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Platform Engineering Lead | AKS, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions | Reduced Infra Cost 35% · Cut Deploy Time 4hrs → 15min

About

Seven years ago I was doing L1/L2 support — SSL renewals, DNS records, the tickets nobody wants. I still remember the first time a Kubernetes cluster I owned took a full node failure at 2 AM and nobody had to wake up, because the system had already routed around it. That's the moment I stopped thinking of infrastructure as "the servers" and started thinking of it as a system that should protect people's sleep. That's still the job today. I run production Azure and Kubernetes platforms — AKS clusters, GitOps pipelines through ArgoCD, Terraform modules that provision environments in minutes instead of days. I've cut deployment time from four hours to fifteen minutes on more than one platform, and I've learned that the boring, unglamorous work — Policy guardrails, security scanning gates, observability that goes in on day one instead of after the first outage — is what actually keeps a 2 AM page from happening in the first place. Somewhere along the way, the work stopped being purely "Kubernetes and Terraform." I now support Fuelix, an enterprise AI copilot product, which means a growing part of my week is spent troubleshooting production AI tooling instead of production containers. It's a different failure mode — but the same instinct applies: understand the system deeply enough that when it breaks, you already know where to look. I mentor four engineers on a team of eight, and the thing I repeat most often to them isn't a Terraform trick — it's "if you're doing this by hand a third time, it should be a pipeline." Automation isn't a nice-to-have on my team. It's the default assumption. Right now I'm building toward Cloud Architecture and AI infrastructure — going deeper into LLM-serving infrastructure, platform engineering patterns, and the operational side of AI products, because I think the next five years of "DevOps" quietly becomes "keeping AI systems reliable in production," and I'd rather be early to that than catch up to it later. If you're building a platform team, hiring for infrastructure leadership, or just want to talk about why your AKS cluster keeps evicting pods at 3 AM — my inbox is open.

Location

Noida

AI stack

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Work experience

DevOps Lead at TELUS Digital, Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Noida, Own 3 production AKS clusters end to end — CNI networking, RBAC, and node pool upgrades with zero downtime. Replaced manual kubectl deployments with ArgoCD-driven GitOps, cutting deployment errors by 70% across the platform. Migrated 12 workloads off standalone VMs onto AKS, cutting infrastructure cost 35% and deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes. Designed a hub-spoke Azure Landing Zone across 5+ subscriptions with automated Policy enforcement, cutting environment provisioning from 3 days to under 2 hours and reaching 100% policy compliance. Built a versioned Terraform module library (20+ modules) adopted platform-wide, cutting provisioning time 60% and standardizing security across every environment. Introduced Checkov, TFSec, and TFLint as mandatory CI gates, catching 40+ misconfigurations before they reached production. Migrated 15 legacy Jenkins pipelines to Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with integrated security scanning and Blue-Green/Canary rollouts, cutting production incidents 60%. Own Sev-1/Sev-2 incident response end to end, average resolution under 45 minutes, 100% RCA completion. Mentor 4 engineers and run sprint planning for a team of 8, improving delivery velocity 25% in 6 months. Support Fuelix, an enterprise AI copilot product, handling production troubleshooting on Copilot deployments and AI tooling integrations for enterprise clients.

Sr. Engineer at Xavient Digital powered by TELUS International, Oct 2018 - Feb 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Noida, About Xavient Formerly known as Xavient Information Systems Inc. founded in 2002, Xavient Digital – powered by TELUS International is a US-based provider of digital IT solutions and software services. Headquartered in California, the company has offices throughout the United States and an international network of delivery centers, primarily in India and Canada. Xavient Digital leverages its global footprint to deploy the best talent, time to market and cost optimization benefits for its customers. The company provides value-added consulting to align businesses and position IT as an enabler of business. Xavient's core competency are its services to the telecom industry with strength and capability in industries viz. information, media and entertainment, banking, capital markets, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing & logistics, new technologies, pharmaceuticals & life sciences and retail & hospitality. For more information, visit www.xavient.com.

Automation Engineer at Net4 Networks Limited, Oct 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for 10+ projects, cutting deployment time from 2 hours to 20 minutes. Automated server provisioning with Terraform and Ansible across 30+ servers, cutting environment setup time 65%. Provided L1/L2 infrastructure support for 100+ enterprise clients, maintaining 99.5%+ uptime on managed VPS environments. Managed SSL/TLS renewals, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, and Microsoft Exchange across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android client environments.

Education

Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith (MGKVP), Varanasi