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Work History
Education
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Software
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PRAGATI BHANSALI

DevSecOps Lead
Delhi

Summary

DevSecOps Lead with 9 years of experience specializing in security automation, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration to enhance security measures, and developing strategic initiatives to optimize costs and processes. Recognized for cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, promoting innovation, and upholding organizational excellence in all endeavors.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Engineering Lead

Persistent
09.2022 - Current
  • Client: Adani
  • Accomplished DevOps Lead with extensive experience in orchestrating and optimizing infrastructure and deployment processes. Key achievements include:
  • Team Leadership: Acted as SPOC for the DevOps team, facilitating communication and task allocation. Conducted training on Azure services and mentored new team members.
  • Strategic Infrastructure Management: Directed AKS infrastructure setup and capacity management.
  • CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Spearheaded automation of CI/CD workflows for all application for all the environments.
  • Agile Project Execution: Managed projects using Agile/Scrum methodologies via Azure Boards for streamlined delivery.
  • Security Integration: Implemented SonarQube, NetSparker, Qualys, Qualys WAS and Checkmarx for enhanced compliance and security while guided team members about the same.
  • Performance Monitoring: Leveraged Grafana and Azure Alerts for proactive AKS performance management.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with QA teams to optimize API and UI performance through various performance testing.
  • Innovation Leadership: Led POCs for ACR Retention, Swagger Automation, and brainstormed various rollback strategies.
  • Build and Release Management: Oversaw pipelines for .NET and Node.js applications reducing redundancy and increasing efficiency.
  • Terraform: Guided team members for the creation of basic Azure entities through Terraform.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Regularly communicated with stakeholders to align DevOps initiatives with business goals and ensure transparency.

Cloud Engineer

Harbinger System
09.2021 - 09.2022
  • Client: Kaptyn
  • Created and maintained development, staging, and production environments focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  • Utilized AWS Compute, Storage, and Data services to optimize cloud infrastructure.
  • Integrated Datadog with AWS for comprehensive monitoring, configuring metrics and automated dashboards for various environments.
  • Implemented and maintained Bitbucket pipelines with custom triggers for different environments.
  • Educated customers on AWS managed services and led architectural discussions to ensure successful cloud deployments, representing AWS in discussions on best practices, trade-offs, project management, and risk mitigation.

Software Engineer DevOps

Aon Consulting
04.2019 - 04.2021
  • Product: PathWise (AWS)
  • Authored Software Design Documents and managed project approvals through various phases.
  • Utilized AWS services such as EC2, EBS, VPC, S3, RDS, Transit Gateway, NACL, Security Groups, Route Tables, VPC Peering, CloudWatch, AWS Tag Editor, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield.
  • Installed and Implemented security tools like AWS Inspector and CloudWatch.
  • Configured and maintained Budget alerts according to client requirements.
  • Conducted network troubleshooting to ensure optimal performance and user experience.

Configuration Analyst - II

Aon Consulting
06.2016 - 04.2019
  • Leveraged healthcare and insurance expertise to service over 100 clients.
  • Led teams in defining project scope and delivering defect-free projects on time.
  • Assisted in analyzing and resolving customer issues in live environments with thorough root cause analysis.
  • Prioritized requirements in coordination with stakeholders and business owners.
  • Developed leadership skills and initiated training for backup team leads.

Education

PG Diploma - Cyber Law

Indian Law Institute
Delhi, India
01.2017 - 01.2018

B.Tech - Information Technology

Inderprastha Engineering College
Ghaziabad, UP
01.2012 - 01.2016

Secondary High School - Science

Delhi Public School
Aligarh, UP
01.2009 - 01.2011

High School -

St. Thomas Convent School
Mainpuri, UP
01.1999 - 01.2009

Skills

    Analytical and Detail-oriented

    Agile Methodologies

    Cloud Security Best Practices

    Cloud Solutioning and Designing

    Cost optimization

    DevOps Practices

    Monitoring and Logging

    Ownership Mentality

    Problem-Solving Acumen

    Quality Assurance

    Stakeholder Communication

    Time Management Abilities

Software

AWS

Azure

Azure Kubernetes Service

GitHub

Checkmarx

SonarQube

Grafana

Jenkins

Qualys

Visual Studio

Accomplishments

  • ADL Partner Catalyst Award – Recognized for leading the successful launch of the Adani Super App, integrating multiple group services.
  • Persistent Systems Award (2x) – Honored for exceptional contribution and outstanding performance at the client site.

Interests

Passionate about Calligraphy
Culinary Aficionado
Enthusiast of New Technologies

Timeline

Engineering Lead

Persistent
09.2022 - Current

Cloud Engineer

Harbinger System
09.2021 - 09.2022

Software Engineer DevOps

Aon Consulting
04.2019 - 04.2021

PG Diploma - Cyber Law

Indian Law Institute
01.2017 - 01.2018

Configuration Analyst - II

Aon Consulting
06.2016 - 04.2019

B.Tech - Information Technology

Inderprastha Engineering College
01.2012 - 01.2016

Secondary High School - Science

Delhi Public School
01.2009 - 01.2011

High School -

St. Thomas Convent School
01.1999 - 01.2009
PRAGATI BHANSALIDevSecOps Lead