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Pushkar Choudhari

Cloud & DevOps Engineer @ LTM | AZ-104 Certified | Azure | Kubernetes | Terraform | CI/CD | SRE | Prometheus & Grafana | Infrastructure as Code

Bengaluru

3+ years of work experience

LTM
Jun 20242 yrs 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed 500+ Azure subscriptions - provisioned VMs, App Services, Storage, VNets, and NSGs, maintaining 99.99% availability SLOs across 100+ production workloads. • Built Azure Landing Zones using Terraform (hub-spoke architecture) with RBAC, Managed Identities, and Azure Policy, reducing provisioning effort by ~65%. • Designed 25+ CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and implemented ArgoCD GitOps on AKS, cutting release cycles from hours to under 10 minutes. • Managed production AKS clusters (15+ node pools) with Helm, HPA/VPA autoscaling, and network policies, ensuring high availability for containerized workloads. • Built observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana (50+ dashboards), and Azure Monitor alerting, reducing MTTD by ~70% and MTTR by ~40%. • Responded to production incidents, performed root cause analysis using Application Insights and KQL, and documented postmortems to prevent recurrence. • Automated resource provisioning, VM patching, and tagging using Python/Bash scripts, eliminating ~20 hrs/week of manual toil. • Implemented security hardening - NSG rules, Key Vault secrets management, AKS network policies, and vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines. • Achieved ~60% cost savings through Azure Cost Management, rightsizing, reserved instances, and FinOps practices. • Designed disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads using Azure Backup, geo-redundant storage, and automated failover.
LTM
Feb 20234 mosMay 2023

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society
Jan 20221 yr 2 mosFeb 2023

VIT Social Welfare & Development
Dec 20192 mosJan 2020

GitHub
@pushkarchoudhari
Personal portfoliopushkarchoudhari.com

Pushkar’s AI Stack

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Education

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

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Headline

Cloud & DevOps Engineer @ LTM | AZ-104 Certified | Azure | Kubernetes | Terraform | CI/CD | SRE | Prometheus & Grafana | Infrastructure as Code

About

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of experience specializing in Azure infrastructure management, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, and site reliability engineering. Currently at LTM, I manage 500+ Azure subscriptions supporting 100+ production workloads with 99.99% availability SLOs. My day-to-day involves building scalable cloud infrastructure, operating production Kubernetes clusters, and automating everything that can be automated. What I work on: • Azure Infrastructure: Landing Zones, VMs, App Services, AKS, VNets, NSGs, Storage, Key Vault, Azure Policy, Entra ID • DevOps & IaC: Terraform (hub-spoke architecture), Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker • Kubernetes: Production AKS clusters (15+ node pools), HPA/VPA autoscaling, network policies, Helm charts • CI/CD: Designed 25+ pipelines with GitOps deployment, security scanning (Trivy), and image signing (Cosign) • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana (50+ dashboards), Azure Monitor, Application Insights, KQL, alerting • SRE Practices: Incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, SLO monitoring, toil reduction • Cost Optimization: Achieved ~60% savings through rightsizing, reserved instances, and FinOps practices • Security: NSG hardening, Key Vault secrets management, AKS network policies, vulnerability scanning Key achievements: • Reduced provisioning effort by ~65% through Terraform-based Azure Landing Zones • Cut release cycles from hours to under 10 minutes with CI/CD and ArgoCD GitOps • Reduced MTTD by ~70% and MTTR by ~40% with observability stack • Eliminated ~20 hrs/week of manual toil through Python/Bash automation • Certifications: AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator • Open to opportunities in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering roles. Let’s connect: cpushkar9601@gmail.com | pushkarchoudhari.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Cloud Engineer at LTM, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed 500+ Azure subscriptions - provisioned VMs, App Services, Storage, VNets, and NSGs, maintaining 99.99% availability SLOs across 100+ production workloads. • Built Azure Landing Zones using Terraform (hub-spoke architecture) with RBAC, Managed Identities, and Azure Policy, reducing provisioning effort by ~65%. • Designed 25+ CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and implemented ArgoCD GitOps on AKS, cutting release cycles from hours to under 10 minutes. • Managed production AKS clusters (15+ node pools) with Helm, HPA/VPA autoscaling, and network policies, ensuring high availability for containerized workloads. • Built observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana (50+ dashboards), and Azure Monitor alerting, reducing MTTD by ~70% and MTTR by ~40%. • Responded to production incidents, performed root cause analysis using Application Insights and KQL, and documented postmortems to prevent recurrence. • Automated resource provisioning, VM patching, and tagging using Python/Bash scripts, eliminating ~20 hrs/week of manual toil. • Implemented security hardening - NSG rules, Key Vault secrets management, AKS network policies, and vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines. • Achieved ~60% cost savings through Azure Cost Management, rightsizing, reserved instances, and FinOps practices. • Designed disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads using Azure Backup, geo-redundant storage, and automated failover.

.NET Developer at LTM, Feb 2023 - May 2023 · 4 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Event Management Head at IEEE IMS Student Chapter,VIT Pune at IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society, Jan 2022 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Aatmabodh Volunteer at VIT Social Welfare & Development, Dec 2019 - Jan 2020 · 2 mos

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/pushkarchoudhari

pushkarchoudhari.com: https://www.pushkarchoudhari.com/