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title: "Alok Bhatnagar - Vice President in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Alok Bhatnagar, AI Enthusiast | Cloud DevOps & MLOps Lead based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/alok-bhatnagar/share-image"
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# Alok Bhatnagar on Tal

## Headline

AI Enthusiast \| Cloud DevOps & MLOps Lead

## About

DevOps and software engineer with interest in developing and implementing cutting edge technology, open source tools and cloud\-based services\. I'm a highly motivated team player and autodidact with great interpersonal abilities\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

kiro

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Vice President at NatWest Group, Dec 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Vice President Technology at NatWest Group, Jan 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Leading a team of DevOps / System Integration professional working on prime objective to make the CI platform readily available throughout Natwest Group for developers\. · Part of Enterprise Engineering team responsible for handling Tier 3 Level of the CI tools being used\. · Responsible for the full lifecycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning · Worked on upgrading Sonarqube version while performing feature, integration, performance and user testing\. · Leaded migration of the CaaS environment setup from one AZ \(London\) to other \(Edinburgh\)\. · Have been a part of 3 major deployments till date, each extending to 3 days work window involving weekends\. · Implemented integration of Teamcity tool with AWS for CI/CD process\. · Widely using in AWS services like S3, Athena, EKS & SNS\. · Improved performance through the ongoing evaluation and analysis of metrics using DX\-APM and Splunk as monitoring tools\. · Modifying the splunk dashboards with the changes to search query or DX\-APM utility as per the requirement · Automating implementation procedures with the help of ansible scripts and its dependencies that needs to be resolved\. Active participant over scrum calls and applying Agile methods to the development of software including DevOps techniques

Senior Software Engineer at Iris Software Inc\., May 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 8 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Responsibilities Experienced Infrastructure DevOps / System Integration professional working on prime objective to make the Data and infrastructure readily available to US client\. ▪ Data ingestion, processing, redundancy and availability is the major focus\. ▪ Infrastructure as a code \(IaaC\) deliveries ▪ Working on AWS CloudFormation in order to automate the manual changes whatever exist in the current network\. ▪ Use of python scripting \(BOTO3 libs\) in composing the required changes to the YAML/JSON file\. ▪ Performing CRUD operations on resources\. ▪ Have used security functions like IAM, KMS, secrets manager to keep the data encrypted\. ▪ Day to Day task based on the requirement following the Agile Methodology\. ▪ Each development being taken through under the flow of CI/CD pipeline with further deployment to 6 environments including Production\. ▪ Integrating different AWS services based on the SNS or SQS request for the processing\. ▪ Integration of DMS service between the on\-prem DB Engine and conversion to the S3 file for further processing\. ▪ Use of Redis and Elastic Cache for faster accessing of the data with low latency\. ▪ Creation of IAM roles and policies based on the pre\-requirement\. ▪ Creating triggers of certain events under AWS CloudWatch so that particular actions are invoked at right moment\. ▪ Experience working on AWS Services like DMS, Athena, CloudFormation, S3, EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, EMR, Lambda to name a few\.

Senior Engineer at Ericsson, Sep 2018 \- May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Noida Area, India, Responsibilities Experienced Infrastructure DevOps / System Integration solutions to Intelligent network \(IN\) projects in Airtel & MTN Africa domain deployed over multi\-cloud\. ▪ Use of Azure cloud services like AKS, VMs, VM sets, ARMs, Blob storage, Virtual Networks, Monitor\. ▪ Creation and managing of resources with AZ CLI and powershell for quick deployments\. ▪ Setup and managed a cloud network of 120\+ Unix servers in/without cluster with 99\.9% up\-time in MTN project\. ▪ Transitioned to GIT version control for fast deployments over the testbeds and then over prod servers with the help of Kubernetes\. ▪ Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging\. ▪ Wrote Ansible scripts to automatically update system components and configurations saving 30% config team time\. ▪ Performing UATs & Updates based on the customer expectations and regular feedbacks with Agile Methodology\. ▪ Installed and configured Azure security center almost all IN nodes to constantly monitor traffic bandwidth, memory usage, and hard drive status\. ▪ Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed\. ▪ Worked on AWS service as well for the test environment setup with use of basic services like EC2, VPC, IAM roles & Policies, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, S3 Glacier\. ▪ Also have deployed shell & Ansible scripts during the drive of automation as was conducted in Ericsson\.

Engineer at Ericsson, Sep 2015 \- Aug 2018 · 3 yrs, Noida Area, India

Platform Engineer at One97 Communications Limited, Nov 2014 \- Sep 2015 · 11 mos, Noida Area, India, One97 is a mobile\-internet company that delivers mobile content and commerce services to millions of mobile consumers\. Responsibilities:\- • Providing Administration support for RBT nodes\. • Monitoring alarms using Eagle ticketing tool and resolving the issues within predefined SLA time\. • Good exposure in handling of all kinds of auto generated and user trouble tickets in Eagle Service Center\. • User and Group Administration of creating, modifying and deleting users and groups and providing the security on user accounts and groups\. • Filesystem management of creating, modifying, deleting and changes the filesystem attributes\. • Making automated through python, bash/shell script saving 60% of the total time consumption in that work\. • Monitoring the Servers performance using with performance monitoring tools like iostat, vmstat, netstat, and netcool\. • Working Experience in MysqlDb, JBOSS, Apache tomcat application servers\. • Providing assistance to users through on\-call for outage issues and Involving in the Bridge\-calls for outage issues\.

System Engineer at Mahindra Comviva, Feb 2012 \- Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Gurgaon, India, Mahindra Comviva is a global leader in mobile solutions offering digital VAS, mobile finance and customer management solutions for telecom operators\. Responsibilities:\- • Handling RBT for Airtel Africa\. • Augmenting new servers, implementing, configuring and testing new products and services\. • Daily database backups and updations • Database and platform migration and purging activities\. • Trouble shooting technical problems and fixing customer issues as first priority\. • Executing complex SQL queries for urgent data provisioning and on\-demand extracting information for business teams\. • Trouble shooting technical problems and fixing customer issues as first priority\.

## Education

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing \(C\-DAC\)

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Computer Science and engineering, Greater Noida institute of technology\(GNIT\)

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