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NIPUL SAWANT

Director Of Platform
Bhandup

Summary

Professional platform manager with strong background in overseeing and optimizing digital infrastructures. Known for exceptional team collaboration and consistent delivery of impactful results. Strong focus on strategic planning, system integration, and stakeholder engagement. Adaptable, dependable, and skilled in navigating dynamic environments to meet organizational objectives.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Director Of Platform

Moudlr Finance, India
05.2025 - Current
  • Continuously monitored industry developments relevant to our core offering; staying ahead of the game by proactively implementing emerging technologies and innovative approaches.
  • Developed and executed strategic plans for platform growth, resulting in increased user adoption.
  • Managed cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of platform updates and features.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify and address key platform challenges and opportunities.

Director DevOps + CIO - Engineering

PayU
11.2021 - 05.2025
  • 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

Certification

MCSA

Timeline

Director Of Platform

Moudlr Finance, India
05.2025 - Current

Director DevOps + CIO - Engineering

PayU
11.2021 - 05.2025

Associate DevOps Director + CIO - Engineering

PayU-Finance
09.2019 - 06.2021

VP-DevOps

VAY NETWORK SERVICES
10.2018 - 09.2019

AWS

06-2017

DevOps and IT Manager

Hopscotch
01.2016 - 10.2018

IT Assistant Manager

Cleartrip
07.2014 - 09.2015

MCSA

05-2010

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
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