Kaustubh Desai

DevOps Engineer | CKA

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

About

I am an IT professional with strong experience in DevOps and Linux System Administration. I have 8+ years of work experience which majorly includes developing automation scripts, APIs in Python, building infrastructure on AWS with Linux and writing code for automating server monitoring activities and code deployment using Python and Bash. I enjoy working with Linux and AWS.

Experience

  • ConnectWise (Hybrid)
    • Senior Cloud Engineer II
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

      - Mentor Junior Cloud Engineers - Proactively work on optimizing infrastructure cost - Migrate workload from EC2 to containers - Review Pipeline and IaC

    • Senior Cloud Engineer I
      Nov 2023 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

      - Migrate several Jenkins QA automation EC2 based pipelines to Gitlab CICD. - Collaborate with Dev team and migrate critical microservices running on AWS EC2 to AWS ECS container orchestrator for faster scaling and efficient deployment. Develop Cloudformation templates for deployment of microservices with all dependent infrastructure components and deploy with Gitlab CICD. - Collaborated in implementing a common deployment pipeline for 20+ microservices running on EC2 instances which enabled parallel deployment on scaled servers improving performance and resiliency. - Setup Gitlab/Jenkins CICD pipelines as per requirements keeping std DevOps practices in check. - Resize server infrastructure periodically for cloud cost optimisation.

  • Karza Technologies (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote)
    • Tech Lead DevOps
      Apr 2023 - Nov 2023 · 8 mos

      - Managed a team of DevOps Engineers and collaborated in hiring DevOps Engineers. - Mentored the team on standard infrastructure and DevOps practices. - Lead the setup of end to end infrastructure of Karza's VideoKYC application to be deployed on client's Cloud account. - Collaborated with client's DevOps team for infrastructure setup in adherence to the client's cloud infrastructure's security and network compliance.

    • Software Engineer 2 (DevOps)
      Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Setup deployment pipelines that streamline on-cloud deployments on client's restricted network premise. - Developed custom pod autoscaler in Kubernetes which scaled on basis of a custom Cloudwatch metric - Collaborate with Dev and QA teams to resolve their infrastructure issues and set up pipelines according to their requirements.

    • DevOps Engineer
      Jul 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

      - DevOps SPOC for any on cloud(client's premise) Paas deployments - Set up end to end infrastructure for products with Paas offering on Client's cloud premise from scratch. - Guide developers in resolving infrastructure issues.

  • DevOps Engineer at Rebel Foods (Formerly Faasos)
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2019 · 4 mos

    - Monitored entire infrastructure activity, incoming traffic, and resolved infrastructure issues in Production environment. This infrastructure included websites like order.faasos.io, behrouzbiryani.com, ovenstory.in, mandarinoak.com, thegoodbowl.co, firangibake.com, sweettruth.in and integration with third party applications like Zomato and Swiggy. - Administered access control list for employees using open source Business tools(Apache Superset, Metabase) and developers using AWS instances for functional testing

  • Systems Administrator at Vertoz
    Dec 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Implemented BOTO (a Python SDK to interact and automate AWS services) to automate scraping of Cloudwatch metrics for Elastic Load balancers in order to streamline monitoring of traffic, 5XX errors and health of instances. - Documented HOW-to guides for troubleshooting AD campaigns. - Served as a SPOC for seamless communication between a software service provider hired to revamp a specific feature and my infrastructure team at Vertoz.

  • Junior Software Developer at e.Soft Technologies Ltd.
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - Designed architecture of the web application and built APIs in Flask from ground up. - Developed a seamless build process which packages all Python code into a deb package, this made deployment very easy. - Developed a provisional shell script for the infrastructure team to setup software and all it's dependencies.