Available for Senior / Staff / Principal Roles · EU Blue Card Eligible

Ajay Bongani

Staff DevOps Architect · Site Reliability Engineer · AI/ML Platform Engineer · LLMOps Engineer

"Engineering Reliability. Scaling Innovation. Delivering Impact."

✉ ajay.bongani.sre@gmail.com 📞 +91 80743 04994 💼 linkedin.com/in/ajaybongani 🐙 github.com/bonganiajay26 ✍ medium.com/@ajdevopssolutions
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🌍 Open to Relocate · Germany / EU · Hyderabad, India
14+
Years of Experience
50%
Faster Deployments
€300K+
Annual Cloud Savings
200+
Developers Served
10+
Enterprise Programs
99.97%
Uptime Achieved
100+
Professionals Trained
Power Statement

Professional Summary

Senior Staff DevOps Architect, Site Reliability Engineer, and AI/ML Platform Engineer with 14+ years of enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure experience. I architect and deliver cloud-native platforms that generate measurable outcomes: €300K+ in annual cloud savings, 50% faster deployment cycles, and 1,000+ engineering hours saved per month across Azure, AWS, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.

I have led 10+ enterprise programs spanning fintech, automotive, healthcare, and telecom — defining platform strategy, managing cross-functional teams of 5–10 engineers, and governing €500K+ cloud budgets. My platform-as-a-product philosophy drives developer experience (DevEx), DORA metrics, and golden-path engineering excellence at scale.

At the cutting edge of AI-augmented DevOps, I pioneer GenAI in CI/CD using LangChain, Azure OpenAI, and LlamaIndex; MLOps pipelines with Kubeflow, MLflow, and Seldon Core; and LLMOps workflows integrated into enterprise delivery pipelines. I am the founder of AJDevOps Solutions, where 80%+ of 100 trained professionals secured senior roles within 6 months.

EU Blue Card eligible — available to relocate to Germany immediately for Senior Staff DevOps Architect, SRE Lead, or Principal Platform Architect roles.

🏗 Platform Engineering Leadership

Designed Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) serving 200+ engineers, reducing setup from 2 days to 2 hours and saving 1,000+ hrs/month.

🤖 AI-Augmented DevOps Pioneer

Integrating GitHub Copilot, Snyk AI, LangChain, and Azure OpenAI into enterprise CI/CD pipelines — driving 60% faster security remediation.

🌍 EU Blue Card Eligible

Indian National | Open to Visa Sponsorship | Available Immediately for relocation to Germany and EU markets.

🎓 Educator & Community Builder

Founder, AJDevOps Solutions — 100+ professionals trained; 80%+ secured senior DevOps/SRE roles within 6 months.

Technical Expertise

Core Skills

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Cloud Platforms

Azure / AKS AWS / EKS GCP / GKE Oracle Cloud Multi-Cloud Cloud-Native CNCF
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Kubernetes & Containers

Kubernetes Helm Istio Service Mesh KEDA Docker Container Security OKE
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CI/CD & GitOps

Azure DevOps GitHub Actions GitLab CI ArgoCD Flux CD Harness Tekton Jenkins
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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Bicep Ansible Pulumi Helm Charts CloudFormation GitOps IaC
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Observability & SRE

Prometheus Grafana Dynatrace Datadog New Relic OpenTelemetry ELK Stack SLI/SLO
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DevSecOps & Security

OPA Snyk AI Zero Trust SAST/DAST Chaos Engineering SBOM SonarCloud
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AI/MLOps & LLMOps

GitHub Copilot Azure OpenAI LangChain LlamaIndex Kubeflow MLflow Seldon Core AWS SageMaker
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Platform Engineering

IDP Platform as a Product DORA Metrics FinOps Golden Path Templates DevEx Toil Reduction
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Languages & Data

Python Bash Java Node.js YAML Kafka Apache Airflow Kong API Gateway
Career History

