Kushal Kumar has extensive experience in the field of DevOps. Kushal is currently working as a Principal Engineer - DevOps at Ontic, where their responsibilities include team management, day-to-day DevOps tasks, driving infra and security audits, automation using Terraform and Ansible, infra security and cost optimization, and POC for third-party integration. Prior to Ontic, they served as a Senior Software Engineer - DevOps at Nykaa.com from 2020 to 2021. Before that, they had roles at ixigo as a Senior DevOps Engineer from 2019 to 2020, and as a DevOps Engineer from 2018 to 2019. Kushal began their career at StackExpress, where they held positions as a DevOps Engineer, Assistant DevOps Engineer, and DevOps Trainee Engineer from 2015 to 2018.
Kushal Kumar completed their Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science & Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University from 2010 to 2014. Kushal also obtained the Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2023.