Mehul Saxena

About Mehul Saxena

DevOps PLATFORM ENGINEER – CLOUD-NATIVE | DATA PIPELINES | MICROSERVICES | PYTHON | AWS7+ years of experience building and operating scalable cloud-native platforms, microservices, and data pipelines that power high-traffic products. My work sits at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure reliability — designing resilient services, automating pipelines, and driving production excellence across AWS and Kubernetes environments.I collaborate with product and ML teams to design ranking-based systems, upstream/downstream integrations, and distributed data workflows. Beyond coding and design, I manage release cycles, incident response, CI/CD pipelines, and performance monitoring, ensuring seamless delivery and continuous improvement of business-critical applications.🧩 WHAT I DO • Design and deploy microservice architectures in Python/FastAPI integrated with cloud-native tooling (AWS Lambda, SQS, EKS, Step Functions). • Build and optimize data ingestion & transformation pipelines, integrating with analytics and ML ranking systems for personalized recommendations. • Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation) and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) for automated testing and deployment. • Oversee release management, smoke testing, unit testing, and on-call production support to guarantee availability and uptime SLAs. • Drive incident management & observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch; implement alerting and auto-remediation workflows. • Champion security, scalability, and cost optimization through automation, tagging, IAM governance, and policy-driven cloud controls. TECH STACK Python (FastAPI, Flask)| AWS (EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, Step Functions)| 🧱 Terraform, CloudFormation | Docker, Kubernetes | Jenkins, GitHub Actions | Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana | 🧠 ML-Based Ranking Systems | PostgreSQL, DynamoDB | IAM, Control Tower, Config | CI/CD, Release & Incident Management PHILOSOPHYI believe engineering excellence is not just about code — it’s about building reliable systems that scale, self-heal, and empower teams to deliver faster. My focus remains on automation, observability, and product reliability — bridging the gap between software delivery and operational excellence.

Experience

1. Sr Platform Software Engineer

   Sauce Labs

   Mar 2026 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Our mission in the team is to design and operate a reliable, scalable platform that supports virtualization environments for customer workloads. We simplify the complexity of infrastructure by building powerful abstractions, enabling internal teams to innovate, develop, and deploy faster—ultimately accelerating the value delivered to our customers.

Education

• Rajasthan Technical University (RTU), Kota

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech