Tushar Kaushik

NEOM Smart City Initiative | Saudi Arabia | Solution Architect June 2024 – Present

• Own and lead the end-to-end architecture of NEOM’s GCP environment, including a fully redesigned landing zone, which resulted in a 50% reduction in cloud spend while enhancing security, scalability, and governance.
• Architect and implement Data Develops pipelines, automating data flows from ingestion to data lakes, warehouses (BigQuery), and consumption layers, with tiered access and policy-based controls.
• Developed a custom single-window governance system, integrating with IAM, DLP, Sensitive Data Protection, and Inventory Automation, enabling real-time policy enforcement and centralized visibility.
• Designed and automated custom billing reports using Python, integrating with Confluence for stakeholder transparency and executive reporting.
• Built custom BigQuery monitoring frameworks, surfacing operational metrics and query performance data for proactive management.
• Integrated Sonar Qube, Aqua Security (Aqua Scan), and Checkov into CI/CD pipelines to enforce code quality and infrastructure security baselines.
• Leveraged Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, compliance integration, enabling repeatable, auditable, and modular infrastructure builds across the organization.
• Implementation of GCP Databricks with end to end data pipelines and strategies using medallian architecture.
• Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters (GKE) to support microservices and AI workloads at scale.
• Developed MLOps pipelines using Vertex AI, supporting both traditional ML and Generative AI use cases, aligned with business domain applications.
• Operationalized governance across GCS, BQ, Command Center, IAM, and GitHub with fine-grained access, automated inventory control, and compliance logging.
• Embedded Well-Architected Framework (WAF), and Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB) principles across DevOps design and delivery, ensuring compliance, reliability, and security at scale.

Publicis Sapient – Internal Project | Global | Solution Architect

May 2023 – May2024

• Architected and led the development of RFPAI, an internal Generative AI-powered solution, reducing manual effort from 10 days to 3 days, streamlining complex request-for-proposal (RFP) processes across teams.
• Built a hybrid multi-cloud architecture using AWS (Fargate, Amplify, API Gateway, NLB, ALB, S3, DNS, Private Networking) and Azure OpenAI, ensuring scalable AI-driven automation.
• Designed and implemented custom authentication and authorization mechanisms, integrating AWS Cognito with Azure AD Federation, using custom Python-based AWS Lambda functions to handle advanced token processing, role mapping, and dynamic access control.
• Established CI/CD workflows with GitLab, ensuring continuous deployment with quality checks and automated tests.
• Integrated ELK stack for observability, enabling real-time logging, alerting, and performance optimization.
• Ensured enterprise-grade security and data protection by leveraging private networking, encryption at rest/in transit, and IAM best practices.

Lloyds Bank | London, UK | Cloud Modernization & FinOps Automation

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

• Led DevOps strategy and implementation for a large-scale Kubernetes modernization initiative, introducing enhanced reliability, cost transparency, and automation across hundreds of clusters.
• Designed and executed a Proof of Concept for Chaos Engineering using LitmusChaos in the Kubernetes environment, validating system resilience under controlled failure conditions.
• Redesigned Cloudability integration, automating agent deployment at scale using init containers, with secrets securely managed through KMS and accessed dynamically at runtime.
• Built CI/CD pipelines for cluster onboarding, ensuring consistent and compliant deployment of observability and cost monitoring components.
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders in development, infrastructure, and finance to implement automated FinOps governance, enabling actionable visibility into cloud usage and cost optimization opportunities.
• Embedded Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Well-Architected Framework (WAF), principles across DevOps design and delivery, ensuring compliance, reliability, and security at scale.
• Implemented Argo CD for multi environment Kubernetes release management.
• Cost Optimization & FinOps – using tagging, policy-based controls, and governance frameworks

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority | Abu Dhabi, UAE | Solution Lead

Apr 2020 – Dec 2021

• Architected a Database DevOps pipeline for the COTS financial product SimCorp, improving deployment speed and maintainability.
• Enabled infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD best practices, resulting in $100K annual savings through automation and resource efficiency.
• Written 1000 Lines or powershell scripts to achieve this automation.

Publicis Sapient | Abu Dhabi, UAE | Miral/Ferrari World Platform Modernization

Jan 2019 – Dec 2020

• Led the end-to-end architecture, deployment, and operations of Sitecore-based digital experiences for high-traffic theme parks including Ferrari World and Yas Island, ensuring scalability, security, and business continuity.
• Designed and implemented a robust Azure cloud platform leveraging App Gateway, Azure API Management, Azure Web Apps, Azure SQL, Service Bus, Azure Search, and Azure Isolated Environments to support high-availability, secure content delivery.
• Architected a secure and scalable hub-and-spoke network topology, integrating with F5, VPNs, and centralized DNS for regional access, compliance, and operational isolation.
• Delivered CI/CD automation using Bamboo and Octopus Deploy, enabling reliable, repeatable deployments of Sitecore components, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Managed Azure Active Directory app registrations and role-based access controls, ensuring identity governance and secure inter-service communication.
• Orchestrated cost management and forecasting using Cost Center tagging, policy-based controls, and Azure-native tools to track environment-level spend across dev, staging, and production.
• Enabled zero-downtime deployments, rolling updates, and auto-scaling policies to handle peak traffic for major events and tourism surges.
• Acted as a cross-functional leader, bridging development, infrastructure, security, and product teams to drive DevOps maturity and cloud excellence.
• Authoring, managing, and enforcing compliance via policies.
• Hands-on or planning experience with tools like Azure Defender for Cloud, Aqua Security and Checkov
• Working experience with OKTA and Azure Sentinel.

• Administrating and Configuring TFS.
• Build automation and customization using Windows workflows.
• Creating Installers Using Install Shield.
• Automating builds for different platforms and technologies Including Firmware, C, C++ etc.
• Working on release management.

• Setting up CI Builds using Jenkins and MS Build.
• Creating MSI packages for supporting vendor packages.
• Installer deployment through VB Script.
• Admin Studio for implementation over enterprise.
• Maintenance and administration of Build Servers.
• Working on VMWare.

• Configure software builds and automated deploys to non-production and production environments.
• Troubleshooting the Build and Release Issues.
• Product Versioning.
• Deploying Builds to Different Environment.
• Application Packaging for various products.
• Incorporating new development projects into existing build systems.
• Design, document, implement, and maintain scripts to enhance current build/release processes using VB Script and Install Script.
• Application Packaging using install shield.