Prateek Saklani

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Building resilient platforms at scale.

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10+ Years
300+ Microservices Managed
99.9% Availability
$100k+ Cloud Cost Saved
About

Crafting the foundation for
reliable software delivery

Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native platforms with Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, and automation across fintech, crypto, and e-commerce, including regulated environments (DIFC/FSRA, SOC2, PCI DSS). I design and operate the infrastructure layer that keeps critical systems secure, scalable, and reliable.

📍 Dubai, UAE
✉ prateeksak@gmail.com
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Kubernetes

Production EKS clusters with Karpenter, KEDA, Helm, ArgoCD and policy enforcement at scale.

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Infrastructure as Code

10+ production Terraform modules. VPC, EKS, MSK, RDS, ElastiCache — repeatable, auditable infra.

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GitOps & CI/CD

GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and GitLab CI pipelines shipping safely to dev / staging / prod daily.

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Observability

Full-stack visibility with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry and Datadog APM.

Skills

Production platform
capabilities

10+ years across the full DevOps toolchain — from provisioning to observability.

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Orchestration

Kubernetes EKS ECS Karpenter KEDA Helm ArgoCD Kustomize Istio
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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Remote State Workspaces
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Cloud — AWS

EKS MSK EC2 RDS DMS Redshift ElastiCache IAM GuardDuty WAF S3 Route53 ACM Lambda
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CI / CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions ArgoCD GitLab CI CodeDeploy Jenkins Bitbucket CI
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Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry Datadog ELK AlertManager
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Networking & Gateway

Traefik APISIX Istio Cloudflare VPC ALB Route53
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Security & Compliance

Kyverno GuardDuty SOC2 PCI DSS CIS Benchmarks IRSA SAST
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Containers & Linux

Docker ECR Distroless Linux CIS Hardening Performance Tuning
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Languages & Scripting

Python Bash FastAPI Boto3 YAML HCL
Experience

10+ years building
critical infrastructure

Fintech, crypto, and enterprise environments across Dubai, Mumbai and beyond.

Lead DevOps Engineer

Baraka Financial Limited YC S21 · Fintech · Dubai, UAE (DIFC)

Apr 2023 – Present 3+ yrs Current
  • Multi-cluster EKS platform with Karpenter, KEDA & Cluster Autoscaler — dynamic autoscaling for production workloads, cutting over-provisioning costs by 30%.
  • GitOps delivery pipelines using ArgoCD, Helm & Kustomize across dev/staging/prod — zero config drift, self-service rollbacks, 70% faster deployments.
  • Dual API gateway — APISIX for external north-south ingress with rate limiting & auth, Traefik for internal ECS↔EKS inter-cluster routing.
  • Full observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry & Datadog — SLO/error budget tracking, 40% MTTR reduction.
  • DFSA compliance & security hardening — CIS benchmarks, Kyverno policy enforcement & audit-ready Kubernetes infrastructure for regulated financial operation.
  • Event-driven messaging & DNS infrastructure — MSK Kafka (KRaft), Route53 + Cloudflare DNS, AWS ACM with zero manual certificate rotation.
EKS Karpenter Terraform Python Linux GitHub Actions ArgoCD Kafka SOC2 Prometheus Datadog

Senior DevOps Engineer

CoinDCX Crypto Exchange · Mumbai, India

Mar 2022 – Apr 2023 1 yr 1 mo
  • Cold wallet & HSM infrastructure — in-house offline HSM-based solution for secure blockchain key management, serving a crypto exchange at millions-of-users scale.
  • Monolith → microservices migration, re-platformed CoinDCX trading app onto containerized Kubernetes, cutting infrastructure management effort by 60%.
  • Web3 DeFi platform delivery, managed blockchain-integrated cloud infrastructure for Okto, supporting scalable and reliable production operations.
  • Multi-account AWS standardization,reusable Terraform modules across accounts with CI/CD via Bitbucket, GitLab, Jenkins & Argo CD, reducing manual ops by 70%.
EKS Terraform MSK Datadog Bitbucket Gitlab Prometheus

Senior DevOps Engineer

TCIG Technology Consulting · Dubai, UAE

Jun 2018 – Feb 2022 3 yrs 8 mo
  • Legacy monolith modernization — migrated Windows-based monolithic app to containerized microservices, improving deployment frequency and delivering significant infrastructure cost savings.
  • Ansible configuration management for 50+ server fleet with zero-downtime patching.
  • Hybrid cloud migration on Oracle Cloud, orchestrated AWS ECS → OKE migration for a Saudi banking client, maintaining multi-region availability and regulatory compliance throughout.
  • Banking compliance certifications, led PCI DSS & SOC2 programs for a banking loyalty platform, implementing CIS-benchmarked security controls and audit-ready infrastructure patterns.
AWS OKE Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitLab CI ELK

Member Technical

Broadridge Financial Solutions Fintech · Mumbai, India

May 2016 – Jun 2018 2 yrs 1 mo
  • On-prem to AWS cloud migration, migrated Linux servers to AWS, improving scalability, flexibility and operational efficiency.
  • Linux server hardening & ops,managed patching, performance tuning and secure configurations across cloud and on-premise environments.
  • Disaster recovery testing, conducted regular DR tests across all client environments, ensuring business continuity and failover readiness.
AWS Linux ELK Jenkins Python Bash

Project Engineer

Wipro IT Services · Multiple Locations

Sep 2013 – May 2016 2 yrs 8 mo
  • Linux system administration for enterprise clients across multiple verticals.
  • EDI integration — configured trading partner setups in Gentran for reliable B2B data exchange.
  • Bash and Python scripting for operational automation.
Linux Networking Python Bash
Projects

Production-grade
open infrastructure

Real tools built for real production environments.

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terraform-aws-infra

Modular, production-grade AWS infrastructure built with Terraform, covering core networking (VPC), container orchestration (EKS + Karpenter), managed messaging (MSK), relational and cache layers (RDS + ElastiCache), load balancing (ALB), object storage (S3), and secrets management—deployed consistently across multiple environments.

Terraform AWS EKS MSK RDS Karpenter ALB
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eks-karpenter-platform

EKS cluster with Karpenter node autoscaling, KEDA event-driven pod scaling, and GitOps via ArgoCD. Multi-NodePool config with Spot interruption handling and SQS queues.

EKS Karpenter KEDA ArgoCD Helm Prometheus
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observability-stack

Full-stack observability platform on Kubernetes — Prometheus for metrics, Grafana dashboards, Loki log aggregation and OpenTelemetry collector for traces. Production-tested at scale.

Prometheus Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry Datadog Helm
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kafka-event-platform

MSK Kafka KRaft mode cluster (no ZooKeeper) with IAM SASL authentication, TLS encryption, and 3-broker setup. Used for high-throughput trade event streaming.

Kafka MSK KRaft IAM TLS Terraform
Certifications

Validated
expertise

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CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF / Linux Foundation

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TF-ASSOC

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

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AWS-CDA

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Contact

Let's build something
reliable together

Open to platform engineering, DevOps, SRE and infrastructure architecture conversations.

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