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Vaibhav S. Kolekar

Senior Software Engineer – DevOps | AWS | FinTech
Pune, India +91 7841071095 vkolekar217@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-kolekar-4a45ba359
Professional Summary

DevOps Engineer with 6 years of experience in the FinTech domain, specialising in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, serverless architecture, and monolithic application deployments. Proven expertise in building secure, scalable, and highly available systems using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerisation, and cloud-native services. Strong background in supporting mission-critical financial applications under high compliance and security standards.

Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer – DevOps
Indifly Ventures Private Limited · FinTech
Apr 2024 – Mar 2026
  • Designed and managed AWS-based infrastructure supporting high-volume financial transactions.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI for monolithic and serverless apps.
  • Implemented serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS), reducing infrastructure costs by 30%.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Managed monolithic PHP applications on EC2 with Auto Scaling Groups.
  • Configured CloudWatch monitoring, alarms, and centralised logging for real-time issue detection.
  • Enforced security best practices: IAM roles/policies, KMS encryption, and Secrets Manager.
  • Collaborated with dev and QA teams to ensure zero-downtime deployments in a 24/7 environment.

DevOps Engineer
Indiconnect Paytech Private Limited · FinTech
Mar 2023 – Mar 2024
  • Led migration from on-premise to AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines for monolithic applications using Jenkins and Maven.
  • Created reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, and storage.
  • Worked with security teams to ensure PCI-DSS compliance.
  • Reduced manual deployment effort by 40% through automation and improved reliability.

Junior Software Associate – DevOps
Global Info Services
Apr 2020 – Jan 2023
  • Assisted in maintaining and monitoring CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
  • Deployed applications on AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and ECS.
  • Performed Linux system administration: user management, permissions, process monitoring.
  • Created and updated shell scripts to automate routine operational tasks.
  • Assisted in Docker image creation, container deployments, and incident response.
Key Projects
Merchant / CCS / Admin Application · FinTech
  • Designed event-driven serverless workflows using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SNS, CloudFormation, and SQS.
  • Deployed serverless frontend on CloudFront via Jenkins Multi-branch pipelines.
  • Implemented WAF rules based on IP filtering and geo-location restrictions.
  • Built micro-service deployments on Lambda to expose API Gateway endpoints.
  • Enabled high availability and auto-scaling with minimal operational overhead.

Venko School Management System · EduTech
  • Managed VM-based deployments with Azure Load Balancers and Traffic Manager.
  • Automated build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps with customer-managed agents.
  • Implemented 3-tier VM-based monolithic architecture; reduced deployment time from hours to minutes.
  • Used SQL Server and MySQL across different environments.