As a Principal DevOps Engineer at Roche, I focus on architecting scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions.
Experience
2026 — Now
2026 — Now
San Jose, California, United States
2021 — 2026
2021 — 2026
San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead engineer in the devops organization working on multiple products.
• Leading the team of six engineers.
• Responsible for architecting the future of multiple applications.
• Setup nvidia GPU based kubernetes nodes for running machine learning imaging algorithms.
• Worked on ISMS ISO 27001 to comply with business, legal, contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Designed & worked on migrating the application to Kubernetes (AWS EKS) from legacy EC2.
• Added various monitoring tools to the kubernetes stack.
• Worked with DevSecOps in security assessments and fixing vulnerabilities.
• Migrated jenkins jobs to Github actions.
• Review and fix cybersecurity issues per quarter.
• Successfully saved AWS costs every year by about 10%.
• Built serverless web applications for tracking builds.
• Increased developer productivity by creating self service jenkins jobs to deploy on dev, qa environments.
• Gave multiple demos to various teams and lunch & learn sessions for dev, qa teams within the product.
• Trained in Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodology and actively using the knowledge in all the products.
• Manage & run product increments & sprints for devops team in multiple products.
• Meeting cross functional leads to discuss open issues, features and release related topics.
• Documenting & signing off paperwork needed for releases.
Tech: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS EKS, Terragrunt, Terraform, various AWS services & monitoring tools like Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Splunk, etc.
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
Leading the devops activities for https://www.navify.com/mutation-profiler/
Microservice architecture Deployed on AWS using Terraform.
AWS Stack: ALB, EC2 (Spot/on-demand/RI), Route53, ACM, KMS, SSM, IAM, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch, etc.
Packer for secure and hardened AMI configuration.
Ansible for microservice configuration management.
Jenkins, FPM, Ruby for Build/Packaging & Aptly for package repository management.
SumoLogic for logging.
VictorOps, icinga2 for alerting.
SecOps tools: Dome9, AWS Guardduty.
Okta for application identity management.
Cloudflare for website security & DDoS protection.
Programming Languages in use: Python, ruby, java
2017 — 2019
2017 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
• Working in the productivity team as a build and test infrastructure engineer.
• Built a web app which applies analytics on the collected build and test metrics provided by the REST API’s of Teamcity.
• Wrote build scripts to make the build pipeline compatible with our private cloud.
• Developed an automatic test failure triaging mechanism to intelligently relate the failure to new or existing bugs.
• Created a slack bot to save developer time and ease the process of CI/CD pipeline.
• Containerized few build components to better manage dependencies and parallelize build pipeline.
• Added centos7.4/7.6 and rhel7.4/7.6 support for the managed openstack product and tested them thoroughly.
• Manage an inventory of servers running on different environments such as Openstack, ESXi and AWS.
• Technology Stack: Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Python2.7, Django1.11, AngularJS, Shell scripting, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Vmware, Teamcity, Jira, Git.
2016 — 2017
Mountain View, California
• Built a full stack application which provisions different types of machines with appropriate build packages.
• The application features include scheduling of test jobs, reporting logs, machine cleanups, providing code coverage, providing analytics and reporting aspects needed by project managers, machine reservations, quota management, etc.
• Created several reporting features using angular2, html5, css3.
• Working on continuous delivery pipeline, automatic test job triaging & code coverage features of the application.
• Wrote a test scheduling mechanism for java and cpp based unit tests in docker to reduce unit testing time.
• Wrote monitoring scripts for health checks of all the core infrastructure components.
• Wrote multiple rest api’s and helpers using python and Django rest framework.
• Contributed in several core libraries such as esxi, rhev, vcenter and tintri’s vmstore.
• Managed multiple versions of vCenter in terms of compute, storage and intermittent issues.
• Upgraded Linux testing machines to latest centos flavor. Containerized the test virtual machine to parallelize jobs.
• Created a pool of ZFS disks into a vm for archival storage and maintained it.
• Developed log archiving based on policies so that a restricted number of logs be copied to servers used by offshore team.
• This internal application is the back bone of the entire organization.
• Mentored an intern during summer 2017 for some analytics on test recommendation based on developer changes.
• Technologies: Django, python, angularjs, elasticsearch, kibana, mysql, mongodb, redis, celery, rabbitmq, vmware, docker.
Education
San José State University
Master's Degree
2014 — 2015
Sardar Patel University
Bachelor's of engineering
2007 — 2011