Rishav Dhar
Principal Engineer Of Platform DevOps
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRishav Dhar is a Principal Engineer of Platform DevOps with a decade of experience building secure, self-service infrastructure platforms and CI/CD systems across telecom, FinTech, aerospace, and legal tech. He specialises in Terraform-driven GitOps, GitHub Actions pipelines, observability with OpenTelemetry/Grafana/Prometheus, and Policy-as-Code for zero-trust compliance, with a pragmatic FinOps mindset that keeps cloud spend accountable. Rishav has led high-impact migrations and platform builds—eliminating nearly $850k in annual licensing, delivering compliance gating for 30+ microservices, and cutting PR lead times by 60% through merge-queue driven IaC workflows. He combines hands-on delivery with developer experience advocacy, mentoring teams on DevSecOps and defining IDP roadmaps that accelerate onboarding and reduce change failure rates. An active conference speaker and technical writer, he also experiments with AI/LLM agentic workflows to speed Spec-Driven Development, and outside work you’ll find him hiking Scottish crags in search of rare sunshine.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels, A-Levels at Fettes CollegeDiploma for IT & Telecommunications Professionals, Business & Information Technology, Diploma for IT & Telecommunications Professionals, Business & Information Technology at Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)BEng 1st (Hons), Electronic & Software Engineering, BEng 1st (Hons), Electronic & Software Engineering at University of Glasgow
Hindi, English
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
OP5dev/TF-via-PR
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Plan and apply Terraform/OpenTofu via PR automation, using best practices for secure and scalable IaC workflows.
Contributions:60 releases, 85 reviews, 74 commits in 1 month
automationawscicd-pipelinedevopsinfrastructure-as-code
rdhar/terraform-with-comments
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Archived: Reusable workflow to interface Terraform CLI with PR comments via GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Contributions:4 releases, 8 reviews, 82 PRs in 1 month
automationcicddevopsinfrastructure-as-codereusable-workflows
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