Aneep Tandel
Senior Platform Engineer | DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
Platform and infrastructure engineer with 10+ years building, automating, and operating the systems development teams ship on. Specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, CI/CD, cloud-native platforms, and AI-driven infrastructure.
Work Authorization: Germany Opportunity Card (Chancenkarte)
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About Me
Professional Summary
Platform and infrastructure engineer with 10+ years building, automating, and operating the systems development teams ship on. I work hands-on across infrastructure as code, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, and cloud platform reliability.
My experience spans AWS, DigitalOcean, Vercel, VMware vCenter, Cloudflare, Nginx, PostgreSQL, and hybrid on-prem/cloud architectures. I’ve progressed from Linux and web server administration into cloud-native platform design, event-driven systems, serverless applications, and Agentic AI integrations.
I also lead distributed engineering teams across time zones, hire and mentor talent, and drive modernization from monolithic systems to microservices, GitOps, and AI-assisted development workflows.
Years of Experience
10+
Cloud & Platform Focus
AWS + K8s
AI Engineering
Agentic AI
Professional Experience
IT Tech Lead / Senior Platform Engineer
LMNTO Performance Information Technology LLC
Dubai, UAE
Apr 2022 – Present
Key Responsibilities & Achievements
- •Own end-to-end platform infrastructure for an on-premise VMware vCenter data center, codifying VM provisioning, inter-VM network setup, and firewall configuration entirely in Terraform.
- •Manage Cloudflare as code through Terraform, covering DNS records, DDoS protection, CAPTCHA and bot-management policies, and edge network security controls.
- •Standardize post-provisioning VM configuration with Ansible, maintaining role-specific baselines so each host is built correctly for its purpose, whether application runtime or database node.
- •Run all Kubernetes deployments through ArgoCD GitOps, replacing imperative deploy scripts with declarative, version-controlled, auditable release workflows.
- •Operate CI/CD on Bitbucket Pipelines with self-hosted Bitbucket Runners, giving builds secure direct access to on-premise infrastructure.
- •Deploy serverless and edge workloads to Vercel and AWS, integrating them into the same pipeline, DNS, and security perimeter as the on-premise estate.
- •Build agentic AI on the platform: an Agentic RAG customer support service backed by a vector database knowledge base and multiple retrieval tools.
- •Integrate an AI agent into Kubernetes capacity management, driving horizontal pod autoscaling and adjusting vertical pod resource requests and limits as demand shifts.
- •Drive AI-assisted development across the team using GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Lovable to materially increase delivery throughput.
- •Lead migration of monolithic systems to microservices and cloud-native architectures with minimal disruption, and manage distributed cross-functional teams across time zones using Scrum and Kanban.
Technologies & Skills
TerraformAnsibleKubernetesArgoCDBitbucket PipelinesCloudflareAWSVercelAgentic AIGitOps
IT Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Bitex Worldwide
Dubai, UAE
Jun 2019 – Apr 2022
Key Responsibilities & Achievements
- •Introduced automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions deploying to DigitalOcean droplets, replacing manual release steps and shortening time-to-market for new features.
- •Adopted Kubernetes for backend services in 2020 and led the full migration of all applications onto Kubernetes by 2021, standardizing orchestration, rollout, and autoscaling platform-wide.
- •Ran Jenkins pipelines and AWS infrastructure alongside for build automation, hosting, and environment management.
- •Integrated Cloudflare for DNS management and DDoS protection across public trading endpoints, hardening the platform against volumetric and application-layer attacks.
- •Led a cross-functional team delivering a high-performance crypto and forex trading platform supporting high-frequency transaction volumes.
- •Delivered crypto and payment gateway integrations, on-chain and off-chain settlement flows, and NFT minting on Ethereum and Polygon, meeting PCI and KYC/KYT compliance requirements.
- •Embedded DevOps practices across the engineering team, shifting deployment ownership left and improving release cadence.
Technologies & Skills
GitHub ActionsKubernetesJenkinsAWSCloudflareCryptoForexNFTPCIKYC
Senior Software Engineer
Objects By Design
New York, USA (Remote from Gujarat, India)
Jul 2017 – Jun 2019
Key Responsibilities & Achievements
- •Built and deployed Django REST Framework backends with Angular and Vue.js frontends, and delivered cross-platform iOS and Android applications in Flutter.
- •Established CI/CD pipelines on GitHub, automating build, test, and release for backend services and frontend applications.
- •Ran Linux deployments on Apache with mod_wsgi, later migrating to Nginx with Gunicorn for Django services and Nginx as the serving target for frontend production builds.
- •Owned mobile release operations end to end, managing signing, versioning, and publication to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
- •Delivered a home security system with advanced sensor integration for user data tracking, and a Flutter application for an online teaching platform.
- •Contributed enhancements to the Google Cloud Bigtable Python client library, optimizing data retrieval workflows.
Technologies & Skills
DjangoAngularVue.jsFlutterGitHubNginxGunicornGoogle CloudMobile Releases
Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer
Wingmaxx Technologies
Surat, Gujarat, India
Jul 2015 – Jul 2017
Key Responsibilities & Achievements
- •Owned application deployment and server management across WHM/cPanel environments and bare Linux hosts, running releases end to end.
- •Configured and tuned Apache2 and Nginx for frontend delivery, WSGI and Gunicorn for Django services, and FastCGI with Apache for Laravel PHP applications.
- •Adopted AWS from 2016, deploying with Lambda and DynamoDB while administering IAM, EC2, security groups, and VPC network configuration alongside MySQL and DynamoDB across multiple application environments.
- •Developed and maintained web applications and RESTful APIs using Laravel (PHP) and Django (Python).
- •Hired and managed developer teams from Aug 2016, owning technical direction, code quality standards, and delivery timelines.
Technologies & Skills
AWSLambdaDynamoDBLaravelDjangoPHPPythonWHM/cPanelNginxApache2
Skills & Technologies
Infrastructure & Cloud
Terraform96%
Ansible94%
Kubernetes95%
ArgoCD92%
AWS90%
Cloudflare89%
CI/CD & Automation
Bitbucket Pipelines94%
GitHub Actions90%
Jenkins88%
Git96%
Bash88%
GitOps92%
AI / LLM Engineering
LLM Engineering88%
Agentic AI89%
RAG87%
Agentic RAG85%
QLoRA84%
AI Automation86%
GitHub Copilot90%
Languages & Frameworks
Python92%
Go82%
TypeScript88%
JavaScript88%
Django90%
NestJS / Next.js86%
Education & Certifications
Education
Bachelor of Technology, Aerospace Engineering
IGNOU, New Delhi, India
2010 – 2014
Diploma, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
IETE, New Delhi, India
2006 – 2009
Certifications
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Let's Connect
I'm open to platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and AI/automation opportunities in Germany. If you're building resilient systems or exploring cloud-native transformations, I'd be glad to connect.
Work Authorization: Germany Opportunity Card (Chancenkarte)
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