Abhijit Bankar

Results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience specializing in high-scale, production-grade cloud infrastructure automation across AWS and Azure environments. Currently leading core platform engineering initiatives at VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) for the flagship Tobi Chatbot, an enterprise platform processing over 10+ million production conversations. Expert at single-handedly architecting resilient, zero-downtime GenAI/LLM gateway solutions via Azure APIM, building multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, driving declarative GitOps workflows, and structuring full-stack corporate observability ecosystems.

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer at VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) (Present)

• Vodafone Tobi Chatbot Infrastructure Scale: Architected, managed, and optimized the core production AWS EKS multi-cluster foundation for Vodafone's flagship AI conversational engine, scaling seamlessly to support 10M+ user interactions.
• Resilient AI Gateway Architecture: Independently designed and executed a high-availability GenAI/LLM orchestration architecture using Azure API Management (APIM). Engineered automatic traffic routing, advanced circuit breakers, and custom failover configurations to preserve 99.99% system resilience during upstream provider outages.
• Declarative Continuous Delivery: Built end-to-end automated pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Argo CD GitOps models; achieved hands-off application delivery while completely eliminating manual drift in microservices.
• Enterprise Observability & APM: Standardized full-stack monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), and alerting frameworks across all core services utilizing Datadog and Instana, reducing production anomaly MTTD significantly.
• DevSecOps Guardrails: Consolidated corporate delivery protection by injecting automated security gates into active pipelines—enforcing SonarQube for deep code analysis and Mend (WhiteSource) for strict container image and dependency vulnerability remediation.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Engineered modular Terraform blueprints to consistently provision secure development, staging, and production clusters with integrated automated token/secret rotations via Azure Key Vault.

DevOps Engineer at Yardi Systems

• Managed multi-environment AWS infrastructure supporting production SaaS real-estate platforms, prioritizing EKS cluster operations, VPC networking, Security Groups, and IAM roles.
• Eliminated systemic production deployment friction by building declarative Jenkins pipelines and robust automation shell scripts.
• Optimized Docker runtime lifecycles, establishing container build multi-staging, image layer minimization, and secure orchestration.

B.E. / B.Tech in Computer Science / IT – SPPU (Savitribai Phule Pune University)