Professional Experience

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DevOps Architect

Encora Software India Pvt. Ltd. Apr 2024 – Mar 2026 · Hyderabad (Remote-first)
  • 200+ devs, 5 environments — Designed multi-cloud CI/CD platform (AWS + Azure) with GitHub Actions and AKS rolling deployments, enabling continuous delivery at enterprise scale.
  • 1,000+ hrs/month saved — Built Internal Developer Platform with Bicep golden-path templates — reduced environment setup from 2 days to 2 hours; onboarding accelerated by 70%.
  • Zero security escapes · 40% fewer P0s — Embedded Chaos Engineering, shift-left SAST, and Defender for Cloud at every pipeline stage through proactive fault injection testing across 5 production services.
  • 60% faster security remediation — Integrated GitHub Copilot for IaC authoring and Snyk AI-powered scanning for real-time vulnerability detection across container images and dependencies.
  • MLOps & GenAI platform — Delivered Kubeflow + Argo Workflows orchestration, MLflow experiment tracking, Seldon Core model serving, and Azure OpenAI / LangChain GenAI microservices in CI/CD.
  • 35% MTTD improvement · 40% QA cycle savings — SLI/SLO dashboards with burn-rate alerting (Prometheus + Grafana + Azure Monitor); Cypress E2E gates reducing QA cycle time by 40%.
  • 25% cloud cost savings — Led FinOps programme: Kubernetes right-sizing, reserved instance planning, pipeline cost guardrails via Apache Superset dashboards.
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Senior DevOps Consultant & Founder

AJDevOps Solutions (Independent Consulting) Apr 2023 – Present · Remote, Hyderabad
  • 40% faster deployments — Delivered end-to-end Azure DevOps CI/CD architecture, AKS platform design, and SLO-based observability frameworks for UK fintech and e-commerce clients.
  • 99.97% uptime · 4 environments — Engineered ArgoCD GitOps delivery pipelines with automated rollback, blue-green gates, and burn-rate alerting — zero unplanned outages.
  • 100% compliance · 3 clients — Drove DevSecOps maturity assessments and OPA policy-as-code adoption across multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters — achieving 100% policy compliance and audit-ready security posture.
  • Founder · 100+ trained · 80% placed — Running AJDevOps Solutions training institute (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, GitHub Copilot, MLflow, LangChain, Azure OpenAI); 80%+ secured senior roles within 6 months.
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DevOps Tech Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · India
  • 50% fewer deployment incidents — Architected Azure DevOps YAML pipelines with Bicep IaC for Oracle Cloud Kubernetes (OKE); introduced Harness canary and blue-green progressive delivery.
  • Zero SLO breaches — Designed SLI/SLO monitoring with Prometheus + Grafana burn-rate alerting for 8 critical production services; Kafka event streaming processing millions of events/day.
  • 8 hrs/week toil saved — Eliminated configuration drift across 50+ servers via Terraform + Ansible GitOps automation — provisioning time reduced from 4 hours to 30 minutes.
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Azure DevOps Consultant

Wipro Ltd. Sep 2021 – Jan 2022 · India
  • 60% fewer failures · 3 environments — Engineered multi-environment Azure DevOps pipelines with Bicep + Terraform IaC; reduced release cycle from 2 weeks to 3 days.
  • RTO < 15 minutes — Implemented Azure Monitor, Application Insights, ELK Stack, and automated DR runbooks; established Azure Arc hybrid governance across cloud and on-premises environments.
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Lead DevOps Architect

Grhombus Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · India
  • 30% downtime & cost reduction — Led SRE operations across 50+ Linux servers (Rackspace) for 3 enterprise clients — implemented FinOps cost governance and self-healing incident runbooks.
  • 10M+ daily requests · zero API SLA breaches — Deployed Kong API Gateway with rate limiting, traffic shaping, and governance across microservices via Tekton GitOps canary pipelines.
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Site Reliability Engineer

