Expert DevOps Engineer (T4) - SAP SE
- Implementing DevOps best practices in a multi-tenant team
Donnie Ashok
Expert DevOps Engineer
Summary
I bring over a decade of experience in cloud and open source tech delivering scalable, reliable and secure systems. SLIs, SLOs and Cost Optimisation drive me. I write agentic pipelines to automate toil, enabling product teams to focus on delivering value.
Tech I have worked with:
- 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: 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, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, StackIT, Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner, Proxmox
- IAM: 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.
- Led live migration of 60+ production services and the core Monolith stack from Pulumi to Terraform across 3 Azure regions
- Resolved 24+ prod incidents - IaC drifts, query-store exhaustion, key rotations, among others.
- Built an agentic Python app to automate incident RCA using Claude Code SDK and Coralogix APIs
- Worked on migration from New Relic to Coralogix, while identifying and addressing observability gaps in monitoring and alerts.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Aleph Alpha GmbH
- Deployed inference (KServe, vLLM) and finetuning (MLflow) workloads on NVIDIA H100 nodes
- Management of clusters and node pools (Terraform, Helm) on StackIT infrastructure
- Set up real-time CVE scans and alerts (Trivy Operator with Grafana Stack)
- Setup private image and helm chart registry (Harbor)
Senior DevOps Engineer - Moonfare GmbH
- Reduced AWS Bill by 60% YoY for FY 2022/2024
- Wrote Golang controllers to automate unused resource detection and deletion, in cost optimisation efforts
- Recreated production infrastructure for ISO 27001 Compliance
- Migrated production observability (Instana to New Relic) and setup alerts for critical services
- Implemented dynamic scaling and spot node provisioning using Karpenter
- Built dynamic preview environments (Argo Workflows + ArgoCD) to decrease 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.)
- Built and managed the first engineering team of four engineers
- Developed the first version of LawSikho.com with real-time dashboards (Angular 7, PHP)
- Deployed the iPleaders Blog with HA, 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 cloud infra along with tailored WordPress development for law firms
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