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title: "Vikas S. - Sr Staff Engineer - Platform in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Vikas S., Ex-Walmart | Ex-Paytm based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude, github copilot, and kiro."
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# Vikas S\. on Tal

## Headline

Ex\-Walmart \| Ex\-Paytm

## About

DevOps Expert \| 12 Years of Building Scalable, Secure, and Automated Cloud Environments on AWS Core Skill Set: Languages & Scripting: Shell Scripting, Python, Go Cloud Platforms: AWS \(EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, etc\.\) Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS Operating Systems: Linux \(CentOS, Ubuntu\) DNS Management: AWS Route 53, In\-house DNS Solutions Monitoring & Logging: Amazon CloudWatch, ELK Stack Databases & Pipelines: MySQL, Custom Data Pipelines Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer CI/CD Tools: GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodeDeploy Other Tools: Git, Jira, Confluence, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Aerospike, Redis

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude

github copilot

kiro

## Work experience

Sr Staff Engineer \- Platform at Sony Pictures Networks India, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer IV \- DevOps at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2021 \- Jun 2025 · 4 yrs, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Building a Go\-based backend to automate tasks and integrate with a React frontend for managing Stage Gates and Canary deployments\. Contributing to a machine learning project to forecast resource needs using OPM and TPS trends for holiday planning\. Designing a unified monitoring dashboard with reusable templates for improved visibility\. Automating resource utilization tracking and stakeholder notifications\. Supporting API Gateway enhancements and holiday readiness\. Integrating Concord to streamline service orchestration and workflows\.

DevOps Lead at Paytm, Mar 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Banglore, Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, and ArgoCD on AWS/EKS\. Provisioned infrastructure using reusable Terraform modules across multiple AWS accounts\. Managed observability with ELK Stack, Prometheus, and CloudWatch\. Handled data pipelines via Kafka Connect and ensured HA of DB clusters with orchestrator tools\. Led root cause analysis for production issues and mentored DevOps, SRE, and TechOps teams\. Managed container orchestration with EKS\.

Senior Software Engineer at Paytm, Apr 2018 \- Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos, Working on EKS with proper automation\. Migrated the infra from a shared account to separate\(Handling multiple AWS accounts with proper restrictions taking into consideration SISA, PCI\-DSS audit compliance\)\. Leading any type of third\-party integration in the Recharge vertical of Paytm and auditing of complete Infra of recharge vertical \( SISA BBPS Services \)\. Tech Stack: Terraform,EKS,Packer,kubernetes

Software Engineer at Paytm, Jul 2016 \- Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Creating complete Build Process for any new services being launched Setup of Dev and Test env using AWS AutoScaling, and Docker\-based containerization\. Supporting Existing Infrastructure and Enhancing knowledge on DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Jira\(Application Lifecycle Management\) and Cloud Services such as AWS\. Tech Stack: Ansible,Elasticsearch,Rabbitmq,Kafka,Datadog, Nginx

NOC Engineer at Delhivery, Nov 2015 \- May 2016 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Handled responsibilities of providing 24x7 networking support in production environment\. Dealing with monitoring tools like Nagios,check\_mk,zabbix,centreon for handling production sites Tech Stack: AWS, Newrelic, Zabbix,Nagios

Noc Engineer at ShopClues, Dec 2014 \- Oct 2015 · 10 mo, Gurgugram

CSE at HCL, Mar 2014 \- Nov 2014 · 8 mo, Noida

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer Science, SLIET

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