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Gaurav Kumar

DevOps/SRE Engineer | 90% Faster Deploys, ₹8-10L/mo Cloud Savings | GKE · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Terraform · CI/CD · Linux

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Olyv India (formerly SmartCoin)
Jul 20251 yr 4 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-> Migrated VM/MIG-based services to GKE using Kubernetes, Helm, and Spot node pools — cutting deployment time 90% and monthly cloud costs ₹8-10 lakh -> Standardized releases via ArgoCD GitOps across GKE clusters, including config management and rollbacks -> Deployed DataHub on GKE via Helm, provisioned Kafka brokers, built OpenSearch-based centralized logging -> Own org-wide GCP IAM — roles, permissions, service accounts, access controls
Pine Labs
Apr 20241 yr 4 mosJul 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-> Designed and managed AWS infra (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM), holding 99.99% uptime -> Built automated failure detection/monitoring (Grafana, New Relic, MS Teams), cutting downtime 30% -> Cut cloud costs 15% through EC2 right-sizing and auto-scaling policies -> Automated end-to-end UI regression testing of payment flows with Selenium
MakeMyTrip
Feb 20222 yrs 3 mosApr 2024

Gurugram, Haryana, India

-> Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes), accelerating deployment cycles 40% -> Automated infra provisioning with Terraform, cutting manual deployment errors 80% -> Implemented Zabbix/Grafana/New Relic monitoring, reducing incidents 35% -> Cut incident resolution time 50% via log analysis (Scalyr/Kibana)
AGRIM
Sep 20213 mosNov 2021

Gurugram, Haryana, India

-> Analyzed state-wise crop data via SQL, surfacing insights that improved market strategy -> Cleaned/integrated customer data into Zoho CRM, boosting sales team efficiency 20% -> Built Excel dashboards for leadership decision-making
The Mentor
Aug 20204 mosNov 2020

Bihar, India

Gaurav’s AI Stack

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Education

Chitkara University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Chitkara University

20194 yrs2023
kendriya vidyalaya

NON-MED

kendriya vidyalaya

20136 yrs2019

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Headline

DevOps/SRE Engineer | 90% Faster Deploys, ₹8-10L/mo Cloud Savings | GKE · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Terraform · CI/CD · Linux

About

I turn "why is this VM on fire" into "we ship 5x a day and nobody notices." 4+ years across GCP and AWS, currently leading DevOps at Olyv (formerly SmartCoin) — where I migrated our VM/MIG-based services to GKE and cut deployment time 90% while saving ₹8-10 lakh/month in cloud costs. What I actually do: → Migrate legacy VM infra to Kubernetes/GKE using Helm and Spot node pools — without breaking production → Run GitOps deployments via ArgoCD across GKE clusters, standardizing releases, config, and rollbacks → Build observability pipelines (Kafka, OpenSearch, Kibana, Grafana, New Relic) for real visibility into what's actually happening → Own org-wide GCP IAM — roles, service accounts, access controls, the whole blast radius Before Olyv: SRE at Pine Labs, holding 99.99% uptime on payment infra and cutting downtime 30% through better monitoring. Before that: MakeMyTrip, where I went from intern to full-time SRE, cutting deploy cycles 40% and infra provisioning errors 80% with Terraform. Certified in AWS, Advanced DevOps, and Google Analytics. I like taking infra held together by luck and making it boring — in the best way. If your deploys are slow, your cloud bill doesn't match your traffic, or your on-call rotation dreads Fridays — that's exactly the kind of mess I fix. 📩 DM me — always up for talking infra, cost optimization, or your next DevOps hire.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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codex

gemini

Work experience

DevOps Engineer at Olyv India (formerly SmartCoin), Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -> Migrated VM/MIG-based services to GKE using Kubernetes, Helm, and Spot node pools — cutting deployment time 90% and monthly cloud costs ₹8-10 lakh -> Standardized releases via ArgoCD GitOps across GKE clusters, including config management and rollbacks -> Deployed DataHub on GKE via Helm, provisioned Kafka brokers, built OpenSearch-based centralized logging -> Own org-wide GCP IAM — roles, permissions, service accounts, access controls

Site Reliability Engineer at Pine Labs, Apr 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -> Designed and managed AWS infra (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM), holding 99.99% uptime -> Built automated failure detection/monitoring (Grafana, New Relic, MS Teams), cutting downtime 30% -> Cut cloud costs 15% through EC2 right-sizing and auto-scaling policies -> Automated end-to-end UI regression testing of payment flows with Selenium

Site Reliability Engineer at MakeMyTrip, Feb 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, -> Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes), accelerating deployment cycles 40% -> Automated infra provisioning with Terraform, cutting manual deployment errors 80% -> Implemented Zabbix/Grafana/New Relic monitoring, reducing incidents 35% -> Cut incident resolution time 50% via log analysis (Scalyr/Kibana)

Data Analyst at AGRIM, Sep 2021 - Nov 2021 · 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, -> Analyzed state-wise crop data via SQL, surfacing insights that improved market strategy -> Cleaned/integrated customer data into Zoho CRM, boosting sales team efficiency 20% -> Built Excel dashboards for leadership decision-making

Business Development Assistant at The Mentor, Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 · 4 mos, Bihar, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Chitkara University

NON-MED, kendriya vidyalaya