About
I started my career deep inside the machine room — racking Hadoop clusters, tuning HDFS, and standing up secure, highly-available data platforms on-prem and in early AWS/GCP deployments. That decade of Linux, distributed systems, and production-firefighting experience is the foundation everything since has been built on.
Since 2020 I've operated as a DevOps, Cloud & Big Data Architect, designing multi-cloud strategy across AWS, GCP and Azure; standardizing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt; and building the CI/CD, Kubernetes and GitOps platforms that let product teams ship safely without thinking about the plumbing underneath. Secrets management, platform engineering, large-scale data architecture, and — more recently — weaving LLM/AI tooling into the DevOps lifecycle round out where my attention lives today.
I care about systems that are boring in production: reproducible, observable, and secure by default — so the interesting problems get the attention instead.
- 3Clouds architected — AWS · GCP · Azure
- 6Years leading DevOps, Cloud & Big Data architecture
- 10+Years in infrastructure & distributed systems
- 0Standing secrets — Vault-first, dynamic credentials
Skills
Cloud
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Containers & GitOps
Secrets & Security
AI / LLM Tooling
Big Data — Legacy Foundation
Experience
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DevOps, Cloud & Big Data Architect
o9 Solutions, Inc
- Architected multi-cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS, GCP and Azure, standardizing landing zones, networking and IAM guardrails across dozens of accounts and subscriptions.
- Defined a company-wide Infrastructure as Code standard on Terraform and Terragrunt, replacing ad-hoc provisioning with reusable, versioned modules and cutting environment turnaround from days to hours.
- Built and scaled CI/CD platforms on Jenkins and Azure DevOps with pipeline-as-code, automated test gates and progressive delivery, adopted across engineering teams.
- Led migration of legacy VM workloads to Kubernetes, designing multi-cluster architecture with Helm packaging standards and GitOps delivery through ArgoCD.
- Modernized large-scale Big Data platforms onto cloud-native infrastructure, re-architecting Hadoop/Hive workloads onto managed cloud data services with Terraform-driven provisioning and Kubernetes-based processing.
- Implemented centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault — dynamic credentials, automated rotation, zero standing secrets in pipelines — and piloted OpenBao as an open-source alternative.
- Drove platform engineering initiatives (self-service provisioning, golden paths, internal developer platform) to reduce cognitive load on product teams and accelerate time-to-production.
- Integrated LLM/AI tooling into the DevOps toolchain — AI-assisted Terraform authoring, automated pipeline failure triage and ChatOps runbooks — to reduce MTTR and manual toil.
- Partnered with security and architecture review boards on cloud governance, FinOps practices and cross-cloud DR/BCP strategy.
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DevOps Architect — Big Data Solutions
o9 Solutions, Inc
- Devised big-data solution architecture for enterprise customers, automating Hadoop deployments across Azure, AWS and GCP with Ansible, Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
- Analyzed complex distributed production deployments and delivered performance optimization recommendations to customer engineering teams.
- Authored architecture documentation and technical runbooks; managed and monitored production environments end-to-end.
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Sr. Customer Operations Engineer
Hortonworks / Cloudera, Inc
- Subject-matter expert for security components across HDP/CDH/CDP stacks, resolving critical production issues for enterprise customers.
- Partnered with product engineering to identify and fix platform bugs, improving the CDP upgrade experience.
- Mentored L1/L2 support engineers, designed training modules and led knowledge-sharing sessions on security, Docker and Kubernetes.
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Technical Consultant — Hadoop, Linux & Cloud
Teradata India Pvt. Ltd
- Installed, configured and benchmarked HDP clusters; designed secure cluster architecture with Kerberos, Ranger, Knox and TLS.
- Led data migration and DR strategy between clusters, including WANdisco Fusion administration and consistency checks.
- Implemented HA for NameNode, Resource Manager and HiveServer2 to remove single points of failure.
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Early Career — Foundation in Big Data & Linux
Impetus Technologies · Capita India · Tech Mahindra
- Impetus Technologies (2016–2017) — Deployed and supported BI tooling on customer Hadoop environments, managed cluster security and AD/SSO integration.
- Capita India (2012–2015) — Installed, configured and administered Hadoop clusters; automated operations with shell scripting; handled RDBMS ↔ HDFS data movement via Sqoop and Flume.
- Tech Mahindra (2011–2012) — Automated enterprise reporting workflows using VBA and SQL.
Certifications & Education
HDP Certified Administrator (HDPCA)
Hortonworks
Hadoop Fundamentals
Big Data University
CLOUDU Certification
Rackspace
M.C.A — Master of Computer Applications
Pune University
B.Sc — Bachelor of Science
Pune University
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