Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Wrocław, Poland

Sagar R Ravkhande

DevOps Architect, Cloud Platform Engineer, Kubernetes and Terraform specialist, DevSecOps advocate.

Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 14+ 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.

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Sagar R Ravkhande — Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

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14+

Years in cloud & IT

slo: availability

99.9%

Platform uptime SLA

finops: savings

$148K

Annual cloud savings

dora: lead time

40%

Faster release cycles

sec: critical cves

−75%

Critical vulnerabilities

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11

Certifications

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Experience

From UI development to multi-cloud platform engineering. Tip: click any highlighted skill in the Skills section to see where I've used it.

  1. Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

    Luxoft · Wrocław, Poland Nov 2021 — Present
    • −40% config drift
    • −40% deploy cycle
    • −75% critical CVEs
    • 99.9% uptime
    • 100+ repos migrated
    • 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%.
  2. Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

    TomTom · Pune Oct 2018 — Sep 2021
    • $148K/yr saved
    • 4h → 6min provisioning
    • MTTR 18 min
    • −25% cloud cost
    • 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.
  3. DevOps Specialist

    Pitney Bowes Jan 2018 — Oct 2018
    • 30+ services
    • −70% manual ops
    • −$3K/month
    • 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.
  4. Technical Associate

    Sears Holding India Sep 2015 — Jan 2018
    • +30% app performance
    • 1 month → 2 days
    • 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.
  5. Freelancer

    One Chits Private Ltd Jul 2014 — Aug 2015
    • 5+ projects delivered
    • 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.
  6. UI Developer

    Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd May 2012 — Jun 2014
    • +20% DB performance
    • +30% code efficiency
    • 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.

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Skills

Skills with a counter are clickable — they jump to the roles where I applied them.

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

Observability

Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch ELK Nagios

Infra & Security

Linux Confluent Kafka Vault IAM MFA OWASP

Languages

Python Bash Boto3

Databases

MySQL SQL Server MongoDB Atlas Redis

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Certifications

CNCF / Linux Foundation

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Verify on Credly

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Blogs

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Education & Recognition

Education

  • Jul 2007 — Aug 2011

    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

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

  • Jun 2005 — May 2007

    HSC

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

  • Apr 1995 — Apr 2005

    SSC, Mathematics and Computer Science

    Hindustan Antibiotics School

Awards

Star Performer of the Year

Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd.

Team Excellence Award

Sears

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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.

TrekkingLong RidesKayaking

Story Worlds

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

Sci-FiFantasyWorld Building

Kitchen Experiments

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

CookingExperimentationCreativity

Tech Curiosity

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

CloudAICyberSecurity

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Contact

Let's build reliable platforms together.

Have a platform to scale, a migration to plan, or a pipeline that needs taming? I'm always happy to talk cloud architecture, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps.

Email me