VersatileCommerce (UK Enterprise) Oct 2019 – May 2020 · Remote
  • 50% MTTR reduction — Owned SRE for UK enterprise e-commerce on AWS — defined SLOs with error budgets, ran Dynatrace AIOps-driven incident response, managed EKS blue-green canary deployments.
  • 60% fewer P1 incidents · MTTR < 20 mins — Introduced OpenTelemetry distributed tracing and New Relic full-stack observability; reduced P1 incident frequency from 4 hours to under 20 minutes MTTR.
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Earlier Roles (2012–2019)

Valuelabs · Cat Technologies · Volyty · Arva Software 2012 – 2019
  • DevOps Engineer — Valuelabs (Jan–Aug 2019): GCP Cloud Build + Jenkins CI/CD, GKE via ArgoCD GitOps, Prometheus monitoring — 30% image size reduction.
  • Software Engineer — Cat Technologies (2017–2018): Jenkins/Maven CI/CD pipelines, Java enterprise application delivery, Linux server management.
  • Software Engineer & DevOps — Volyty (2016–2017): Jenkins CI/CD automation, Maven/Gradle build pipelines, Git/Bitbucket version control.
  • Software Engineer & DevOps — Arva Software (2012–2016): Jenkins CI/CD automation, Apache/Nginx/Tomcat server management, release management governance.
Case Studies

Major Enterprise Projects

Oseries / Vertex

2024–2026
Problem
Fragmented multi-cloud delivery, no unified DevSecOps enforcement, manual QA cycles, and zero MLOps capability.
Action
Designed multi-cloud CI/CD with DevSecOps gates, GitHub Copilot for IaC, Snyk AI security scanning, Kubeflow + MLflow MLOps pipelines, and Azure OpenAI GenAI microservices.
Result
Zero security escapes. QA cycle time cut 40%. 1,000+ engineering hours saved monthly.
AWS + AzureKubeflowGitHub CopilotSnyk AIAzure OpenAI

Neom · Oracle Cloud Platform

2022–2023
Problem
Oracle Cloud Kubernetes needed robust CI/CD with SLO-based deployment gates and real-time streaming for millions of records/day.
Action
Architected OKE CI/CD with SLO gates, Harness progressive delivery, real-time Kafka streaming, and Prometheus + Grafana observability for 8 production services.
Result
Zero SLO breaches. Millions of events/day processed reliably. 50% fewer deployment incidents.
Oracle Cloud / OKEKafkaHarnessPrometheus + Grafana

TPG Tax Pro · AWS Transformation

2020–2021
Problem
Manual AWS deployments causing frequent rollbacks, spiraling cloud costs, and no FinOps visibility.
Action
Delivered complete AWS DevOps transformation with EKS, Terraform IaC, CodePipeline automation, and Apache Superset FinOps dashboards.
Result
50% faster deployments. 70% fewer production rollbacks. 25% cloud cost reduction.
AWS EKSTerraformCodePipelineApache Superset

Daleelo · UK E-Commerce SRE

2019–2020
Problem
UK enterprise e-commerce had 4-hour MTTR for P1 incidents, frequent rollbacks, and no SRE discipline.
Action
Defined SLOs, error budgets, EKS canary/blue-green delivery, Dynatrace AIOps integration, and AWS CodePipeline release automation.
Result
MTTR down 50%. P1 frequency down 60%. 50% faster releases. 70% fewer rollbacks.
AWS EKSDynatrace AIOpsCodePipelineSLO/Error Budgets

CattleFax · Azure Cloud Modernisation

2021–2022
Problem
Legacy IaaS workloads, 20+ SVN repos, no cloud governance or DevOps maturity framework.
Action
Led IaaS-to-PaaS Azure modernisation, migrated 20+ SVN repos to Git, deployed Harness canary and blue-green delivery, established DevOps maturity framework.
Result
Maturity framework adopted program-wide. 60% fewer failures. RTO under 15 minutes.
Azure / AKSHarnessBicep + TerraformGitOps

