Senior DevOps Engineer at OpenGov

Cloud. Kubernetes. Delivery. Reliability.

I build the platforms product teams depend on.

I design and operate Kubernetes, cloud, delivery, data-movement, and edge-security systems for SaaS products, with recovery, observability, and sensible cost controls built in from the start.

IndiaWorking across India and US teams11+ years in production engineering
11+Years in production engineering
50+Production workloads governed
30%Compliance-gap reduction
$2M+Annual savings enabled by automated DR

What I do

Engineering across the full production path.

The strongest platforms are not a collection of isolated tools. They connect infrastructure, delivery, data, security, and operations into one understandable system.

Cloud and orchestration

Production platforms that scale without becoming fragile.

Designing and operating Kubernetes and cloud foundations with clear ownership, controlled change, resilient networking, autoscaling, and cost awareness.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service and Kubernetes operations
  • AWS, Azure, and multi-cloud infrastructure
  • Terraform, infrastructure as code, and policy controls
  • Capacity, resiliency, networking, and cost optimization

Delivery engineering

Release systems built for speed and confidence.

Turning delivery into a repeatable platform capability through dependable pipelines, progressive workflows, automated quality controls, and useful developer feedback.

  • CI/CD and GitOps operating models
  • GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Argo tooling
  • Deployment guardrails, rollback paths, and release observability
  • Developer-experience and onboarding improvements

Data and event platforms

Reliable movement of high-volume operational data.

Building migration and change-data-capture systems that preserve correctness, expose failure modes, and remain operable when source systems or consumers slow down.

  • PostgreSQL and database migration patterns
  • Debezium, Kafka/Aiven, and Kafka Connect
  • Amazon S3 data landing and downstream integration
  • Lag, throughput, retries, retention, and recovery design

Reliability and security

Recovery, observability, and abuse resistance by design.

Combining operational telemetry, tested recovery procedures, edge controls, and cloud governance so teams can detect problems early and respond with less ambiguity.

  • Observability, incident investigation, and root-cause fixes
  • Disaster-recovery runbooks and failover validation
  • Cloudflare WAF, Turnstile, and bot-management controls
  • SOC 2-aligned audits with Azure Policy and AWS Config

Current work at OpenGov

The production problems I am solving now.

My current scope combines platform ownership with hands-on engineering across Kubernetes, data infrastructure, CDN behavior, application security, recovery, and compliance.

01

Kubernetes platform reliability

Improving AKS workload scalability, resiliency, autoscaling, operating clarity, and cost efficiency across a production SaaS platform.

  • Azure AKS
  • Kubernetes
  • Autoscaling
  • Observability
02

Change data capture and migration

Designing operable data pipelines from PostgreSQL through Debezium and Kafka/Aiven into Kafka Connect and Amazon S3.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Debezium
  • Kafka
  • Aiven
  • Amazon S3
03

Edge performance and abuse defense

Tuning CloudFront and Cloudflare caching while strengthening protection against bots, scrapers, and abusive traffic without blocking legitimate users.

  • CloudFront
  • Cloudflare
  • WAF
  • Turnstile
  • Bot management

Experience

A career built around production systems.

From build and release automation to multi-cloud platforms and SaaS reliability, each role expanded the operating surface I could own.

OpenGov

Current role

Senior DevOps Engineer

Dec 2025 - PresentIndia / United States collaboration

Owning platform infrastructure and reliability work for a SaaS environment spanning Kubernetes, delivery, data movement, edge performance, security, and recovery.

  • Own and improve cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, reliability, and observability for production SaaS workloads.

  • Design and operate workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service, improving scalability, resiliency, autoscaling, and cost efficiency.

  • Build data migration and change-data-capture pipelines using PostgreSQL, Debezium, Kafka/Aiven, Kafka Connect, and Amazon S3.

  • Optimize static asset delivery across AWS CloudFront and Cloudflare by tuning cache behavior, origin interaction, and CDN rules.

  • Protect applications from bots, scrapers, and abusive traffic with Cloudflare WAF, Turnstile, bot-management controls, and targeted security rules.

  • Automate disaster-recovery runbooks and validate them through periodic failover drills to reduce recovery risk and improve business continuity.

  • Direct quarterly security-compliance audits across 50+ production workloads using Azure Policy, AWS Config, and Cloudflare controls; reduced identified compliance gaps by 30% while supporting SOC 2 alignment.

  • Partner with engineering teams in India and the United States on OpenGov PLC architecture, platform scalability, and complex production incidents across Kubernetes, databases, Kafka, networking, CDNs, and cloud services.

  • Azure AKS
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • CloudFront
  • PostgreSQL
  • Debezium
  • Kafka/Aiven
  • Kafka Connect
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure Policy
  • AWS Config

Ollion (formerly CloudCover)

Lead DevOps Engineer

Nov 2020 - Nov 2025

Led multi-cloud platform engineering, infrastructure automation, delivery standardization, and customer onboarding for a DevOps product organization.

  • Directed DevOps design and multi-cloud deployment for the Codepipes platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

  • Standardized Terraform infrastructure and GitOps delivery workflows, reducing deployment lead time by 45%.

  • Improved technical onboarding workflows by 50%, helping customers reach a usable platform state faster.

  • Established security, compliance, and zero-downtime operating practices for Kubernetes-based environments.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitOps

Publicis Sapient

Senior Associate Technology

May 2020 - Oct 2020

Built Azure infrastructure and delivery automation for Sitecore workloads with a focus on scale, performance, and production diagnostics.

  • Architected infrastructure as code for Sitecore 9.3 on Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets with automated scaling.

  • Optimized Azure DevOps pipelines for .NET Core and Node.js workloads, contributing to a 40% reduction in site load time.

  • Integrated Application Insights and stack-trace analysis to accelerate production error isolation.

  • Azure
  • Azure DevOps
  • Sitecore
  • VMSS
  • .NET Core
  • Node.js

HCL Technologies

Specialist (Build and Release) to Deputy Manager

Oct 2014 - Nov 2019

Progressed from build-and-release engineering into infrastructure leadership across automation, disaster recovery, source control, and globally distributed services.

  • Introduced a one-click Terraform build mechanism that reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 70%.

  • Designed and deployed automated disaster recovery for global print infrastructure, enabling more than $2M in annual savings.

  • Supported global print infrastructure spanning 12,000+ queues, 51 countries, and 110 servers.

  • Built Jenkins execution capacity, Maven automation, Ansible provisioning, SonarQube gates, and GitHub Enterprise governance.

  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • AWS
  • Maven
  • SonarQube
  • GitHub Enterprise

Working toolkit

Tools are useful. Operating judgment is the differentiator.

I choose technology based on failure modes, team ownership, security requirements, and the cost of running it after the first deployment, not just the speed of a demo.

Cloud and infrastructure

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • Azure Policy
  • AWS Config
  • Ansible

Containers and delivery

  • Kubernetes
  • Azure AKS
  • Argo CD
  • Kargo
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins

Data and integration

  • PostgreSQL
  • Debezium
  • Kafka
  • Aiven
  • Kafka Connect
  • Amazon S3

Edge, security, and operations

  • Cloudflare
  • CloudFront
  • WAF
  • Turnstile
  • Observability
  • Disaster recovery
  • SOC 2

Engineering

  • Python
  • Shell
  • PowerShell
  • Go
  • Git
  • Linux
  • System design

Contact

Have a platform problem worth discussing?

I am always interested in thoughtful conversations about Kubernetes platforms, delivery systems, reliability, cloud architecture, and production operations.