Sumit G.

DevSecOps Leader | Experienced in Scalable, Cost-Efficient Cloud & Platform Engineering | Building High-Performing Teams

Delhi, India

About

I’m a DevOps leader with 14+ years of experience designing, scaling, and supporting multi-tenant, globally distributed platforms across fast-growing organizations. Currently at OLX Autos & Classifieds, I lead a high-performing team of engineers, enabling 10+ product squads with resilient, cost-efficient, and scalable infrastructure. 🔑 What drives me: bridging business priorities with technology strategy — building systems that are reliable, secure, and optimized for cost, while enabling teams to thrive in agile, collaborative environments. 💡 Leadership Highlights • Leading and mentoring DevOps engineers, fostering ownership and technical excellence • Building teams through structured hiring, coaching, and mentorship • Partnering with business, product, and engineering leaders to align infrastructure with organizational goals ⚙️ Technical Focus Areas • Cloud & FinOps: AWS (EKS, RDS, EC2, VPC, Route53, IAM, S3, Transit Gateway, ELB), cost optimization at scale • Automation: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins • Container Platforms: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Helm • Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Thanos, CloudWatch, New Relic, CatchPoint • Databases: MySQL (replication, tuning), Redis, Memcached • High Availability: Clustering, load balancing (LVS, HAProxy), CDN (Akamai) 🚀 Impact I’ve Delivered • Reduced cloud spend significantly through FinOps-driven optimization without sacrificing scalability • Accelerated release velocity with CI/CD automation and IaC, enabling faster time-to-market • Strengthened platform resilience, consistently achieving 99.99% uptime for critical services • Scaled globally distributed systems to support high-traffic platforms across multiple regions 🌍 I’m passionate about driving DevOps practices that deliver measurable business impact while growing teams that thrive on ownership, learning, and collaboration.

Experience

  • Engineering Manager (DevSecOps) at OLX Indonesia
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Site Reliability Engineering Manager at RoundCircle
    Jan 2024 - Apr 2024 · 4 mos

  • OLX Autos (Full-time · 9 yrs)
    • Technical Lead
      Oct 2021 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      - Leading a team of 5 Site Reliability Engineers. - Migrated Infrastructure from bare-metal to AWS Cloud. - Responsible for infrastructure planning and budgeting of OLXAutos transaction & Classifieds business. - Responsible for managing multi region deployed AWS infrastructure catering customers in different geographies. - Ensuring services are running healthy within defined SLA/SLOs.

    • Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
      Mar 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • DevOps Engineer
      Mar 2015 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Senior System Administrator at Jabong
    Sep 2014 - Mar 2015 · 7 mos

  • Monster.com India Pvt Ltd (3 yrs)
    • Linux System Administrator
      Feb 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

      SVN, High Availability clusters, LVS, Shell Scripts, Apache MPM, ArpWatch, Qmail, VegaDns, MySql Database replication,QmailAdmin, LIDS, Mysql Upgradation, DRBD Cluster, Apache WebServer, Backup Management, Sawmill Log Management, Logrotate, Kernel Compilation, RkHunter,AWS,Server Setup, Nessus etc.

    • Associate System Administrator
      Oct 2011 - Feb 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos