โข Over 10 years of experience with architecting and supporting Infrastructure. โข Experience deploying end-to-end cloud/on-premise/hybrid applications on a modern stack. โข Excellent communicator and a fast learner with a can-do attitude. Experience and inclination mentoring junior engineers.
Experience
2025 โ Now
2025 โ Now
San Francisco Bay Area
2022 โ 2025
2022 โ 2025
Newark, California, United States
๐๐๐ (๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐): Built greenfield Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the me-jeddah-1 region, re-architecting AWS-based designs with OCI-native services (OCI MySQL, self-managed certificates, networking, IAM). Enabled KSA government sales and laid the foundation for the PIFโLucid partnership.
๐๐๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Deployed and operated backend infrastructure across AWS EU and Middle East regions, enabling business growth and regional availability.
๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ: Architected an AI-driven vehicle diagnostics system using LLMs, Openstream AI, Neo4j, and Elasticsearch.
๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Delivered $100K+ monthly cloud savings through rightsizing, optimization, and long-term data archiving.
๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Reduced infrastructure provisioning from weeks to hours using Cluster API, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Atlantis.
๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐ญ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ๐: Standardized deployments organization-wide by introducing a GitOps App-of-Apps model.
๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ: Designed and scaled monitoring with Prometheus (KPS), Thanos, and Grafana for multi-cluster environments.
๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ: Deployed vehicle telemetry ingestion pipelines for nearโreal-time signal analysis.
๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ: Managed multi-region MongoDB Atlas clusters for global vehicle data aggregation.
๐๐/๐๐: Built pipelines for AWS ECR and automated cross-cloud image replication to OCI using Python.
๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ & ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ : Implemented secure OpenVPN connectivity and private Kubernetes endpoints.
2019 โ 2022
2019 โ 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Supported 100+ enterprise customers across on-prem and all major cloud platforms, ensuring reliable production deployments.
Led complex integrations with Identity Providers, databases, and cloud storage systems.
Represented the voice of the customer in product meetings; helped evaluate and introduce Swagger/OpenAPI 3.0, reducing API-related support tickets by 20%.
Delivered customer training, demos, and data-wrangling solutions, achieving a 100% renewal rate for managed accounts.
Authored technical knowledge-base articles and shared best practices across engineering teams.
2017 โ 2019
2017 โ 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined as a Site Reliability Engineer and evolved into a multi-functional role, contributing across SRE, DevOps, hardware operations, sales engineering, and product development.
Deployed and managed Waterlineโs data platform across 30+ customer environments, spanning on-prem and cloud deployments.
Supported and executed multiple on-site and cloud-based POCs, collaborating closely with customers and internal stakeholders.
Partnered with QA to integrate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and developed Python-based performance testing frameworks.
Designed and built on-prem data center infrastructure from scratch, supporting production and customer demo environments.
Led product certification efforts across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including validation with major Hadoop distributions.
Conducted partner and customer training programs in the US and India to accelerate adoption.
Delivered customer-centric service workflows, including Docker-based integrations, as part of professional services engagements.
Recruited, onboarded, and trained a support team in Croatia, establishing Level 1 and Level 2 global support operations.
2015 โ 2017
2015 โ 2017
Phoenix, Arizona Area
Led a global Hadoop operations team of 15+ engineers across India and the US, supporting large-scale enterprise data platforms.
Drove the migration of multiple legacy systems to a Big Data platform exceeding 8 PB, ensuring stability, performance, and operational continuity.
Deployed and operated the MapR filesystem along with core components of the Hadoop ecosystem.
Installed and configured YARN, designed queue structures to implement fair-share scheduling, and monitored resource utilization across multiple projects.
Built comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Splunk and Nagios, and leveraged Ganglia to troubleshoot system-level performance and capacity issues.
Configured ZooKeeper for distributed coordination, creating isolated namespaces to support multiple services.
Automated operational workflows (start, stop, suspend, resume, rerun) using Oozie, significantly improving operator efficiency and control.
Mentored and trained offshore support engineers, delegated operational ownership, and improved global support coverage.
Education
California State University - East Bay
M.S
Pune University