Software Engineer · Platform & DevOps
Gates Babu
Software Engineer with 1+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and Docker-based deployment systems, and Infrastructure as Code on GCP. Reduced incident MTTR by 55% and deployment toil by 60% through pipeline automation and build optimization. Additional experience in backend development (Python, Java, Spring Boot) and RAG-based AI systems. IIIT Lucknow Computer Science graduate with national-level hackathon wins.
Experience
Software Engineer — Platform & DevOps
Hashout, Bengaluru
March 2025 — Present
- Engineered multi-stage declarative Jenkins pipelines and reusable Groovy Shared Libraries, reducing end-to-end build latency by 30–40% and cutting engineer wait time by an estimated 3–4 hours/week via Python/Bash asset caching and Docker layer optimization.
- Led enterprise source-control migration of 320 repositories across 30+ teams from Bitbucket to GitHub Enterprise, re-configuring webhook triggers and RBAC/branch-protection policies with zero platform downtime.
- Architected secure, multi-stage Docker containerization strategies integrated with JFrog Artifactory, enforcing short commit SHA build-tagging and immutable deployment lifecycles across staging and production.
- Orchestrated zero-downtime, high-availability deployments on GCP/Kubernetes using rolling updates, custom readiness/liveness probes, and Ingress routing — supporting 5 production services.
Jenkins
Groovy
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
GitHub Enterprise
JFrog Artifactory
Python
Bash
YAML
JIRA
Projects
UHC Policy AI Agent
- Built a production-deployed AI Agent using Hybrid RAG (ChromaDB vector search + Tavily live web retrieval), enabling clinically accurate, source-traceable answers over UHC insurance policy documents.
- Implemented semantic retrieval, embeddings, and a multi-tier fallback hierarchy (local vector search → live web retrieval via Gemini 2.5 Flash), achieving robust coverage for policies outside the indexed corpus with zero manual intervention.
Python
LangChain
Gemini 2.5 Flash
ChromaDB
Streamlit
Real-Time Multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe
- Developed a server-authoritative multiplayer game on Nakama with real-time WebSocket gameplay, private room codes, and auto-matchmaking, preventing client-side cheating for 30+ concurrent users.
- Deployed Nakama + CockroachDB on DigitalOcean via Docker Compose with Cloudflare Tunnel for HTTPS/WSS; automated React frontend deployment on Vercel with GitHub CI/CD.
Nakama
Docker
CockroachDB
DigitalOcean
React
Patient Management System
- Engineered a 4-service microservices architecture (Patient, Billing, Analytics, Auth) using gRPC and Kafka for async event streaming, maintaining 99%+ availability at scale.
- Released on AWS ECS via CloudFormation IaC; secured endpoints with JWT + API Gateway and containerized every service with Docker, cutting deployment time by 30%.
Java
Spring Boot
gRPC
Kafka
AWS ECS