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title: "Vijaykumar U. - Senior Software Engineer in Pune | Tal"
description: "Meet Vijaykumar U., Immidiate Joiner | Principal Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Architect | AIOps + AI Agents (MCP) | Highly Available Azure AKS | Resilient & Multi-Region SaaS | Azure AI | Developer enablement platform | Developer exp based in Pune. AI stack includes claude code, github copilot..."
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# Vijaykumar U\. on Tal

## Headline

Immidiate Joiner \| Principal Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Architect \| AIOps \+ AI Agents \(MCP\) \| Highly Available Azure AKS \| Resilient & Multi\-Region SaaS \| Azure AI \| Developer enablement platform \| Developer exp

## About

With a 20\+ year journey in enterprise IT, I specialize in designing internal developer platforms, automating DevOps pipelines, and enforcing zero\-trust security in highly regulated environments\. At present, I am guiding the architectural strategy at Microsoft India to transition our legacy SaaS products into the D365 Contact Center ecosystem\. Whether I am designing a multi\-region AKS cluster or optimizing service reliability, my ultimate goal is always the same: to deliver a seamless, secure, and rock\-solid experience for the end customer\. My expertise spans Azure AKS, Terraform, Jenkins, Prometheus\.io, and Elasticsearch, with a strong commitment to building scalable, secure, and resilient systems\. I lead the development of AI\-assisted operational tooling, enhancing incident triage and diagnostics and driving operational efficiency\. Collaborating across teams, I contribute to creating innovative solutions that empower stakeholders and deliver robust, production\-ready platforms\. I also architected an Envoy and WAF integration for secure ingress and support for both HTTP and gRPC workloads\. In addition, I designed shared cloud services, private networking, identity and access controls, VNet peering, policy baselines, and platform guardrails\.

## Location

Pune

## AI stack

claude code

github copilot

langchain

mcp

ollama

openai

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India, Aug 2023 \- Sep 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Pune, • Leading platform modernization and migration strategy for legacy SaaS as it is in process to rebuilt into Microsoft D365 Contact Center SaaS services, balancing continuity, security, readiness, and operational risk\. • Architected and implemented a secure internal Azure environment for heavy AI\-based algorithm tuning, owning design, implementation, security, compliance, and operations for approximately 20 speech scientists\. • Designed the Secure Tuning environment with Azure VMs, private VNets, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Azure DNS, Azure Open AI, Azure Functions, Log Analytics, monitoring, and alerting\. • Built AI\-assisted operational tooling for incident triage and diagnostics across critical Azure workloads, reducing time\-toroot\-cause and operational toil\. • Led production incident response and root\-cause analysis, driving corrective actions and resilience improvements across critical SaaS services\. • Defined SLIs, SLOs, observability standards, and operational guardrails for critical Azure services\. • Drove secure\-by\-design engineering and platform\-level automation for deployment, monitoring, and rollback workflows\.

Principal Devops Cloud Lead Engineer at Nuance Communications, Jul 2018 \- Aug 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, • Served as solution architect for a highly resilient, globally distributed Azure AKS platform hosting 10\+ SaaS services and supporting more than 20 million users\. • Designed multi\-region Azure deployments with regional replication and Azure Traffic Manager profiles for traffic routing and automated failover during regional or service\-level disruptions\. • Covered recovery architecture across Traffic Manager routing, regional failover, data replication or backup, AKS recovery, dependency recovery, and disaster\-recovery testing\. • Solved Azure WAF support limitations for gRPC\-based SaaS services by architecting an Envoy proxy and WAF integration, providing secure ingress, traffic inspection, and protection for both HTTP and gRPC workloads\. • Designed enterprise cloud foundations, secure landing zones, guardrails, and shared services to standardize Azure adoption across engineering teams\. • Created reusable Terraform and IaC patterns plus CI/CD automation for secure, repeatable environment delivery and reduced provisioning drift\. • Built and maintained GitLab and Harness deployment pipelines for Kubernetes and Azure workloads, improving release safety and operational governance\. • Implemented IAM, private networking, VNet peering, policy, and security baselines to enforce compliance and strengthen platform controls\. • Partnered with product, application, security, and infrastructure teams to improve production readiness, reliability, and developer self\-service\. • Defined dashboards, alerts, and observability practices for critical SaaS services, using incident learnings to reduce operational toil\.

Solution architect at Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd, Jul 2017 \- Jul 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Designed and deployed CI/CD systems on customer premises, integrating delivery workflows with customer development processes and infrastructure\. Upgraded Mirantis OpenStack Cinder components for the ATamp;T Hybrid Cloud platform, porting storage customisations across baseline releases and ensuring stable integration with cloud infrastructure services\. Created release procedures and automation using Python, git, gerrit and Jenkins\.

IT Enablement Specialist at IBM India Pvt\. Ltd\., May 2008 \- Jul 2017 · 9 yrs 3 mos, Pune, Built CI/CD for J2EE applications using Git, Jenkins, uDeploy, SonarQube, and ELK; implemented continuous deployment of Docker containers with Jenkins and Ansible on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm\. Designed microservices platforms for streaming and log analytics using Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Logstash, Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Solr, and Zeppelin\. Delivered Bluemix Secure Gateway Client as a Service \(SGCaaS\) on Docker Swarm with custom networking; enabled hybrid IaaS from on\-premises runtimes to cloud\. Implemented metrics monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Grafana; configuration management with Ansible for Linux and AIX; Node\.js CRUD APIs\. Transformed middleware into microservices and educated developers on cloud platforms; managed CIO Lab hosting environments and OpenStack IaaS provisioning\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering \(SPCE\) \- Visnagar

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sankalchand Patel University

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