Sagar R Ravkhande

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

Results-driven Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of experience architecting secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Proven track record of reducing annual cloud costs by $148K+ and accelerating deployment cycles by 40% through automation, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD engineering. Focused on reliability, security, cost efficiency, and emerging AI/LLM-enabled platform innovation.

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Experience

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Luxoft, Wroclaw, Poland

Architected multi-cloud AWS and Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes, improving scalability and resilience for enterprise workloads.

Designed resilient multi-AZ EKS clusters and reduced infrastructure drift by 40% with automated detection and remediation patterns.

Reduced deployment times by 40% by optimizing CI/CD pipelines with GitOps, Azure DevOps, and Vault across 50+ microservices.

Established image security scanning and hardening practices that reduced critical vulnerabilities by 75%.

Led migration of 100+ repositories from SVN to GitLab, cutting maintenance overhead by 60%.

Implemented Prometheus and Grafana monitoring and alerting, achieving 99.9% uptime and reducing incident response by 75%.

November 2021 - Present

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

TomTom, Pune

Achieved $148K annual savings by architecting optimized Azure and OpenStack environments with rightsizing and autoscaling controls.

Architected multi-region AKS infrastructure with 99.9% uptime SLA and reduced cloud spend by 25% through resource optimization.

Reduced provisioning time from 4 hours to 6 minutes through Terraform and Ansible automation.

Improved critical incident response by 85% with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing MTTR to 18 minutes.

Led 5+ cloud projects with global teams, enabling 90% faster feature release cycles.

October 2018 - September 2021

DevOps Specialist

Pitney Bowes

Designed CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Jenkins, and Puppet for hybrid AWS and on-premises deployments across 30+ applications.

Developed Lambda functions and Boto3 automation, reducing manual operations by 70% and cloud spend by $3K per month.

Implemented containerized ECS workloads to improve deployment consistency and scalability.

Strengthened security posture with MFA, IAM policies, and hardened security groups to maintain full compliance.

January 2018 - October 2018

Technical Associate

Sears Holding India

Built deployment and monitoring tooling that improved application performance by 30%.

Reduced failed order processing from one month to two days for key e-commerce workflows.

Managed AWS infrastructure for high-traffic platforms using EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, IAM, and Lambda.

Implemented Nagios monitoring for production health across CPU, memory, disk, and service availability.

September 2015 - January 2018

Freelancer

One Chits Private Ltd

Work together with the client to understand requirements and build browser-based offline PHP applications from scratch that interact with a MySQL database as backend.

Successfully completed 5+ projects on freelancer.

July 2014 - August 2015

UI Developer

Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd

Developed an in-house web interface using PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery that allowed for employees to manage and send email offers books to customers to streamline monthly marketing mail.

Worked on building new PHP Interfaces for the customer-facing application which improved the time on page for the average user by 2 minutes.

Improved database performance with 20% by using materialized views and stored procedures.

Improved code efficiency by 30% by implementing efficient data structures.

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
HSC

First Class

June 2005 - May 2007

Hindustan Antibiotics School

SSC
SSC

Mathematics and Computer Science

April 1995 - April 2005

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, AWS S3, VPC, IAM), Azure (VM, Azure Storage, AKS, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure DevOps).
  • IaC: 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.
  • Infrastructure & Security: Linux, ELK, Confluent Kafka, Vault, IAM, MFA, OWASP.
  • Languages: Python, Bash, Boto3.
  • Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB Atlas, Redis.

Certifications

  • KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Architect
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Developer
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • GitLab Certified Git Associate
  • Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner

Awards

  • Star Performer of the Year - Inbox Masters System Private Ltd.
  • Team Excellence Award - Sears

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Interests

Apart from being a Cloud and DevOps Professional, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I enjoy trekking, long rides, and kayaking.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the Cloud, DevOps, AI and CyberSecurity world.