Akshay Chavan
Pune
Summary
Dynamic Senior AI/DevOps Engineer with 9 years of experience in designing, automating, and optimizing cloud-native and AI-driven platforms. Proficient in Terraform, Python, and Ansible, with extensive hands-on expertise across AWS and GCP environments. Proven ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure with a strong focus on CI/CD automation, MLOps, and LLMOps practices.
Experienced in deploying and managing containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and Rancher, and implementing GitOps workflows with Helm and ArgoCD to enhance reliability and operational efficiency. Adept at integrating modern AI/ML workflows, enabling robust, production-grade solutions aligned with enterprise standards
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior AI Engineer
Mastercard
Pune, India
03.2025 - Current
- Directed engineering efforts for enterprise AI/ML platforms to enhance LLMOps and MLOps automation while ensuring cloud-native deployment.
- Developed and implemented automated pipelines for Jenkins, Bitbucket, and SonarQube to streamline deployment processes and ensure code quality.
- Streamlined model onboarding processes and deployment workflows on Truefoundry platform to optimize enterprise AI capabilities.
- Imported and managed Llama models for experimentation and AI application workflows.
- Worked with Arize for model observability, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Demonstrated expertise in RAG LLM application patterns, prompt workflows, and GenAI deployment concepts.
- Developed and implemented internal AI tools and prototypes utilizing Python and Streamlit.
- Implemented cloud-native engineering practices for deploying AI workloads with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS EKS, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
Senior DevOps Engineer
T-Systems
Pune, India
12.2021 - 02.2025
- Managed Docker containers in development, testing, and production to ensure consistent software development and deployment.
- Extensive experience in managing Kubernetes clusters. Deployed and configured Rancher environments to manage Kubernetes clusters, enhancing orchestration and operational efficiency.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, reducing deployment time.
- Worked with the security team to implement security measures for the cluster and services, achieving necessary certifications. Implemented secure login and role based access control using Keycloak and OpenLDAP.
- Worked with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch and Fluent-bit. Worked on gitops model using ArgoCD.
- Designed and developed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to automate software build, testing, and deployment processes for multiple projects.
- Developed test code using Python and pytest framework to automate deployment, functional and integration testing of Kubernetes clusters and add-on services.
- Designed and deployed scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform to manage resources such as Compute Engine instances, Cloud Storage, and VPC networks.
- Ensured disaster recovery by implementing Cloud Storage backups and snapshot strategies for critical GCP resources.
- Leveraged AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and GCP Cloud Load Balancing to distribute traffic across multiple instances, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and redundancy.
- Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda, and API Gateway, to build scalable and secure applications.
Senior System Engineer
IBM
Pune, India
08.2021 - 12.2021
- Project was based on Event detection system.
- Events are captured while operating vehicles. Analysis is performed on events captured.
- 2D and 3D plotting is used to display the events of data. Technologies: JavaFx, Spring.
Software Development Analyst
NTT Data
Pune, India
07.2017 - 08.2021
- Developed Python Application to generate Ansible Scripts. Utilized Python data structures and libraries (Pandas, NumPy).
- Designed and deployed scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, S3 and Elastic Load Balancer.
- Developed different microservices like to upload documents on S3 bucket and send emails using AWS SES. Deployed application on EKS.
- Expertise in managing serverless architectures and cloud storage solutions to optimize cost and performance.
- Demonstrated expertise in firewall and security group configuration, DNS routing, and VM setup using vSphere and ESXi for secure cloud environments.
- Worked with AWS Cloud Services like EC2, VPC, Load Balancer, AWS Code commit, ECR, ECS Fargate, Cloud Watch, SES, Autoscaling groups, IAM, Appmesh, X-Ray, Code Pipeline.
- Developed a hotel management chatbot using Python and NLTK for NLP. Utilized Pandas for data processing and Google Dialogflow API for creating chat intents and entities.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy to automate application deployment, testing, and rollback, enhancing deployment efficiency.
Education
Bachelor's - Computer Engineering
Smt. Kashibai Navale College Of Engineering
Pune05-2017
Skills
- AI/GenAI: MLOps, LLMOps, LLM, RAG, Llama, TrueFoundry, Arize
- CI/CD: Gitlab CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring and Logging
- IAC: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Rancher, Helm charts, ArgoCD
- Prog Languages: Python
- Config Mgmt: Ansible
- Database : MySQL
Accomplishments
- Winner in T-systems Quarter’s Rewards & Recognition 2024
- Winner in T-systems Quarter’s Rewards & Recognition 2022
Certification
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
- MTA: Security Fundamentals - Certified 2016
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate(SAA-C02) Validation Number: GKV691WLEEQE159X
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Level-N4)
LANGUAGES
English
Marathi
Hindi
Japanese
Timeline
Senior AI Engineer
Mastercard
03.2025 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
T-Systems
12.2021 - 02.2025
Senior System Engineer
IBM
08.2021 - 12.2021
Software Development Analyst
NTT Data
07.2017 - 08.2021
Bachelor's - Computer Engineering
Smt. Kashibai Navale College Of Engineering