Ashish Kandpal
Global Engineering Leader | Building AI-Native Platforms at Scale | Cloud · DevSecOps · SRE · Automation | Turning Infrastructure into Competitive Advantage | Digital Transformation
Bengaluru, Karnataka
9+ years of work experience
Oct 20241 yr 10 mosPresent
US/India
- Core member of the technology leadership team and advisor to the CEO & CTO.
- Responsible for driving AI adoption within the company.
- Responsible for hiring Architects,TPM's & senior leads.
- Led end-to-end DevSecOps transformation initiatives across multiple State clients, driving secure, automated delivery pipelines and modernizing application landscapes.
- Established and scaled AWS practice from the ground up, including cloud governance, architecture standards, and best practices aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Spearheaded FinOps strategy and implementation, enabling cloud cost optimization, accountability, and financial visibility across large-scale cloud environments.
- Mentored and coached cross-functional teams including DevOps Engineers, SREs, and Cloud Architects, fostering a high-performance culture and building in-house capability.
- Architected and delivered secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud-native solutions leveraging IaC, CI/CD automation, and Cloud-Native Security Controls.
- Leading internal engg teams focused on integrating AI tools like Amazon Q and GitLab Duo. Driving innovation and aligning DevOps and SRE efforts across multiple projects.
- Collaborated with client leadership and key stakeholders to align cloud, security, and financial operations strategies, driving digital transformation outcomes.
Aug 20221 yr 10 mosMay 2024
India/US
- Leadership Role for Infrastructure and Engineering Technology Services.Asian & Mexican Leader of LSCo @ECS Team,core member of Westlake Leadership.
- Managing Infrastructure Engineering, Enterprise Cloud Services ,End User Computing & Collaboration Team@LSCo in Asia & North America.Leading & Managing DevOps ,Cloud Ops (GCP,Azure & AWS) & DevOps Toolchain Portfolio Teams across the Globe[Managers,Architects,SRE's,Leads and engineers].
- Responsible for driving AI adoption within the company.
- Responsible for creating IT strategy that involves Architecture & System Design for cross functional technical teams & business functions.
- Responsible for ~$5M budget (direct & indirect).
- Additional Responsibility for leading Command Centre [NOC] during Asian/LSE Business hours.
Mar 20184 yrs 5 mosJul 2022
Santa Clara, California, United States
- Started Cloud Team in India from scratch, including architecture reviews and understanding of proprietary tools used by Ericsson/Mediakind.
- Owned the Deployment Pipeline and strategized a One-touch deployment.
- Extensive work with AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- In-depth insight into Docker and Kubernetes, automating legacy applications into K8s with one-touch deployment strategies.
- Utilized Terraform extensively for infrastructure provisioning across business units.
- Expertise in building scalable solutions and HA distributed systems with Azure and OpenStack (Mirantis setup).
- Set up CI/CD pipelines from scratch for clients in Europe and the US.
- Proficient in Ansible automation framework.
- Worked extensively with Nginx, fine-tuning various configurations.
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases like Cassandra.
- Responsible for managing container packaging and knowledgeable about Kubernetes.
- Created Greenfield environments and deployments from scratch for multiple customers in OpenStack with high availability.
- Worked on both Windows and Unix platforms.
- Proficient in Python and shell scripting
May 201711 mosMar 2018
Singapore
- Designed solution of Puppet for HCL Singapore Govtech Project.
- Expertise in building the scalable solutions and HA distributed systems with AWS cloud
- Responsible for designing the Architecture concepts for cloud.
- Responsible for managing ,reviewing & strengthen physical and logical security of the platform
systems
- Design, manage and maintain tools to automate engineering operations.
- Experience in working tools like CAST(migration of Sunset app in cloud), Nanoheal.
- Own and drive initiatives spanning multiple teams to automate engineering operations.
- Has the Ownership of the DevOps & Ops Engg teams.
- Responsible for managing the container packaging using Docker and passing it on to the release engineering Team.
Jan 20174 mosApr 2017
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Description: I managed the DevOps team which maintains, manages & supports the application hosted on the cloud.
- Manage the cloud where our Puppet infrastructure is hosted
- An expertise in Puppet open source & Puppet Enterprise edition.
- Infrastructure automation of 400+ nodes using puppet.
- In depth Knowledge of Puppet forge & Hiera.
- Through understanding of monolithic & Split mode in puppet.
- Salt Stack automation for the API’s using salt minion, runners & pillars.
- Good understanding & working knowledge of AWS.
Education
Executive MBA, Leadership & Strategy
SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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