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Abhishek D. Malwankar

Houston,TX

Summary

Lead Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, DevOps automation systems, and resilient distributed infrastructure on AWS. Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Site Reliability Engineering, CI/CD automation, and observability supporting mission-critical workloads in regulated environments. Currently leading initiatives focused on platform reliability, infrastructure automation, and DevOps modernization at JPMorgan Chase. Recently exploring AI-assisted operational tooling and Agentic AI concepts, integrating LLM capabilities to support engineering workflows such as incident diagnostics and deployment validation. Recognized for driving automation-first DevOps strategies, scalable cloud architecture, and reliability engineering practices, while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to deliver secure, high-availability technology platforms.

Overview

2027
2027
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead SRE / DevOps Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
Houston, TX
02.2024 - Current
  • Lead engineering initiatives focused on platform reliability, infrastructure automation, and DevOps modernization supporting enterprise data platforms.
  • Architect and operate AWS infrastructure using Terraform, enabling repeatable environment provisioning and scalable platform deployments.
  • Designed and implemented secure CI/CD pipelines supporting automated deployments across multiple environments and improving release consistency.
  • Established end-to-end observability frameworks using AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry, improving operational visibility and reducing incident response time.
  • Led chaos engineering initiatives to proactively identify system failure scenarios and strengthen distributed system resilience.
  • Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to influence platform architecture, reliability practices, and cloud infrastructure standards across multiple systems.
  • Mentor engineers and promote adoption of DevOps and SRE best practices across teams.

AI-Assisted Operational Tooling & Engineering Experiments

  • Integrated OpenAI models through the Fusion Smart SDK platform to experiment with AI-assisted operational diagnostics for engineering workflows.
  • Developed prototype workflows that analyze logs, telemetry signals, and operational metadata to help engineers accelerate root-cause analysis.
  • Evaluated LLM integration considerations including context construction, response reliability, latency, and token usage when applied to engineering tooling.
  • Explored Agentic AI concepts to automate portions of operational investigation processes.

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
04.2023 - 01.2024
  • Implemented Terraform-based infrastructure automation supporting scalable AWS platforms.
  • Built monitoring frameworks and operational dashboards using AWS CloudWatch.
  • Developed Python automation utilities supporting operational tooling.
  • Contributed to backend platform components and services using Java.
  • Led cross-team chaos engineering exercises to validate cloud platform resilience.

Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
12.2021 - 04.2023
  • Modernized legacy applications into cloud-native ETL and analytics platforms.
  • Designed reusable Terraform infrastructure modules aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Built scalable pipelines leveraging AWS infrastructure and cloud services.
  • Collaborated with engineering teams to improve application scalability and operational efficiency.

Manager – Software Deployment (DevOps)

National Oilwell Varco
08.2021 - 11.2021
  • Led DevOps strategy across engineering organization improving deployment reliability and software delivery velocity.
  • Standardized CI/CD pipelines and automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.

Senior DevOps Engineer

07.2019 - 07.2021
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and containerized microservices.
  • Implemented automated testing frameworks and continuous delivery practices.
  • Developed operational automation using Python and Bash scripts.
  • Managed Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts.

Held several software engineering roles over 12 years across enterprise and cloud software development including:

  • National Oilwell Varco
  • Avanade
  • MDT – Mobile Data Technologies
  • DevFacto Technologies
  • BlackBerry Limited
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Experience includes mobile development, enterprise application modernization, cloud platforms, and software testing frameworks.

Education

MBA - Entrepreneurship & Business Analytics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Lethbridge

Diploma - Industrial Electronics

New Polytechnic Kolhapur

Skills

  • Cloud Platform Architecture (AWS)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • DevOps Platform Engineering
  • Kubernetes & Container Platforms (EKS / ECS)
  • CI/CD Pipeline Architecture
  • Observability & Operational Telemetry
  • Agentic AI Concepts & LLM Integration
  • AI-Assisted Engineering Workflows
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Distributed Systems Reliability
  • Engineering Leadership & Mentorship
  • Cloud Platforms
  • AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3)
  • Infrastructure & DevOps
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub, Bamboo, Azure DevOps)
  • Observability
  • CloudWatch
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Operational telemetry frameworks
  • Programming
  • Python
  • Java
  • C#
  • C/C
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • TSQL

Certification

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner
  • Gremlin Certified Enterprise Chaos Engineer
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Microsoft Certified Professional

Timeline

Lead SRE / DevOps Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
02.2024 - Current

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
04.2023 - 01.2024

Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
12.2021 - 04.2023

Manager – Software Deployment (DevOps)

National Oilwell Varco
08.2021 - 11.2021

Senior DevOps Engineer

07.2019 - 07.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Lethbridge

Diploma - Industrial Electronics

New Polytechnic Kolhapur

MBA - Entrepreneurship & Business Analytics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Professional Development

  • Applied Generative AI Specialization
  • Purdue University & Microsoft (In Progress)
Abhishek D. Malwankar