About Me
I am a strategic, meticulous and proficient DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience in building fault-tolerant, highly scalable and robust cutting-edge applications. Excellent team lead with a proven track record at DevOps transformation, architecting and System Design on both product and service based companies. With a seamless collaboration style, I excel at troubleshooting applications, swiftly identifying root causes and implementing optimal solutions based on dynamic environments.

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👨🏻💻️ Sr. DevOps Engineer (SEPT 2023 - PRESENT)
BIC Technology Pvt. Ltd
- Spearhead a fully cloud-based application in AWS.
- Use Okta to manage SSO for internal in house applications as well as third party applications like Datadog, Slack, Jira, etc.
- Centralize GitHub Actions management across 30+ repositories using reusable workflows and local composite actions.
- Provision entire infrastructure using Terraform and migrate existing terraform state from S3 to Terraform Cloud.
- Provision Database and Users in MySQL using Ansible to maintain a source of truth and ease the management of users.
- Install Datadog Agent across a fleet of EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager and create monitors for CPU, Memory, Disk Space, etc.
- Migrate application from using AWS Access Key IDs to IAM roles for Kubernetes Service accounts.
- Refactor GitHub Actions pipelines to enhance code readability and reusability using matrix strategy.
- Act to eliminate any security signals provided by Datadog.
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👨🏻💻️ DevOps/Backend Engineer (MAY 2021 - SEPT 2023)
Rara Digital Lab Pvt. Ltd.
- Architected and implemented microservice FinTech applications into the Kubernetes environment using Ansible, Rancher, Istio, and ArgoCD.
- Proposed and implemented a large-scale AWS infrastructure migration through Terraform to reduce the cost by 40%.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines and optimized the build process to reduce the build time by 40%.
- Initiated Infrastructure-as-Code practices and reduced the time to provision new infrastructures by 20%.
- Designed and deployed production database architecture with distributed database (TiDB).
- Implemented disaster recovery for PostgreSQL using asynchronous replication and set up scheduled point-in-time backups.
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize performance and reduce resource utilization.
- Architected and deployed AWS infrastructure with disaster recovery and increased redundancy.
- Designed and deployed logging and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki leading to faster issue detection.
- Created automation scripts using Ansible leading to efficient and consistent server setup and deployments.
- Integrated AWS GuardDuty and Slack to send real-time notifications for any anomalous behavior across the AWS infrastructure.
- Mentored junior DevOps team members, fostering their technical skills and contributing to a more collaborative and efficient team culture.
- Developed full-stack web applications using React.js, Node.js, and Golang.
- Conducted regular audits, applied best security practices, and received ISO 27001 certification for relevant applications.
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Hiring?
Looking for a highly-dedicated and talented engineer to fulfill your needs? Reach me out and we can discuss over a short call.

Sakar Dotel
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