Leadership & Team Management: Led task allocation, planning, and delivery for Core Infra team; driving collaboration across Data Platform, QA, and internal customer teams to meet deadlines and ensure seamless execution. Spearheaded the development of Internal Developer Portal using Spotify Backstage, enhancing workflow efficiency and developer productivity. Mentored junior developers on Microservices Architecture, and Kubernetes, fostering skill development and team growth. Cloud Architecture & Managed Kubernetes: Been a SPOC for OLA Krutrim's Developer Teams, leading the design, implementation, and testing of Managed Kubernetes Services for OLA's upcoming cloud platform Krutrim Cloud Services. Delivered scalable Kubernetes architecture, integrated CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices to ensure production readiness. AI Infrastructure & Containerisation: Been a SPOC for OLA Krutrim's AI Teams, enabling the deployment of AI/ML models and applications on Kubernetes for secure, high-performance services. Architected secure and highly available Kubernetes clusters with Kong Ingress Controller, integrating rate limiting and load balancing. Implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to automate deployments, reducing manual intervention by 70% and ensuring continuous delivery. Cloud Infrastructure & Automation: Designed and implemented AWS VPC, subnets, security groups, and load balancers for high availability and disaster recovery. Set-up PostgreSQL database with backups and recovery on Kubernetes with AWS S3 integration, ensuring 99.9% uptime for production.

Incident Management & Reliability: Diagnosed and resolved cloud infrastructure incidents, ensuring maximum uptime and customer satisfaction across Amazon Ads Services. Security & Risk Mitigation: Fixed 268 SAS risks, enhancing system stability and security, and reducing incidents by 40%. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with development teams to end to end deployment of Amazon Ads Services for the Market place in South South Africa (amazon.co.za). Market Expansion: Led end-to-end deployment of Amazon Ads Services for the South Africa marketplace (amazon.co.za). A/B Testing & Analytics: Utilised Java coding skills to develop code for A/B testing of new features and enhance customer analytics, leading to a substantial increase in user engagement for optimised regional features. Problem-Solving: Contributed code to resolve customer-critical features and bugs, improving the overall performance and customer experience.

Infrastructure Automation: Led the development and automation of infrastructure solutions using Ansible and Terraform, reducing provisioning time by 40% and saving 36K labor hours across 800 storage units. Consulting & Client Engagement: Acted as the primary technical consultant for enterprise clients, designing scalable, distributed systems and generating $488K in sales leads. Cloud & Virtualization: Implemented VMware and Docker/Kubernetes for cloud migrations, improving client infrastructure scalability and reducing overhead by 50%. Automation & Efficiency: Automated HPE 3PAR Storage OS upgrades, improving operational efficiency and reducing upgrade check times by 45 minutes per unit.