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Nishant Mishra

Platform Engineering Leader | Architecting Kubernetes-Native Platforms at Scale | Gaming · FinTech · E-commerce | AWS · DevSecOps · FinOps | IIM Ahmedabad

Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

Junglee Games
Jan 20242 yrs 8 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zeta
Aug 20236 mosJan 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zeta
Aug 20212 yrs 1 moAug 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Architecting and engineering advanced data platforms and services to ensure highly available, scalable, and compute-optimized infrastructure for enterprise-grade workloads. Designing and orchestrating complex data pipelines using industry-leading tools such as Apache Airflow, TrinoDB, Presto Gateway, and Apache NiFi, enabling seamless data ingestion, transformation, and processing. Automating, deploying, and maintaining high-performance data platform services, including EFK stack, MSK, YugabyteDB, Trino, Amazon Redshift, and RDS, to deliver scalable and reliable solutions. Led secure image lifecycle management initiatives, encompassing the building, scanning (VAPT, Docker Bench, and CIS benchmarks), and deployment of hardened AMIs for EKS clusters and standalone EC2 instances, leveraging tools such as Packer, Qualys, and Jenkins, while ensuring compliance with CIS benchmark standards. Specialized in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with extensive hands-on experience using Terraform to automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of complex, high-availability AWS infrastructure environments. Architecting and executing cloud cost optimization strategies by fine-tuning compute resource allocation, implementing efficient architectural patterns, and leveraging advanced cloud-native cost management tools to drive significant ROI improvements. Exhibited strong proficiency in incident management and resolution, employing advanced diagnostic techniques and root cause analysis to ensure system reliability, mitigate service disruptions, and optimize platform uptime. Led the team in adopting and executing Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to drive efficient project delivery and enhance collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals.
T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd.
Dec 20209 mosAug 2021

Collaborated with clients and the Microsoft Azure team to define project requirements and architect the overall design, with a strong focus on a Hub-and-Spoke network topology. Led the design and implementation of Daimler's cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, utilizing Hub-and-Spoke architecture to ensure secure, scalable, and highly available network segmentation. Engineered the core network model with a central Hub VNet and multiple Spoke VNets, optimizing traffic flow, isolation, and resource access across Azure resources. Deployed critical infrastructure components, including Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure Load Balancers, and Azure Firewalls, within the Hub-and-Spoke framework to enforce security and streamline communication between network segments. Utilized Terraform as the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool to automate the creation and management of the Hub-and-Spoke network architecture, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across Azure environments.
AJIO.com
Jul 20173 yrs 6 mosDec 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HCL Technologies
Sep 20142 yrs 11 mosJul 2017

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Business Administration and Management, General Management

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

20251 yr2026
rajasthan technical university

BTech, Computer Science

rajasthan technical university

20104 yrs2014

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Headline

Platform Engineering Leader | Architecting Kubernetes-Native Platforms at Scale | Gaming · FinTech · E-commerce | AWS · DevSecOps · FinOps | IIM Ahmedabad

About

I help engineering organizations scale cloud infrastructure, improve system reliability, and bring FinOps discipline to eliminate wasteful spend so infrastructure investment directly maps to business performance. With 12+ years across Gaming, FinTech, and E-commerce, and experience spanning hands-on platform engineering to engineering leadership, I sit at the intersection of technical depth and business impact. I've built and led platforms across India, UK, and Australia, architecting systems that handle real-scale workloads where downtime and inefficiency have direct revenue consequences. Platform Engineering & SRE at Scale: Designing resilient, zero-downtime infrastructure on AWS EKS, with GitOps, observability, and self-service capabilities that let product teams move faster without depending on platform teams for every deployment. FinOps & Cloud Cost Engineering: Driving infrastructure financial discipline that goes beyond tagging. I've led cost optimization initiatives that reduced cloud spend materially while improving reliability, treating cost as an engineering problem, not a finance problem. Security & Compliance-First Infrastructure: Building platform security into the foundation rather than bolting it on. WAF, secrets management, IAM hardening, PCI-DSS compliance, and proactive vulnerability remediation at the infrastructure layer. Enterprise Modernization: Bridging legacy B2B ecosystems with modern cloud-native platforms, enabling organizations to modernize without disrupting business-critical integrations. I've led platform engineering for regulated, high-stakes environments, including a PCI-compliant payments platform processing large-scale transactions at HDFC, and multi-region gaming infrastructure serving UK and APAC markets. Open to conversations on platform leadership roles across global markets.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering at Junglee Games, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sr. System Developer at Zeta, Aug 2023 - Jan 2024 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sr. DevOps Engineer at Zeta, Aug 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Architecting and engineering advanced data platforms and services to ensure highly available, scalable, and compute-optimized infrastructure for enterprise-grade workloads. Designing and orchestrating complex data pipelines using industry-leading tools such as Apache Airflow, TrinoDB, Presto Gateway, and Apache NiFi, enabling seamless data ingestion, transformation, and processing. Automating, deploying, and maintaining high-performance data platform services, including EFK stack, MSK, YugabyteDB, Trino, Amazon Redshift, and RDS, to deliver scalable and reliable solutions. Led secure image lifecycle management initiatives, encompassing the building, scanning (VAPT, Docker Bench, and CIS benchmarks), and deployment of hardened AMIs for EKS clusters and standalone EC2 instances, leveraging tools such as Packer, Qualys, and Jenkins, while ensuring compliance with CIS benchmark standards. Specialized in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with extensive hands-on experience using Terraform to automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of complex, high-availability AWS infrastructure environments. Architecting and executing cloud cost optimization strategies by fine-tuning compute resource allocation, implementing efficient architectural patterns, and leveraging advanced cloud-native cost management tools to drive significant ROI improvements. Exhibited strong proficiency in incident management and resolution, employing advanced diagnostic techniques and root cause analysis to ensure system reliability, mitigate service disruptions, and optimize platform uptime. Led the team in adopting and executing Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to drive efficient project delivery and enhance collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals.

DevOps Consultant at T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd., Dec 2020 - Aug 2021 · 9 mos, Collaborated with clients and the Microsoft Azure team to define project requirements and architect the overall design, with a strong focus on a Hub-and-Spoke network topology. Led the design and implementation of Daimler's cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, utilizing Hub-and-Spoke architecture to ensure secure, scalable, and highly available network segmentation. Engineered the core network model with a central Hub VNet and multiple Spoke VNets, optimizing traffic flow, isolation, and resource access across Azure resources. Deployed critical infrastructure components, including Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure Load Balancers, and Azure Firewalls, within the Hub-and-Spoke framework to enforce security and streamline communication between network segments. Utilized Terraform as the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool to automate the creation and management of the Hub-and-Spoke network architecture, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across Azure environments.

Senior Software Engineer at AJIO.com, Jul 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at HCL Technologies, Sep 2014 - Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Business Administration and Management, General Management, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

BTech, Computer Science, rajasthan technical university

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