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NIPUL SAWANT

Bhandup

Summary

Passionate leader with strong management experience seeking a leadership position in a rapidly growing organization. Skilled in solving complex problems and building high-performing teams. Experienced in scale-ups, well-being initiatives, and inclusion & diversity.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Director DevOps + CIO - Engineering

PayU
11.2021 - Current
  • Strengthened internal controls by reviewing existing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration for improved decision-making processes within the organization.
  • Improved project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.
  • Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
  • Fostered culture of innovation, encouraging development of cutting-edge solutions.
  • Increased company revenue by streamlining processes and implementing cost-saving measures.
  • Managed budgets effectively to ensure optimal use of resources while maintaining financial stability.
  • Improved overall system efficiency by optimizing AWS architecture and implementing best practices.

Associate DevOps Director + CIO - Engineering

PayU-Finance
09.2019 - 06.2021
  • Company Overview: Product -: Paysense and LazyPay
  • Implemented infrastructure as code approach in various devops support and implementation lifecycle
  • Successfully executed an AWS Cost Saving project which resulted in 30% cost reduction in AWS monthly billing
  • Build TechOps team with enhanced SOP's and Process for smooth product support
  • Automated application health recovery based on set threshold matrix without manual intervention
  • Migration of EC2 based microservice to AWS EKS platform without downtime
  • Implemented in house monitoring and alerts based on Prometheus, ELK and Grafana
  • Achieved cost saving of around 4000$ on APM (Migration from Dynatrace to Newrelic)
  • Successfully handled ITGC and ISO27001 audits for the Infrastructure Team

• • Product -: Paysense and LazyPay

VP-DevOps

VAY NETWORK SERVICES
10.2018 - 09.2019
  • Managing DevOps and Local IT team
  • Responsible for AWS and Local IT infrastructure
  • Refined deployment, Logging, Reporting process for Infrastructure
  • Restructure AWS services for better performance with cost saving (ECS with Fargate)
  • Implemented monitoring on ECS cluster and auto recovery process of EC2 based workloads

DevOps and IT Manager

Hopscotch
01.2016 - 10.2018
  • Managing & Maintaining AWS and Local IT infrastructure for Hopscotch
  • Implemented IT Process & legal registration (As per TRI & DOT) 2
  • Enhance LAN, WIFI & WAN security

IT Assistant Manager

Cleartrip
07.2014 - 09.2015
  • Responsible for UAT / DEV / STAGING environment (For Application and Hardware Uptime)
  • Responsible for setup additional IT infrastructure with a capacity of 210 users
  • Reconfigured daily and weekly Data Backup using Symantec Backup EXEC 10D & Dell AppAssure, ensuring data availability
  • (Mumbai and Chennai Datacenter)
  • NTOP and CACTI server hardware with installation and configuration with alerts to monitor data center nodes.(Mumbai and Chennai Datacenter)

Senior System Administrator

Lionbridge
12.2006 - 07.2014
  • Planning & implementation of migration process from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to Windows Active Directory based Subversion as version controller tool
  • Migrated more than One TB VSS data, 300+ repositories & 4000+ VSS users
  • With zero downtime & minimum hardware cost involved in it
  • Development operation support for MIS team (Web server / SQL server 2008)
  • Mac OS Server / Novell Server for GDT team to build testing environments

Customer Support Engineer

TANDEM MACHINES
03.2003 - 12.2006
  • Configured Linux / Mac / Novell system with various role for Pearson project
  • Network setup for SME / SASI / NOVANET team with 2003/2000 and MacOS Server 10.3.6 as server and Win98/2000 Pro/Xp/Mac Os 7 to 10.2 as client for E-Learning software testing

Education

BCA -

Dr. C.V. Raman Institute of Science & Technology

Skills

  • DevOps Tool Belt - AWS, Ansible, GIT, Jenkins, Kubernetes etc
  • Strategies and goals
  • Decision-making
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Building high performance team
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Security and compliance standards
  • ISO, RBI, NPCI, PCI DSS audit & compliance
  • IaC & Automation, SDLC, DevOps Framework Design etc

Languages

English
Hindi
Marathi

Timeline

Director DevOps + CIO - Engineering

PayU
11.2021 - Current

Associate DevOps Director + CIO - Engineering

PayU-Finance
09.2019 - 06.2021

VP-DevOps

VAY NETWORK SERVICES
10.2018 - 09.2019

DevOps and IT Manager

Hopscotch
01.2016 - 10.2018

IT Assistant Manager

Cleartrip
07.2014 - 09.2015

Senior System Administrator

Lionbridge
12.2006 - 07.2014

Customer Support Engineer

TANDEM MACHINES
03.2003 - 12.2006

BCA -

Dr. C.V. Raman Institute of Science & Technology
NIPUL SAWANT