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Akshat Jain

Akshat Jain

Summary

Results-driven Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer with 3.9+ years of impact at fast-paced startups like Sysdig, wearing multiple hats across SRE, DevOps, and Infra roles. Skilled in building resilient, cost-effective, and secure cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD. Proven record of reducing cloud costs by 30%, increasing system uptime, and leading major infra upgrades (PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch). Adept at platform security, developer enablement, and production firefighting. Seeking to scale cloud-first teams through automation, observability, and reliability engineering.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer - 2

Sysdig
09.2022 - Current
  • Automated and optimized multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure, improving cluster utilization and reducing downtime by 25%.
  • Led PostgreSQL v15 migration, increasing DB throughput by 40%; resolved WALWrite contention and optimized IOPS provisioning.
  • Integrated Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting systems (PagerDuty, OpsGenie) to enable real-time monitoring and improve MTTR by 30%.
  • Enhanced container security posture (CSPM) by embedding vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipelines using Sysdig Secure, reducing image-related risks.
  • Implemented RBAC and integrated Teleport for secure access to Kubernetes clusters, internal tools, and databases — improving auditability and compliance readiness.
  • Designed an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, onboarding 60+ services and reducing dev onboarding time by 35%.
  • Implemented cost governance tooling and identified infra waste, saving over $25K/month across cloud environments.
  • Streamlined CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Helm, reducing deployment time by 30%.
  • Adopted Anthos/GKE Autopilot and managed service meshes for secure mTLS-based communication.
  • Applied Kyverno and Falco policies for Kubernetes admission control and runtime protection — enforcing security guardrails across clusters.
  • Remote

DevOps Engineer

Unthinkable Solutions
09.2021 - 09.2022
  • Executed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, leading to a 30% reduction in deployment time and ensuring consistent, reliable environment provisioning across development, staging, and production.
  • Orchestrated and managed containerized applications with Kubernetes, improving application availability and reducing downtime by 70%, which boosted overall team productivity by 15%.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, resulting in a 30% faster release cycle and accelerating feature delivery.
  • Developed and integrated end-to-end monitoring and alerting systems with Prometheus and Grafana, enabling early incident detection and reducing system downtime by 50%.
  • Led disaster recovery (DR) strategy and execution, implementing automated backups and multi-region replication across AWS, GCP, and Azure, reducing risk of data loss by 90%.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - M.C.A

Harcourt Butler Technical University

Bachelor of Computer Applications - B.C.A

Dr Virendra Swarup Institute Of Computer Studies

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: GCP (Certified), AWS, IBM Cloud and Azure
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, IKS, Autopilot), Helm
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Helmfile
  • CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Harness, Git
  • Monitoring & Security: Sysdig, Prometheus, Grafana, Teleport, ELK Stack, IAM, Cloud Logging, Falco
  • Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, Shell, SQL, Go
  • Datastores & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Neo4j
  • DevOps Practices & Tools: Linux, Backstage, GitOps, Cost Optimization, SLO/SLI/SLAs, Incident Management, DR Planning, Site Reliability Engineering, COGS

Accomplishments

  • Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer
  • TechGig Code Gladiators, Semi Finalist 06/2021 – 07/2021
  • Hackerrank, Scored 4/5 in Problem Solving and 5/5 in C++.
  • NIMCET Entrance Exam, Achieved AIR-396 / Category-125 Rank.
  • Google Local Guides, Freelance Contributor Level-6.
  • Employee of the Month, Recognized at Sysdig Inc. for outstanding contributions.

Timeline

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer - 2

Sysdig
09.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Unthinkable Solutions
09.2021 - 09.2022

Bachelor of Computer Applications - B.C.A

Dr Virendra Swarup Institute Of Computer Studies

Master of Computer Applications - M.C.A

Harcourt Butler Technical University

Projects

High Availability Setup with Kubernetes, Designed and implemented a highly available Kubernetes cluster using Kubernetes Federation and multi-region deployment strategies. Auth Token Generator and Rotator for Teleport, Developed a microservices-based application utilizing Docker and Kubernetes. Multi-Cloud Website Hosting, Deployed servers 50% faster and ensured server consistency by implementing an automated configuration management system using Ansible. Stock Price Prediction and Crypto Value Tracker, Stock Data Fetch Using INVESTING.COM's Library, Future Value Prediction Using Moving Averages and Machine Learning Technique-LSTM.

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