About Nishanta
I am a Senior Cloud DevOps & Platform Engineer with 12+ years of experience helping companies design, build & run modern cloud platforms. I cover the full lifecycle of infrastructure, from planning & architecture to automation, deployment, monitoring & security.
My main expertise is in Google Cloud Platform, AWS & Azure, where I have built multi-region, production-grade systems using Kubernetes, Docker & Terraform. I have delivered cloud migrations with secured landing zones, automated CI/CD pipelines & container platforms that cut deployment times, improve reliability & lower costs.
I have hands-on experience with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD & Jenkins, creating pipelines that support daily releases & enable teams to move faster. I also design observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK & OpenTelemetry, giving teams visibility & reducing incident response time.
Security & compliance are part of all my projects. I integrate tools like Vault, Kyverno & Trivy to protect secrets, enforce policies & reduce vulnerabilities. I am comfortable in regulated environments (finance, health, energy) & experienced with GDPR, HIPAA & compliance frameworks.
My background spans fintech, IoT, tourism, education, consulting, healthcare, manufacturing & energy. I have supported digital asset platforms, anti-money laundering systems for banks, IoT services for industrial clients & ERP and MES migrations.
Alongside infrastructure, I bring programming & scripting skills in Python, Go, Ruby & Bash. I use these to automate tasks, debug issues & optimize performance.
Clients value my ability to collaborate with developers, operations & security teams. I run post-mortems, perform root cause analysis & design improvements that make systems stronger over time.
If you need someone to own your cloud infrastructure, build secure & reliable pipelines, or improve observability & automation, I deliver solutions that scale with your business & support long-term growth.
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Can work on-site
Berlin (up to 50km)
Experience
- PSI Software SE,Senior Platform EngineerENERGY AND UTILITIESMay 2025 - August 2025 (3 months)GermanyPSI Software SE develops software for energy and manufacturing companies with 2.1 k+ employees across 25 countries. The company serves 2k+ clients worldwide.Reason for leaving: Project concluded (fixed-term) [to confirm].• Reported to the Head of Platform as the platform engineer for multi-cloud migration project; delivered AWS & GCP landing zone foundations with Project Factory + Terraform, accelerating project/app onboarding to K8s/serverless by ~50%, while cutting infrastructure costs by 30%.• Automated Kubernetes (GKE & EKS) with ArgoCD, Helm, GitOps, and Terraform via GitLab CI/CD; cut deployment time by 55% and boosted release reliability by 45%.• Partnered with security team to roll out Vault and Kyverno, combined with Prometheus-Loki Grafana-Tempo to reduce incident detection time 40%, hold 99.95% uptime, and cut vulns 45%.
- Kerberos Compliance Gmbh,Software, Security & Operations Engineer (Consultant-Project)BANKING AND INSURANCEMay 2024 - November 2024 (6 months)GermanyProject: Kerberos Compliance provides anti-money laundering software for 500+ banks across Europe. The company manages over €50 million in compliance processes with more than 150 employees.• Reported to the CTO as platform/security owner for CI/CD and Infra. Built GitLab CI & Terraform pipelines that reduced release by 60%, enabled daily prod deployments & 25% lower cloud cost.• Automated production-ready Kubernetes environments using ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform, reducing deployment times by 50% and cutting manual errors by 40%. Engineered GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Atlantis, enabling daily prod deployments and reducing mean time to deploy (MTTD) by 60%.• Enhanced security with Kyverno, Trivy, and Vault, reducing vulnerabilities by 45%. Improved observability via PLG stack, Jaeger/Tempo, and Elasticsearch, boosting monitoring by 40% and achieving 99.5% uptime for seamless operations.• Drove SLO-based incident response and post-incident reviews, reducing MTTR by 35% and improving deployment reliability for 20+ microservices.
- Finoa Gmbh & Symmedia Gmbh,Senior DevOps Engineer (Consultant-Project)INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)May 2023 - March 2024 (10 months)GermanyProject: Finoa manages €2B+ in digital assets for 300+ institutional clients. Symmedia provides IoT solutions for 1 k+ companies across 60 countries.• Reported to the Director of Engineering to build microservice infrastructure using K8s, Terraform and ArgoCD; boosted developer productivity by 40% and reduced deployment errors by 45%.• Owned observability rollout with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, reducing alert fatigue by 60% and slashing incident response time by 50%.• Implemented GitOps and Continuous Deployment strategies, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, enhancing deployment efficiency by 50% and reducing cloud costs by 35%.• Embedded DevSecOps into CI/CD pipelines using Trivy and Vault, reducing critical vulnerabilities by 55% and increasing deployment confidence.• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, enabling zero-downtime releases and reducing production incidents by 40%.
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Education
- Full Stack Web & App Dev BootcampWBS CODING SCHOOL2025Full Stack Web & App Dev Bootcamp
- Master of Science / MScSikkim Manipal University2006Master of Science / MSc