Ajay Matharu

DevOps Guy

About Me

I’m a Staff DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer. In plain English: I build and support the cloud infrastructure that keeps high-stakes financial and tech companies running.

My technical toolkit is rooted in AWS and Kubernetes, heavily supported by Terraform, Ansible, and robust CI/CD pipelines. But my actual job isn’t just spinning up clusters—it’s translating complex, under-the-hood architecture into clear, actionable strategies that business leaders actually care about.

Throughout my career, my focus has consistently been on driving major infrastructural shifts. That means executing seamless global migrations to reduce latency, modernizing legacy setups into highly available environments capable of handling intense trading or healthcare workloads, and striving for maximum uptime. When systems are pushed to the limit and downtime carries a massive price tag, I help run point on incident response—focusing on rapid recovery and rigorous post-mortems so we can learn from every fire and avoid fighting the same one twice.

Great infrastructure doesn’t happen in a silo. I’ve led cross-functional engineering teams across India and Hong Kong, acting as the bridge between development, security, and business ops. Whether I’m sitting down with trading desks or partnering directly with developers, my focus is on collaborating closely so we can catch edge cases early and build stable, predictable systems together.

Core Expertise

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, MSK), GCP, Terraform, and Ansible.

  • Operations & Security: Zero-trust networking (Zscaler, ScaleFT), IAM hardening, Privileged Access Management, and CI/CD automation.

  • Containerization & Tooling: Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Buildkite.

  • Databases & Observability: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka (AutoMQ, MSK), Grafana, Loki, and Mimir.

Education

  • B.Sc Computer Science From Mumbai University