Ankit A.

Managed, handled, and troubleshooted Cloud Bare-Metal machines, Cloud Infrastructure, and Kubernetes clusters in production and other environments, performing root cause analyses (RCAs) as needed;

Contributed as a Founding Staff Engineer in the India office, focusing on developer productivity and platform foundations, including compute and databases, to enhance platform stability, reliability, and auto-healing capabilities;

Treated infrastructure as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and implemented "everything as code" practices to automate processes with proper versioning for review and measurement;

Initiated and optimized infrastructure costs by 24% using various approaches and open-source tools across development, staging, pre-production, and production environments, aiming to achieve a 40% reduction;

Reduced average deployment times from over 25 minutes to 2 minutes in CI/CD pipelines through the use of indexing approaches in Bazel and heuristic methods in some cases;

Upgraded EKS clusters with zero downtime through automated processes, enforcing the right requirements to decrease the time and effort required for upgrades;

Migrated Jenkins from virtual machines to EKS, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of continuous integration and delivery processes.

Wrote shell scripts, Python scripts, Helm charts, and Ansible playbooks to automate tasks and deployments on servers and Kubernetes clusters with more than 1000 pods;

Set up and deployed Istio control plane and data planes across all environments using istio-operator, with Istio CNI enabled and chained with AWS CNI, to achieve observability using Kiali, Prometheus, and Grafana in current CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and ArgoCD;

Upgraded Istio control plane, Istio CNI, and data plane using a canary upgrade process, ensuring zero downtime;

Troubleshooted, maintained, automated, monitored, and administered Kubernetes clusters in all environments;

Initiated and achieved infrastructure cost optimization by 40% through the use of spot nodes, serverless functions, observability tools, and containerization in staging, pre-production, and production environments;

Developed a solution for in-house functions-as-a-service (FaaS) used by all teams, utilizing different scaling strategies on Kubernetes and Node levels to manage thousands of pods starting and stopping every minute without impacting running applications, addressing PLEG issues on Kubernetes NodeGroups;

Led a team of five responsible for providing a stable platform for adoption by more than 60 teams.

Deployed, managed, and migrated a self-hosted Dynamic CDN network that served over 35 billion requests per month;

Handled a self-hosted PostgreSQL cluster managing 320TBs of data;

Led the migration from bare metal infrastructure to GCP Cloud, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition.

Deployed, managed, and migrated a self-hosted Dynamic CDN network serving over 35 billion requests per month. Handled a self-hosted PostgreSQL cluster managing 320TBs of data;

Led the migration from bare metal infrastructure to GCP Cloud, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition;

Joined Zopper, a hyper-local eCommerce startup founded by serial entrepreneurs Surjendu Kulia and Neeraj Jain, as a Founding Staff Engineer in the India office, contributing to the development and stability of the platform.

Designed to handle all hospital operations, ensuring seamless integration and efficiency across various departments;

Supported major clients such as Medanta and Metro, delivering reliable and high-performing healthcare management solutions;

Enhanced the system's scalability and robustness to meet the growing demands of large healthcare institutions;

Implemented automated processes and tools to streamline hospital operations, improving overall healthcare service delivery.

Provided expertise in platform engineering and cloud infrastructure to enhance product performance and reliability;

Developed and implemented scalable solutions to support high-traffic applications and ensure optimal performance;

Automated deployment processes using tools like Ansible and Terraform to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort;

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve infrastructure issues, improving system stability and uptime;

Monitored and optimized infrastructure costs, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining high performance;

Implemented best practices for security and compliance, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring adherence to industry standards;

Conducted regular performance tuning and capacity planning to meet the growing demands of clients and maintain service quality.