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Swadhin Pattnaik

A highly motivated and detail-oriented Senior System Engineer with 3.6 years of experience in Information Technology, possessing strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and DevOps principles, including containerization, virtualization, networking, CI/CD pipelines, and storage. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that enhance performance, scalability, and security.
  • Role

    MS Cloud Specialist | Infrastructure Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    6.2 years

  • Professional Portfolio

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Skillsets

  • Logstash
  • Ovn
  • Openvswitch
  • OpenStack
  • Network Policy
  • MySQL
  • Multus
  • Metallb
  • MariaDB
  • OVS
  • LightBits
  • Librenms
  • Lenovo
  • Kibana
  • Istio
  • Helm
  • HAProxy
  • GitOps
  • PostgreSQL
  • RDS
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Reverse proxy
  • Rocky Linux
  • Rook
  • TCP/IP
  • Ubuntu
  • Uptime kuma
  • VLAN
  • VxLAN
  • WAF
  • Zabbix
  • Antrea
  • Nsx-alb
  • Docker - 3.6 Years
  • Jenkins - 0.6 Years
  • nginx - 3.6 Years
  • nginx - 3.6 Years
  • OpenShift - 0.6 Years
  • OpenShift - 0.6 Years
  • Ansible - 3.6 Years
  • Ansible - 3.6 Years
  • Docker - 3.6 Years
  • Jenkins - 0.6 Years
  • Python - 2 Years
  • Python - 2 Years
  • Terraform - 1.5 Years
  • Terraform - 1.5 Years
  • Kubernetes - 2.5 Years
  • Kubernetes - 2.5 Years
  • AWS - 1.5 Years
  • AWS - 1.5 Years
  • Grafana - 3.6 Years
  • Prometheus - 3.6 Years
  • DNS - 3.6 Years
  • NAT - 3.6 Years
  • Bash - 2.5 Years
  • BGP
  • CaaS
  • Calico
  • CentOS
  • Ceph
  • Checkmk
  • Crossplane
  • DHCP
  • Elasticsearch
  • Flannel

Professional Summary

6.2Years
  • Sep, 2025 - Present 9 months

    Cloud Specialist Core

    Nokia
  • Oct, 2024 - Sep, 2025 11 months

    Fault Management L2 Engineer 2

    Nokia
  • Jun, 2023 - Sep, 20241 yr 3 months

    Senior System Engineer

    NxtGen Cloud Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022 11 months

    Cloud Support Engineer

    Infotel india
  • Apr, 2022 - Jul, 2022 3 months

    Cloud Engineer

    ⚡☁️ Pinaka ZTi - Private Cloud ⚡☁️
  • Aug, 2022 - Jun, 2023 10 months

    Cloud infrastructure Engineer

    ⚡☁️ Pinaka ZTi - Private Cloud ⚡☁️
  • Mar, 2020 - Apr, 20211 yr 1 month

    Cloud Engineer Intern

    Infotel india
  • Mar, 2019 - Aug, 2019 5 months

    Summer Intern

    Central Tool Room & Training Centre (MSME) Government of India

Applications & Tools Known

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    Kubernetes

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    VMware

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    Docker

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    Jenkins

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    Terrafrom

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    AWS (Amazon Web Services)

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    MySQL

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    Slack

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    Git

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    REST API

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    Python

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    Django

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    Javascript

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    HTML5

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    CSS3 & CSS5

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    Ansible

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    Linux Admin

Work History

6.2Years

Cloud Specialist Core

Nokia
Sep, 2025 - Present 9 months

Fault Management L2 Engineer 2

Nokia
Oct, 2024 - Sep, 2025 11 months
    Designed and architected end-to-end telecom cloud solutions leveraging High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation with complete requirements traceability, ensuring alignment with 5G SA/NSA architecture standards and telecom cloud governance frameworks. Led customer-facing architecture review sessions with TPG Telecom stakeholders, translating business requirements into technical specifications for NFVi deployments supporting 5G Core network functions (AMF, SMF, UPF). Architected cloud-native telecom workloads using CNF (Containerized Network Functions) deployment patterns on Kubernetes, optimizing high availability, fault tolerance, and carrier-grade performance requirements. Deployed and managed production-grade Kubernetes clusters (100+ nodes) supporting telecom CNF workloads with 99.99% SLA compliance, implementing pod topology spread constraints and affinity rules for optimal workload distribution. Configured advanced Container Network Interface (CNI) solutions using Calico and Multus for multi-network pod attachment, enabling SR-IOV integration for high-performance data plane acceleration (10Gbps+ throughput). Implemented Rook-Ceph as persistent storage backend integrated with Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers, providing block and object storage for stateful telecom applications with automated volume provisioning. Architected pod and service networking with BGP peering for external connectivity, implementing VLAN segmentation and VXLAN overlays to support L2/L3 IP planning aligned with telecom carrier requirements. Achieved 95% SLA compliance for mission-critical telecom services through proactive fault management, architecture optimization, and implementation of auto-healing mechanisms. Improved customer satisfaction scores by 15% through consistent SLA delivery and rapid issue resolution for production NFVi environments.

