Chinmay D. Pai

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Runtime

Senior engineer with 8 years of experience building and securing critical financial infrastructure, processing $15B+ in daily trades. Deep experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Nomad, infrastructure as code and zero-trust security, scaling systems for 10M+ users.

Experience

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Glovo Barcelona, Spain

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Runtime

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Zerodha Technology Bengaluru, India

DevOps and Security Engineer

  • Architected the migration from AWS EKS to HashiCorp Nomad, cutting infrastructure costs by 30% ($3M a year).
  • Wrote custom Terraform modules covering 70% of the infrastructure as code, provisioning production AWS from scratch in under 12 minutes.
  • Designed a real-time observability platform (Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana) processing 20GB+ of hourly events at 99.95% uptime.
  • Rebuilt trade statement generation and SMTP infrastructure: daily reports from 12 hours to under 10 minutes, and 99.9% delivery across 50M+ weekly emails at 80% lower cost.
  • Led ISO 27001 certification and compliance across PCI-DSS and SOC 2, and replaced OpenVPN with a zero-trust WireGuard mesh.

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Frappe Technologies Mumbai, India

DevOps and Security Engineer

  • Led the move of Life Insurance Corporation of India to hyper-converged infrastructure, consolidating 150+ servers into 24 across three availability zones and saving over $500k a year.
  • Drove Kubernetes adoption with Docker images and Helm charts for ERPNext, cutting build times by 73% (45 to 12 minutes).

Education

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WIEECT, Mumbai University Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

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Skills

Cloud and infrastructure
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Nomad, multi-region deployments
Programming and automation
Go, Python, Rust, Shell, Ansible, policy as code
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, Vector, ELK, SLI/SLO
Security and compliance
Zero-trust architecture, WireGuard, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001
CI/CD
ArgoCD, Istio, Helm, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
Infrastructure and data
Linux, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, high availability
Languages
English (native), Hindi (native), Spanish (B1)