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Hi, I am Shashank

Shashank Srivastava

DevSecOps Lead at Verix.

I am a seasoned DevOps/DevSecOps Architect with 15+ years of working experience. I have worked on infrastructure solutions for Paytm FASTag that used to serve more than 11 million customers. I have led & mentored DevOps teams. When I am not in front of my laptop, I spend my time playing with my toddler (the world's cutest kid)!

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Istio and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Leadership
Team Work
Hard Working

Skills

Experiences

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Verix

April 2023 - Present

Noida(Remote)

Verix is the industry standard for verified awards|credentials|achievements|membership.

DevSecOps Lead & CISO
Responsibilities:
  • Designed and deployed secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure to support a platform serving 9M+ monthly users; ensured compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, FERPA, CCPA, and HIPAA.
  • Scaled Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and provisioned RDS/CloudSQL clusters to support high-availability microservices with 99.99% uptime, PCI-DSS compliance, and sub-second query performance.
  • Developed internal tooling using Python, including Slack bots, RAG-based knowledge retrieval apps, and MCP server utilities — streamlining engineering workflows and boosting team responsiveness.

Paytm

September 2021 - April 2023

Noida(Remote)

Paytm is one of India's largest fintech platforms.

Principal Engineer
Responsibilities:
  • I led a team of 8 DevOps engineers and drove cloud migration, infrastructure automation, and performance optimization for FASTag — a tolling platform used by 20M+ customers.
  • Led end-to-end migration of FASTag infrastructure from on-prem to AWS, improving scalability, compliance, and performance.
  • < li>Built dynamic EC2 inventory UI tool, reducing manual AWS console interactions and improving visibility for DevOps teams.
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Xebia

January 2016 - September 2023

Gurgaon

Xebia is a Netherlands based software company.

Lead Consultant
Responsibilities:
  • Count lost of interns.
  • Count more interns.
  • Count me as an intern.

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering
CGPA: 3.5 out of 4
Taken Courses:
Course NameTotal CreditObtained Credit
Data Structures and Algorithm43.75
Network Security43.8
Operating System43.5
Artificial Intelligent43.75
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Higher Secondary School Certificate
GPA: 5 out of 5
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JK School of Science
2005-2010
Secondary School Certificate
GPA: 4.5 out of 5

Projects

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor March 2018 - Present

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management.

Tensorflow
Tensorflow
Developer Jun 2018 - Present

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone.

A sample academic paper
Team Lead Jan 2017 - Nov 2017

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Nocode
Nocode
Nothing Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

Toha
Toha
Toha
Owner Jun 2019 - Present

A Hugo theme for personal portfolio.

Publications

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Accomplishments

Linux Foundation System Administrator
Linux Foundation March 2018 - March 2019

This course helps to understand the key concepts such as networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, API object primitives etc. It also help to grow the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users.

Machine Learning
Coursera Jun 2020 - Jan 2021

This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: (i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). (ii) Unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning). (iii) Best practices in machine learning (bias/variance theory; innovation process in machine learning and AI).

Grokking the System Design Interview
educative Jan 2018 - Sept 2018

This course is a complete guide to master the SDIs. It is created by hiring managers who’ve been working at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. We’ve carefully chosen a set of questions that have not only been repeatedly asked at top companies, but also provide a thorough experience to handle any system design problem.

Mastering Multithreading Programming with Go (Golang)
Udemy Nov 2017 - Mar 2018

Discover how to create responsive and high performance software. Develop programs with Golang that are highly Concurrent and Parallel. Improve your programming skills in Go with more advanced, multithreading topics.

Achievements

Best Presenter

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Graduation

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