ravikulkarni110's CV
ravikulkarni110
Senior DevOps Engineer
Profile summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 15 years shaping enterprise cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure engineering outcomes. Known for steering large-scale cloud migrations and optimizing deployment pipelines across financial services, telecommunications, and global tech sectors. Committed to delivering resilient platform operations and driving technical enablement for cross-functional engineering organizations.
Career highlights
Telecom Transformation Delivery: Steered DevOps transformation across 40 telecom applications, delivering 16 applications in 6 months and 24 in 3 months with build times down 40% and time-to-market up 50%.
Infrastructure Automation Provisioning: Built an Ansible role automating Jenkins master and agent provisioning, reducing deployment time from two hours to 15 minutes across 10 development teams within six months.
Release Management Automation: Led release management automation for Telia by integrating ServiceNow into continuous integration and deployment pipelines, reducing release cycle time by 30%.
Key skills
Professional experience
Defines cloud and DevOps advisory strategy, steering production-grade lab platform operations and technical enablement programs for enterprise organizations including Deutsche Bank, ANZ Bank, and Walmart Global Tech since 2022.
- Architects and operates production-grade AWS and GCP lab platforms, maintaining EKS and GKE clusters, VPC networking, IAM roles, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform modules.
- Rebuilds cloud lab platforms continuously to match current service behavior.
- Advises enterprise clients on pipeline design reviews, Terraform and IaC implementation, container migration, and AWS cost optimization.
- Mentors engineering teams through DevOps, SRE, and cloud career paths.
Shaped DevOps transformation strategy across forty telecom applications spanning monoliths, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. Re-architected legacy systems to cloud environments using automated provisioning and standardized deployment pipelines.
- Delivered sixteen applications in six months and twenty-four applications in three months, reducing build times by forty percent and increasing time-to-market by fifty percent.
- Automated recurring incident fixes and integrated them into observability dashboards while tracking metrics to raise deployment frequency and reduce mean time to resolution.
Reported to executive leadership while directing infrastructure operations across financial systems. Governed the capital markets platform group, maintaining oversight of deployment pipelines and cloud architecture transitions.
- Built CI/CD automation and release management processes for a financial application.
- Migrated workloads from on-premise virtual servers to Azure infrastructure.
- Fixed application cache and deployment reporting defects to stabilize load times.
Reported to engineering leadership, overseeing cloud migration strategies, infrastructure automation initiatives, and compliance frameworks across distributed deployment environments while partnering with development teams to standardize operational workflows.
- Built an Ansible role automating Jenkins master and agent provisioning, reducing deployment time from two hours to 15 minutes across 10 development teams within six months.
- Executed migration of Oracle BRM applications containerised with Docker onto AWS ECS and GCP Cloud Run, deployed through a GitOps model.
- Collaborated with the cloud security team to evidence automation compliance in an audited environment and built real-time monitoring dashboards.
- Implemented Jenkins CI/CD on AWS for SAP Hybris on Tomcat across EC2 instances with S3 storage, automating deployments with Ansible on RHEL.
- Built ELK-based dashboards that surfaced bot interference delaying B2B checkouts.
- Automated release management for Telia by integrating ServiceNow into CI/CD pipelines, reducing release cycle time by 30%
- Introduced a release calendar aligning development, test, and deployment teams, resulting in 25% fewer last-minute conflicts and 20% better predictability
- Delivers technical enablement programmes for enterprise clients such as Deutsche Bank, ANZ Bank, and Walmart Global Tech using custom Terraform modules and continuous integration pipelines.
- Owned end-to-end CI/CD automation and the full release cycle, encompassing testing, approvals, and compliance requirements for a capital markets application.
- Migrated workloads from on-premise virtual servers to Azure and contributed to scalability planning.
- Constructed infrastructure as code templates to standardize environment provisioning for telecom clients across distributed teams.
- Implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines to automate software delivery and reduce manual intervention during releases.
Projects
Kubernetes lab containing an LLM agent with RBAC, a tool broker and NetworkPolicy, with an audit log of every tool call.
Kubernetes Claude Codeevent-driven claims pipeline with Kafka, Redis, APISIX, Prometheus and Grafana.
Kafka Redis APISIX Prometheus Grafana Claude CodeEducation
Electronics & Telecommunications