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Nishant Sharma

Head - Platform & DevSecOps · Cloud platforms at scale

Gurgaon

7+ years of work experience

BharatPe Capital
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

Gurugram

Head of DevOps for BharatPe's Capital and Lending business.
BharatPe
Jul 20222 yrs 9 mosMar 2025

Gurugram

Lead the platform organisation supporting 200+ microservices and 200+ engineers across AWS, OCI, and GCP for a fintech serving 17M+ users and ~10M monthly transactions. Manage a team of 5 across DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Security. Selected work: → Cut multi-cloud spend by $150K/month (~$1.8M/year, from $550K → $400K) through Karpenter-based node scaling, instance right-sizing, workload consolidation, and selective AWS → OCI migration → Owned the AWS → Oracle Cloud migration of the Zillion Rewards estate — 15 services, 3 MySQL databases, 2 TB of data — completed in 3 months with a single 6-hour planned DNS-cutover window as the only downtime. Engineered a custom Cloudflare integration to fill OCI's CDN gap. ~30% cost reduction on the migrated workloads. → Re-architected CI/CD org-wide on GitOps (ArgoCD + Devtron + GitLab + Helm). Deploys went from 5/week to 5/day; deployment time dropped from 30 minutes to <5 (80% reduction). Shifted security left with SonarQube, Semgrep, Nexus, Orca quality gates. → Run half-yearly Disaster Recovery drills with ~0 RPO and <30-minute RTO across critical payment and rewards services. → Owned end-to-end DevOps for BharatPe UPI, Zillion Rewards, and Trillion Loans launches — infrastructure, release, observability, and on-call from zero through scale. → Built and operate the custom Self-Service Platform — automating access requests, DB queries, Kafka topic creation, API whitelisting, SSL renewals, and ephemeral non-prod environments with auto-destruct. Eliminated ~60% of recurring DevOps toil. → Cleared RBI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GITC, and IS audits on first attempt. Stack: AWS, OCI, GCP, Kubernetes (EKS, OKE), Terraform, ArgoCD, Devtron, GitLab, Helm, Karpenter, Prometheus, Grafana, Signoz, Orca Security
Innovaccer
Jan 20227 mosJul 2022

Noida

SRE on data-platform microservices for a healthcare data platform. → Built GitOps-based deployments on AWS EKS using ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and Helm; onboarded multiple microservices end-to-end → Managed infrastructure with Terraform and operated Kafka workloads (both managed and self-hosted on EKS) Stack: AWS EKS, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Helm, Terraform, Kafka
Airtel Digital
Feb 20211 yrJan 2022

Gurugram

DevOps and platform engineering for Wynk, Airtel's music streaming and live entertainment platform. → Built a parameterised Terraform module for AWS EMR cluster creation; rolled out SSO across AWS, JIRA, and GitHub with automated user provisioning → Built a live-streaming pipeline with content moderation using AWS IVS and Rekognition (audio + video) → Cut non-prod cloud costs via on-demand Jenkins-driven environment creation/teardown and migration from on-demand to spot/reserved instances → Contributed to SOC 2 certification by owning DevOps compliance evidence Stack: AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, EMR, IVS, Rekognition
Sophos
Jun 20191 yr 9 mosFeb 2021

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

DevOps and SRE for cybersecurity products. → Led the production infrastructure revamp — migrated everything to Terraform IaC, deployable end-to-end with one click for Disaster Recovery; built automated cross-account backups for RDS and Elasticsearch → Migrated environments under VPC for a private-by-default posture; built Terraform pipelines for Azure; automated deployments via Ansible + Jenkins → Contributed to SOC 2 certification Stack: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, RDS, Elasticsearch

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Lovely Professional University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

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Headline

Head - Platform & DevSecOps · Cloud platforms at scale

About

I lead the platform organisation at BharatPe Capital. Eight years across fintech, healthcare data, live streaming, cybersecurity, and logistics. The thread isn't an industry; it's the kind of system that has to keep working when everything around it is changing. I care about reliability that's actually rehearsed, costs that are owned rather than tolerated, and developer experience that doesn't depend on a human being on call to unblock it. I write occasionally about platform engineering at thenishant.com. Reach me at me@thenishant.com.

