Twenty-two years, seven employers, four countries worked in. The short version is that I moved from writing applications to building the platforms applications are delivered on.
| Employer | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| UST, India | Software Architect (DevSecOps) | Mar 2025 | Present |
| Infosys Ltd, India / Germany | Principal Consultant, DevOps SRE | Jul 2020 | Feb 2025 |
| Sonora Software, India | Cloud Solution Architect | Jan 2019 | Apr 2020 |
| Infosys Ltd, India / Australia | Technology Lead | Jul 2010 | Jan 2019 |
| Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Assistant System Engineer | Jun 2006 | Jun 2010 |
| IT People India Ltd, India | Software Developer | Feb 2006 | Jun 2006 |
| J & J Consultancy, India | Developer | Jun 2004 | Jan 2006 |
What each stint was for
UST — Software Architect, DevSecOps. Designing and governing secure-by-default CI/CD with security and quality gates at every stage; cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform and Helm on Kubernetes; SAST, policy-as-code and container scanning embedded in delivery; observability and platform troubleshooting; guiding engineering teams on architecture standards.
Infosys — Principal Consultant, DevOps SRE. CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance, infrastructure automation, monitoring and troubleshooting, containerisation and orchestration, and integrating security practice into DevOps pipelines. Cisco dCloud and Adidas e-commerce were the two large engagements.
Sonora Software — Cloud Solution Architect. Designing scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud architectures, and providing guidance on hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Infosys — Technology Lead. Leading design and implementation of complex technical solutions, mentoring development teams, owning end-to-end delivery, evaluating emerging technology, and setting coding and quality standards.
TCS, IT People, J & J Consultancy. The Microsoft-stack years — C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint, Oracle — including migration of mainframe online screens to web applications.