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Vighnesh Naik
DevOps & SRE Engineering Leader
Engineering reliable cloud platforms—and the teams behind them.
16+ years across engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, release engineering, operations, and higher education—including 9+ years progressing through technical and leadership roles at WTW.
01 · About
Reliability is a technical outcome—and a leadership practice.
Building calm, capable teams for complex systems.
Vighnesh Naik · Engineering LeaderI bring engineering, operations, security, and product teams together to build cloud platforms that are resilient by design and easier to operate at scale.
My work sits at the intersection of architecture and execution: simplifying platforms, creating dependable delivery systems, improving incident readiness, and helping global teams turn operational signals into better decisions.
Clarity over complexityAutomation with accountabilityLearning over blame
02 · Experience
16+ years of building, operating, teaching, and leading.
A career spanning people leadership, Azure cloud, SRE and incident management, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, Linux operations, and higher education.
Associate Director | Engineering Manager (SRE, DevOps & Release)
Jun 2022 - Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos
Austin, Texas- Led and mentored a geographically distributed team of SRE, DevOps, and Release Engineers, owning performance, coaching, onboarding, and development.
- Drove strategic roadmaps and technical training programs to improve engineering productivity, operational maturity, and release efficiency.
- Served as incident commander for live-site escalations, led postmortems, and implemented preventive measures to reduce recurring incidents.
- Established monitoring, observability, security, and compliance governance in partnership with engineering leaders and business stakeholders.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Apr 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos
Austin, Texas- Spearheaded scalable Azure infrastructure across multiple regions, improving availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Directed critical migrations from on-premises infrastructure to Azure while coordinating cross-functional teams and preserving service continuity.
- Architected Azure DevOps CI/CD strategies for monolithic and microservices architectures and mentored engineers in Infrastructure as Code.
- Automated Platform and DevOps reporting with Wiz, Azure Logic Apps, and Log Analytics, reducing manual effort by more than 50%.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos
Buffalo, New York- Designed and maintained Azure cloud infrastructure and automated IaaS and PaaS delivery through Infrastructure as Code.
- Planned and migrated five application environments from on-premises infrastructure to multiple Azure regions.
- Built multistage Azure DevOps pipelines and implemented blue-green, canary, and feature-flag deployment strategies.
- Administered Git and TFVC migrations, branching policies, access controls, outage analysis, and cloud cost-management automation.
System Engineer | DevOps, Cloud Operations
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos
San Francisco Bay Area- Enhanced monitoring with Nagios, Cacti, Observium, and Grafana and managed PagerDuty escalations for production incidents.
- Automated server builds, releases, and cloud migrations with Puppet and SaltStack.
- Designed and managed Proxmox and KVM virtual machines while supporting data-center inventory with Device42 and Racktables.
- Administered Gentoo, Ubuntu, and CentOS systems and maintained configuration and monitoring code in Git and Apache SVN.
DevOps | Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Intern
Jun 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr
San Francisco Bay Area- Supported the build and scale of secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability and performance.
- Automated server builds, release processes, and cloud-migration workflows using Puppet and SaltStack.
- Worked with Cassandra, MySQL, and open-source database technologies and improved knowledge sharing through Confluence documentation.
Graduate Student Assistant
Aug 2013 - May 2014 · 10 mos · Part-time
San Francisco Bay Area- Developed and edited faculty video tutorials using Camtasia.
- Guided incoming students and supported the Dean's office through help-desk and administrative responsibilities.
Lecturer | Associate Professor
Sep 2009 - Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 10 mos
Goa, India- Conducted lectures, supported research and classroom activities, and collaborated with senior faculty members.
- Troubleshot departmental networks, including addressing, gateway, and switching issues.
- Designed and hosted a tutorial website for the Mechanical Engineering Department.
- Volunteered in a statewide information-security awareness program.
03 · Expertise
From platform foundations to operational excellence.
Azure cloud platforms
Architecture and modernization across AKS, App Services, networking, identity, observability, and platform services.
AzureAKSTerraformBicepHelm
Reliability engineering
SLO-driven operations, incident leadership, observability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and blameless learning.
SREAzure MonitorApp InsightsPagerDutyDR
DevSecOps & governance
Security guardrails integrated into delivery through identity governance, vulnerability management, policy, and measurable risk reduction.
WizPIMRBACACR scanningCompliance
Engineering leadership
Global team leadership, operating models, roadmaps, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, and calm execution during change.
Team leadershipStrategyCoachingFinOpsDelivery
04 · Selected work
Transformation measured in outcomes.
PLATFORM01
Enterprise Azure transformation
Led a multi-stage journey from data center infrastructure to Azure IaaS and PaaS across five environments and 10+ enterprise applications.
Modernized delivery · increased resilienceRELIABILITY02
Observability modernization
Built a unified reliability practice around Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, actionable alerting, and on-call operations.
99.99% uptime · 100+ servicesSECURITY03
Automated cloud-risk reporting
Connected Wiz findings with Azure automation and operational reporting to give teams clearer ownership and leadership better visibility.
Faster remediation · stronger governanceAI + OPERATIONS04
Responsible GenAI for DevOps/SRE
Exploring controlled AI-assisted incident analysis, alert triage, runbook generation, and capacity planning with human accountability built in.
Current master’s research focusCredentials
Expertise that keeps evolving.
Education
Master of Science in Artificial IntelligenceIndiana Wesleyan University · In progress
Master of Science in Software EngineeringSpecialization in Cloud Computing · San Jose State University · 2013-2015
Bachelor of Engineering in Information TechnologyGoa University · Goa, India · 2004-2008
Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Azure Administrator Associate
- Wiz cloud security certification
05 · Contact
Let’s build systems—and teams—that stay ready.
Open to conversations about DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, Azure transformation, cloud security, and engineering leadership.
Connect on LinkedIn Round Rock / Austin, Texas