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Director of Engineering @ Cautio | Cloud-Native Platforms, Kubernetes, SRE & DevSecOps | Building Reliable Systems for AI-Enabled Mobility

About

I’m Director of Engineering at Cautio, focused on building dependable cloud platforms and engineering systems that scale responsibly. Over 10+ years in cloud and DevOps, I’ve worked across infrastructure, Kubernetes, SRE, security, and delivery engineering—with a consistent focus on helping teams ship faster without compromising reliability, security, or cost discipline. I care about practical platform engineering: clear service ownership, useful observability, sensible automation, and guardrails that enable developers rather than slow them down. Here, I share lessons and frameworks on cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, reliability engineering, and the systems thinking required to build technology for real-world scale.

Location

Kangra

Work experience

Director of Engineering at Cautio, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Lead Cautio’s engineering department, providing direct technical leadership and day-to-day guidance to a lean engineering team of under 10 people. Mentor junior engineers, set engineering standards, review technical decisions, unblock delivery, and help the team grow in ownership, quality, and operational maturity. Personally own the cloud infrastructure and platform foundation, including architecture, reliability, security, compliance, DevSecOps, and cloud-cost optimization. Key responsibilities include: • Translating business and product requirements into clear technical strategy, architecture, and executable delivery plans. • Guiding backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers through design, implementation, reviews, and production readiness. • Building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automated deployment practices. • Embedding compliance, security, and cost discipline into everyday engineering work.

Site Reliability Engineering Lead at Cautio, May 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

Lead Devops Engineer at Thales, Oct 2020 - Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Greater Noida, UP, India, I Have been working on DSM(Data Security Manager) product infrastructure which includes taking care of Build server, Jenkins: CICD pipeline, Troubleshooting Infra servers, Patching software upgrades (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, kernel, bind, NSS, JVM, etc ) This Product is a complete package of ISO which includes DSM product. it helps customers to securely maintain certificates and keys on various platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, OVA, and HSM. My responsibilities include making sure the latest ISO with all cross-platform OVA's and Cloud Images should be ready by end of every sprint. All this process is automated in bash scripting. Recently I have automated XEN (bash) and Azure (Windows PowerShell) Image creations. I have attended 8-10 days of Azure online training which was arranged by the company itself. it was happening daily for 4-5 hrs and it happens to be the knowledgeable session on azure. I have been helping other teams as well sometimes related to AWS etc. tasks I have been prompt to my team which works in SJ USA as I am working the evening-night shift most of the time. Weekly work status shared with India Manager on Slack and email and With SJ USA peers twice a week on scrum call.

Lead DevOps Engineer at Urban Company, Apr 2020 - Oct 2020 · 7 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Have been handling complete urban-company infrastructure which includes responsibilities from previous roles as well and leading/helping SD1 and SD2 during tasks. Shares Updates with manager/vp on weekly basis. Planning Infrastructure Work Monthly and Quarterly basis and act accordingly. Saved a good amount of AWS cost by implementing cost-saving initiatives during COVID-19 [March 2020 - May 2020].

Senior Devops Engineer at Urban Company, Apr 2019 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr, India, - We have grown in the last 2 years with 300+ servers on AWS. It includes maximum linux servers (amazon linux AMI and ubuntu OS). handles provisioning of servers, setting infra for different applications and server access management etc. - i have worked on several projects to build system where it requires to make things automate via bash scripting like automation of nginx deployment within complete urbanclap aws infra, revert deployment in production incase it gets broken due to any issue using aws cli commands, bash script and jenkins(single-revert-click-deployment) EM's and Senior Engineers have given access for the same, pre-warming of servers requires when placement of new deployment containers didn't get space in ecs cluster due to less servers. This script will run side by side and increase the number of servers and new deployment containers start deploying without waiting for servers to boot. - We have set up cloudflare in front of urbanclap.com which is securing our infra from many attacks like DDOS etc. Also blocking of ip's is easy using firewall tools. - I have build few tools for the developers like to check the docker containers log like spot-logs(bash script) which requires their branch as input, server ip and log name they want to see, search-container-id/kill-container-id, databases-read-and-write-only-access(time-based), production-server-access(time-based). - Docker containers troubleshooting incase deployment is breaking in any environment. This includes seeing docker container logs, logging into the docker container itself, starting a new container from an image manually from which faulty container was started in the first place. - working on cost optimisation every month where I share monthly billing of aws infra with the team(upper management) and where cost went high and due to which reasons and what would be the action steps to reduce this if we can, working on infra security, created separate dev vpc for developer testing.

