Pruthviraj Sonawane

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1. 01MicrosoftSoftware Engineer 2Aug 2023 - PresentView contributionsHide contributions

   Designing and operating distributed Azure infrastructure, production AKS platforms, certificate lifecycle automation, and centralized observability.

   Selected contributions

   • Architected a zero-downtime certificate lifecycle platform using Azure Key Vault, Managed Identity, and automated workflows, reducing certificate-related incidents by approximately 80%.
   • Designed an Azure quota management system and supporting APIs for 30+ subscriptions, reducing resource conflicts by approximately 25%.
   • Led AKS platform rollouts covering networking, DNS, node pools, bootstrap services, Helm deployments, and production readiness.
   • Improved MTTR by approximately 35% through incident response, root-cause analysis, operational runbooks, and automated remediation.
   • Built centralized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and Azure Log Analytics, reducing detection time by approximately 40%.
   • Developed Go and Python automation integrated with Azure CLI and PowerShell, reducing repetitive work by approximately 50% and deployment failures by 20%.
2. 02Nuance Communications (Microsoft)Site Reliability EngineerJul 2022 - Aug 2023View contributionsHide contributions

   Secure CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, production incident response, and service reliability for cloud-native applications.

   Selected contributions

   • Maintained secure CI/CD platforms and deployment validation, automated testing, and security gates, reducing deployment errors by approximately 30%.
   • Automated configuration and provisioning with Ansible, ARM Templates, and Infrastructure as Code, reducing environment deployment time by approximately 25%.
   • Led migration of Azure NSG associations from VM-level to subnet-level using Bicep and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
   • Used Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to identify reliability risks, reducing production incidents by approximately 25%.
   • Built Prometheus-based SLI/SLO dashboards and Grafana alerts for availability, latency, error rates, and error-budget consumption.
   • Led incident response and root-cause analysis, reducing average resolution time by approximately 20%.
3. 03Coredge.ioDevOps EngineerDec 2021 - Jun 2022View contributionsHide contributions

   Multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms, API-driven disaster recovery, observability, and repeatable cluster operations.

   Selected contributions

   • Designed, deployed, and operated multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms while maintaining 99.9% availability.
   • Built a Python Flask REST API to automate Velero backup and restore operations.
   • Built Prometheus and Grafana monitoring and alerting, reducing detection time from 25 minutes to under 5 minutes.
   • Automated cluster operations, deployments, and maintenance with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD, reducing manual effort by 40%.
   • Diagnosed failures across networking, storage, and Kubernetes scheduling while maintaining SLA commitments.
4. 04Nutrino Tech SystemsSite Reliability EngineerOct 2019 - Dec 2021View contributionsHide contributions

   Application delivery, containerization, production monitoring, and automated operational workflows.

   Selected contributions

   • Built Azure DevOps CI/CD platforms for containerized microservices, reducing deployment cycle times by approximately 50%.
   • Containerized workloads with Docker, increasing release frequency by approximately 5x.
   • Integrated AppDynamics monitoring into production environments.
   • Automated workflows with Bash, ARM Templates, and Kubeadm, reducing manual setup time by approximately 40%.

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