About — Ritesh Kumar Agrahari

Work Experience

Oracle Current

Nov 2023 — Present

Senior Member of Technical Staff

📍 Bangalore, India

Led release management, environment upgrades, and deployment automation for OCI Data Catalog (DCAT) and AI Data Platform (AIDP) across dev, staging, and production environments.
Provisioned and maintained multi-region OCI infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring consistent, reproducible environments and eliminating manual configuration drift.
Orchestrated automated deployment pipelines via Shepherd (Oracle's in-house CI/CD), streamlining structured rollouts across global OCI regions.
Implemented DevSecOps practices — secrets management via Vault, static code analysis with SonarQube, security-gated CI/CD pipelines across multi-region OCI deployments.
Built Python-based automation scripts for deployment validation, health checks, and upgrade orchestration, reducing manual toil significantly.

Oracle CloudTerraformKubernetesHelmShepherd CI/CDAgentic AIPythonVaultSonarQube

PALO-IT

Sep 2018 — Oct 2023 · 5 yrs

Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant

📍 Singapore

Architected cloud infrastructure for Climate ImpactX (CIX) — Singapore's global carbon exchange backed by DBS, SGX, Standard Chartered & Temasek on Nasdaq's platform, processing 12,000 tonnes of carbon credits on day one across 50+ countries.
Engineered multi-cloud (AWS + Azure) pipeline connecting CIX's microservices to Nasdaq's trading technology, enabling real-time spot trading of standardised carbon contracts globally.
Built serverless backend and full-stack frontend for DBS Retail Marketplace — unifying Singapore Airlines, property listings, car deals, and financial products for 5+ million customers.
Deployed cloud infrastructure for HDB's automated parking system — operational across 1.25 million housing units covering tracking, payments, and partner API integration.

AWSAzureTerraformKubernetesArgoCDAzure DevOpsService MeshServerless

AELER Technologies

Jan 2018 — Jul 2018

Full Stack Developer · First Technical Hire

📍 Lausanne, Switzerland

Bootstrapped AELER's entire engineering stack as the first technical hire, taking the startup from zero to a fully operational IoT platform.
Built a real-time fleet management dashboard integrating live IoT sensor data — GPS tracking, condition monitoring, and shipment analytics using React and D3.
Delivered MVP end-to-end: application design, NoSQL integration, and WebSocket-based live updates.

ReactJSTypeScriptNodeJSMongoDBAWSWebSocketIoT

British Telecom

Jun 2016 — Nov 2016

Senior Software Engineer

📍 Bangalore, India

Built a centralised bandwidth capacity management portal — real-time regional visibility and automated, client-driven allocation from a single interface.
Consolidated fragmented capacity planning company-wide, eliminating manual allocation and reducing provisioning time per client request.

CI/CDLinuxAutomationEnterprise

Accenture (Cisco)

Aug 2013 — May 2016

Software Engineer

📍 Bangalore, India

Modernised Cisco's legacy UI stack from jQuery/server-side rendering to Angular 1.0.
Built enterprise middleware using Java/J2EE, Spring, Struts 2.x, EJB, and Hibernate across multiple modules under agile SDLC.

Java / J2EEAngularSpringCisco

Education

2017 — 2019

National University of Singapore (NUS)

🏆 Global Rank #9 · NUS Overseas College (NOC) Scholar

M.S Software Engineering

NUS Graduation Ceremony, Singapore

Receiving M.S in Software Engineering from one of Asia's most competitive postgraduate programmes. Selected among NUS's outstanding students for the NUS Overseas College — a startup immersion initiative for entrepreneurial students.

NUS · Global Rank #9 · 2019

2018

EPFL — Switzerland

Europe's Top Technical University

Management, Technology & Entrepreneurship

2009 — 2013

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT)

Noida, India

B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Certifications

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Terraform Associate 003