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Pawan Gupta

Pawan Gupta

Fremont,CA

Summary

With 19 years of extensive experience in DevOps tools and technologies across AWS, GCP, and on-premises deployments, I possess a deep understanding of microservices-based architecture systems. My expertise includes implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and optimizing cloud and on-prem environments to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Cloud Engineer

ID.me
11.2024 - Current
  • Engineered and implemented a CI/CD pipeline for a Java-based Validator application deployed on Kubernetes, leveraging GitHub Actions for automation, ArgoCD for GitOps continuous delivery, and Helm for package management.
  • Served in 24/7 on-call rotation, troubleshooting production incidents across HashiCorp ecosystem (Nomad for orchestration, Consul for service discovery, Vault for secrets management).

Senior Cloud Engineer

Anaplan
06.2022 - 10.2024
  • Designed and developed an account factory using Terraform Enterprise for seamless account provisioning, IAM, and centralized logging.
  • Deployment and management of EKS, GKE, and Datacenter Kubernetes clusters for the Anaplan platform.
  • Handling (on call) production issues and promptly resolving them required extensive collaboration across various teams. Successfully defining, implementing, and monitoring SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs led to a well-defined and reliable service delivery process.
  • Expertly managed connectivity between Data centers, AWS, and GCP through Direct Connects, transit gateways, and Cloud VPNs, ensuring robust and reliable network performance.
  • Successfully led the migration from Splunk to Grafana for enhanced logging and monitoring of cloud networking, Kubernetes

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

BigCommerce
10.2020 - 06.2022
  • Developed and maintained the entire data infrastructure pipeline at BigCommerce, including Kafka Cluster, ECS containers, EMR, and AWS RDS.
  • SuccessfullydeployedapredictiveAImodeltoidentifycustomerchurn,allowingproactiveinterventionstoimproveretention.
  • Managed CI/CD processes for various BigCommerce products using CircleCI and an internal tool, Launchbay.
  • Utilized AWS ECS extensively to handle dynamic traffic, with the entire infrastructure managed using Puppet and Terraform.
  • Played a key role in migrating the existing data pipeline to Google Cloud.

Lead Manager DevOps

Zapr Media Labs
09.2018 - 12.2019
  • Deployed the Polestar application on AWS, managing 120 servers including 15 on-demand and 115 spot instances.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for all Zapr products, enhancing development efficiency and reliability.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to set up Grafana dashboards for critical application and service metrics, defining threshold values and configuring alerts through PagerDuty.

Principal Applications Engineer (DevOps)

Oracle
02.2014 - 09.2018
  • Responsible for the installation, provisioning, and verification of OKCS (Oracle Knowledge Cloud Services) in the RightNow Cloud environment.
  • Designed and implemented core deployment code using Core Java and WLST (Java + Python) scripts.
  • Managed infrastructure using Ansible to ensure smooth operations and efficient resource management.

Senior Software Engineer

Informatica
07.2006 - 02.2014
  • Participated in various releases of Informatica products such as PowerCenter, Informatica Data Quality, Informatica Data Explorer, and Informatica 9.0.0.
  • Developed configuration wizards using Core Java APIs, Swing (for the front end), and InstallAnywhere as the engine.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

PESIT
06.2006

Skills

  • Cloud Experience: AWS, GCP
  • Cloud Specific Tools: Terraform Enterprise, Harness, ArgoCD
  • Skills: Shell Scripting, Python, Java, AI/ML, REST APIs
  • Infrastructure Management: Terraform, Ansible
  • Container Orchestration: AWS ECS, GKE, EKS
  • Tools: Kafka, EMR, Gitlab, Jenkins, JIRA
  • Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator


Sun Certified Java Programmer


Timeline

Lead Cloud Engineer

ID.me
11.2024 - Current

Senior Cloud Engineer

Anaplan
06.2022 - 10.2024

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

BigCommerce
10.2020 - 06.2022

Lead Manager DevOps

Zapr Media Labs
09.2018 - 12.2019

Principal Applications Engineer (DevOps)

Oracle
02.2014 - 09.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Informatica
07.2006 - 02.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

PESIT
Pawan Gupta