About Me
A deep dive into my journey, philosophy, and what drives me in the world of DevOps and Cloud Engineering.
My Story
With over 14 years of experience in technology, I've evolved from building test automation frameworks to architecting and operating mission-critical cloud platforms that power India's UPI payment infrastructure.
My journey in FinTech at Paytm/Payments Bank has been transformative. I led the entire UPI stack migration from PPBL (Paytm Payments Bank) physical data centers to AWS Cloud—a complex initiative involving networking architecture, data migration, security hardening, compliance certifications (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2), and zero-downtime cutover strategies.
I believe in the platform mindset: building reliable, self-service infrastructure that empowers development teams while maintaining security, compliance, and cost efficiency. My work with Kubernetes, Istio service mesh, GitOps (Argo CD/Rollouts), and KEDA autoscaling reflects this philosophy.
▸Key Initiatives & Architecture
→UPI DC→AWS cloud migration (networking, data, security, cutover, cost tuning).
→Adopted Istio for service-to-service security and traffic management.
→Standardized GitOps with Argo CD; safe releases via Argo Rollouts canary/experiments.
→IRSA rollout & IAM least-privilege patterns; bucket and TLS policies.
→Capacity mgmt & KEDA autoscaling for predictable burst handling.
→DR runbooks, failover exercises, SLO/SLA dashboards.
▸What I'm Exploring Now
DevAIOps
LLM-powered runbooks and intelligent incident response
Cost-Aware Autoscaling
Smart autoscaling heuristics that optimize for both performance and cost
Zero Trust Security
Advanced service mesh security patterns and policy enforcement
Side Projects
Building bitresearch.ai and devxops.tech for continuous learning
▸Education
B.Tech., Electrical, Electronics & Communications Engineering
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Higher Secondary
Boys' High School & College
▸Certifications
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Docker Certified Associate
Mirantis