Pavan Darekar

About Pavan Darekar

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and production-grade Linux environments. I specialize in building reliable CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and Ansible, and supporting large-scale on-premise to AWS migrations.My work focuses on improving delivery reliability, ensuring high availability, reducing operational toil through automation, and optimizing cloud costs. I enjoy working closely with developers and architects to design scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that support business growth.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Capgemini

   Aug 2019 — Present · Navi Mumbai, IN

   Owned end-to-end CI/CD pipelines enabling automated and reliable deployments across Dev, QA, and Production environments, reducing release failures and manual intervention.• Designed, implemented, and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation), ensuring consistency, scalability, and security across environments.• Led on-premise to AWS cloud migrations, including compute sizing, storage selection, network design, and high-availability patterns, achieving ~25% infrastructure cost optimization.• Defined and enforced deployment, rollback, and release management standards to support zero-downtime and low-risk production releases.• Implemented centralized monitoring, logging, and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk, proactively detecting issues and reducing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).• Automated configuration management and operational workflows using Ansible and Ansible Tower, significantly reducing manual errors and operational toil.• Collaborated closely with development and architecture teams to enforce cloud best practices, security controls, and governance throughout the application lifecycle.• Supported production stability through incident analysis, root cause identification, and preventive automation to minimize recurring issues.• Contributed to cloud cost optimization (FinOps) initiatives by analyzing usage patterns and recommending right-sizing strategies, resulting in measurable cost savings.• Ensured high availability and reliability of critical systems, consistently achieving ~99.9% uptime through automation, monitoring, and resilient cloud design.

Education

• Terna Engineering College

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

  2012 — 2015

• Institute of Petrochemical engineering

  Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology

  2009 — 2012

• Vidyamandir poladpur

  SSC

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Mysql
• Customer Service
• Core Java
• Microsoft Word
• Sql
• Linux
• Javascript
• Microsoft Office
• Java
• C++
• C
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Html