Experience

AVP Engineering · Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)

Jun 2026 – Present · Bengaluru, India

Lead platform engineering, infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps across RBIH's platforms as part of the CTO's engineering leadership team, and hire for DevOps and MLOps roles.
Drive production reliability and incident response for the Unified Lending Interface (ULI), the credit digital public infrastructure that connects lenders with data service providers.
Designed RBIH's incident management process (severity model, incident roles, escalation paths, on-call rotations, and postmortems) and lead its rollout, starting with ULI.
Shape infrastructure, capacity, and disaster recovery planning for RBIH's fraud-prevention platforms, MuleHunter.AI and the Digital Payments Intelligence Platform (DPIP).
Drive engineering-side security and compliance readiness, including security audits, vulnerability assessments, and Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act obligations.
Lead AI adoption in engineering, from agent-ready interfaces for RBIH platforms to evaluating GPU compute for AI/ML workloads.

Technologies & Practices

Kubernetes CI/CD Observability Incident Management Disaster Recovery DevSecOps DPDP Compliance AI/ML Platforms Digital Public Infrastructure

May 2025 – May 2026 · Berlin, Germany

Led and mentored SRE and Security engineers, fostering psychological safety, equitable processes, and individualized growth plans.
Rolled out SRE best practices (SLOs, incident and change management, and on-call rotations) across 9 product teams to raise platform reliability.
Co-designed the data platform that unlocks real-time analytics on 1.5B+ annual payment transactions.
Defined the long-term roadmap for SRE and Security, delivering a self-service platform with GenAI automation that eliminates manual toil.

Technologies & Tools

Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana GCP Python Go GenAI Spanner Backstage FluxCD Istio GitHub Action

Jun 2022 – Mar 2025 · Berlin, Germany

Led a 6-person SRE team responsible for release, in-production, and monitoring strategies, cutting service disruptions by half.
Scaled SRE culture with training and process optimization that improved system reliability by 80% and reduced MTTR by 50%.
Partnered with Engineering and Product to revamp CI/CD and automated testing, gaining 8% uptime and 70% higher user satisfaction.
Drove projects such as Edge Compute, CDN, service discovery, and IDP, achieving 12% cost savings and a 90% observability uplift.

Technologies & Tools

Docker AWS ECS Terraform Consul DataDog PagerDuty Python Go AWS Secret Manager Fastly Cloudflare CloudFront AWS

Feb 2020 – May 2022 · Berlin, Germany

Led the Platform Automation Team for PSNow, delivering tooling that reduced manual operational tasks by 40%.
Ran hybrid infrastructure across AWS and 20+ global data centers to maintain 99.99% uptime for the cloud gaming service.
Built a Prometheus/Grafana-based observability platform and improved incident visibility, cutting downtime incidents by 30%.

Technologies & Tools

Ansible Terraform Packer Prometheus Grafana AlertManager ELK Kubernetes Docker Vault Python Go AWS Hybrid Infrastructure

Aug 2019 – Jan 2020 · Berlin, Germany

Migrated critical services from on-prem data centers to GCP, reducing infrastructure spend by 15%.
Designed CI/CD pipelines for hybrid deployments, halving release times while improving reliability.
Optimized cloud architecture with efficient load balancing and caching to trim latency by 20%.

Technologies & Tools

GCP Terraform Docker Kubernetes Python CI/CD

Dec 2017 – Jul 2019 · Berlin, Germany

Managed distributed systems that power real-time energy trading operations.
Implemented infrastructure to remotely operate 200+ hydropower plants.
Migrated and optimized services to sustain 99.99% availability across multiple data centers.

Technologies & Tools

Ansible Terraform Docker Kubernetes Python Hybrid Infrastructure

Feb 2017 – Nov 2017 · Berlin, Germany

Designed microservice architectures along with process and data flows for the hospitality platform.
Managed and monitored AWS workloads to maintain 99.99% uptime.
Enabled auto-scaling and secure delivery pipelines to remove manual operational effort.

Technologies & Tools

AWS Docker Terraform Ansible Python Microservices

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · Bengaluru, India

Built web and mobile applications with highly available infrastructure and zero-downtime releases.
Delivered ML, big data, and microservice projects while refining requirements directly with clients.
Championed collaboration between product stakeholders and delivery teams for faster launches.

Technologies & Tools

Python Java AWS Docker Machine Learning Big Data Microservices

Jan 2015 – Apr 2015 · Noida, India

Developed ERP systems using open-source technologies for large e-commerce clients.
Built scalable web applications on an in-house open-source framework.

Technologies & Tools

Python PostgreSQL Open-source