SDE Devops II at Urban Company, May 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, - Currently handling 100+ servers hosted on AWS. it includes their deployment/installation., maintenance, troubleshooting. - Working on a Nginx web server in Production and staging. - Moved the Production deployment to docker platform : AWS ECS. It includes the Development,Staging and Production environment. - Handling databases which are running on Mysql[AWS RDS], Mongodb [running on community edition AWS servers] - Deployment automated via scripting(bash) and jenkins. - Interact with users daily devops needs. - worked on cost Saving and Security Project for aws infra. - Monitoring servers and applications via Nagios, APM, Elastic-search aws[deprecated] and ELK in-house. - Many other tasks including backup of production Mongodb to s3 running as cronjob.

Senior System Engineer at R Systems, Sep 2016 - May 2017 · 9 mos, Noida, - Extensive Knowledge & Hand-On experience in AWS Computing IAAS, PAAS and SAAS along with its own tools like EC2(Instances),S3(storage),Route53(DNS),VPC, Security groups, EC2 container service(repository),IAM, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation, SES(email service),Workspace(desktop virtualization of AWS) etc. - Record logs and monitor application and infrastructure performance in near real-time using Amazon CloudWatch. - Have worked with production teams to provide access and deployments on server’s setup on cloud engines like AWS, Microsoft Azure. - Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response using AWS cloud formation. Other tools like Docker, Ansible etc. - Hands on expertise with monitoring tools like Logic Monitor, Nagios etc. - Hands on expertise with tools Docker, Jenkins (deployment level), and Ansible. Good knowledge on chef, puppet. - Hands on practice on AWS ALB/ELB (load balancers) and nginx plus (load balancer) built from scratch in finity Inc. project. - Coordinated at client end late night at RSI office Noida for production Deployments/releases and got positive response from them. - Designed and implemented automated solutions using Aws, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives. - Hands on expertise with scripting using bash and on AWS cli for automation. - Hands on expertise setting up web servers on Aws using Apache, Nginx etc. - Jira,hipchat,Confluence deployed on production servers.

System Engineer at R Systems, Oct 2015 - Aug 2016 · 11 mos, Noida Area, India, - Worked for Thomas Publishing Company LLC (NY, U.S.A), a private, family-owned and operated company, connects buyers and suppliers across all industrial sectors. - Responsible for provisioning, managing and performance tuning of Linux and Windows servers in VMware ESXi, VCenter and Amazon EC2 instances. - Hands-on experience of Amazon EC2, S3, EBS, Route53, VPC, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and other services of the AWS family. - Configuration and administration of Squid, Apache, Samba, Syslog and NFS server in Linux CentOS. - Responsible for daily Volume level snapshot, implementation and administration of Veeam backup (VMware tool) and EMC Networker for backup. Archive old backup to Amazon Glacier service. - Administration of MS SQL backup plan and troubleshooting. - Responsible for disaster recovery, closing security loopholes and access levels. - NetApp Storage - Monitoring & troubleshooting hardware & software issues. - Worked on Volumes/LUN’s creation, storage space allocation. - Worked in Aggregate creation, adding disks as on when needed. - Coordination with NetApp for any h/w replacements and other technical escalations. - High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and Software Architecture, Security, IT Infrastructure, Virtualisation, and Internet Technologies. - Created documents for Change Management and Incident Management. - Monitor and deliver Service Level Agreements (SLAs). - Implementation and administration of Logic monitor for all internal and external monitoring of all network resources. - Worked on Logic monitor (Monitoring Servers and services) and Log Entries (Logs) to work on the first level of escalation to ensure continued production. - Provide 24*7 support clients by using remote tools and voice calls and work on Jira tickets on a daily basis. Working in an extremely high-pressure environment where first time fixes is vital to ensure continued production.

System Administrator at Secfence Technologies, Apr 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos, New Delhi Area, India, I worked as System Administrator and were giving support on Ubuntu and Centos platform handling installation, Updating, Upgrade, LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) and LAMP (Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP).Handled Linux infrastructure on VMware Workstation, VSphere Esxi, Clustering and accessing different VMware images from different regions/Office locations via Esxi login.Installation and Deployment Ldap Server (IPA) and clients, giving permissions, accessing via GUI (browser) or console (shell).Microsoft Virtualization solution Azure used for production level. Complete setup of Linux machines (Ubuntu/Centos).

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), System Administration/Administrator, Punjab technical university

Bachelor of Computer Applications - BCA, Computer Science, Himachal Pradesh University