Summary
Vikas Chaudhary is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 10 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, developer automation, and resilient infrastructure. He has led large-scale migrations from GitOps to workflow-driven orchestration using Temporal and APIs, and designed pull-based PaaS upgrade models and self-service Developer Automation Systems that drastically reduce developer friction. Vikas combines deep IaC and Kubernetes expertise with SRE-focused practices—running full-stack “Phoenix” destruction tests, canary pipelines, and AI-augmented control planes that automate remediation and governance. He has driven observability and cost-optimization initiatives for 1000+ microservices and built custom platform components (including a Kubernetes sidecar proxy in Go) to enforce security and operational policies. Known for pragmatic automation, he blends Terraform, Python, Go and CI/CD engineering to turn complex infrastructure into predictable, self-healing products. Outside typical DevOps duties, he’s implementing AI-driven static/dynamic IaC analysis to stop vulnerabilities before they reach the codebase, showing a bias toward proactive platform safety.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Surat
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English