Headline

Senior Principal Architect | Building AI Accelerators for Enterprise DevSecOps | Scaled 50-Eng Orgs at Pharma & Retail | LLM Infrastructure • Cloud-Native SRE

About

Engineering orgs are drowning in AI tooling with no governance layer. Every team picked their own Copilot, Codex, or self-hosted Ollama model — and now you can't trace contributions, enforce policies, or pass an audit. I solve this problem at scale. I architect AI-native Internal Developer Platforms that give engineering leaders control without killing velocity. Platforms where AI agents and human engineers collaborate under unified governance — every AI-generated commit traceable, every policy violation caught pre-merge, every compliance framework upheld. Over 17 years, I've built the infrastructure that lets companies move fast and stay compliant. I've led 50-engineer DevOps teams at multiple enterprise clients, architected zero-downtime migrations of 2,000+ repositories, and shipped AI-powered DevOps engines that score capabilities across domain. Some numbers that matter: → 98.5% reduction in project onboarding time (4 weeks → 30 minutes) across 1,000+ projects → 2,000+ repositories migrated with zero downtime, zero manual intervention → 50-engineer org built from scratch, with end-to-end hiring ownership → All 4 DORA metrics instrumented as core platform capability across global markets I don't just deploy Kubernetes clusters. I design the platform layer that turns infrastructure into competitive advantage. GitOps pipelines that reduced deployment friction by 98%. AI governance agents that enforce security parity for machine-generated code. ML-based anomaly detection that catches production issues before customers do. AI systems I've taken to production: • DevOps Maturity Assessment Engine — L0–L4 framework, persona-driven (CTO, Architect, Engineer), automated gap analysis and roadmap generation • DORA Intelligence — automated failure triage, classification, and deployment risk advisory • Agentic Bitbucket Cloud Migration — fully autonomous pipeline, zero manual intervention across 1,300+ repos • MCP Server for repo analytics and AI-powered code review I've done this work across pharma, retail, and financial services. For engineering orgs with 50 people and 500. The pattern is the same: companies that treat platform engineering as strategic win. Companies that treat it as "just DevOs" fall behind.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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codex

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Work experience

Senior Principal Architect - DevOps at Altimetrik, Oct 2023 - Present · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Led AI-native platform engineering and DevSecOps transformation across pharma, retail, and financial services. • IDP and Engineering Standardisation: Architected IDP on Backstage across 6+ retail program teams — platform layer enforcing code quality gates, branch lifecycle, versioning, and artifact promotion as default behaviours. Intelligent service onboarding with scaffolding auto-mapped to toolchain and CI/CD. Reduced onboarding from 4 weeks to 30 mins (98.5% reduction) across 1,000+ projects. • AI-Powered Failure Intelligence: Built AI system categorising pipeline failures, routing incidents to responsible teams, and suggesting context-aware fixes. All 4 DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR, Change Failure Rate) instrumented as core platform capabilities across global markets. • Agentic DevSecOps and Tooling: Production MCP server for repo analytics and AI-powered code review. Fully automated AI-agent pipeline migrating 1,300+ repos from Bitbucket on-prem to cloud — zero manual intervention. Agentic service discovery for RFP solutioning (LPL Financial). Pharma platform delivery with GxP compliance (Sandoz) — RFP win to 13-month delivery with a 10-engineer team. • DevOps Maturity Engine: AI-powered L0–L4 framework with persona-driven questions (developer, architect, manager), automated gap detection, and roadmap recommendations — translating into funded engagements. • Team Scaling: Grew DevOps org from 5 to 50 engineers across Retail, Supply Chain, and Digital. Final hiring decision-maker for 20–25 engineers; designed 4-round interview process.

Principal Architect- DevOps and cloud engineering at Altimetrik, Feb 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Architect - DevOps and Cloud Engineering at Altimetrik, Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Devops Manager at ShopX - 10i Commerce Services Pvt Ltd, Apr 2016 - Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bangalore, • Senior DevOps Leader with complete end to end responsibility for AWS infrastructure management, cost control, automation, configuration management and continuous integration along with support towards general IT management for the company. • AWS Infrastructure Management & Cost Control o Delivered solutions to improve cloud architecture, deployment for AWS private and public cloud. o Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC,EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, RDS. o Redesigned infrastructure for high availability using multiple AWS availability zones. o Reduced monthly AWS running cost to company by 36% by implementing automated start/stop scripts and usage of spot instances. • Monitoring & Automation o Implemented Zabbix for administration and monitoring of EC2 instance performances. o Implemented ELK stack for API performance monitoring. o Created Cloudwatch logs for RDS and  functions. o Wrote automation shell scripts in bash. • Configuration Management & Continuous Integration o Wrote Ansible playbooks to automated deployments across all production and non-production environments. o Implemented Gitlab for version and policy control. o Implemented Jenkins with Ansible for continuous integration processes. o Created and maintained documentation of build and release processes and application configuration • Big Data o Implemented and managed Hadoop framework using EMR (Hue, Hive, Presto, Sqoop, Oozie and Ganglia). o Loaded unstructured data into S3 and created ETL jobs to load processed data in HDFS. o Implemented open source tools such as Superset and Metabase for creating reports and dashboards using structure and unstructured data

IT Manager at Housing.com, Jul 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Setup EC2 instances used for heavy image processing and cloud rendering with automated start/stop scripts for effective cost management. • Planned and implemented network architecture with device and software auditing using Linux servers across 7 cities. • Implemented Google vault for better email filtering and other google apps administration tools. • Led a team 15 to manage various day to day IT operations across 15 locations across 7 cities. • Handled and managed the overall IT budget for the company.

Junior Manager at IOT Infrastructure & Energy Services, Feb 2009 - Jun 2014 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Mumbai, • Managed and administered Linux servers for active directory, DNS, DHCP, Samba. • Setup intranet web servers with Apache for multiple site management with various authentication modules. • Installation of Nagois monitoring tools for application monitoring. • Managing LAN/WAN on Cisco 1800/2600 routers for VPN. • Functional coordinator for Oracle R12 package for oil stock accounting and reporting.

Trainee at Enginner- D-Link India Limited, Oct 2008 - Feb 2009 · 5 mos, Technical support for networking products to clients.

Education

B.E., Information Tech., Goa College of Engineering