git log --career

Experience

Six years of building platforms that engineers love and CFOs approve of - across Fortune 500 engagements. See the projects delivered and talks given.

Practice Leader - FinAIOps & Platform Engineering

08/2026 - Present
StatusNeo Gurugram, India

Platform engineering consultancy delivering infrastructure for Fortune 500 enterprises across North America, Europe, and Asia.

  • Leading the global FinAIOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability practice from India, taking offerings to market across five regions - the US, UK, South Africa, Middle East, and Australia.
  • Won and now delivering a commercial Backstage.io partnership with Spotify, packaging enterprise Developer Experience as a repeatable Fortune 500 offering.
  • Productizing an AI-native FinOps platform on AWS Bedrock, grounded in $7M+ of measured savings across prior engagements.

Platform Engineering Architect

07/2024 - 07/2026
StatusNeo Jersey City, NJ
  • Architected multi-cluster EKS platform for 3 clusters, 100+ Graviton nodes, 15 AWS accounts with 35-state regulatory compliance and per-state namespace isolation; led ARM64 migration for a 40% cost reduction.
  • Designed high-throughput Kafka pipeline (536 Strimzi connectors) streaming to Snowflake/S3 - cut Snowflake API calls by 50% at 99.9% uptime.
  • Built AI-powered FinOps platform (AWS Bedrock + FastAPI) with multi-cloud scanning across AWS and GCP - identified $2M in annual savings; a further $5M came from RDS right-sizing, S3 Intelligent Tiering, and KMS batch processing.
  • Architected zero-downtime Airflow v2→v3 migration - parallel instances, fresh CloudNativePG databases, per-state feature flags, automated validation for 3,400+ DAGs.
  • Built observability stack with Dynatrace (Terraform + dtctl) and custom OpenTelemetry metrics - reduced MTTR with automated RCA for Karpenter, Snowflake, and Redis incidents.

Principal DevOps Engineer

01/2022 - 07/2024
StatusNeo Gurugram, India
  • Architected enterprise Backstage.io platform for 2,000+ engineers - plugin architecture with sub-second scaffolding and 300+ templates; onboarding dropped from 4 weeks to 3 days.
  • Built unified observability across Fortune 500 acquisitions - 1M+ deployment events daily, custom Prometheus exporters, DORA metrics for 10,000+ engineers.
  • Led IDP for a global gaming enterprise (150+ engineers) with GitOps workflows - provisioning from 2 weeks to 15 minutes; market launches from 6 months to 2 weeks.
  • Led GitHub Enterprise migrations for 2,000+ developers (SVN/Bitbucket → GitHub) - zero downtime, 2 months early, $400K storage savings.

Founding Engineer

02/2020 - 01/2022
StatusNeo Gurugram, India
  • Architected AI model orchestration on Kubernetes (Seldon Core, gRPC) - sub-200ms P95 latency with 50+ ML models in production; established the org's AI platform practices.
  • Founding engineer on Day 0 through scale past 500 people across four regions; established the Backstage.io Center of Excellence and developer experience practice that became the firm's enterprise platform product.