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KUSHAL SATARKAR

KUSHAL SATARKAR

Cloud Architect | Team Leader | SRE
Bengaluru

Summary

I am an experienced Cloud and DevOps Professional currently serving as a Cloud Architect, with extensive expertise in leading cloud transformation initiatives, managing high-performing teams, and delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. With over 13 years of experience, I have consistently driven operational excellence through automation, site reliability engineering practices, and cross-functional collaboration. I thrive in roles where I can lead strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure performance, uptime, and agility in dynamic cloud environments.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
16
16
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Cloud Architect

Informatica LLC
04.2023 - Current
  • Leading end-to-end cloud transformation projects by architecting and modernizing legacy systems using AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
  • Managed cross-functional teams comprising developers, DevOps engineers to successfully deliver infrastructure and application modernization initiatives on schedule.
  • Oversaw containerization efforts with Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) to streamline deployment workflows and improve release velocity.
  • Established and tracked SLIs/SLOs and implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, significantly enhancing observability.
  • Championed the adoption of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions automating deployment workflows across environments.
  • Introduced cost optimization strategies through resource tagging, usage analysis, and rightsizing, resulting in a 30% reduction in cloud expenditure.
  • Conducted project planning, sprint management, and resource allocation while collaborating with PMOs and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery.
  • Mentored and onboarded junior engineers, creating knowledge-sharing initiatives and technical documentation that improved team efficiency and reduced onboarding time by 50%.

Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Operations

Informatica LLC
04.2020 - 03.2023
  • Led a critical Cloud Operations initiative focused on enhancing system resilience, scalability, and high availability across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Designed and implemented robust cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Ansible, optimizing performance, fault tolerance, and resource utilization.
  • Established proactive monitoring and alerting pipelines with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack, enabling real-time visibility into system health and improving MTTR by over 25%.
  • Drove incident response automation and implemented SRE practices like SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortems, reducing critical incidents by 20% YoY.
  • Built scalable log aggregation and telemetry systems using Sumo Logic, improving diagnostic efficiency during on-call rotations.
  • Collaborated with engineering, QA, and product stakeholders to align infrastructure with application needs, performance objectives, and delivery timelines.
  • Recruited and ramped up new DevOps/SRE engineers by creating structured onboarding programs, pairing sessions, and playbooks—accelerating team productivity and autonomy.

Lead Software Engineer

Informatica
04.2016 - 03.2020
  • Deployed, and maintained Cloud Data Integration applications across multiple global regions, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and compliance with data residency requirements.
  • Developed centralized log aggregation pipelines using the ELK stack and Sumo Logic, enhancing observability across microservices and accelerating root cause analysis.
  • Integrated monitoring dashboards into incident response protocols, reducing detection and response time for critical application issues.
  • Collaborated with engineering and QA teams to align infrastructure deployment with agile development cycles, enabling faster feature releases and minimizing rollback incidents.

Senior System Administrator

Informatica
04.2014 - 03.2016
  • Operated and maintained Informatica Cloud environments, ensuring stable and secure operations across production, staging, and QA environments.
  • Performed periodic patch management and version upgrades on Tomcat-based application servers, improving performance and security posture.
  • Proactively monitored infrastructure and application health across multiple layers, maintaining high availability and improving issue detection times.


Technical Support Engineer

Cybage Software
01.2012 - 03.2014
  • Managed technical support for 50+ production servers, enhancing system reliability and performance.
  • Deployed a scalable AWS application stack, servicing over {1000} users.
  • Developed Nagios monitoring scripts in bash.
  • Worked with offshore Dev team to remediate production issues.
  • Aggregating application logs using Logstash.

Linux System Administrator

AIPL
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Deployed 15 LAMP websites for clients on dedicated servers, ensuring robust online presence.
  • Maintain the websites using regular patching and code fixes.
  • Created and developed manual task automation scripts.
  • Administer MySQL databases and replicate the data to local servers.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Goa College of Engineering
01.2006 - 12.2010

HSSC - Science

Smt. Parvatibai Chowgule College of Art and Science
01.2003 - 12.2006

High School - SSCE

Shri Nirakar Vidyalaya
01.1997 - 12.2003

Skills

AWS

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Training

  • Kubernetes - CKA
  • Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
  • AWS Solution Architect

Timeline

Cloud Architect

Informatica LLC
04.2023 - Current

Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Operations

Informatica LLC
04.2020 - 03.2023

Lead Software Engineer

Informatica
04.2016 - 03.2020

Senior System Administrator

Informatica
04.2014 - 03.2016

Technical Support Engineer

Cybage Software
01.2012 - 03.2014

Linux System Administrator

AIPL
01.2011 - 01.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Goa College of Engineering
01.2006 - 12.2010

HSSC - Science

Smt. Parvatibai Chowgule College of Art and Science
01.2003 - 12.2006

High School - SSCE

Shri Nirakar Vidyalaya
01.1997 - 12.2003

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