Prasad Khardekar

DevOps Platform Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and container platforms across financial services and enterprise environments on UNIX/Linux and AWS cloud. Proven expertise in GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and

Kubernetes — delivering reliable, secure, and compliant deployment pipelines with full observability using

Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. Strong background in scripting automation with Python,

Bash/Shell, and Groovy for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment orchestration.

Experienced working with enterprise messaging systems (Apache Kafka) and relational databases (PostgreSQL,

MySQL, Amazon RDS) in regulated financial services environments. Committed to driving DevOps culture adoption, collaborating closely with development and operations teams to streamline processes, improve reliability, and contribute to the continuous improvement of platform engineering practices within complex, highavailability technology landscapes.

6 Years

BE - Computer Engineering