Abhishek Anand

Paytm (One97 Communications Ltd), Noida

• Introduced agentic AI-powered CI/CD on Amazon EKS, automating canary log and metrics analysis to cut canary-to-live deployment time by 30%.
• Enhanced EKS MCP server functionality for dev/QA workflows, reducing DevOps dependency for lower environments by 50%.
• Drove PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and bank partner compliance audits; orchestrated multi-AZ Disaster Recovery drills.
• Led migration of Paytm domains, repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and EKS manifests to Paytm Payments Services Limited with zero downtime across 5+ major projects.
• Reduced deployment incidents by 70% using ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, and Istio service mesh.

Paytm (One97 Communications Ltd), Noida

• Architected AWS Graviton migration for 200+ production services, saving $100K+ annually with zero downtime.
• Achieved 99.99% availability for a 300M+ user platform through Diwali, IPL, and peak-traffic events.
• Established SRE practices — SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call rotations — across 10+ verticals.
• Enforced DevSecOps policy-as-code with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper across every cluster.
• Implemented Karpenter-based Spot-to-On-Demand fallback across 5+ EKS clusters with zero interruption.

Paytm (One97 Communications Ltd), Noida

• Executed an emergency 7-day migration of 140+ services from Alibaba Cloud to AWS with zero data loss for RBI compliance.
• Migrated 100+ microservices from EC2/ECS to Amazon EKS with Helm, RBAC, and namespace isolation.
• Designed multi-region Disaster Recovery achieving RPO < 5 min and RTO < 15 min.
• Upgraded EKS, Istio, Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch with automated rollback gates and no disruption.

Paytm (One97 Communications Ltd), Noida

• Deployed Karpenter auto-scaling with Kubecost visibility, cutting infrastructure costs 50% ($200K+ annually).
• Engineered an observability platform (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, PagerDuty), lowering MTTR from 45 to 15 minutes.
• Re-architected CI/CD with Jenkins Shared Libraries and Bitbucket Pipelines, improving release velocity 25%.
• Attained 100% CIS benchmark compliance, deploying Falco, Kyverno, and Aqua Security across 5+ verticals.

Cloudcover, Pune

• Delivered 5+ Kubernetes/EC2 migrations from AWS/on-prem to GCP with Helm, ArgoCD, and Spinnaker.
• Maintained 99.9% uptime SLAs across 10+ client environments on AWS and GCP.
• Built a multi-tenant vCluster architecture on EKS and AWS Landing Zone, cutting cost and complexity overhead by 70%.
• Provisioned infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation for 50+ services across 8+ projects.

Reliance Jio Money, Bangalore

• Automated CI/CD with Jenkins for 15+ microservices, shortening release cycles by 80%.
• Pioneered Docker containerization for dev/QA, eliminating environment drift across 5+ microservices and 20 engineers.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, Gurgaon

• Developed the HSS Cluster Manager for Reliance 4G IMS in C++, handling sessions for millions of subscribers.
• Built foundational expertise in distributed systems and high-availability architecture.