Résumé

Abhishek Srivastava

Platform Engineer | Back-end Developer

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Platform and backend engineer with 7 years of experience building and operating financial technology systems. Background spans Java/Spring Boot microservices and CI/CD platforms supporting 50+ engineers, with hands-on work in self-hosted infrastructure, zero-trust networking, distributed observability, and local AI services.

Skills & Technologies

  • Languages: Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Bash, PowerShell.
  • Backend: Spring Boot, microservices
  • DevOps and CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker, OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Watchtower, private registries
  • Observability: Grafana, Loki, Grafana Alloy (OpenTelemetry), Beszel
  • Networking and security: Tailscale, Headscale, Authentik (SSO/IAM), CrowdSec (IPS/WAF), Caddy, Pi-hole
  • AI Infrastructure: Ollama, LiteLLM

Experience

BillDesk

Mumbai, Maharashtra (Hybrid)

Platform Engineer / DevOps Lead (Merchant Experience) 2025 — Present

  • Led the CI/CD transformation for a 50+ person engineering group, designing and rolling out automated Jenkins pipelines with custom shared libraries.
  • Served as the primary infrastructure administrator and partnered with development teams while continuing to deliver Spring Boot application features.
  • Deployed and maintained internal observability and developer tools, including Grafana and Hoppscotch.
  • Mentored cross-functional teams on deployment strategies, pipeline integrations, and infrastructure practices.

Software Engineer (Core Microservices & Merchant Portal) 2019 — 2024

  • Built and maintained a self-service merchant portal in Java and Spring Boot to support merchant onboarding and lifecycle management.
  • Migrated legacy applications to Spring Boot microservices, including API Gateway and Mandates services.
  • Delivered payment infrastructure features in remote-first Agile teams during the pandemic.

Infrastructure R&D & Platform Projects

Zero-Trust Networking & Identity

  • Deployed Headscale and Headplane to connect local hardware and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances through a zero-trust mesh VPN.
  • Built a centralized identity and access management stack with Authentik, enabling custom OAuth and SSO across internal services.
  • Hardened public-facing edge nodes with CrowdSec and custom Caddy reverse-proxy images hosted in a self-managed Docker registry.

Local AI & LLM API Gateway

  • Deployed Ollama on local NVIDIA GPU hardware to serve large language models.
  • Set up LiteLLM as a unified API gateway for routing, standardized API access, and telemetry across self-hosted generative AI services.

Distributed Observability & Operations

  • Built a multi-node telemetry pipeline with Grafana Alloy to collect container logs and hardware metrics in Loki and Beszel.
  • Operated 30+ containerized services across physical and cloud nodes, automating zero-downtime rolling updates with Watchtower.

Education

B.Tech in Material Sciences

National Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal — 2019