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RAUSHAN KUMAR

RAUSHAN KUMAR

Summary

Results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record at CoinDCX, optimizing deployment workflows and enhancing platform resiliency through AWS Lambda automation. Expert in Kubernetes and service mesh engineering, I excel in high-pressure environments, ensuring robust security and achieving 99%+ service uptime while fostering team collaboration and agile execution.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

CoinDCX
04.2024 - Current
  • Platform Ownership & SPOC Responsibilities: Acted as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the Okto platform — accountable for end-to-end technical operations including production deployments, infrastructure implementation, incident response, ad hoc requests, and team coordination.
  • Optimized Deployment Workflows: Reduced deployment time by 50% by migrating from Kustomize to Helm, enabling faster, repeatable, and templated rollouts across environments. Enhanced stability and version control using GitOps workflows with Argo CD.
  • Istio Service Mesh Engineering: Solved complex service mesh challenges including multi-namespace communication isolation, dynamic header injection at ingress, and advanced routing with Istio VirtualServices and DestinationRules.
  • Serverless Automation with AWS Lambda: Developed Lambda-based automation for critical workflows, including real-time system monitoring, intelligent alerting, and conditional deployment restarts—significantly reducing manual intervention and improving platform resiliency.
  • Proactive Monitoring & Alerting Systems: Implemented full-stack observability using Prometheus + Grafana with PagerDuty integration. Achieved 99%+ service uptime through SLO monitoring and rapid incident resolution.
  • Secure & Scalable Infrastructure Design: Designed and managed a hub-and-spoke architecture with centralized network controls and fine-grained firewall rules to ensure secure communication and environment isolation.
  • Actively monitored and remediated container and workload-level vulnerabilities flagged by Sysdig, Snyk and SIEM. improving the overall security posture of the platform.
  • Agile Execution in High-Pressure Environment: Operated in a high-velocity, production-critical environment with tight deadlines and evolving requirements; quickly adopted and implemented new technologies, balancing speed and robustness.

Senior Security Engineer

CoinDCX
05.2022 - 04.2024
  • Implemented and configured SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and CSPM system to monitor and track all activities across the entire infrastructure.
  • Led the development and implementation of robust container security strategies, ensuring the protection of critical applications and data within CoinDCX's containerized environment.
  • Implemented container-level runtime security by deploying Sysdig Secure agents on all Kubernetes nodes, enabling continuous monitoring, threat detection, and real-time policy enforcement for workloads running in the cluster.
  • Actively involved in implementing an AWS Network Firewall, including replacing VPC peering with a transit gateway to enhance network security and streamline connectivity.
  • Implemented AWS Lambda to parse through CloudTrail logs and generate alerts for the cybersecurity team, enabling proactive monitoring of activities within our environment.

Associate Architect Network and Cybersecurity

Microland
07.2019 - 05.2022
  • Established and managed Microland's cybersecurity Research and Development Lab, overseeing the deployment, testing, and demonstration of business partner's tools to showcase their capabilities to customers.
  • Developed a Threat Intelligence platform utilizing APIs from multiple sources, enabling the delivery team to achieve rapid threat detection and response, resulting in over an 80 percent reduction in time per threat for SOC analysts.
  • Led Implementation of SIEM(Securonix) tool for internal microland production environment.
  • Implemented OPA(open policy agent) as service for Open Networking User Group(ONUG) Project. where we built container security tool using OPA(open policy agent) and Singularity.

Education

B.S. - Mathematics & Sc. Computing

IIT Kanpur
04.2019

Intermediate -

C.B.S.E.
04.2014

High School -

C.B.S.E.
04.2012

Skills

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm, Kustomize
  • Argo CD
  • GitHub
  • Microservices architecture
  • Service mesh engineering
  • Securonix, Snowbit, Coralogix
  • Aws network firewall
  • Sysdig, Snyk
  • Incident management
  • Agile methodologies
  • DataDog, Graphana
  • Infrastructure automation

Projects

  • Built and fortified the CI/CD pipeline leveraging GitHub Actions, and integrated key security tools like Snyk, SonarQube, and Sysdig to enhance container security.
  • Designed and implemented a solution to monitor any malicious activities happening on standalone EC2 instances in the infrastructure.
  • Collaboratively contributed to the redesign of CoinDCX's infrastructure architecture, enhancing scalability, reliability, and performance to align with business requirements, and also to optimize cost

Hobbies and Interests

  • Swimming, Blockchain, Problem Solving, Cryptography

Languages

  • Python, Go, Bash

Accomplishments

  • Received the Moonlanders Award for outstanding performance, consistency, and positive impact — recognized for going above and beyond in a high-impact, fast-paced team environment on July 18th 25'
  • Super Satoshi Award: Celebrated for sustained performance, energy, and reliability — acknowledged for being a driving force within the team on june 13th 25'
  • Received the MAGMA Fincorp and MCM scholarships throughout my graduation for outstanding academic performance

Affiliations

  • Swimming, Blockchain, Problem Solving, Cryptography, Mathematics

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

CoinDCX
04.2024 - Current

Senior Security Engineer

CoinDCX
05.2022 - 04.2024

Associate Architect Network and Cybersecurity

Microland
07.2019 - 05.2022

B.S. - Mathematics & Sc. Computing

IIT Kanpur

Intermediate -

C.B.S.E.

High School -

C.B.S.E.

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