Hitesh Bhatia
Cloud & Platform Engineering LeaderScaling 100M+ Users | Driving FinOps Discipline | Designing Distributed Resilient Systems for Scale
- Role
- AVP Engineering - Devops at Airtel Digital
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hitesh Bhatia
I head Cloud, DevOps, and SRE strategy for Airtel Digital, driving large-scale platform engineering across entertainment ecosystems serving over 100M+ monthly users,with 16+ years in public cloud and over a decade in leadership roles, I specialize in architecting resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient distributed systems across AWS and GCP. My focus is building infrastructure that is not only highly available but financially intelligent and engineered for long-term scale.I have led one of India’s largest enterprise-scale AWS to GCP migrations, delivering 22% cloud cost optimization while executing a complex multi-year transformation program without business disruption.Currently responsible for Cloud, DevOps & SRE across- CallerTune App 20Mn+ MAU - OTT EcoSystem with 25Mn+ MAU - Rapidly scaling IPTV infrastructure- Music Platform with 80Mn+ MAU at its Peak My leadership charter includes- Multi-Cloud Strategy & Architecture (AWS & GCP)- FinOps Governance & Large-Scale Cost Optimization- Production-Scale Kubernetes (EKS / GKE)- SRE-driven Reliability Engineering (SLO / Error Budgets)- Infrastructure as Code & Automation at Scale- Observability & Proactive Incident Management- High-Performance Engineering Team BuildingI believe infrastructure is a strategic growth enabler. When designed with scale, automation, and cost discipline in mind, it becomes a business accelerator, not just a support function.Regular speaker at global and national technology conferences, including- AWS Innovate – Modern Applications at Scale- AWS Summit India – Containers & Serverless Transformation- Fireside Chat with Searce – Xstream’s AWS to GCP Migration- Gr8 Conference, Copenhagen – Distributed Systems with Vert.x- Featured on YourStory for Airtel Digital’s microservices transformation journey.Published Case Studies- Xstream – Leveraging Google Cloud for scalability and business growth- Wynk Music – Reduced Big Data compute cost by 60% using EMR & Spot optimization- Raised user experience benchmarks via Kubernetes-based platform modernization
Experience
AVP Engineering - Devops
Jun 2019 — Present · Gurgaon, IN
Delivered on Key DevOps Pillars i.e Costing, Telemetry (Monitoring), Security, and Platformization- Managed Infrastructure for India\'s Biggest Music App - WynkMusic and India\'s premier OTT and Live app AirtelXStream- Seamlessly scaled for Multiple High Traffic Events.Cost Optimization / FinOps- Delivered savings of over $300K in monthly AWS Billing, in under 6 months- Achieved the Cost Optimization score of 96% among the best in India, AWS uses this score to identify how efficiently compute capacity is being used- Tracked and Maintained Cost KPI with Scale.
Education
SGTB Khalsa College
Bachelor of Computer Science, IT
2004 — 2007
DAV
Computer Science
2000 — 2004
CDAC
Master of Computer Application (MCA), IT
2007 — 2010
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Linux
- Shell Scripting
- Python
- Shell
- Boto
- Groovy
- Grails
- Jenkins
- Git
- Jquery
- Android
- Mysql
- Hibernate
- Intellij Idea
- Amazon Ec2
- Tomcat
- Javascript
- Subversion
- Amazon Cloudfront
- Ajax
- Java
- Ubuntu
- Jasper Reports
- Ec2
- Ext Js
- Agile Methodologies
- Jquery Mobile
- Cloud Computing
- Amazon Elastic Mapreduce (Emr)
- Amazon Rds
- Amazon Vpc
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Sqs
- Amazon Route53
- Amazon Ses
- Amazon Cloudformation
- Ansible
- Ansible
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