Professional Experience

~14 years of driving DevOps transformation, cloud migrations, platform engineering, and handling critical production incidents across FinTech, consulting, and startups.

100%
Zero-downtime UPI migration
30K+
Test cases/day automation
6+
Companies transformed

▸Career Timeline

DevOps Lead

Paytm
India
May 2022 – Present
3 yrs 8 mos
  • →Ported entire UPI stack from PPBL (Paytm Payments Bank) on-prem DC to AWS—VPCs, subnets, peering, NAT/IGW, security controls, data migration, and cutover plan.
  • →Owned EKS with Istio; upgraded CNIs (e.g., Calico), refined HPA/KEDA policies; reduced p95 latencies during bursts.
  • →Implemented GitOps with Argo CD and safe deployments with Argo Rollouts canaries/experiments.
  • →Hardened posture: IRSA, least-privilege IAM, TLS policies, S3 bucket policies, runtime safeguards, audit-ready evidence.
  • →Strengthened security compliance with CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management), PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 certifications for FinTech regulatory requirements.
  • →Improved cost visibility; tuned ALB/NLB logging and S3 lifecycles; orchestrated right-sizing across services.
  • →Built Grafana SLO/SLA and DR dashboards with Elasticsearch for log aggregation; authored DR runbooks and conducted failover exercises.
  • →Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Ansible across multiple environments.
  • →Successfully handled multiple production incidents with minimal MTTR; led RCA sessions and implemented preventive measures.
  • →Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams (engineering, security, compliance, product) to deliver business-critical features on time.
Kubernetes
EKS
Istio
KEDA
Argo CD
Argo Rollouts
AWS
Terraform
Kafka
Aerospike
Prometheus
Grafana
Elasticsearch
Ansible
Linux
CSPM
PCI-DSS

Technical Leader

Capgemini Engineering
Gurugram, India
Jun 2020 – Mar 2022
1 yr 9 mos
  • →Led container orchestration (Docker Swarm → Kubernetes) and modernized CI/CD.
  • →Built scalable Python test automation framework (30K+ firmware test cases/day).
  • →Architected cost-effective AWS solutions (EC2, Lambda, S3, Route53, ELB, ASG, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EKS).
  • →Implemented Ansible playbooks for automated server configuration and application deployments.
Kubernetes
Docker
Python
AWS
CI/CD
Ansible

Lead Engineer

EVC Ventures
Gurgaon, India
May 2018 – Sep 2019
1 yr 4 mos
  • →Designed AWS infra for resilient microservices; Docker, Swarm/Kubernetes.
  • →Built ELK logging; MERN full-stack; established CI/CD to shorten release cycles.
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
ELK
MERN
CI/CD

Senior Software Engineer

Appster
Gurgaon, India
Oct 2016 – Apr 2018
1 yr 6 mos
  • →Org-level DevOps & test automation strategy; created CICD pipelines for multiple products.
  • →Designed solutions aligning present/future requirements; built robust test frameworks.
DevOps
CI/CD
Test Automation

Senior Engineer

HCL Technologies
Noida, India
Mar 2015 – Oct 2016
1 yr 7 mos
  • →Introduced DevOps practices; created CICD pipelines; performance monitoring & remediation.
  • →Customer-facing SME & primary point-of-contact for cloud adoption initiatives.
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloud
Performance Monitoring

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
Noida, India
Apr 2011 – Mar 2015
3 yrs 11 mos
  • →Built and deployed UI/API test automation frameworks using open-source tech.
  • →Introduced CI/CD & version control best practices; maintained apps on VMware ESXi.
Test Automation
CI/CD
VMware ESXi