Ramaseshan S

Senior DevSecOps Consultant Bangalore

As a Consultant Engineer at EDGE—an AI-driven talent decision platform—I led Kubernetes migration, security enhancements, and SOC2-Type2 renewal while optimising costs and uptime, strengthening infrastructure and compliance for scalable growth.

• Lead the migration to Kubernetes-based infrastructure across all products, enhancing uptime, reliability, and observability while optimising costs within 6 months.
• Spearheaded the DevSecOps team, aligning strategic objectives (OKRs) and operational deliverables (BAU) to achieve a 24% uplift in team productivity and performance.
• Led the design and implementation of security standards (WAF, API Gateway, log monitoring, and alerting systems), mitigating 4% of identified risks in the organization’s risk registry through proactive controls and automation.
• Implemented and integrated KeyCloak as the centralized Single Sign-On (SSO) system, successfully replacing a legacy in-house authentication and authorization solution.
• Designed, implemented, and verified incremental database backup processes across production environments.
• Led ISO27001 and SOC2-Type2 compliance renewal, updated policies, and verified organization-wide adoption.
• Optimised infrastructure to reduce costs by 13% and enhance uptime guarantees by 6%.

Senior Software Engineer Tumkur, Karnataka, India

Janastu/Servelots is an NGO/Company that is focussed on building effective technology solutions for organizations working in the social development sector. My work involved building and manage tools that power their COWMesh. I was responsible for building products like PAPAD and Farmer's Trust. Papad is a community media, archiving and annotation platform based on standards like OWL, Web Annotation and ActivityPub for the low literate community. Farmer's trust is intended as a decentralized data sovereign web application aimed at enabling organic farming producer and consumer communities, trace their produce and products to be organic until it reaches the end customers. I was also a part of the Special Interest Group to explore decentralized internet tools like IPFS, Hyper etc.

• Explored the feasibility and adoption viability of integrating decentralized technologies(IPFS, Hyper etc) into the organization's current product stack
• Collaborated cross-functionally to design and implement decentralized integrations that seamlessly connect with the existing product architecture
• Served as a technical evangelist, representing the organization's technology stack and driving nationwide adoption by collaborating with regional stakeholders, providing hands-on training and support, and documenting best practices to streamline deployments.
• Monitored performance, gathered feedback, and made iterative improvements to enhance the technology solutions

Lead DevSecOps Bangalore, India

Lead DevSecOps Engineer orchestrating secure, scalable infrastructure and compliance (ISO27001/SOC2-Type2). Championed culture shifts in FinOps, CI/CD automation, and observability, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver resilient systems while slashing operational bottlenecks.

• Led a team of 4 DevOps engineers to deliver tasks and achieve organisational goals.
• Introduced and implemented, Finance Operations(FinOps), increasing finance visibility and budget accuracy across all teams.
• Automated deployment pipelines using Docker, Ansible and Jenkins, enabling CI/CD adoption, reducing deployment time from 8 hours to 2 hours.
• Led Prometheus/Grafana observability implementation, slashing issue detection by 8x and doubling engineering efficiency via automated monitoring.
• Key contributor to achieving ISO27001 and SOC2-Type2 compliance.
• Single point of contact for customer queries on data privacy, security, and compliance.

Full Stack Engineer

Atom360 is a healthcare startup building an AI-powered mobile app for early oral cancer screening. As a full-stack engineer, I was responsible for building the company Android app, web applications and also managing the infrastructure. Since it had patients’ data, aligning cybersecurity and patient safety initiatives to help the organization protect patient safety and privacy, also ensure continuity of effective delivery of high-quality care by mitigating disruptions that can have a negative impact on clinical outcomes with AI.

• Led requirements gathering, architected, developed (backend API & mobile app), and deployed a full-stack solution independently, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Designed and implemented automated pipelines for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, incorporating comprehensive monitoring and alerting strategies for high availability.
• Integrated security best practices, data privacy controls, and compliance adherence (managing questionnaires/customer queries) throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Designed, built, and deployed the organization's first MLOps pipeline, automating the workflow for machine learning model deployment and operationalization.

Junior DevOps Engineer

EDGE is a talent decision platform powered by Artificial Intelligence. We aim to simplify decisions in talent management to help organizations build the workforce of the future.

• Contributed to the development of automation tools to streamline tasks across diverse infrastructure environments.
• Automated the setup and configuration of various applications and their associated tooling using scripting and configuration management.
• Assisted in managing the build and deployment pipelines for web applications onto target infrastructure.
• Participated in monitoring server health and security, contributing to the implementation of enhancements for improved performance and protection.
• Supported the evaluation of external tools by analysing their features and cost-effectiveness for potential adoption.
• Provided technical insights and context during discussions on product-related legal and policy matters based on infrastructure and deployment understanding.

Storage Engineer

Fractalio Data was conceived in response to the challenge of containing and reliably managing the explosion of electronic data that IT enabled organizations of all sizes are experiencing. I was responsible for building and developing 2 products, IntegralStor and IntegralStor-Gridcell. IntegralStor, is a single node unified multi-disk storage system based on ZFS, built on the NAS protocol, offering a range of functionalities to be used as both a personal storage or backup store. GridCell, is the Scale-Out based NAS based on GlusterFS and ZFS.

• Developed and maintained IntegralStor and IntegralStor GridCell, Django-based web applications for managing large-scale (256TB-1PB) ZFS and GlusterFS storage systems.
• Traveled to customer sites to integrate storage systems (ZFS/GlusterFS) and served as the primary technical point of contact, addressing customer inquiries.
• Gathered and documented customer feedback on storage system deployments and communicated insights to sales and technical teams for product development.

Backend Engineer

KenApps was a company focussed on education institution and its needs. There were multiple products, of which I was focussing on UniCamp and Placements. Unicamp is a full College Automation tool, while Placements is a job portal that extends itself to a network of people involving alumni interacting with juniors and also students applying for various jobs.

• Managed the end-to-end product development lifecycle, directly engaging with customers to define requirements, gather feedback, and inform product direction.
• Collaborated with sales engineers to maintain consistent product demo and feedback processes.
• Integrated and delivered VRoom, a WebRTC video conferencing solution, to facilitate both in-class and Training & Placement functionalities.

Intern

A Tool that was designed for lifestyle as a 360 Review tool. This tool enables peers and managers to share reviews of other employees and generate a report on the employee on the same.

• Was responsible for developing the survey module
• Was involved in developing documentation on the product.

Executive Committee Member Karnataka, India

I have represented FSMK in conferences in consistently highlighting the need for FOSS, training students and organizing events, workshops on tools like Python, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia etc.

• As an Executive Committee member, I was crucial in crafting the organization's growth path
• I was responsible for identifying new opportunities, collaborations and reaching out to the organizations in the southern part of Karnataka
• The core team in organizing 3 7-day residential camps in different districts, organizing over 50 introductory sessions.

Volunteer

• Organized 3 2-day science tour of Bangalore for over 150 students from marginalised communities
• Ideated and contributing to project Minkeni: An Inclusive, Second Chance, Decentralized and Internet Free access of knowledge resources.
• Represented the organization on stage as guest speaker in schools.

As a volunteer, I have and continue to contribute to organizing introductory sessions, workshops, help intervene in policy discussions