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ASHPREET SINGH NARANG

Delhi

Summary

Engineering Manager with a proven record in cloud-native solutions, achieving a 46% cost reduction at InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. Expertise in crisis management and team leadership, enhancing stakeholder engagement and implementing innovative cloud architectures. Strong background in building high-performing teams and facilitating cross-functional collaboration to address complex business challenges. Committed to delivering exceptional results while fostering continuous improvement and sustainable growth.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior Manager - Cloud Engineering

InterGlobe Aviation Ltd
06.2023 - Current
  • Led a cross-functional team of 30, fostering collaboration for Innovation Lab Program within Digital Transformation.
  • Managed 4+ People Managers by providing guidance, setting goals and objectives, delegating tasks, and monitoring performance.
  • Managed crisis situations, implementing contingency plans to minimize impact on operations.
  • Delegated work to staff, setting priorities and goals.
  • Implemented 'left shift' practices, integrating security and testing, improving code quality, and aligning with ONE's quality-focused ethos.
  • Championed cost optimization initiatives, reducing expenditure by 46% without compromising availability.
  • Managed annual budgeting process, including forecasting and financial analysis to optimize resources.
  • Provided leadership, insight and mentoring to newly hired employees to supply knowledge of various company programs.
  • Represented the organization at conferences or trade shows as an expert speaker on relevant topics.
  • Developed long-term relationships with key stakeholders including customers, suppliers, Vendors, Partners.
  • Collaborated with external vendors to negotiate contracts that met company requirements while minimizing costs.

Lead Cloud Engineer (DevOps)

DLT Apps Ltd.
11.2021 - 06.2023
  • Manage, deploy, and host microservices and applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) while optimizing resource utilization to minimize costs and compute wastage.
  • Develop and implement automation strategies for deploying applications and microservices across various environments using Jenkins and Spinnaker, ensuring efficient and consistent deployments.
  • Utilize Terraform to define and manage AWS components and privileges as infrastructure as code (IaC), streamlining infrastructure provisioning and ensuring consistency.
  • Implement auto-deployment workflows on EKS using template-based Helm charts to maintain standardized configurations and prevent inconsistencies across EKS clusters.
  • Set up comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions using the ELK stack and Prometheus-Grafana, enabling real-time insights and proactive issue resolution.
  • Automate the onboarding process for new team members, ensuring a seamless integration into the DevOps team and clearly defining IT responsibilities in alignment with HR's JML process.
  • Successfully implement and manage a self-hosted Kafka cluster on EKS with externally exposed, authenticated TLS for secure and reliable data streaming.
  • Architect and execute multi-region, active-active, and active-passive setups for various critical applications, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and optimal performance.

Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud Ops

Bharti Airtel Pvt. Ltd.
02.2021 - 11.2021
  • Lead a team responsible for Airtel's Container Platform, supporting various in-house applications.
  • Successfully deployed the latest version of OpenShift over VM using Ansible, creating an auto-scalable solution.
  • Developed a comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for various applications within the container environment to ensure business continuity.
  • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana-based monitoring solutions and integrated them with Service-Now, along with an alert mechanism on Telegram for proactive issue resolution.
  • Product evaluation of various Enterprise Container platform for Bharti Airtel self-managed cloud including Vmware Tanzu, Google Anthos, and Openshift.
  • Automation of patching and security assessment for VM nodes.
  • Implemented automated security scanning for container images, ensuring that vulnerabilities are identified and addressed proactively.

DevOps Engineer

KeenAble Computers Pvt. Ltd
07.2015 - 02.2021

Skills

  • Containerization & Orchestration
  • Enterprise Observability
  • DevSecOps
  • Cloud Infrastructure Design & Implementation
  • Cost optimization
  • Effective communication
  • Business intelligence
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Leadership & Communications
  • Project planning
  • Performance evaluation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Team leadership
  • Vendor management

Accomplishments

  • Achieved a 46% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs by personally implementing cost optimization strategies while ensuring high availability.
  • Hands-on leadership in deploying OpenShift, resulting in a cost-effective and scalable container management solution, with no additional licensing expenses.
  • Directly contributed to attaining 99.9% uptime for mission-critical applications by implementing multi-region redundancy and failover configurations.
  • Personally designed and implemented a comprehensive monitoring and observability framework, reducing incident response times by 87% through hands-on configuration.
  • Led the development and implementation of automation processes, resulting in a 65% reduction in deployment times, and near elimination of deployment-related errors.
  • Best Debutant '2023 Awardee
  • IndiGo Digital Leadership Program 2024-2025 - graduated with honors.

Certification

  • Red Hat Certified Professional, 180-094-0997, 07/01/15
  • MongoDB Basic Certification, 02/01/21
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate
  • EDB PostgreSQL-12 and MySQL DBA

Timeline

Senior Manager - Cloud Engineering

InterGlobe Aviation Ltd
06.2023 - Current

Lead Cloud Engineer (DevOps)

DLT Apps Ltd.
11.2021 - 06.2023

Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud Ops

Bharti Airtel Pvt. Ltd.
02.2021 - 11.2021

DevOps Engineer

KeenAble Computers Pvt. Ltd
07.2015 - 02.2021

DigiStar 2.0 - Graduated with Honours

IndiGo Digital Leadership Program

Best Debutant 2023

IndiGo Digital

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Education

DigiStar 2.0 - Graduated with Honours

IndiGo Digital Leadership Program
01.2025

Best Debutant 2023

IndiGo Digital
Awardee

References

References available upon request.

ASHPREET SINGH NARANG