Pankaj Kumar
Staff Engineer & Cloud Architect
About Me
I am a seasoned Software and DevOps Engineer with over 12 years of experience in propelling businesses forward through cloud modernization, robust CI/CD, and scalable system architectures.
My career has been defined by leading complex application deployments, orchestrating containerized environments (Kubernetes, ECS), and embracing an Agile/SAFe methodology.
Recently, I've expanded my expertise into deploying GenAI applications using Langchain, vector stores, and self-hosted AI Agents.
12+
Years Experience
3
Major Clouds
5+
Certifications
Technical Expertise
Cloud Platforms
DevOps & Automation
AI & Data
Engineering
Observability
Work Experience
Sr Cloud Engineer
Moder Solution, India
Sept 2023 - Present- Designed and automated 30+ CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Workflows and Terraform.
- Developed and demonstrated Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Built Gen AI applications using Langchain, ChromaDB, FAISS, and Pinecone vector stores.
- Automated tasks with self-hosted N8N AI Agents and designed DevOps workflows with Kestra.
- Orchestrated GPU workloads with EKS and extensively utilized AWS for platform automation.
Staff Engineer
Nextgen Healthcare Inc, India
July 2022 - July 2023- Architected and developed end-to-end EKS infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD, and AWS CodePipeline.
- Implemented DevSecOps integrating SonarQube, Fortify, and Docker scanning.
- Migrated 50+ on-prem Bitbucket pipelines to Bitbucket Cloud.
- Integrated observability tools (Datadog, Dynatrace) and designed AWS-Datacenter networking.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Vodafone _VOIS, India
Jun 2020 – Apr 2022- Achievement: Developed a billing solution in AWS/GCP (REST API, Serverless) that reduced infrastructure costs by 20% through auto-shutdown mechanisms.
- Contributed to a patch management solution lowering operational efforts by 60%.
- Drove system automation using Terraform and Shell Scripting across Kubernetes and Jenkins ecosystems.
Senior Software Engineer
Epsilon, India
Aug 2018 – Jul 2020- Orchestrated Azure and AWS infrastructure deploying over 30 microservices via Terraform.
- Managed AWS cloud environments encompassing automation, metrics collection, DR/Backups, and capacity planning.
- Created custom monitoring dashboards for rapid incident resolution.
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies, India
Jan 2017 – Jul 2018- Crafted foundational IaaS, PaaS, SaaS architectural frameworks for AWS client deployments.
- Expertly implemented solutions incorporating EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, and DynamoDB.