Roshan Nagekar

About Me

I am an Engineering & DevOps Leader with over 15 years of experience guiding startups and enterprises through technology transformation. My career has taken me from customer support and QA into DevOps, SRE, and eventually leadership, giving me a complete view of how engineering, operations, and business strategy come together.

In recent years I have focused on building and mentoring high-performing teams, driving cloud adoption at scale, and aligning infrastructure strategy with organizational growth. As Director of Infrastructure & DevOps at Aigent, I led global teams, established scalable CI/CD systems, optimized budgets, and ensured security and compliance for enterprise clients.

Alongside industry work, I have been active as a community builder and educator, leading DevOps Pune meetups with 3,000+ engineers and serving as a visiting lecturer at MITWPU and IMCC Pune. This balance of technical depth, leadership experience, and community engagement enables me to bridge strategy and execution — helping organizations scale reliably, securely, and cost-effectively.

Specialties

DevOps Leadership, Cloud & Infrastructure Strategy, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, AIOps, MLOps, CI/CD at Scale, Kubernetes & Containers, Cloud Cost Optimization, Information Security & Compliance (ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS), Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Technical Mentorship, and Community Building.

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Progressive Education Society's Modern College of Engineering, Pune University (2010-2013)

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Pune (2006-2009)

Professional Experience

Technical Consultant

Self-employed

Oct 2023 – Present

Leverage AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, CrewAI) for technical documentation
Build and train AI-powered chatbots to automate responses and enhance customer engagement
Host and test staging builds using Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana
Validate APIs using Postman, curl, and automation scripts

Visiting Lecturer - DevOps Engineering

MIT World Peace University & IMCC Pune

Jun 2022 – Present

Teaching DevOps Engineering, Cloud Computing, and Server Management courses
Mentoring 3,000+ students across undergraduate and postgraduate programs
Setting up lab environments and managing private cloud infrastructure for student projects

Director of Infrastructure and DevOps

Aigent (via Vforesee Technologies)

Nov 2021 – Jun 2025

Directed cloud and infrastructure strategy aligned with business goals
Led global DevOps and SRE teams, building culture of accountability and excellence
Managed cloud budgets, optimizing costs while ensuring resilience and compliance
Supported InfoSec audits, maintaining compliance (ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS)

Senior Platform Engineer

ZING.work

Feb 2020 – Nov 2021

Led migration from remote datacenters to cloud, improving scale and reliability
Automated backup and recovery jobs, reducing downtime risk
Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, CircleCI, Ansible, Fabric, Bash, Bamboo, Chef
Set up monitoring with Nagios, Prometheus, NewRelic, UptimeRobot, Pingdom

DevSecOps Evangelist

sken.ai (acquired by Fortinet)

Oct 2020 – Mar 2021

Served as public face of sken.ai, driving awareness and adoption
Produced blogs, videos, and social campaigns demonstrating business value
Built community trust on HackerNews, Quora, Reddit platforms

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Qualys Security Tech

Dec 2018 – Feb 2020

Deployed Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker Swarm, and Vault in production
Designed and maintained Terraform and Ansible IaC templates
Led security patching and production upgrades for compliance

Senior Associate Cloud Operations

Western Union

Sep 2017 – Nov 2018

Defined DevOps and DevSecOps operating models across organization
Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kubespray, kNative, Istio
Deployed AWS Service Catalog for automated cloud resource provisioning
Championed GDPR compliance and security practices

Senior Service Reliability Engineer

Vuclip Inc.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017

Led deployment automation, streamlining releases with Chef and Jenkins
Managed data center operations on Xen infrastructure
Implemented monitoring with Icinga, NewRelic, Ganglia, CloudWatch

Technical Skills

Configuration Management

Ansible Terraform Chef Puppet CloudFormation

Security Tools

Kali Linux Metasploit Wireshark ZAProxy Burpsuite Wazuh Maltego Fiddler SonarQube Snyk Qualys

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure Digital Ocean VMWare

Containerization

Docker Kubernetes Helm Kubespray Kops kNative Istio

CI/CD Tools

Jenkins Bamboo CircleCI GitLab CI GitHub Actions

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus Grafana Nagios Zabbix NewRelic Datadog Pingdom CloudWatch ELK Stack

Load Balancers

HAProxy F5 ELB Envoy Nginx

Languages & Scripting

Python Bash Ruby JavaScript PHP Java

Databases & Servers

MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle Apache Nginx IIS

On-Call & Incident Management

PagerDuty VictorOps JIRA

Version Control

Git GitHub GitLab SVN

AI & Automation

ChatGPT Claude Gemini Llama CrewAI

Achievements & Community

3,000+ Engineers

DevOps Pune Community

Multiple Awards

Industry recognitions

Visiting Lecturer

MITWPU & IMCC Pune

Technical Reviewer

Hands on Security in DevOps

Conference Speaker

DevOps & Security events

Certified Professional

Shell Scripting & Cloud Computing

Community Leadership

DevOps Pune Meetup Organizer (2015 - Present)

DevSecOps Pune Meetup Organizer (2018 - Present)

Ansible Pune Meetup Organizer (2016 - Present)

Technical Writer Mozilla Sumo, Thoughtsaround, Top DevOps writer at Quora