Senior System Engineer

NxtGen Cloud Technologies Pvt Ltd
Jun, 2023 - Sep, 20241 yr 3 months
    Designed, architected, managed and deployed an advanced OpenShift cluster within an OpenStack environment, resulting in improved reliability and performance. Successfully migrated microservices from VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) to the OpenShift cluster, achieving $30 million in cost savings. Enhanced application performance and reduced high latency by 20%. Implemented Calico for Kubernetes network policy management in a production environment, securing 545 pods across 189 nodes. Designed and implemented Open Virtual Network (OVN) for a large-scale OpenStack cloud deployment, managing network traffic for 2000 virtual machines across 49 compute nodes and Configured OVN logical switches, routers, and security policies to isolate workloads and enforce network security. Utilized Calicoctl for troubleshooting network connectivity issues and debugging Calico configurations. Designed, architected, and deployed the Enterprise cloud platform using Red Hat OpenStack along with Ceph storage implementation. This initiative improved resource utilization and scalability, resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 40% increase in application deployment speed. Designed and deployed Velero for automated backup and recovery of Kubernetes deployments, ensuring data protection for critical applications and established a backup strategy utilizing volume snapshots and Velero for microservices, ensuring application data recoverability in case of incidents. Successfully implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, resulting in a 20% reduction in deployment lead time and a significant improvement in development team velocity. This involved automating code building, testing, and deployment processes, ensuring consistent and reliable software releases. Developed IaC using Terraform to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning on both AWS and Openstack platforms. This enabled faster and more consistent infrastructure deployments, minimizing manual configuration errors. I also established infrastructure monitoring tools to proactively identify and address potential issues.

Cloud infrastructure Engineer

⚡☁️ Pinaka ZTi - Private Cloud ⚡☁️
Aug, 2022 - Jun, 2023 10 months

Cloud Engineer

⚡☁️ Pinaka ZTi - Private Cloud ⚡☁️
Apr, 2022 - Jul, 2022 3 months
    Developed and implemented Ansible playbooks and roles to automate system hardening and OS hardening for servers and workstations, ensuring system security and compliance with industry standards. Designed and configured Ceph storage cluster in the OpenStack environment, including setting up Rados Block Devices (RBD) and Rados Gateway (RGW), significantly enhancing storage scalability and redundancy. Managed Ceph pools and object stores for virtual machine and object storage, ensuring scalable and reliable data storage, resulting in a 30% improvement in storage efficiency and reliability. Integrated Ceph with OpenStack services such as Cinder and Swift to provide both block and object storage, enabling seamless data management and reducing storage costs by 25%. Successfully migrated both web application and database servers to OpenStack cloud environment, encompassing 239 virtual machines and 1000GB of data and utilized OpenStack Heat for infrastructure orchestration and Cloud-Init for guest OS configuration during the migration. Developed and implemented Jenkins Pipelines (Pipeline as Code) for automated CI/CD workflows in 3 projects. Pipelines integrated continuous integration stages (source code checkout, build, unit testing) and continuous delivery stages (deployment to staging/production environments) and utilized Jenkins plugins like Git plugin for version control, Maven plugin for building Java applications, and JUnit plugin for unit test execution. Groovy scripting within Jenkinsfile ensured pipeline flexibility and conditional logic and automated pipelines resulted in a 19% reduction in build time and increased development team efficiency. Conducted regular vulnerability scans and penetration testing to identify and address potential security risks, utilizing Ansible scripts to automate the process on all Distributed Systems. Configured VLANs to segment and isolate network traffic, improving network security and performance. Achieved a 30% improvement in environmental efficiency through Terraform setup and automation for software development lifecycle process. Implemented continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) processes to automate the deployment of monitoring tools using Ansible, increasing system uptime and reliability. Designed, developed, and maintained Docker-compose files and configurations to automate the setup and configuration of LibreNMS and ELK stack monitoring tools in the Docker environment. Configured SSL for Elasticsearch and LibreNMS through Nginx in Docker, including creating SSL certificates, configuring Nginx to use HTTPS, and updating the configuration files for Elasticsearch and LibreNMS to use HTTPS, resulting in improved security and reduced risk of data breaches.

Cloud Support Engineer

Infotel india
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022 11 months

Cloud Engineer Intern

Infotel india
Mar, 2020 - Apr, 20211 yr 1 month

Summer Intern

Central Tool Room & Training Centre (MSME) Government of India
Mar, 2019 - Aug, 2019 5 months

Testimonial

NxtGen Data Center & Cloud Technologies

Election Commission Of India

From a former manager:

"Swadhin is an exceptional cloud computing professional with a deep understanding of cloud technologies and a proven ability to deliver results. They are a true asset to any team and I highly recommend them ."

