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Nishant Mishra

Staff Engineer - DevOps
Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic technology leader with 11+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and SRE across Gaming, FinTech, E-commerce, and Healthcare. Expertise in cloud automation, infrastructure modernization, observability, and high-availability systems, with a proven track record of aligning platform delivery with business goals to optimize performance and drive growth.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering

Junglee Games
Bengaluru
01.2024 - Current
  • Owned the platform architecture and engineering roadmap for the Poker B2B project, scaling a multi-tenant, EU-compliant platform across multiple partners while driving operational excellence.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform IaC (VPCs, EKS, MSK, RDS), cutting setup effort by 80%, and using Firefly/Driftctl for drift and asset management.
  • Built an automated code review process (Ox Security + SonarQube) with real-time scans and centralized dashboards, and established CIS-based security frameworks, leveraging Trivy, DefectDojo, and related tools.
  • Built an observability platform with OpenTelemetry, routing metrics, traces to New Relic, and logs to Coralogix, standardizing dashboards and SLOs to halve MTTR.
  • Defining and executing a strategic six-month platform roadmap, aligning with business OKRs, streamlining delivery, and incorporating governance models and SRE practices.
  • Managed and mentored over 10 DevOps engineers, driving appraisals, reporting, and performance, while fostering a high-performance culture.

Sr. System Developer

Zeta (Directi)
08.2021 - 01.2024
  • Architected scalable, highly available data platforms and engineered pipelines (Airflow, Trino, Presto, NiFi) for efficient ingestion, transformation, and processing.
  • Automated deployment and maintenance of high-performance data platform services, including EFK stack, MSK, YugabyteDB, Trino, Amazon Redshift, and RDS, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Led secure image lifecycle management, building and deploying CIS-compliant hardened AMIs for EKS clusters and EC2 instances using Packer, Qualys, and Jenkins.
  • Specialized in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, automating provisioning and scaling of complex, high-availability AWS infrastructure.
  • Executed cloud cost optimization strategies, improving ROI through efficient resource allocation and cloud-native cost management tools.

DevOps Consultant

T-Systems
12.2020 - 08.2021
  • Collaborated with clients and Microsoft Azure to define requirements and design a Hub-and-Spoke network topology.
  • Led the design and deployment of Daimler’s Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and HA network segmentation.
  • Engineered a core Hub VNet with multiple Spoke VNets to optimize traffic flow, isolation, and resource access.
  • Deployed critical Azure components (VMs, Load Balancers, Firewalls) to strengthen security and streamline communication.
  • Automated Hub-and-Spoke deployments with Terraform IaC, ensuring consistency and repeatability.

Sr Software Engineer

Jio Platforms Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2020
  • Built and managed middleware infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, ensuring scalability and high availability.
  • Developed High-Level Architecture for middleware infrastructure in on-premises data centers.
  • Configured Kafka clusters in high-availability mode for fault-tolerant messaging and streaming.
  • Implemented robust application logging and monitoring services using ELK Stack and Prometheus.

Software Engineer

HCL
08.2014 - 07.2017
  • Led end-to-end middleware integration development and infrastructure creation projects.
  • Designed, developed, and implemented middleware solutions using TIBCO and Axway product suites with MySQL databases.
  • Authored interface requirement documents, specifications, and system requirements to ensure alignment with business needs.
  • Resolved incidents and service requests within SLA timelines, ensuring operational efficiency.

Education

MBA - Senior Management Program -

IIM Ahmedabad
04-2026

B.Tech - Computer Science

RTU
04-2014

Skills

Cloud & Infra: AWS(EKS, MSK, RDS, VPC etc), CI/CD, Terraform, Crossplane, Terragrunt, Jenkins, Driftctl, Firefly, Helm, ArgoCD

Timeline

Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering

Junglee Games
01.2024 - Current

Sr. System Developer

Zeta (Directi)
08.2021 - 01.2024

DevOps Consultant

T-Systems
12.2020 - 08.2021

Sr Software Engineer

Jio Platforms Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

HCL
08.2014 - 07.2017

MBA - Senior Management Program -

IIM Ahmedabad

B.Tech - Computer Science

RTU

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