Sagar R Ravkhande

Ciepła 15/13 · Wrocław, Poland, 50-529 · +48 739521860/+91 9028266052 · sagar.ravkhande@gmail.com

Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and platform reliability across AWS and Azure. Proven delivery of cost optimization ($148K annual savings), deployment acceleration (40% faster releases), and production stability (99.9% uptime) through Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices. Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, observability, and enterprise-grade cloud security.

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Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Luxoft, Wroclaw, Poland

Architected and operated multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform and Kubernetes to improve scalability, fault tolerance, and platform resilience.

Designed multi-AZ EKS environments and implemented automated drift detection, reducing infrastructure configuration drift by 40%.

Optimized CI/CD pipelines with GitOps, Azure DevOps, and HashiCorp Vault across 50+ microservices, reducing deployment cycle time by 40%.

Implemented container image scanning and hardening controls, reducing critical security vulnerabilities by 75% and improving release security posture.

Migrated 100+ repositories from SVN to GitLab through automation, improving developer productivity and reducing maintenance overhead by 60%.

Built observability and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana, achieving 99.9% service uptime and reducing incident response time by 75%.

November 2021 - Present

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

TomTom, Pune

Architected optimized Azure and OpenStack infrastructure with rightsizing and autoscaling, delivering $148K annual cloud cost savings.

Designed multi-region AKS platform architecture with 99.9% uptime SLA and reduced cloud costs by 25% through capacity optimization.

Automated provisioning workflows using Terraform and Ansible, reducing environment setup time from 4 hours to 6 minutes.

Implemented proactive monitoring and alerting via Prometheus and Grafana, improving critical incident response by 85% and reducing MTTR to 18 minutes.

Led 5+ cloud transformation initiatives with globally distributed teams, enabling 90% faster feature delivery cycles.

October 2018 - September 2021

DevOps Specialist

Pitney Bowes

Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and Puppet for hybrid AWS and on-premises application delivery across 30+ services.

Developed AWS Lambda and Python Boto3 automation to reduce manual operations by 70% and lower cloud operating costs by $3K per month.

Implemented ECS-based container deployment patterns to improve release consistency, scalability, and deployment reliability.

Strengthened cloud security controls through MFA, IAM policy hardening, and network security group best practices to ensure compliance requirements.

January 2018 - October 2018

Technical Associate

Sears Holding India

Built deployment and operations tooling that improved application performance by 30% and increased platform stability in production.

Reduced failed order processing turnaround for core e-commerce workflows from one month to two days through automation and process redesign.

Managed AWS infrastructure components including EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, IAM, and Lambda for high-traffic production workloads.

Implemented Nagios-based infrastructure monitoring for CPU, memory, disk, and service health to improve operational visibility.

September 2015 - January 2018

Freelancer

One Chits Private Ltd

Collaborated with business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver browser-based offline-capable PHP applications integrated with MySQL backend services.

Delivered 5+ end-to-end freelance projects with strong client satisfaction, maintainable code quality, and production-ready releases.

July 2014 - August 2015

UI Developer

Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd

Developed internal web interfaces using PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and jQuery to streamline marketing operations and campaign execution.

Built customer-facing PHP interfaces that increased engagement and improved average user time on page by 2 minutes.

Improved database performance by 20% through query optimization, materialized views, and stored procedures.

Improved application code efficiency by 30% by applying optimized data structures and maintainable coding standards.

May 2012 - June 2014

Education

D. Y. Patil College of Engineering (DYPCOE), Akurdi, Pune

Bachelor's Degree

Computer Engineering

First Class

July 2007 - August 2011

Progressive Education Society's Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune

HSC

First Class

June 2005 - May 2007

Hindustan Antibiotics School

SSC

Mathematics and Computer Science

April 1995 - April 2005

Skills

Cloud

EC2 EKS Lambda S3 VPC IAM Azure VM AKS Azure Functions Service Bus Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Azure Bicep ARM CloudFormation Ansible Puppet Helm

Containers

Kubernetes Docker EKS AKS ECS

CI/CD

GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Azure DevOps GitOps ArgoCD

Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch ELK

Infra & Security

Linux Confluent Kafka Vault IAM MFA OWASP

Languages

Python Bash Boto3

Databases

MySQL SQL Server MongoDB Atlas Redis

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Google

Cloud Digital Leader Certification

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Awards

Star Performer of the Year

Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd.

Team Excellence Award

Sears

Blogs

DEV Community

ELK Stack Deployment Using Minikube Single Node Architecture

Step-by-step implementation of an ELK stack in a compact Kubernetes environment for logs and observability.

Kubernetes ELK Observability

DEV Community

Migrating a Subversion (SVN) Repository to Git, GitLab, and GitHub

A practical migration playbook to modernize source control with reduced risk and better team collaboration.

Git Migration DevOps

DEV Community

6(R) Strategies for Cloud Migration - All in One

A concise breakdown of cloud migration approaches to choose the right path for different application portfolios.

Cloud Architecture Strategy

DEV Community

Infrastructure as Code Using Terraform

An IaC primer on provisioning consistent, repeatable infrastructure using Terraform modules and workflows.

Terraform IaC Automation

Interests

Outside work, I recharge with adventure, creativity, and continuous learning. My interests keep my thinking sharp and my problem-solving style practical.

Outdoors

Trekking, long rides, and kayaking are my go-to activities for resilience and focus.

Trekking Long Rides Kayaking

Story Worlds

I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy movies and series, especially stories about future tech and complex systems.

Sci-Fi Fantasy World Building

Kitchen Experiments

An aspiring chef at home, I like experimenting with flavors the same way I experiment with automation ideas.

Cooking Experimentation Creativity

Tech Curiosity

I spend free time exploring Cloud, DevOps, AI, and CyberSecurity trends to stay ahead of what is next.

Cloud AI CyberSecurity