Sarthak Anil Deshmukh

Results-driven DevSecOps & Backend Engineer with experience in automation, CI/CD pipeline management, and backend development. Currently at TCS, reduced manual operational effort by 80% through Bash scripting and Kubernetes optimization, maintaining 99% CI/CD pipeline availability on a production banking application. Proficient in building scalable backend systems using Python, Django, Spring Boot, and REST APIs. Published ML researcher with hands-on DevOps expertise across GitLab, JFrog, Docker, and SonarQube. Smart India Hackathon 2023 Winner.

• Music Genre Classification - Developed a music genre classification project utilizing various ML models (XGBoost, Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbors) with 89% accuracy, offering potential applications in the music industry for advanced music recommendation systems.
  ∗ Paper published in 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications (ICACTA).
• Cyber-Security Portal for Effective Management of Servers and Firewalls - Engineered a Cyber-Security portal for new age of Cyber threats by using JavaScript and Django framework. Developed various python scripts for functionalities such as User based Identity Access Management, Software License Management, Server and Firewall Management and various monitoring and alerting operations were also included. Built a unified software architecture.

GitLab Instructor-Led Training — TCS -Nominated from the DevSecOps team for an instructor-led GitLab training, leveraging acquired expertise to independently troubleshoot and resolve GitLab pipeline issues.

Smart India Hackathon (SIH)-2023, Winner -Developed a Cyber Security Portal for Effective Management of Servers and Firewalls with seamless integration within back-end and front-end.

ACM-SAKEC, Membership Chair, Mumbai -Coordinated ACM events and was selected among the top 40 applicants for IIT-Goa's prestigious Winter School on ML and OR optimization.