Sanket Anantpure

Dynamic Platform Engineering & DevOps Leader with 15 years of experience building, automating, and scaling high-performance infrastructure across cloud-native and on-premises environments. Proven track record functionally leading a 22-member middleware platform team, modernizing legacy enterprise systems, and driving cultural shifts toward process-oriented, self-service operations. Expert in strategic alignment, technical infrastructure governance, and cross-functional leadership that eliminates manual dependencies and aligns technical executions with executive goals.

Platform Engineering & DevOps Leader - TIAA Global Capabilities - Mumbai, India

(2016-11)

• Direct an agile team, functionally leading 22 members across a cross-functional middleware platform scope, successfully restructuring operations into two specialized sub-groups—Product SMEs (defining processes/test cases) and Automation Experts (designing architectural execution)—to drive rapid engineering innovation.
• Spearheaded a cultural evolution from a task-oriented "reactive ticket" mindset to a process-oriented platform engineering model, instilling a discipline of permanent root-cause incident resolution and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Championing the integration of AI-driven utilities into technical operations and workflows to intelligently streamline operations and accelerate support timelines.
• Command an agile platform engineering team supporting a massive enterprise stack hosting 2,000+ apps on Kong and Ping SSO API layers serving billions of transactions monthly, 500+ apps on the Web layer, and 100+ apps on core App servers.
• Engineered a comprehensive End-of-Life (EOL) hardware/software strategy and infrastructure consolidation roadmap, securing $350,000 in annual recurring infrastructure savings.
• Eliminated over 3,000 hours of manual operational work across application teams by conceptualizing and deploying end-to-end automation frameworks and process re-engineering.
• Led architectural design and migration of legacy on-premises web workloads to AWS; containerized Apache and Nginx stacks using Docker and automated deployments via Helm charts on OpenShift and EKS.
• Spearheaded multi-layer AppviewX integration spanning API, Ping SSO, Web, and App layers to fully automate SSL/TLS certificate lifecycles, mitigating critical middleware stack vulnerabilities.
• Architected "MTPE Self-Service 2.0," an automated platform integrating a developer storefront with ServiceNow and Ansible playbooks, enabling distributed teams to independently trigger lifecycle patching and upgrades.
• Standardized hybrid-cloud telemetry by deploying a unified observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Tempo), accelerating real-time issue detection and dropping Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
• Evaluated and executed edge gateway migration to Kong Konnect (SaaS platform), building automated pipelines for custom plugin management and API onboarding.

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer - Volkswagen IT Services - Pune, India

(2015-03 - 2016-11)

Infrastructure & Middleware Engineer - Amdocs - Pune, India

(2011-07 - 2015-03)

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering - Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Mumbai University (2011)