Dharmendra Kumar

About Dharmendra Kumar

I am a versatile IT professional with over a decade of experience in designing, implementing, and managing robust technology ecosystems.My expertise spans across hybrid cloud management, Softwares Development, Infrastructure Management, Applications management, Database Management, Data Backups & restore, and comprehensive Monitoring setup. My unique strength lies in my strategic approach to designing, architecting, implementing, and automating IT solutions, coupled with cost-effective management, secure ecosystem, 360-degree monitoring, and ensuring high scalability and availability of the complete ecosystem 24*7.I excel at architecting and automating IT solutions with a strategic, cost-effective approach, ensuring a secure, scalable, and highly available ecosystem around the clock.Technical Expertise:Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH CloudCI/CD & IaC: Terraform, JenkinsMonitoring: Datadog, Nagios, OMD, Graphite, StatsDContainerization: Kubernetes, DockerDatabases: MongoDB, ElasticSearch,Mysql, clickhouseMessaging: RabbitMQ, SQS, KafkaCaching: Redis, Memcached, aerospike Configuration Management: Ansible, FabricProcess Supervision: Monit, SupervisorLoad Balancing: Nginx, HAProxyClustering: High Availability ClusteringProgramming: OOPsVersion Control: Git, SubversionLog Management: Logstash, Filebeat, ELKBackups & Restore : Elasticsearch, Mongodb, Mysql, RedisGenAI Tools : CopilotI am passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex challenges, streamline operations, and drive innovation. Let’s connect to tackle IT challenges from A to Z efficiently and effectively.

Experience

1. Senior Devops Manager

   Paytm

   Apr 2025 — Present

   Built and launched AICodeReview, an AI-powered assistant embedded directly in Bitbucket workflows that acts like a GenAI engineering mentor and governance agent. It works across any Bitbucket repository to proactively enforce code quality, security, performance, cost optimization, compliance standards, repository guidelines, and company/global SOPs—driving consistency and best practices at scale- Discovered, Designed and assisted in implementing short-key ecosystem, updating key names across codebases for seamless operation in apps, alerts, and metrics- Drove cloud cost optimization initiatives, identifying and eliminating unused API payload processing, removing unnecessary production load balancer stickiness, and optimizing CDN caching—resulting in measurable monthly infrastructure savings- Led Elasticsearch upgrade to 7.11.2 on Graviton3, improving performance, reducing CPU utilization by 30%, and reduce infrastructure cost with zero downtime- Discovered concept and assisted in backend POC (Node.js → Lua), improving response time, reducing CPU usage, and enabling infra savings- Architected a centralized Jenkins repository framework, transforming distributed pipeline and freestyle jobs into a modular, scalable, and reusable CI/CD architecture- Designed and implemented global rate limiting (IP- and Device ID–based) to enhance platform stability, mitigate abuse, and improve overall system resilience- Discovered concept and assisted in setting up SSM (Ansible Common DOC) for automatic installation of security tools post-server launch- Re-architected Jenkins authentication framework, introducing project-based authorization and OAuth-based access controls to strengthen governance and improve user experience.

Education

• GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management

  MCA, Information Technology

  2011 — 2014

• UPTEC Varanasi

  BCA, Information Technology

  2008 — 2010