Varun Palekar
Team Lead at Siemens PLM Software
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolVarun Palekar is an experienced Team Lead and platform engineer with 11+ years building cloud-native, automated platforms and DevOps practices, currently leading a Platform Engineering team at Siemens PLM for Mendix.com. He combines hands-on SRE and DevOps skills—Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Crossplane, GitOps and observability stacks—with people leadership, hiring and stakeholder management to deliver scalable, multi-region PaaS solutions. Varun has driven significant automation wins, including a fully automated, FedRAMP FIPS 140-2 certified PaaS that reduced release complexity and accelerated time-to-market. Prior roles show a track record of designing CI/CD, custom orchestration tools and integrations (VMware, Netscaler, Slack-triggered pipelines) across varied client environments. Based in Pune, he blends system administration roots (Linux, PHP, Python) with platform-level engineering to make infrastructure both reliable and developer-friendly.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 71.5, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 71.5 at Gautam Buddha University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (200)
controller10
python10
bmp10
haproxy10
ssh10
charts10
aws-ecr10
ansible10
kubernetes10
dev-environment10
docker-proxy10
devcontainer10
development-environment10
buildpack10
ingress-controller10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
varunpalekar/workstation_config
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
varunpalekar/ansible-structure
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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