Donnie Ashok

Senior Platform Engineer

Github|LinkedIn|donnie.in|[email protected]|Berlin, Germany / Remote / (Open to Relocation)|2025-07-02

Summary

Platform Engineer bringing over a decade of expertise in CI/CD, hyperscaling, networking, GitOps, SecOps, and MLOps. I leverage cutting-edge technologies with a problem-solving mindset to drive innovation balanced with cost efficiency. I offer mentorship and training to help teams adopt sustainable DevOps practices.

Core Competencies

  • Backend: Golang, Rust, Python, Typescript, NodeJS, Dart, PHP
  • CI/CD: Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Argo Suite, Jenkins, GCP Cloud Build
  • Deployment: Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/SKE/K3S/Minikube), AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, GCP Cloud Run, Cloudflare Workers/Pages
  • Frontend: React, Angular, Next.js, Flutter
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terragrunt, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Crossplane
  • MLOps, Data Science: QDrant, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, AWS Glue, AWS DMS
  • Networking: Cloudflare WARP, Tailscale, Wireguard, VPC, Subnets, SG, ACL, GCP Firewalls, NAT Gateways
  • Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana Stack, ELK Stack, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, GCP Cloud Monitoring
  • Platforms: AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, StackIT, Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner, Proxmox
  • Security: AWS Landing Zone, GCP Organisations, IAM, OIDC, Cloudflare Zero Trust, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Dex

Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer - Mews Systems B.V.

  • Upkeep, monitoring and scaling of the Mews Platform

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Aleph Alpha GmbH

  • Model management and deployment of inference and training workloads on NVIDIA H100 nodes
  • Reliable automation of Infrastructure components using StackIT resources
  • Tracking, triaging and resolving CVEs and other security issues within SLAs
  • Manage distribution of container images and helm charts at scale

Senior DevOps Engineer - Moonfare GmbH

  • Reduced AWS Bill by 60% YoY for FY 2022/2024
  • Mentoring and guiding feature teams on efficient architecture and usage of Cloud resources.
  • Wrote Golang controllers to automate unused resource detection and deletion, in cost optimisation efforts
  • Recreated entire infrastructure for ISO 27001 Compliance
  • Setup monitoring using New Relic for infrastructure and application metrics
  • Implemented dynamic scaling and spot node provisioning using Karpenter
  • Built dynamic preview environments to decrease Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) and increase deployment frequency
  • Implemented ETL Pipeline using DMS, Redshift, S3 (Parquet) with Sandboxing

Software Development Engineer - Moonfare GmbH

  • Built and maintained customer-facing web application and backend services using Typescript with React and Node.js
  • Implemented in-app PDF parsing which was run at scale for thousands of PDFs per minute

Full Stack Developer - Medigo GmbH

  • Implemented frontend designs, backend services, and APIs with Golang and Typescript React
  • Managed CI/CD lifecycle with Jenkins and AWS ECS
  • Worked on security hardening on Cloudflare and AWS VPC

Technology Manager - LawSikho (ALT Ltd.)

  • Created the first backend of LawSikho.com with online application process and payment gateway
  • Built and managed the first engineering team of four engineers
  • Developed real-time internal dashboard with Angular 7 and PHP
  • Deployed the iPleaders Blog with High Availability, it continues to receive over 1.5m visits per month

Founder - Legalify (Warpten Technologies Pvt. Ltd.)

  • Specialized in comprehensive and regulatory compliant web solutions for the Indian Legal industry
  • Deployed self-hosted secure and private email infrastructure for law firms
  • Focused on tailored and scalable WordPress hosting and development

Education

B.A. LL.B - Gujarat National Law University

Information Technology Law, International Trade Law and Competition Law

Certification

CKAD from The Linux Foundation

Languages

English, German (B2), Hindi, Bengali