Abhishek Kumar Srivastava

• Led a high-performing DevOps team, mentoring engineers, driving technical excellence, and aligning team efforts with business goals to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions.
• Designed and implemented cost-optimized caching infrastructure by developing a custom cache-server with edge caching and invalidation mechanisms similar to CloudFront, resulting in significantly reduced S3 access costs and improved artifact delivery speed and availability.
• Led CI/CD pipeline modernization using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab CI, which decreased deployment times and increased release frequency, enabling faster feedback loops and reduced developer toil.
• Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Ansible, enabling consistent, auditable, and scalable environments across staging and production.
• Instrumented and improved observability using New Relic, enabling proactive monitoring and reducing MTTR through performance dashboards, alerting thresholds, and root cause analysis across distributed systems.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, and product) to enable smooth rollouts of major product features, integrating DevOps best practices into the SDLC from early design phases.
• Created and maintained thorough operational documentation for deployment processes, service configurations, and incident response procedures—fostering a strong culture of knowledge sharing and onboarding efficiency.
• Developed innovative technical solutions to tackle complex scalability, availability, and automation challenges—improving engineering team productivity and ensuring high service reliability.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Participated in development of complete cloud networking automation and cloud infra automation using terraform.
• Spearheaded the evaluation and integration of emerging technologies to enhance existing systems, ensuring alignment with evolving industry standards and future-proofing infrastructure.
• Played a critical role in the end-to-end launch of the Mobile Product, contributing to its success as the company’s top-selling offering.
• Designed and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows, significantly streamlining the deployment process and improving release velocity.
• Architected and implemented a self-healing deployment service, reducing manual intervention to under 5% and enhancing system reliability and operational efficiency.
• Actively led cost optimization initiatives, including toolchains upgrades and strategic resource allocation, resulting in measurable infrastructure savings.
• Served as technical lead for the Mobile Data Center expansion, overseeing infrastructure planning, scaling, and execution to support growing business demands.
• Directed the seamless migration of legacy systems to modern architectures, ensuring minimal downtime and complete data preservation throughout the process.
• Contributed to team growth and capability by leading technical interviews, playing a key role in hiring skilled DevOps talent aligned with the organization's goals.

Awards & Recognitions:

• Promoted from "DevOps Engineer" to "Senior DevOps Engineer".
• Received ESOPS on complete automation of AWS cloud infra.
• Received ESOPS on successfully handling DC migration across all the product.
• Received ESOPS on expansion of DC.
• Got 3rd Prize in Hackathon challenge.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Created team strategy for SDLC automation, configuration management and release management.
• Applied automated auto heal solutions for infra assets.
• Worked on Apple Scripts to manage popups.
• Managed AWS assets and integrated multiple AWS resources into solutions appropriate for company projects.
• Provided engineering support from code delivery until retirement of application.
• Configured, installed and tuned ESXi servers from scratch using Pfsense for AWS connections.
• Participated actively in setting up alerts and monitoring and managing the alerts.
• Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging and also added windows and mac security
• Mentored DevOps engineer interns on proper engineering methods.
• Active participation in Cost optimization drive and billing of AWS.
• Jenkins job and terraform scripts for deployment and infra management
• Setup Minikube cluster for Dev environment.
• Managing resources and presenting team progress and KRA's to higher management.

Awards & Recognitions:

• Received recognition as "Best Performer - Q4 2021" for fixing security issues on Windows and MacOS.
• Received appreciation for fixing MacOS popup issue through out complete infra.
• Received recognition for improving SLA for ESXi host setup from 15days to 1 day.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Automation of end-to-end server setups and middle wares haproxy, nginx etc.
• Create scripts to perform audits on entire infrastructure and AWS services.
• Worked actively on AWS cost optimization and billing.
• Log monitoring using Nagios and integration with slack for real time alerts and handling issues
• Security audits and resource clean-ups for cost optimization
• Automated report generation using Google sheet's API for the infrastructure related changes and information's.
• User Management and access controls of entire Organization.

Awards & Recognitions:

• Received recognition for Client onboarding SLA improvement (from 10days to 2days).
• Received appreciation for setting up complete Infra monitoring and alert management tool.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Cookbook creation for unattended installation and configuration of various system integrations (like SQL Server 2014, MS Office, Jdk8, Keycloak etc.) for different platforms (Windows, CentOS, Ubuntu).
• Create scripts & tools and automate processes using shell scripts.
• Create Open Shift cookbook to use it as platform for various services.
• Automate various client (Honda WMS, Intelligence Video analytics) projects from scratch to the deployment of application using chef cookbooks.
• Automated the Honda WMS project, which earlier took 24 hours for entire environment setup, can be done in just 1hour.
• Automated the IVA client project, which earlier took 56 hours for entire environment setup, can be done in 3 hours.
• Automated the IT team setup of set of middle-wares for new joiners' which includes Windows Server 10, MS Office, Adobe etc. which earlier took 8 or more hours per machines, can be done in 1.75 hours for 10 machines.

Awards & Recognitions:

• Best Debut Award in Annual Award by NECTI, December 2018
• SPOT Award for “Collaboration” and “Better products, Better Services” by NECTI, June 2018