Nishant Mishra
Platform & Security Engineering Leader
Bengaluru
Summary
Platform engineering leader with 12+ years across Gaming, FinTech, and E-commerce, leading a 10+ engineer DevOps team. Own platform strategy, cloud infrastructure, security, and FinOps, aligning engineering investment with business value. Built Olympus, an Internal Developer Platform, from a blank repo to production adoption, driving product vision, roadmap, and executive buy-in. Delivered platform infrastructure across India, the UK, and Australia, owning two ground-up launches, Rafflee (UK) and Sports Dream Rewards (Australia), through penetration testing and compliance in highly regulated markets.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering
Junglee Games (Flutter Int)
01.2024 - Current
- Led a 10+ engineer DevOps team owning the Poker B2B platform roadmap, infrastructure and security architecture, hiring, and performance management for the global expansion. Serve as technical interface to the CTO, presenting the roadmap weekly and driving quarterly budget planning.
- Built Olympus, a Backstage-based Internal Developer Platform on EKS, with centralised RBAC, service cataloging, automated deployments, security scanning, audit reporting and agentic AI-based issue detection and remediation. Cut deployment time by 70% and standardized 50+ services.
- Owned platform strategy, infrastructure, and security for two product launches in the UK (Rafflee) and Australia (Sports Dream Rewards), from architecture to go-live, meeting GDPR and PCI-DSS requirements and cutting cloud cost by 60%.
- Established a full-stack observability platform (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, EFK, Coralogix), reducing MTTR by 50%.
- Embedded DevSecOps (Wiz, Trivy, DefectDojo) and defense-in-depth (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector etc) across all production workloads.
Sr. System Developer
Zeta (Directi)
08.2021 - 01.2024
- Built DevOps and platform infrastructure for HDFC PayZapp 2.0, a highly available, PCI-DSS compliant payments platform, using Terraform-driven IAC, deployment pipelines using jenkins and argo, and CIS-hardened AMIs (Packer, Qualys, Jenkins) with automated versioning, vulnerability scanning, approval gates, and rotation.
- Built data infrastructure and ETL pipelines for large-scale payments data processing using NiFi, Airflow, Kinesis, MSK, TrinoDB, Presto Gateway, and Redshift, backed by Aurora, PostgreSQL, YugabyteDB, and Elasticsearch.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, JFrog Artifactory) and managed production EKS clusters (upgrades, RBAC, network policies, Karpenter, HPA/VPA) across all environments.
- Drove cloud cost optimization through right-sizing, reserved instances, and Spot adoption.
DevOps Consultant
T-Systems
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Led design and deployment of Daimler's Azure cloud infrastructure using a Hub-and-Spoke network topology, ensuring secure, scalable, and highly available network segmentation across enterprise workloads.
- Automated Hub-and-Spoke deployments with Terraform IAC, deploying critical Azure components including VMs, Load Balancers, and Firewalls to strengthen security and streamline inter-spoke communication.
Sr Software Engineer
Jio Platforms Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2020
- Built and managed middleware infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance and high availability across all integration layers serving Jio's large-scale consumer platform.
- Built a Carrier Integration Engine aggregating multiple logistics providers through REST and SOAP API integrations, and a Notification Engine with WhatsApp Business API integration enabling transactional messaging at scale.
- Owned end-to-end reliability of middleware systems in production, managing Kafka consumer lag, integration failures, and service degradations through proactive monitoring, structured logging, and
RCA-driven permanent fixes
Software Engineer
HCL
08.2014 - 07.2017
- Led end-to-end middleware integration projects using TIBCO and Axway product suites, delivering scalable enterprise integration solutions handling request-reply, publish-subscribe, and event-driven patterns across upstream and downstream system.
- Managed production systems and owned operational stability, leading incident triage, outage debugging and RCA authoring to drive permanent fixes and maintain SLA commitment
Education
Executive MBA -
Indian Institute Of Management Ahmedabad
04-2026
B.Tech - Computer Science
Rajasthan Technical University Kota
04-2014
Skills
- Cloud and Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, MSK, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, Shield, WAF), Terraform, Terragrunt, Crossplane, Karpenter, Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Driftctl, Python & Agentic AI
- Observability and Reliability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix, ELK, New Relic, Tail Sampling, Span, DORA Metrics, SLO/SLA frameworks
- Security and Compliance: Trivy, SonarQube, Qualys, DefectDojo, Wiz, OxSecurity, Orca, IAM hardening, PCI-DSS, GDPR, WAF, External Secrets Operator, CAA Records
- Leadership and Strategy: Team leadership (10 engineers), engineering management, OKR planning, platform roadmap, hiring, performance management, appraisal cycles
Timeline
Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering
Junglee Games (Flutter Int)
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
B.Tech - Computer Science
Rajasthan Technical University Kota
Executive MBA -
Indian Institute Of Management Ahmedabad