Yogesh Bangar
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
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I work at the intersection of infrastructure and engineering velocity — owning the cloud, the pipelines, the platforms, and the reliability that teams depend on to ship.
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Building Scalable Infrastructure & Developer Platforms
I'm a DevOps / Platform Engineer who works across the full operational stack — provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, running Kubernetes clusters, building CI/CD pipelines, securing systems, and creating the internal platforms that engineering teams rely on every day.
Over 6+ years I've taken on everything from greenfield infrastructure builds and large-scale cloud migrations to defining the standards and tooling that let developers ship to production without having to think about what's underneath.
I care about reliability, security, and reducing the operational toil that quietly slows teams down — and I write about the problems I encounter and solve along the way on Medium.
Specialisation
Platform Engineering & GitOps
Experience Level
Senior Professional
Location
Pune, India
Skills
Core competencies built across 6+ years of hands-on infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering work.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Terraform / IaC
95%Modular state management, EKS provisioning, CloudFormation, Ansible — across 100+ AWS accounts
AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, IAM, S3 ...)
92%Deep expertise in compute, networking, security, cost optimisation, and serverless on AWS
Kubernetes & Docker
90%EKS cluster management, RBAC, Fargate, Auto Mode — containerisation and orchestration at scale
GitOps & Automation
ArgoCD / GitOps (Helm, Kustomize, ESO)
92%End-to-end GitOps with ArgoCD, ApplicationSet, ESO, ExternalDNS, and AWS ACK
CI/CD Pipelines
88%GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline — Docker build to EKS deploy in under 10 minutes
Python / Shell Scripting
80%Boto3 automation, rightsizing scripts, shell workflows for ECS/EKS day-2 operations
Resume
6+ years bridging development and operations — building the infrastructure, pipelines, and platforms that help engineering teams ship faster, operate reliably, stay secure, and scale with confidence.
Professional Summary
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 6+ years building AWS infrastructure, GitOps pipelines, and Internal Developer Platforms. Led ECS → EKS migration of 40+ services, delivered 45% AWS cost savings, and defined a Golden Path reducing time-to-first-deploy from days to under 30 minutes.
Contact Information
- Pune, India
- yogeshbbangar2@gmail.com
- linkedin.com/in/yogeshbangar
- medium.com/@yogeshbbangar
Core Skills
Terraform / IaC
95%
AWS / EKS
92%
ArgoCD / GitOps
92%
CI/CD Pipelines
88%
Professional Experience
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
Jan 2025 – Present
Madison Logic — Pune, India
- Led restructuring of Terraform state management, cutting merge conflicts by 70% and improving delivery speed by 40%.
- Built a Kubernetes-based GitOps workflow from scratch, migrating 40+ ECS services to AWS EKS.
- Designed a fully automated GitOps pipeline (Docker → EKS) using Helm, ArgoCD, ESO, Kustomize, ApplicationSet, ExternalDNS, and AWS ACK — reducing deploy time from 25 to 10 minutes.
- Developed a Boto3 rightsizing script for 40+ ECS services, delivering 45% AWS cost savings.
- Defined a Golden Path — standardised Helm chart and CI/CD template reducing time-to-first-deploy from days to under 30 minutes.
- Implemented Liquibase-based init container migrations within Helm, achieving zero-downtime schema updates during releases.
- Implemented Envoy Gateway with OIDC on EKS for gateway-layer authentication without application code changes.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Feb 2022 – Dec 2024
Everestek Technosoft Solutions — Mumbai, India
- Designed and implemented Terraform modules for AWS provisioning, cutting deployment time by 15% and increasing delivery frequency by 30% via CircleCI.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for 10+ applications, reducing deployment time by 15% and production issues by 5%.
- Managed access controls for 4+ engineering teams, reducing unauthorised access incidents by 15%.
- Delivered AWS infrastructure features and automation solutions for FINEOS products.
Build and Release Engineer
Nov 2019 – Jan 2022
Capgemini — Mumbai, India
- Led migration from Jenkins to GitLab CI/CD and Artifactory to NRM, driving organisation-wide modernisation.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines achieving 15% faster deployments and 15% higher delivery frequency.
- Automated build and deployment workflows using Jenkins, Maven, and Shell scripts.
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
2015 – 2019
RAIT (D.Y. Patil Institute of Technology) — Navi Mumbai, India
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Oct 2023
Writing
I write about the things I build and the problems I solve at work. All articles are published on Medium.
GitOps
Building a Golden Path — Part 1: Kubernetes
How I defined a standardised Helm chart and CI/CD template so developers can ship a production-ready service to EKS without any infrastructure decisions.
Read on Medium
Security
Securing Web Apps with Envoy Gateway and OIDC
Enforcing OIDC authentication at the gateway layer on Amazon EKS — securing external web applications without touching application code.
Read on Medium
Infrastructure
Refactoring Terraform at Scale
How I restructured a monolithic Terraform state across 100+ AWS accounts — cutting merge conflicts by 70% and improving delivery speed by 40%.
Read on Medium
Security
Why GitLab Secret Detection Missed Our Secrets
The limitations of default secret detection tooling and how we fixed it with custom detection rules to prevent credential leaks in CI pipelines.
Read on Medium
Security
Securing EKS and Automating Compliance with Kubescape
Integrating Kubescape into GitLab CI to automate EKS cluster security scanning and generate compliance reports on every deployment.
Read on Medium
Helm
Unlocking the Power of helper.tpl in Helm Charts
A real-world walkthrough of using helper.tpl to manage growing complexity in Helm chart deployments — keeping templates clean and reusable.
Read on MediumContact
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