KIRTI RANJAN PARIDA is a seasoned DevOps Architect with extensive experience in the technology sector, currently employed at Informatica since December 2017, where previous roles included Principal DevOps Engineer and Lead DevOps Engineer. KIRTI has also served as a Technical Lead at HARMAN International from December 2015 to December 2017 and held the position of Delivery Module Lead at MphasiS between January 2012 and October 2015. Initial career experience includes working as a Server Engineer at IBM (PCS technologies) from August 2010 to December 2012, a System Engineer at ACK Media from May 2008 to August 2010, and as an Independent Contractor at Auktek Technologies from May 2007 to May 2008. KIRTI earned a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur, graduating in 2007.