Gyan P.-Senior Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect
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Senior DevOps & Cloud Architect, Head of Infrastructure
Bosch
- Azure Landing Zone architecture: Design and implement a hub-spoke, multi-region-capable Azure landing zone that provides the secure, scalable and highly available foundation for autonomous driving and parking data/ML platforms.
- Compliance through Azure Policy: Enforce security and compliance standards across Azure subscriptions via Azure Policy (guardrails, deny/audit/deploy-if-not-exists), consistently achieving top-tier infrastructure security scores.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources with Terraform and Bicep, with changes delivered through reviewed CI/CD pipelines.
- Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog: Extensive experience operating Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog for centralized data governance, access control, lineage and auditing across workspaces.
- Monitoring and observability: Built and run infrastructure monitoring and logging with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, covering platform health, alerting, troubleshooting and capacity trends.
- Platform at scale: Architected and operate cloud data/ML platforms supporting multi-PB vehicle data ingestion and simulation; orchestrate Argo Workflow-based recompute and autolabeling services scaling to 100k+ concurrent pods on AKS.
- Reproducible ML: Established reproducible training environments with dataset versioning and provenance tracking, enabling auditing and experiment reliability.
- Operational excellence: Automated GitHub organization management and CI/CD pipelines, improving developer productivity and deployment reliability; automated recurring operational processes.
- FinOps: Developed transparent resource utilization and cost-tracking for multi-project Azure environments.
- Leadership: Technical lead for infrastructure topics, collaborating with development, DevOps and security teams; technical interviewer and recruitment panel member for scaling the engineering team.
Lead Data Engineer / Engineering Lead
Zalando
- Led and mentored a team of 6 engineers running a large-scale AWS-based data platform.
- Owned and optimized AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM/SSO, S3, RDS, Redshift) as code with CloudFormation.
- Designed and implemented GDPR-compliant data solutions, including automated pseudonymization of PII.
- Built and maintained ETL pipelines with Spark, Databricks and Airflow powering business intelligence.
- Managed Tableau infrastructure and implemented CI/CD best practices.
Senior Data Engineer
Bosch
- Led development of the "MCR" application for project cost and resource management on Oracle PL/SQL and Forms.
- Designed data pipelines (Oracle Chain) bridging application data with corporate BI layers.
- Developed an internal Node.js virtual assistant for automated reporting, reducing operational costs.
Data Engineer
CGI
- Developed core business logic for a financial application supporting contract lifecycle management for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services across Europe.
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Experienced in Automotive, Banking and Finance, Retail, and Manufacturing.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.
Summary
Senior Cloud & DevOps Architect with 15+ years of experience, currently designing and operating enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure platforms at Bosch. Deep hands-on expertise in hub-spoke, multi-region Azure Landing Zones, policy-driven governance with Azure Policy, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep), CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog, and full-stack observability (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki). Proven record of running multi-PB data platforms and workloads of 100k+ concurrent pods on AKS, with additional multi-cloud (AWS) and technical leadership experience at Bosch and Zalando.
Skills
- Azure Platform: Landing Zones (Hub-Spoke, Multi-Region), Aks, Azure Networking, Storage Accounts, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy, Azure Ml, Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Azure Functions, Azure Arc
- Infrastructure-As-Code: Terraform, Bicep, Cloudformation
- Ci/Cd & Automation: Github Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Github Organization Automation, Shell Scripting, Python
- Governance, Security & Cost: Compliance-As-Code Via Azure Policy, Iam/Rbac, Enterprise Security Baselines, Finops And Cost Tracking
- Monitoring & Observability: Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Centralized Logging And Alerting
- Containers & Mlops: Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Airflow, Mlflow, Jupyterhub, Voxel51
- Data Platforms: Apache Spark, Spark Streaming, Databricks (Unity Catalog), Kafka, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Oracle (Sql, Pl/Sql, Performance Tuning), Postgresql, Mysql, Exasol, Mongodb
- Aws (Multi-Cloud): Eks, Vpc, Iam/Sso, S3, Ec2, Rds, Redshift, Athena, Route 53
- Languages: Python, Javascript (Node.Js), Fastapi, Bash
- Etl & Workflow: Pentaho Kettle, Matillion, Oracle Chain
- Data Modeling: Star Schema, Physical Data Modeling, Performance Tuning
- Visualization: Tableau, Superset
- Other: Presto
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Education
Bachelor of Engineering · Engineering
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Gyan is based in Berlin, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.
Gyan speaks the following languages: English (Native), Hindi (Native), German (Elementary).
Gyan has at least 15 years of experience. During this time, Gyan has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 4 years and 9 months. Note that Gyan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Gyan would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior DevOps & Cloud Architect, Head of Infrastructure, Lead Data Engineer / Engineering Lead, Senior Data Engineer.
Gyan's most recent position is Senior DevOps & Cloud Architect, Head of Infrastructure at Bosch.
In recent years, Gyan has worked for Bosch and Zalando.
Gyan is most experienced in industries like Automotive, Banking and Finance, and Manufacturing. Gyan also has some experience in Retail.
Gyan is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.
Gyan has recently worked in industries like Automotive and Retail.
Gyan has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology and Business Intelligence.
Gyan holds a Bachelor in Engineering.
Gyan is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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