservices
5
Global Companies

▸In-Demand Skills

Kubernetes/EKS
Argo CD
Argo Rollouts (Canary/Experiments)
Istio Service Mesh
AWS (EC2, VPC, NLB/ALB, S3, ECR, IAM/IRSA, CloudWatch...)
Terraform
Helm
Kafka
Aerospike
Redis
Elasticsearch
Prometheus/Grafana
ELK Stack
Thanos
Alertmanager
GitOps
SRE/Resilience
Jenkins
Ansible
SaltStack
KEDA Autoscaling
DR/Failover
Cost Optimization
Python
Golang (K8s controllers)
Nginx
HAProxy
High Availability (HA)
Data-Driven Decisions
Automation
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Microservices

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