Pankaj Motwani
Berlin
Summary
Summary: B. Tech professional with 14 years of robust experience across diverse domains and roles, specializing as a Cloud Consultant/Architect and DevOps expert.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Devops Tech Lead
Element Insurance AG
09.2023 - Current
- Leading the DevOps Weekly meeting where I assist developers and engineering managers in implementing DevOps best practices.
- Heading a Greenfield Element DWH project and deploying GCP BigQuery on the Google Cloud Platform.
- Setting up Google Cloud Infrastructure from scratch including GCP Directory setup, users and groups setup , service accounts and project , folder setup .
- Improving Terraform and Github pipelines , Terraform to Terragrunt migration/changes .
- DORA and ISO Security Auditing Reviews
DevOps Consultant - Freelance
Babbel Gmbh
04.2023 - 01.2024
- Enhanced CI/CD systems with Data Platform and Engineering teams.
- Led Terraform standardization, centralizing CI/CD workflows for efficient deployment.
- Reduced onboarding time for new projects by 70-80%.
Freelance Cloud Architect
Statista Gmbh
10.2022 - 04.2023
- Conducting Azure and AWS Well Architected reviews
- Setup of Azure Landing Zone from scratch
- Set up and deployed Azure AKS service.
- Conducted Azure account reviews and improving overall cloud security
Lead SRE Engineer
SearchMetrics GMBH
02.2020 - 10.2022
- SRE Practices: Experience of managing large containerization platforms hosted on Amazon ECS and EKS( Kubernetes Cluster)
- Leading SRE Chapter and providing key inputs in setting up SLI and SLO for our important services , making sure the observability part is duly functional so as not to miss the SLA's
- Managing entire AWS Stack including AWS Landing Zone , AWS Costing Improvements , auditing and reviews , Security Auditing , Observability stack etc
Sr Cloud Automation Engineer
CVENT Software
08.2018 - 03.2020
- Automation and quicker deployments of AWS Services and Accounts
- Using CDK, CFN and Terraform
- Python Boto 3 Automation and using Step Functions in automation workflows
- Developing Self Service Solution by using services like AWS Service Catalog etc.
AWS Developer
Genpact India Private Limited
11.2017 - 08.2018
- Involved designing and deploying servers and application by utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (including EC2, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, IAM) focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling
- Implemented three tier architecture solution
- Experience of building AWS Environment from scratch which Involves Account Automation, with MCITP Windows.
Sr VMware Administrator
Mckinsey and Company
08.2015 - 11.2017
- Planned, designed and implemented enterprise solutions involving VMware, EMC, and Microsoft Technologies
- Experience with the design, architecture and implementation of Virtual Infrastructure environments using VMware VI, Virtual Center, Lab Manager, DRS and HA
- Implemented VMware Disaster recovery solutions, VMware Update manager for Patching ESXi hosts, Implemented VMware Horizon View for virtual desktops, VMware VRO for Automation and Orchestration.
Backup and Storage Admin
Symantec Corporation
07.2014 - 08.2015
Sr. Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2011 - 06.2014
- Handling Exchange servers and databases
- Setting up Active Directory services, patching windows and unix servers ,setting up backup policies and orchestration , responsible or access management , citrix desktop , VDI server management
Education
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Rajasthan Technical University
Jaipur 07.2006 - 08.2010
AWS Solution Architect - Professional -
AWS Certification
Skills
Security Auditing including DORA, HIPAA and ISO
Devsecops and Automating CICD Pipelines
Cloud Deployments and Cost Reviews
Scalability and Reliability of systems
Cloud Well Architecture Review
Scaling and managing large large platforms
Observability reviews and improvements
Security tools reviews and improvements
Microservices and implementation
Event driven service Architecture
Designing scalable Infrastructure and services
Preparing Documentation , presentations and SOPs
Team Management , Leading Devops and SRE Chapter
Certification
AWS Solution Architect - Professional
Accomplishments
- AWS Techstack for Pfizer at Genpact: Built a comprehensive AWS tech stack tailored for healthcare companies, completing security auditing and reviews in under 6 months, leading to securing Pfizer and additional healthcare projects.
- AWS Landing Zone at Cvent: Developed an in-house AWS landing zone project using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Python boto3 framework for bootstrapping new AWS Accounts. Reduced AWS account automation process time from one week to one hour.
- Mentoring and Cloud Maturity at SearchMetrics Gmbh: Successfully mentored,lead and trained the SearchMetrics cloud team in Berlin over 3 years, resulting in a mature AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Azure Mastery at Statista Gmbh: Spearheaded and mastered Azure deployments, setting up directory and user management from scratch, and deploying Azure AKS service.
- CI/CD Optimization at Babbel Gmbh: Reduced deployment time and onboarding of new projects on GitHub from days to hours through central CI/CD automation.
- GCP Cloud Infrastructure at Element Insurance: Provided key inputs for setting up GCP cloud infrastructure from scratch, focusing on BigQuery for analytics.
Timeline
Devops Tech Lead
Element Insurance AG
09.2023 - Current
DevOps Consultant - Freelance
Babbel Gmbh
04.2023 - 01.2024
Freelance Cloud Architect
Statista Gmbh
10.2022 - 04.2023
Lead SRE Engineer
SearchMetrics GMBH
02.2020 - 10.2022
Sr Cloud Automation Engineer
CVENT Software
08.2018 - 03.2020
AWS Developer
Genpact India Private Limited
11.2017 - 08.2018
Sr VMware Administrator
Mckinsey and Company
08.2015 - 11.2017
Backup and Storage Admin
Symantec Corporation
07.2014 - 08.2015
Sr. Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2011 - 06.2014
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Rajasthan Technical University
07.2006 - 08.2010
AWS Solution Architect - Professional -
AWS Certification
AWS Solution Architect - Professional
AWS Solution Architect - Associate
VMware VCP 5.0
ITIL V3
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