Samit Kumar Patel — Lead DevOps & Fullstack Engineer

Summary

With over 15 years in IT, I specialise in DevOps Engineering, Cloud-Native Platforms, and Full-Stack Development across Transportation & Logistics, Master Data Management, and Finance. My work bridges infrastructure and software engineering — enabling scalable, secure, and automated solutions.

Day-to-day I focus on infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Site Reliability Engineering while developing full-stack applications in Java, Go, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I am passionate about Platform Engineering — building self-service tooling that empowers developers and accelerates delivery.

Leveraging Generative AI to optimise DevOps workflows, automate infrastructure provisioning, and build intelligent agent-based solutions across the software development lifecycle.

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Designing and provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and Pulumi.

CI/CD Pipeline as Code

Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD pipeline management.

Cloud-Native Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless for efficient application delivery.

Kubernetes Administration

EKS, AKS, GKE, and on-premises clusters — RBAC and Operator lifecycle management.

Self-Service Tooling

Kafka onboarding, centralised performance testing, and RBAC automation across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

Backend Development

Microservices and monoliths in Java (Spring Boot), Kotlin, Go, Python, and Node.js.

Frontend Development

SPAs with Vue.js, React.js, and AngularJS; microfrontend architectures.

Spring Boot Ecosystem

Spring Data, MVC, WebFlux, Security, Integration, and Cloud Gateway.

Agentic Workflows & GenAI

Driving AI-powered observability and customer behaviour insights, accelerating delivery with coding agents, and building agentic self-service portals that centralise tooling across the organisation.

API Development

RESTful and GraphQL APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger; Apigee, Kong, and Azure APIM.

Event-Driven Architecture

Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS EventBridge, Azure Event Grid, and GCP Pub/Sub.

PKI & Certificate Management

SSL/TLS, certificate authorities, Let's Encrypt/ACME automation, mTLS, and PKCS standards.

DNS & CDN Management

Azure DNS, Route53, Akamai, and Azure Front Door.

Experience

A.P. Moller – MaerskFeb 2022 – Present

Lead Engineer · Copenhagen, Denmark

Leveraging Generative AI tooling to boost productivity and accelerate solution design.
Azure Infrastructure as Code with Terraform; CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
AKS cluster management, Apigee API Gateway, and OpenAPI specification design.
Microservices with Spring WebFlux and Spring MVC; event-driven architecture with Kafka.
Microfrontend development with Vue.js and React.js; SRE tooling with the LGTM stack.
PostgreSQL, CosmosDB for MongoDB; secrets management with HashiCorp Vault; Temporal workflows.

Danske BankFeb 2021 – Feb 2022

Senior IT Platform Engineer · Copenhagen, Denmark

DevSecOps advisory on SDLC practices and Cloud-Native / GitOps strategies.
Terraform modules for private cloud and AWS; centralised CI/CD for Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
Microservices for an in-house self-service portal; Kubernetes and OpenShift administration.

A.P. Moller – MaerskJul 2019 – Feb 2021

Lead Engineer – DevOps · Copenhagen, Denmark

In-house tooling infrastructure with Ansible and Ansible Tower.
Jenkins shared pipelines as code in Groovy; Azure infrastructure via Terraform.
Kubernetes administration on IBM Cloud; Atlassian suite, Vault, and SonarQube management.

USTJul 2013 – Aug 2018

System Analyst · Copenhagen / London / Kerala

Full-stack development in Java, SOA middleware (ESB, OSB), JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
CI/CD automation on Hudson and Jenkins; requirements analysis and production support.

Architectural Design BureauDec 2004 – Mar 2013

Software Engineer · Orissa & Hyderabad, India

Java-based application development; system design, stability, scalability, and security.
Desktop applications in VB.NET, FoxPro, C++, HTML, and JavaScript.
Technical guidance and oversight for junior engineers.

Skills

GenAI

OpenAICodexClaudeClaude CodeOllamaLangChainSpring AIMCP ServerMCP Apps

Cloud

AWSAzureGCP

Languages

JavaGolangPythonJavaScriptGroovy

Backend

Spring Boot MVCSpring WebFluxSpring DataSpring SecurityPlay FrameworkNode.jsExpress.js

Frontend

Vue.jsReact.jsAngular.js

IaC

TerraformPulumiAnsibleAnsible Tower

CI/CD

JenkinsAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsArgoCD

Containers

DockerDocker ComposeDocker SwarmKubernetes

Observability

LokiGrafanaTempoMimirElasticsearchFluentdKibana

API & Gateway

ApigeeKongTraefikSpring Cloud GatewayAzure APIM

Databases

PostgreSQLOracleMySQLCassandraMongoDBCosmosDBRedis

Messaging

Apache KafkaRabbitMQ

Other

TemporalHashiCorp VaultSonarQubeAkamai CDNAzure Front Door

Education

Sambalpur University

Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)

2007 – 2010