Summary
Praveen Kumar is a DevOps Infrastructure Team Leader with 9 years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native platforms, currently leading DevOps at Payoneer. He specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker and observability stacks (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir), and has driven large migrations from managed services to self-hosted stacks to cut costs and increase flexibility. Praveen has repeatedly improved deployment velocity and resilience—designing canary strategies, optimizing container build times by 40%+, and implementing “build once, deploy many” CI/CD workflows. He excels at cloud cost optimization and secure, repeatable infra automation across dozens of environments, having scaled platforms on AWS EKS and ECS. Known for hands-on leadership, he’s led small engineering teams, mentored peers, and owned incident rotations while delivering measurable operational improvements. Based in Gurugram, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a track record of turning monitoring and deployment complexity into reliable, cost-efficient systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Lovely Professional University
English, Hindi