National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
Operated multi-node Kubernetes clusters for critical payment systems (UPI, URCS, RuPay), built CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab CI and ArgoCD, and drove observability and security automation.
- Role
- Associate Application SRE
- Period
- Sep 2023 — Jan 2026
- Location
- Hyderabad, Telangana
Responsibilities & contributions
Technical work and outcomes from my time at National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
- Operated multi-node Kubernetes clusters (Kubeadm, Rancher) with Ceph across 100+ nodes, improving availability for critical payment systems.
- Automated AWS provisioning with Terraform, cutting environment setup time by 60%.
- Built CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD for UPI, URCS, RuPay, reducing deployment errors by 30% and improving release frequency by 40%.
- Developed Python and Bash automation scripts, saving over 10 hours/week in manual operations.
- Implemented Grafana dashboards with Prometheus and VictoriaMetrics, cutting incident response time by 25%.
- Configured HAProxy for high availability and load balancing, achieving 99.99% uptime.
- Deployed reusable Helm charts to standardize K8s deployments (40% faster); enforced namespace RBAC and resource quotas.
- Integrated SonarQube and Trivy security scanning, boosting vulnerability detection coverage by 50%.
- Built Golang SRE CLI/TUI (“sre-bro”) on NPCI’s Neuron LLM for secure learn/execute/remote/debug of Linux/SRE commands.
- Conducted disaster recovery drills and chaos engineering exercises with zero production downtime.