Smruti Mandal

• Led CI/CD optimisation initiative to reduce execution time by 20-35% • Reduced monitoring-tool costs by 10% and increased Terraform coverage • Resolved critical observability issues restoring reliable alerting

* Built and operated multi-cloud (AWS, GCP) Kubernetes infrastructure with Istio, enabling scalable, secure platforms. * Developed reusable Terraform modules for self-service environments and centralized observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) * Improved MTTR by 20% via team-based alert routing, enhanced security with Vault and workload identity federation, ensured compliance (IAM traceability, CI/CD), and reduced compute costs by 25% using ARM-based Spot instances.

Built and managed the Hybrid Cloud Platform(Berametal + Cloud Compute on Kubernetes) for ever changing requirements of a team dedicated to simplify ML pipelines.

Took care of public cloud infrastructure lifecycle for data and compute intensive business applications.

Responsible for public cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline Technology: AWS Cloud, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Artifctory, BitBucket(Git), NodeJS, Groovy(DSL), AWS SDK

Designed and developed the flagship AIOps product for alert aggregation and event intelligence. Architected and managed the containerized backend infrastructure on Amazon Web Services Cloud. Technology: SailsJS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS SDK, Mocha, Chai, RESTful API, AWS Cloud, Docker Swarm, Nginx

Managing 30+ PB of production storage and 50+ PB of backup infrastructure ensuring more than 99% availability. • Storage # Configure and maintain storage arrays and switches. Technology: Tivoli Storage Manager, EMC Avamar, EMC VMAX, NetApp

Worked with the Editorial Operations team supporting various client facing applications. Along with administration tasks for Solaris servers, it also involved elementary product support working as the interface between end-users and the product development team Technology: Solaris, Linux, Windows, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server

Handled System Administration of Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX for a large multi-national insurance firm providing end to end support in a 24x7 environment. Technology: Solaris, NFS, Veritas Volume Manager