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title: "Rishikesh Sonawane - Software Engineer 2 in Pune District | Tal"
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# Rishikesh Sonawane on Tal

## Headline

Immediate Joiner \| DevOps Engineer \| AWS \| Terraform \| GitHub Actions \| Kubernetes \| CI/CD \| Docker \| Linux \| Datadog

## About

DevOps and Platform Engineer with 4\+ years of experience architecting AWS cloud infrastructure, managing Kubernetes workloads, and building enterprise CI/CD platforms serving 2,000\+ engineers at Zendesk\. Delivered $163,884 in annual AWS cost savings through ECR optimization, reducing storage and data transfer costs by 90%\+ across 7 global regions\. Slashed CI/CD image pull latency from 7–8 minutes to 2–3 minutes, improving pipeline performance by 2–3×\. Built an internal automation CLI \(Bash\+Python\) adopted by 2,000\+ engineers, reducing developer onboarding from 1 week to under 20 minutes, a 98% reduction\. Engineered enterprise\-grade self\-hosted GitHub Actions runner platform on AWS, handling 10,000\+ monthly pipeline executions at 99\.9% uptime\. Core expertise: \- AWS \(EC2, ECR, IAM, VPC, Auto Scaling Groups\), \- Terraform, \- GitHub Actions, \- Kubernetes, \- Docker, \- Linux, \- Bash, \- Python, \- Datadog, \- Incident Response, \- Cloud Cost Optimization\.

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Software Engineer 2 at Zendesk, Nov 2025 \- Apr 2026 · 6 mos, Pune District, • Architected hybrid Amazon ECR distribution strategy \(Cross\-Region Replication \+ Pull\-Through Cache\) across 7 AWS regions, generating $163,884 in annualized cost savings — a 90%\+ reduction in storage and data transfer costs • Reduced container image pull latency from 7–8 minutes to 2–3 minutes globally, accelerating CI/CD execution by 2–3× for 2,000\+ engineers • Engineered self\-hosted GitHub Actions runner platform on AWS EC2 with Auto Scaling Groups, Terraform, and Packer — supporting 500\+ concurrent runners • Automated infrastructure provisioning through Terraform and Atlantis GitOps workflows, managing 1,000\+ AWS resources • Built Datadog monitoring dashboards and alerting systems, reducing MTTR by 40% • Managed on\-call incident response, resolving 50\+ critical incidents with root cause analysis • Led GitHub Enterprise Cloud governance for 2,000\+ engineers: repositories, access controls, secrets management

Senior Software Engineer \(DevOps\) at Persistent Systems, Jul 2022 \- Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Pune District, • Worked as part of a long\-term Zendesk platform engineering engagement focused on enterprise CI/CD infrastructure and developer platform operations • Built internal Bash automation CLI adopted by 2,000\+ engineers, reducing onboarding from \~1 week to under 20 minutes \(98% reduction\) • Designed reusable GitHub Actions workflows, standardizing CI/CD across 50\+ engineering teams • Engineered self\-hosted GitHub Actions runner infrastructure on AWS EC2 with capacity planning and lifecycle management • Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform \(EC2, IAM, ECR\) • Implemented Datadog monitoring achieving 99\.9% CI/CD platform uptime • Administered GitHub Enterprise Cloud for 2,000\+ developers • Resolved 100\+ CI/CD and infrastructure incidents with preventative measures

Intern at Persistent Systems, Jan 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 7 mos, Pune Division, • Migrated legacy deployment workflows to Terraform\-managed Infrastructure as Code, provisioning over 50 AWS resources • Developed Python\-based backend automation tools for streamlined infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows • Developed Docker container images and Docker Compose configurations standardizing local development environments across teams • Automated cloud resource provisioning with Bash and Python scripts, accelerating development environment setup time by 40%

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and telecommunications, Sandip Institute of Technology, & Research Centre

PCMCS, Lions English School

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