Adarsh Jha

Worked as a Release Engineer in the Release Team, responsible for managing production releases of banking applications.

• Led release deployments for IDFC FIRST Bank mobile and web applications, ensuring smooth delivery across environments.
• Managed release cycles for 10+ application teams, coordinating deployment schedules and ensuring release stability.
• Debugged CI/CD pipeline failures, Helm deployment issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations, improving release success rate.
• Coordinated with development, QA, and platform teams to enable zero-downtime deployments during production releases.
• Improved release process efficiency by identifying pipeline bottlenecks and reducing deployment failure rate by ~35%.
• Managed Kubernetes infrastructure supporting 30+ microservices powering critical banking applications in production.
• Built and maintained Helm charts enabling standardized deployments across multiple environments (dev, staging, production).
• Automated CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual deployment effort by ~60% and improving deployment reliability.
• Configured and optimized Akamai CDN & WAF for banking APIs, improving API latency by ~25% and enabling efficient edge caching.
• Implemented custom cache key strategies and Varnish caching rules, improving API response performance by ~30% and reducing backend load.
• Developed internal automation tools using Golang, reducing manual infrastructure validation tasks by ~50%.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery pipelines for critical services, improving environment recovery time by ~40%.
• Managed SSL certificates and domain configurations across multiple environments, ensuring secure and uninterrupted service availability.
• Troubleshot production issues related to deployments, networking, caching, and infrastructure stability, reducing incident resolution time.
• Managed release scheduling and deployment processes to ensure timely software updates.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams to facilitate efficient release planning and execution.
• Coordinated release schedules, ensuring timely software deployment across multiple teams.

• Built 5+ REST APIs using Java, Spring Boot, enabling course enrollment and content access for the learning platform.
• Improved API response time by ~25% through query optimization and service refactoring.
• Developed backend modules supporting course management and instructor workflows used by 200+ students.
• Fixed 10+ backend bugs and integration issues, improving application stability during feature releases.