Sandeep Raghuwanshi
Staff Engineer - DevOps
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
With over a decade of years of experience in DevOps, I am building the devops charter along with the DoE @AiDash.
Previously I led RazorpayX, Capital, and critical communication for banks teams at Razorpay, one of India's fastest-growing payment solutions companies.
I am also the infra owner for BillMe and Ezetap entities, two innovative fintech platforms that are part of the Razorpay ecosystem.
My mission is to design and develop efficient, reliable, and scalable solutions for continuous integration, deployment, monitoring, and logging, using cutting-edge cloud and container technologies such as Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch. I have successfully implemented CI/CD pipelines, proactive monitoring solutions, and cost optimization initiatives that have saved over 5M USD for the company. I also have strong skills in client interaction, requirement analysis, project planning, and technical documentation.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
12
12
Certifications
Work History
Staff Engineer DevOps
AiDash
4 2024 - Current
- Driving engineering excellence for having best practices implemented in incident management and tech driven decisions
- Building the DevOps charter via hiring and making future proof processes
- Improve the system design and revamp the infrastructure to help in building growth phase applications
- Creating a blueprint for disaster recovery and high availability of infrastructure.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Razorpay
05.2022 - 04.2024
- Led Team of 8 DevOps Engineers in 3 Business Unit teams, Giving them tech guidance as and when needed
- I was the infra owner for Razorpay POS, BIllme and Poshvine
- Worked on almost all of the industry standards in different stages of devops processes like: AWS , Kubernetes , GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics,Coralogix, Sumologic,Zenduty
- On Razorpay's scale we manage almost 25 kubernetes clusters in different environments which consist of almost 500k Pods
- From POC to implementation of all new tools-tech for different-2 integrations
- Upgrades and maintenance of legacy infrastructure and working on blueprints for provisioning new sites
- Design and Develop CI/CD Solutions with Automatic Canary, Blue/Green strategy
- Spinnaker, GitOps
- Develop proactive Monitoring Solutions using open source Prometheus stack (Prometheus,VictoriaMetrics,Grafana)
- Design and Develop Solutions and Tools for the mission critical distributed applications
- Design and Develop Kubernetes based solution for 100s of application deployments which are on scale from 0 to nM
- Escalation point of contact for critical production scenarios.
CxP Engineer
Microsoft India
08.2020 - 05.2022
- Working on some of the very critical top 500 Clients for microsoft having cloud transformation costs more than 50$ M
- Design solutions for clients based on the requirement from the IaaS side
- Helping Clients implement their architecture along with CSA's as SME from IaaS
- Helping Clients set up their infrastructure on azure based on the workload requirement
- Leading Client teams in case to case basis for achieving the targeted solutions
- Helping customers to increase their azure consumption of the services available in the marketplace
- Designing and helping clients automating their DevOps infrastructure on azure
- Helping the clients to implement custom solutions for third party tools or open source technologies to achieve vision
- Having In depth knowledge on Azure DevOps ,pipeline,repos and the whole process
- In-depth knowledge of the Azure cloud environment and designing solutions for mission critical scenarios
- Expertise in troubleshooting skills
- Work and deliver in a real time pressure situation for customers.
- Certified professional in more than 6 areas on Azure cloud
- Having in-depth knowledge on IaaS and PaaS offerings in microsoft
- High level knowledge in Databases, SQL like MYSQL and NoSQL like MongoDB, CosmosDB
- High knowledge in Container architecture, including Orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Swarm
- Expert knowledge in CI/CD tools like Terraform, ARM, Jenkins, Ansible, and Bash
- Top of the line customer communication and human interactions .
Software Engineer 2A- DevOps
CIENA INDIA
02.2019 - 08.2020
- Develop, Debug and test internal changes for multiple projects and implementation of key project deliverables as per timeline
- Monitoring and evaluation of the system
- Coordination and communication with implementation partners
- Implementation, evaluation and assessment of project plans
- Assist teams in reducing time taken to build, release and test and shiping the artifacts
- Helping and implementing teams in finding the correct solution for their code till it is deliverable
- Assisting teams in post production issues related to delivery and patches
- Regularly participating in product wide requirement meets to align DevOps strategy
- Maintaining close cooperation with all the teams
- Helping teams in finding solutions for migration on cloud
- Automating recursive manual work processes.
DevOps Engineer
INFRRD INC
04.2018 - 02.2019
- Discuss various DevOps solutions for all the projects and Build, test , release the same
- Lead technical response for issues faced by dev/test teams
- Support business teams by participating in tech calls and meetings for specific customer requirements
- Lead POCs on various tools and processes to be inducted in projects and products
- Take lead from architects and implement the solutions on involved tools or technology
- Maintain velocity in delivering release critical items
- Monitoring of various issue trackers for technical issue and responses
- Propose and present new ideas for faster and low issue prone ways to deliver projects.
System Engineer (Build and Release)
TCS
06.2014 - 04.2018
- Responsible for installation and delivery of product to client hosted servers in different locations in India and France
- Integrate various application modules and responsible for end to end sync in final delivery
- Working on In house service integration modules
- Creating configuration and validation for various SWIFT certified messages to integrate them in product
- Established foundation for modern environment and application monitoring
- Support development teams and make production releases.
Education
B.Tech. - Information Technology
Jabalpur Engineering College
Skills
AWS
Certification
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator Verify
Timeline
Lead DevOps Engineer
Razorpay
05.2022 - 04.2024
CxP Engineer
Microsoft India
08.2020 - 05.2022
Software Engineer 2A- DevOps
CIENA INDIA
02.2019 - 08.2020
DevOps Engineer
INFRRD INC
04.2018 - 02.2019
System Engineer (Build and Release)
TCS
06.2014 - 04.2018
Staff Engineer DevOps
AiDash
4 2024 - Current
B.Tech. - Information Technology
Jabalpur Engineering College
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