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Hitesh Thandel

Senior DevOps Engineer · Gurgaon, India

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Summary

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, scaling, and operating high-availability cloud infrastructure for OTT platforms and AI workloads. Proven ownership of GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes-based platforms, and production systems serving 10M+ users. Known for 50-70% cloud cost reduction, reliable CI/CD automation, and handling 50-100x traffic spikes. Strong focus on reliability, scalability, and pragmatic automation.

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer · Spyne (Eventila Pvt. Ltd.)

Feb 2024 - Present
GPU Infra Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins AWS Prometheus
  • Designed and operated GPU-based AI infrastructure for large-scale image and video processing.
  • Built custom GPU auto-scaling, cutting infrastructure costs by 50-70% while sustaining 50-100x spikes.
  • Implemented CI/CD with Jenkins and Terraform for GPU, ECS, and containerized workloads.
  • Owned Kafka (MSK), MongoDB, Debezium, Metabase, with monitoring via Prometheus and CloudWatch.
  • Coordinated infra across AI, backend, and frontend teams for stable production releases.
  • Improved reliability with proactive alerting, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Senior DevOps Engineer · To The New

Apr 2020 - Apr 2023
EKS Jenkins Lambda Prometheus Grafana ELK
  • Operated OTT infrastructure serving 10M+ users with sustained 10K+ TPS.
  • Automated deployments using EKS, Jenkins, and AWS Lambda.
  • Led EKS upgrades, zero-downtime releases, and large-scale migrations.
  • Implemented monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
  • Supported high-traffic live events with cost-efficient scaling strategies.
  • Mentored junior DevOps engineers and contributed to long-term stability.

DevOps Trainee · To The New

Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
ECS MongoDB RabbitMQ Elasticsearch CloudWatch
  • Supported ECS deployments and backend services including MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch.
  • Built Jenkins pipelines and AWS Lambda automations for operational workflows.
  • Implemented logging and monitoring using CloudWatch and ELK.

Earlier Role · Company Name

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Key Achievements

  • Migrated workloads from amd64 to AWS Graviton, saving ~40% in costs.
  • Built an in-house GPU cluster for AI inference, reducing processing costs by 5x.
  • Segregated production and non-production AWS accounts with zero downtime.
  • Delivered scalable infrastructure for national live events (IPL matches, PM speeches).

Technical Skills

  • AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, GPU, VPC, IAM)
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • ELK
  • CloudWatch
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Python
  • Shell
  • Java (working knowledge)

Certifications

  • Placeholder: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (YYYY)
  • Placeholder: CKAD or CKA (YYYY)

Education

Bachelor of Technology · Computer Science Engineering

2016 - 2020

GLA University, Uttar Pradesh

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