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Gurgaon

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Work experience

Tech Lead - DevOps at BharatPe Capital, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Gurugram, Head of DevOps for BharatPe's Capital and Lending business.

Tech Lead - DevOps at BharatPe, Jul 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Gurugram, Lead the platform organisation supporting 200+ microservices and 200+ engineers across AWS, OCI, and GCP for a fintech serving 17M+ users and ~10M monthly transactions. Manage a team of 5 across DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Security. Selected work: → Cut multi-cloud spend by $150K/month (~$1.8M/year, from $550K → $400K) through Karpenter-based node scaling, instance right-sizing, workload consolidation, and selective AWS → OCI migration → Owned the AWS → Oracle Cloud migration of the Zillion Rewards estate — 15 services, 3 MySQL databases, 2 TB of data — completed in 3 months with a single 6-hour planned DNS-cutover window as the only downtime. Engineered a custom Cloudflare integration to fill OCI's CDN gap. ~30% cost reduction on the migrated workloads. → Re-architected CI/CD org-wide on GitOps (ArgoCD + Devtron + GitLab + Helm). Deploys went from 5/week to 5/day; deployment time dropped from 30 minutes to <5 (80% reduction). Shifted security left with SonarQube, Semgrep, Nexus, Orca quality gates. → Run half-yearly Disaster Recovery drills with ~0 RPO and <30-minute RTO across critical payment and rewards services. → Owned end-to-end DevOps for BharatPe UPI, Zillion Rewards, and Trillion Loans launches — infrastructure, release, observability, and on-call from zero through scale. → Built and operate the custom Self-Service Platform — automating access requests, DB queries, Kafka topic creation, API whitelisting, SSL renewals, and ephemeral non-prod environments with auto-destruct. Eliminated ~60% of recurring DevOps toil. → Cleared RBI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GITC, and IS audits on first attempt. Stack: AWS, OCI, GCP, Kubernetes (EKS, OKE), Terraform, ArgoCD, Devtron, GitLab, Helm, Karpenter, Prometheus, Grafana, Signoz, Orca Security

Site Reliability Engineer - II at Innovaccer, Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 · 7 mos, Noida, SRE on data-platform microservices for a healthcare data platform. → Built GitOps-based deployments on AWS EKS using ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and Helm; onboarded multiple microservices end-to-end → Managed infrastructure with Terraform and operated Kafka workloads (both managed and self-hosted on EKS) Stack: AWS EKS, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Helm, Terraform, Kafka

Senior DevOps Engineer at Airtel Digital, Feb 2021 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr, Gurugram, DevOps and platform engineering for Wynk, Airtel's music streaming and live entertainment platform. → Built a parameterised Terraform module for AWS EMR cluster creation; rolled out SSO across AWS, JIRA, and GitHub with automated user provisioning → Built a live-streaming pipeline with content moderation using AWS IVS and Rekognition (audio + video) → Cut non-prod cloud costs via on-demand Jenkins-driven environment creation/teardown and migration from on-demand to spot/reserved instances → Contributed to SOC 2 certification by owning DevOps compliance evidence Stack: AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, EMR, IVS, Rekognition

Software Engineer 2 - DevOps/SRE at Sophos, Jun 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, DevOps and SRE for cybersecurity products. → Led the production infrastructure revamp — migrated everything to Terraform IaC, deployable end-to-end with one click for Disaster Recovery; built automated cross-account backups for RDS and Elasticsearch → Migrated environments under VPC for a private-by-default posture; built Terraform pipelines for Azure; automated deployments via Ansible + Jenkins → Contributed to SOC 2 certification Stack: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, RDS, Elasticsearch

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Lovely Professional University