LAXMIKANT JOSHI

Infrastructure & Architecture Security & Compliance Automation & Efficiency Collaboration & Leadership Cost Optimization

Company Overview: Fintech Platform

Led enterprise-grade DevOps transformation and cloud infrastructure strategy for a rapidly scaling fintech platform handling millions of financial transactions.

• Architected and managed a multi-cluster Kubernetes environment supporting 100+ microservices with a 99.99% uptime SLA.
• Designed a cloud-native architecture capable of handling over 10 million API calls daily, with built-in auto-scaling capabilities.
• Implemented a multi-region disaster recovery strategy, reducing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) from 4 hours to 30 minutes.
• Designed and deployed scalable infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, supporting both model training and inference pipelines.
• Optimized GPU-based compute resources for machine learning operations.
• Integrated MLOps practices for seamless model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Managed on-premise infrastructure in alignment with organizational policies and operational requirements.
• Worked extensively with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to deploy and manage enterprise-grade databases.
• Gained hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including configuration and management of VPCs, subnets, and network services.
• Spearheaded a comprehensive DevSecOps initiative, integrating automated security scanning, vulnerability assessments, and compliance monitoring.
• Embedded security testing into CI/CD pipelines with automated remediation workflows.
• Established infrastructure security baselines and implemented automated compliance reporting aligned with SOC 2 and PCI DSS standards.
• Implemented centralized secret management using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Developed an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework using Terraform and Ansible, reducing deployment times by 70%.
• Built robust CI/CD pipelines supporting blue-green and canary deployments.
• Established GitOps workflows for configuration management and deployment automation.
• Automated backup and disaster recovery processes across all production and non-production environments.
• Led cloud cost optimization initiatives, achieving a 35% reduction in cloud expenditure—saving approximately $15,000 per month.
• Partnered with clients to design tailored infrastructure and architectural solutions based on their specific needs.
• Led cross-functional initiatives across Development, Security, QA, and Operations teams.
• Mentored junior DevOps engineers and established best practices organization-wide.
• Conducted architecture reviews and authored technical documentation to support strategic infrastructure decisions.
• Applied innovative problem-solving approaches to address complex architectural and scaling challenges.
• Led company-wide cloud cost optimization initiatives across AWS, Oracle Cloud, and GCP environments.
• Reduced monthly cloud spend by over $70,000 through a combination of architectural redesign, right-sizing of resources, usage-based auto-scaling, reserved instance planning, and decommissioning unused assets.
• Streamlined storage tiering and lifecycle policies to cut data retention costs significantly.
• Implemented custom monitoring dashboards and cost alerts to proactively identify inefficiencies.
• Collaborated with finance and engineering teams to align cost-saving strategies with business goals.

• Scalable Infrastructure Operations
  Managed end-to-end cloud and on-prem infrastructure operations, enabling the platform to scale rapidly in response to business growth and increased user demand.
  Oversaw performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response across production, staging, and development environments.
• Observability & Incident Response
  Designed and implemented a robust monitoring and alerting framework using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager integrated with on-call tools like PagerDuty.
  Reduced Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) by 60% through proactive alerting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
  Introduced service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budget policies to drive reliability engineering efforts.
• CI/CD Automation & Deployment Velocity
  Established fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions, enabling consistent and rapid delivery of new features.
  Improved deployment frequency by 300%, enabling teams to release multiple times per day with reduced risk through blue-green and canary deployments.
  Integrated automated testing (unit, integration, and smoke tests) into pipelines to ensure high-quality code at every stage.
• Infrastructure Security & Compliance
  Led infrastructure security hardening initiatives including CIS benchmark compliance, network segmentation, and least-privilege access policies.
  Conducted regular vulnerability scans and patch management cycles across infrastructure and containers.
  Achieved zero critical security incidents by implementing shift-left security practices and embedding security into every stage of the development lifecycle.
  Supported SOC 2 and PCI DSS audits by producing infrastructure documentation, evidence reports, and enforcing compliance controls.

• Company Overview: EdTech Platform
• Architected scalable AWS infrastructure supporting 2M Daily Active Users (DAU).
• Developed and managed Kubernetes clusters using GKE and EKS for development and production environments.
• Optimized production databases (RDS Aurora MySQL) handling high-scale transactional workloads.
• Achieved significant cost optimization saving $3,000 monthly through resource rightsizing and reserved instances.
• Implemented comprehensive monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Datadog.
• Managed self-hosted Redis clusters for high-performance caching solutions.
• Configured CDN solutions using CloudFront, Akamai, and Limelight for global content delivery.
• EdTech Platform

• Company Overview: E-commerce Platform
• Collaborated with development, product, and QA teams to design scalable cloud solutions.
• Implemented centralized logging using ELK stack for production environment monitoring.
• Managed CDN and WAF services with Akamai and CloudFront for enhanced security and performance.
• Containerized monolithic applications using Docker, improving scalability and developer workflow.
• Achieved monthly cost savings of $2,000 through server consolidation and database optimization.
• Managed G-Suite administration and VPN services for enterprise security.
• E-commerce Platform

Installed, configured, and maintained Linux/Windows server infrastructure.

• Managed system backups, VPN services (Fortigate Firewall), and user management.
• Provided 24/7 technical support and troubleshooting for internal staff across multiple locations.
• Performed root cause analysis and system optimization for performance improvements.