Nikhil Gadkari
Custom Software Engineering Senior Analyst
Indore
Summary
DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of experience in designing and implementing scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure solutions. Expertise in optimizing application performance through advanced monitoring systems and automation frameworks, ensuring high availability and reliability. Proficient in Azure DevOps for architecting resilient, cost-efficient solutions, with strong capabilities in Infrastructure as Code, Deployment as Code, and containerization technologies. A solid background in Linux administration and Bash scripting drives operational efficiency and automation across development and production environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Custom Software Engineering Senior Analyst
Accenture
06.2024 - Current
- Led an end-to-end migration of Oracle’s communications and digital services CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to Azure DevOps, including architecture design and multi-environment implementation (dev to prod).
- Partnered with stakeholders to gather requirements, design network connectivity, deliver HLDs, and configure self-hosted Azure DevOps agents; managed installation, environment setup, and production deployment support.
- Modernized legacy Chef-based deployment workflows into modular Pipeline-as-Code using GitOps practices, with Azure Repos and YAML pipelines, improving deployment velocity by 40%, and reducing manual effort by app teams.
- Delivered fully automated build, test, release, and deployment pipelines with quality gates, environment-specific configs, and approval workflows to strengthen governance and compliance.
Software Engineering Analyst
Accenture
03.2021 - 05.2024
- Empowered development teams with better insights, faster delivery, and streamlined release processes by onboarding them to Azure DevOps services such as Repos, Boards, etc.
- Implemented Dynatrace for the Oracle call center application stack, enabling real-time performance visibility for app teams, infrastructure, and end users.
- Developed user-friendly Dynatrace RUM dashboards for efficient analysis, enhancing the identification of slow load times and bottlenecks.
DevOps and Build Engineer
ClearTrail Technologies private LTD
07.2018 - 01.2021
- Designed a Docker container-based product installer, allowing development teams to extend deployments on Unix systems, which were previously limited to Windows only.
- Managed product release cycles and automated deployments on both Windows and UNIX-based systems.
- Achieved 60% faster product deployment using Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Implemented dashboard visualization for log analysis within the product using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Filebeat (EL from the ELK stack).
- Empowered development and testing teams with valuable system insights through in-product log analysis.
- Streamlined development and testing processes, with enhanced system visibility.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
05.2018
- First Division with Honors
- GPA: 7.6 CGPA
Skills
Azure DevOps
undefinedCertification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Timeline
Custom Software Engineering Senior Analyst - Accenture
06.2024 - Current
Software Engineering Analyst - Accenture
03.2021 - 05.2024
DevOps and Build Engineer - ClearTrail Technologies private LTD
07.2018 - 01.2021
IES IPS Academy - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science