From a former colleague:

"Swadhin is a pleasure to work with and they are always willing to go the extra mile. They are a team player and they are always looking for ways to improve processes and make the team more efficient. I would highly recommend them for any devops role."

From a client:

"Swadhin is a true expert in cloud computing and they were able to help us implement a cloud solution that met our needs and exceeded our expectations. They are always responsive and they are always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that we are satisfied. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a devops consultant."

Major Projects

3Projects

ECI Microservice development (Election Commission Of India))

NxtGen Data Center & Cloud Technologies
Jun, 2023 - Present3 yr

    Project Overview:

    This project aims to empower DevOps engineers with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively develop, deploy, and manage microservices architectures. Through a combination of hands-on workshops and real-world case studies, participants will gain expertise in various microservices technologies, including containerization, orchestration, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

    Project Objectives:

    • Understand the principles and benefits of microservices architecture
    • Master containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
    • Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated microservices deployment
    • Automate microservices monitoring and alerting
    • Troubleshoot and resolve common microservices issues

    Project Deliverables:

    • Comprehensive understanding of microservices architecture and its associated challenges
    • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools
    • Functional CI/CD pipeline for microservices deployment
    • Automated monitoring and alerting system for microservices
    • Troubleshooting skills for resolving microservices issues

    Target Audience:

    • DevOps engineers with limited or no experience in microservices development and management**
    • Software developers interested in transitioning to DevOps roles**
    • IT professionals seeking to enhance their microservices expertise**

    Project Methodology:

    • Interactive workshops
    • Real-world case studies
    • Hands-on exercises
    • Industry-recognized certifications

    Expected Project Outcomes:

    • Increased confidence and proficiency in microservices development and management
    • Enhanced ability to design, implement, and maintain microservices architectures
    • Improved troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for microservices
    • Greater contribution to the organization's DevOps initiatives

    Project Benefits:

    • Accelerated adoption of microservices within the organization
    • Reduced development and deployment times for microservices applications
    • Improved microservices reliability and scalability
    • Enhanced overall DevOps culture and practices

Cloud Infrastructure deveploment(Railtel Corporation Of India )

Pinakastra Computing pvt ltd
Apr, 2022 - Feb, 2023 10 months

    Project Overview:

    This project aims to equip cloud engineers with the expertise to effectively build, manage, and operate cloud infrastructure using a suite of open-source tools. Through a combination of theoretical concepts, practical exercises, and real-world case studies, participants will gain hands-on experience with various open-source cloud infrastructure tools, including OpenStack, Terraform, Ansible, and Prometheus.

    Project Objectives:

    • Understand the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure concepts and architectures
    • Master the installation and configuration of OpenStack, a leading open-source IaaS cloud platform
    • Proficiently use Terraform, an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, for automating cloud infrastructure provisioning
    • Leverage Ansible, a configuration management tool, for managing cloud resources and applications
    • Implement Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting system, for cloud infrastructure observability

    Project Deliverables:

    • Thorough understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and open-source tools
    • Hands-on experience with OpenStack, Terraform, Ansible, and Prometheus
    • Functional OpenStack cloud environment setup and configuration
    • Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
    • Standardized cloud resource management with Ansible
    • Comprehensive cloud infrastructure monitoring and alerting system

    Target Audience:

    • Cloud engineers with limited or no experience in open-source cloud infrastructure tools**
    • DevOps engineers seeking to enhance their cloud infrastructure skills**
    • IT professionals interested in transitioning to cloud engineering roles**

    Project Methodology:

    • In-depth lectures and discussions
    • Interactive workshops with hands-on exercises
    • Real-world case studies
    • Industry-recognized certifications

    Expected Project Outcomes:

    • Enhanced proficiency in cloud infrastructure development and management using open-source tools
    • Ability to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, Ansible, and Prometheus
    • Improved cloud infrastructure automation and provisioning
    • Effective cloud resource management and configuration
    • Comprehensive monitoring and alerting for cloud infrastructure health and performance

    Project Benefits:

    • Reduced cloud infrastructure costs and increased efficiency
    • Enhanced cloud infrastructure agility and scalability
    • Improved cloud infrastructure security and compliance
    • Accelerated adoption of open-source cloud infrastructure tools within the organization

Health Care Platform development

Infotel India Pvt Ltd
Mar, 2020 - Aug, 20211 yr 5 months
    • Project Description: Developed a comprehensive telemedicine platform that enables patients to consult with healthcare providers remotely via video conferencing. The platform also includes features for scheduling appointments, managing patient records, and exchanging medical information.
    • Technical Skills: React, Node.js, Javascript,kubernetes, jenkins,terraform and velero

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology

    Biju Patnaik University of Technology (2020)

  • Diploma in Science

    Council of Higher Secondary Education (2016)

  • High school

    Board of Secondary Education (2014)

Certifications

  • Python Certified Professional