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Engineering Manager – DevOps & Platform | Cloud Infrastructure | Azure | Team Builder & Delivery Leader | Assistant Director @ EY GDS

About

Experienced Engineering Leader with 12+ years driving customer-centric cloud platform solutions and DevOps transformations. Currently serving as Assistant Director of Engineering for Cloud Framework products at EY GDS, I lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, automated, and reliable platform-driven solutions that enhance customer success across DevOps, Development, and QA functions. My career journey includes impactful roles at Microsoft, where I partnered closely with Fortune 500 clients such as Unilever, Real Madrid, and Schneider Electric on mission-critical Azure cloud engagements. This experience honed my ability to deeply understand customer needs, translate them into innovative cloud architectures, and deliver enterprise-grade solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Key strengths I bring to the Product Development Manager role include: 1. Championing customer success through scalable DevOps and platform engineering teams with an automation-first approach. 2. Delivering tangible improvements such as a 20% reduction in deployment times and a 15% increase in system scalability, directly enhancing user experience and operational efficiency 3. Mentoring and empowering engineers to build high-trust, high-performance teams focused on customer value delivery. 4. Driving cloud cost optimization, CI/CD excellence, and robust infrastructure management at enterprise scale to maximize ROI for customers. 5. Demonstrated innovation leadership, evidenced by winning the Global Microsoft Hackathon 2017 with TranSlay, selected from thousands worldwide Won the Global Microsoft Hackathon 2017 with TranSlay — selected from thousands of entries worldwide — reflecting a consistent drive to innovate beyond the day job. A leadership instinct that began early — heading the Corporate Recruitment Cell at Amity University — and has since grown through every role, from cloud consulting at Microsoft to leading engineering teams at EY GDS. Thriving at the intersection of technical depth and people-first leadership, with a focus on building resilient DevOps and Platform Engineering organizations.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

gemini

github copilot

grok

openai

replit

githubcopilot

Work experience

Assistant Director of Engineering at EY GDS, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, Leading a cross-functional team of 12 engineers across 3 different workstreams - DevOps, Developers, and QA professionals to deliver product-driven solutions within the Cloud Framework practice. Implemented cost optimization strategies to reduce Azure Infra hosting charges from $100K/month to under $10K/month.

DevOps Manager at EY GDS, Aug 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Developed cloud infrastructure for microservices-based applications. Implemented solutions to auto-scale microservices infra to handle 3x traffic, cutting latency by 15%.

Lead Supervisor at EY GDS, Nov 2019 - Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Led a team to implement automation strategies, achieving a 20% reduction in deployment times and improving resource efficiency

Sr. DevOps Engineer at Campus Management Corp., Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, Managed end-to-end deployment pipelines for student-facing products in an Azure DevOps environment. Built and optimised CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment frequency and release reliability.

Azure Cloud Developer Support Engineer at Microsoft, Apr 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Served as a trusted technical advisor to Fortune 500 and global enterprise clients on Microsoft Azure, delivering cloud consulting across App Services, infrastructure, and migration workstreams. Key highlights: - Enterprise Client Portfolio: Partnered with marquee clients including Real Madrid, Unilever, Amdocs, JET.com, and Schneider Electric on mission-critical Azure engagements — spanning architecture reviews, troubleshooting, and cloud adoption strategy. - Cloud Migration Leadership: Led On-Premise to Azure migration projects for major enterprises, owning end-to-end solutioning from assessment through deployment, significantly reducing time-to-cloud. - Automation & DevOps Mindset: Championed automation by scripting recurring deployments across Dev/Test/Production environments using PowerShell and ARM Templates, cutting manual oversight and reducing human error in release cycles. Innovation Recognition: Conceptualised and presented TranSlay — a product reimagining Microsoft Support's customer experience — which won the Global Microsoft Hackathon 2017, competing against thousands of entries worldwide. Operated with a consistent focus on customer obsession, process rigour, and professional readiness, earning trust from enterprise stakeholders managing business-critical workloads on Azure.

Project Engineer at Wipro Limited, Aug 2013 - Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Started as a .NET Developer, quickly progressing to Acting Technical Lead — managing a team of engineers across multiple Project Management Tool builds. Owned the full delivery lifecycle: from gathering Business Requirement Documents with clients, through development and deployment, to post-production support and bug management. Core stack: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server.

Education

Bachelor's of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Amity University, Greater Noida Campus

Intermediate, kendriya vidyalaya