Mr. Vaibhav Kolekar

Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Email: vkolekar217@gmail.com | Phone: 9096061095 | India

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Indifly Ventures Private Limited | 04/2024 – Present | Pune, India

  • Managed and optimized cloud infrastructure (AWS) with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) for scalability and cost efficiency.
  • Serverless Architecture using AWS CloudFormation.
  • Global Self Hosted Gitlab for cost saving.
  • Global Open Source CI-CD Tool Jenkins for cost saving.
  • Common Open and Self hosted Project Management Tools (Redmine, Orangscrum).
  • Created Multibranch and Freestyle pipelines in Jenkins.
  • Implemented Lambda with Python Serverless Framework for microservices such as automatic Jenkins server stop/start using AWS EventBridge.
  • Participated in problem solving with developers—optimized S3 uploads using pre-signed URLs for files >10 MB.
  • Created Organization Units under Payer AWS Account for isolation and billing separation.
  • Managed multiple NS records for AWS Organization domains (vpartner, 24hrpay, mermax).
  • Handled multiple AWS Accounts.
  • Implemented PCI-DSS compliance and local computer security policies.
  • Configured AWS WAF for geo/IP-based site access control.

Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Indiconnect Paytech Private Limited | 03/2023 – 03/2024 | Pune, India

  • Designed, deployed, and managed cloud infrastructure (AWS) with a focus on scalability, availability, and cost optimization.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation to automate provisioning and configuration management.
  • Monitored system performance and ensured 95% uptime using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling faster and more reliable software releases.
  • Automated deployment, monitoring, and testing processes, reducing release time by 40%.
  • Enhanced security and reliability of deployments through role-based IAM policies, secrets management, and least-privilege access controls.

Associate Software Engineer (DevOps)

Global Info Services | 04/2020 – 01/2023 | Pune, India

  • Monitored CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab-CI, GitHub Actions) and application logs using CloudWatch.
  • Implemented monitoring & logging with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
  • Automated build, deployment, and release processes.
  • Used Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) with branching strategies (feature/user wise).
  • Worked in Agile/Scrum environments with Jira.
  • Applied networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls).
  • Managed SSL/TLS, Secrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
  • Implemented security best practices in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.

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