Hello, I'm

Pankaj Kumar

Staff Engineer & Cloud Architect

12.4+ years of experience designing scalable cloud architectures, automating CI/CD pipelines, and integrating AI workflows. Expert in AWS, GCP, Azure, and DevOps culture.

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.

pankaj.epcet@gmail.com
Bangalore, India

12+

Years Experience

3

Major Clouds

5+

Certifications

Technical Expertise

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure

DevOps & Automation

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitLab CI ArgoCD Helm

AI & Data

GenAI Langchain OpenAI API AWS Bedrock Pinecone/ChromaDB N8N

Engineering

Python Java Shell Script Spring Boot REST/FastAPI

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Datadog Dynatrace

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.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Associate

AWS Certified Developer

Associate

GCP Certified Associate Engineer

Google Cloud

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University (India)

Aug 2008 – Aug 2012