Summary
Rajkumar Thambu is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in Sydney with 19 years in IT and over a decade focused on DevOps and cloud engineering, currently driving platform reliability and delivery at ING Australia. He has a strong record of modernizing release processes—building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, implementing IaC with Terraform and Ansible, and migrating to containerized microservices on Kubernetes/AKS—resulting in tangible reductions in post-production bugs and security incidents. Comfortable across Azure and AWS ecosystems, he pairs tooling expertise (Helm, JFrog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) with scripting in Python and PowerShell to automate observability and incident response. Rajkumar also brings application-level experience from Java/Spring microservices and has led cross-functional teams while mentoring junior engineers to lift productivity. Notably, he blends deep platform engineering with a developer background dating back to large-scale Java systems, enabling pragmatic, end-to-end solutions that balance developer velocity with operational resilience.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications at Anna University Chennai
Tamil, English