AJDevOps Solutions · Training Platform

2023–Present
Problem
DevOps talent gap — professionals lacked hands-on skills in Kubernetes, GitOps, MLOps, and GenAI-augmented DevOps.
Action
Founded AJDevOps Solutions delivering curriculum: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, GitHub Copilot, MLflow, LangChain, Azure OpenAI online and offline.
Result
100+ professionals trained. 80%+ secured senior roles within 6 months.
TrainingMLOpsLangChainAzure OpenAI
Impact Metrics

Key Achievements

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50%
Faster Deployments
Multi-cloud CI/CD across AKS, EKS, and GKE eliminating manual release processes
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50%
MTTR Reduction
SLI/SLO frameworks + Dynatrace AIOps cutting incident response from hours to minutes
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70%
Rollbacks Eliminated
Canary + blue-green progressive delivery with automated quality gates
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€300K+
Annual Cloud Savings
Kubernetes right-sizing, reserved capacity planning, real-time FinOps dashboards
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1,000+
Hrs/Month Saved
IDP with Bicep golden-path templates — setup reduced from 2 days to 2 hours
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Zero
Security Escapes
Shift-left SAST, Chaos Engineering, Defender for Cloud across all production releases
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99.97%
Uptime SLA Achieved
ArgoCD GitOps delivery with automated rollback across 4 production environments
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80%+
Job Placement Rate
AJDevOps Solutions trainees securing senior roles within 6 months
Credentials

Education & Certifications

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Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

2008 – 2011

First Division · 70.0%
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B.Sc. Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science

Kakatiya University, Warangal, India

2005 – 2008

First Division · 81.2%

Certifications

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)

Microsoft — via Coursera

✓ Certified

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Microsoft

✓ Certified

AJDevOps Solutions — Advanced DevOps Training

Kubernetes · CI/CD · Terraform · GitHub Copilot · MLflow · LangChain · Azure OpenAI

✓ Instructor

Languages

🇬🇧
English
Professional
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German
A1 → Learning B1
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Telugu
Native
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Hindi
Fluent
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ATS Optimization Keywords

High-priority — top recruiter search terms & in-demand skills
Supporting keywords — strengthen profile depth
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Role Titles

DevOps Architect Staff DevOps Engineer SRE Lead Platform Engineer MLOps Engineer Principal DevOps LLMOps Engineer Cloud Architect Site Reliability Engineer AI Platform Engineer
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Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure AWS GCP Kubernetes AKS EKS Terraform Multi-Cloud GKE Oracle Cloud Bicep Helm Docker IaC CNCF
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CI/CD & GitOps

CI/CD Azure DevOps GitHub Actions ArgoCD GitOps Blue-Green Deployment Canary Deployment GitLab CI Flux CD Harness Tekton Jenkins Progressive Delivery
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Observability & SRE

SLI/SLO Error Budgets Prometheus Grafana DORA Metrics MTTR Dynatrace Datadog OpenTelemetry ELK Stack New Relic Incident Management Toil Reduction
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DevSecOps & Security

DevSecOps Zero Trust Snyk SAST DAST Chaos Engineering OPA SBOM SonarCloud Defender for Cloud Supply Chain Security Shift-Left Security
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AI / MLOps / LLMOps

MLOps LLMOps LangChain Azure OpenAI MLflow GitHub Copilot GenAI Kubeflow Seldon Core LlamaIndex AWS SageMaker AI-augmented DevOps Argo Workflows
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Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platform IDP FinOps Developer Experience Golden Path Platform as a Product DevEx Backstage Engineering Excellence Cloud Cost Optimization
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Languages & Data

Python Bash YAML Java Node.js Kafka Apache Airflow Kong API Gateway PowerShell REST APIs OpenAPI