Akshay Chaskar
Mumbai,MH
Summary
Azure DevOps / Cloud Engineer with over a decade of experience driving enterprise-scale CI/CD, cloud automation, and production deployments across Dev, CTE, and Production environments. Strong background in Azure DevOps, AWS cloud services, and DevOps best practices, delivering highly reliable releases and accelerated time-to-market.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Azure Devops Engineer/Operational Engineer Sr.
CSG International
Bengaluru
12.2020 - Current
- Led the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, supporting deployments across Dev, CTE, and Production environments.
- Architected artifact-based deployment strategies for on-prem and cloud workloads, enabling versioned releases, rapid rollbacks, and environment consistency, achieving an 80% reduction in deployment time.
- Established fully automated build, test, release, and rollback pipelines for IIS-hosted applications, Windows Services, AWS Lambda, ECS services, and S3-hosted frontends, significantly improving release reliability.
- Designed and managed hybrid application deployments, including on-prem IIS and Windows Services alongside AWS-native services.
- Deployed backend services to AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS, supporting scalable and containerized workloads.
- Managed S3-based frontend deployments for static web applications, ensuring environment-specific configurations and secure access.
- Managed Amazon RDS databases supporting production applications, including connectivity, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Implemented SNS-based alerting and notifications to improve observability, incident response, and operational visibility across environments.
- Developed and supported LLM-powered AI agent assistant applications using AWS Bedrock, with deployments targeting Lambda and ECS runtime environments.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines for LLM-based applications, ensuring environmental parity and controlled deployments to AWS services.
- Led on-prem application hosting and deployments, including Angular UI applications on IIS and .NET-based Windows Services.
- Configured and maintained IIS environments (application pools, bindings, SSL, and environment configurations) integrated with Azure DevOps for seamless deployments.
- Collaborated closely with engineering, QA, and operations teams to streamline delivery pipelines and accelerate release cycles.
Cloud and Devops Engineer/Technology Integration Engineer.
Amdocs
Pune
07.2019 - 12.2020
- Configured and managed Amazon Route 53 DNS, CloudFront distributions, and AWS WAF rules to enable secure, highly available, and optimized application delivery.
- Provisioned and managed Amazon S3 buckets for application data, centralized logging, and backups, implementing lifecycle policies to optimize storage cost and retention.
- Created and maintained Azure Repos and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, supporting automated builds and deployments.
- Managed EC2 access control using security groups and IAM best practices, and automated application deployments using Git-based workflows and Jenkins.
- Automated repetitive operational and deployment tasks using Shell scripting, improving deployment speed and operational efficiency.
- Supported and maintained enterprise telecom applications (Amdocs ABP, CRM, OMS) hosted on Oracle WebLogic, including JVM tuning and resource configuration.
- Managed SSL certificate renewal and rotation across multiple environments to ensure secure application communication.
- Monitored production applications, analyzed logs and metrics, and provided actionable insights to development teams to improve stability and performance.
Cloud and Devops Engineer/Technology Integration Engineer.
Capgemini
Navi Mumbai
11.2015 - 07.2019
- Worked on basic AWS services, including S3 buckets for storage, EC2 instances for hosting applications, and IAM for access management, supporting hybrid cloud deployments.
- Assisted in deploying applications to AWS EC2 and integrating with S3 storage and monitoring services.
- Supported cloud-integrated workloads, aligning on-prem Linux and middleware environments with cloud-based CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate configuration management, monitoring, and deployment automation into existing infrastructure workflows.
- Implemented and managed Apache Tomcat configurations in production environments, including performance tuning, security hardening, and JVM parameter optimization.
- Prepared and presented daily, weekly, and monthly infrastructure reports for clients and stakeholders, including availability, performance metrics, and capacity trends.
- Performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major incidents, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify issues and implement preventive measures.
- Generated and analyzed Heap Dumps and Thread Dumps to troubleshoot performance and memory-related issues in Tomcat and WebLogic environments.
Education
B.E - Electronics & Telecommunication
MES College of Engineering
01.2015
Diploma - Electronics & Telecommunication
Government Polytechnic Awasari (Kh)
01.2015
Skills
- Azure DevOps
- AWS Services
- YAML Pipelines
- GIT
- Jira
- IIS Web Server
- Nginx Web Server
Certification
- Received certificate for IEVOLVE Kaizen - 'Script to verify Failover and Failback procedures'.
- Received certificate for IEVOLVE Kaizen - 'Script to send server utilization reports for US servers periodically over email'.
- Received certificate for IEVOLVE Kaizen - 'Script to update Marketing URL’s list used for monitoring'.
- Xtra Mile Cloud Infra Award winner for outstanding performance and lasting contribution in IMS for 2017.
- Rising Star Cloud Infra Award winner for outstanding performance and lasting contribution in Infra Services for Q2 2018.
- ITIL 4 Foundation certified.
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certified.
- Microsoft Azure Fundamental certified.
- Microsoft Azure Administrator certified.
Personal Information
Title: Azure DevOps Engineer | AWS Cloud Engineer | Application Support
Timeline
Azure Devops Engineer/Operational Engineer Sr.
CSG International
12.2020 - Current
Cloud and Devops Engineer/Technology Integration Engineer.
Amdocs
07.2019 - 12.2020
Cloud and Devops Engineer/Technology Integration Engineer.
Capgemini
11.2015 - 07.2019
B.E - Electronics & Telecommunication
MES College of Engineering
Diploma - Electronics & Telecommunication
Government Polytechnic Awasari (Kh)