About

Anuj Bansal is a highly skilled DevOps Engineer and AWS Consultant with over 5 years of relevant experience. He is currently serving as the Lead DevOps Engineer at Toptal, where he is responsible for building and maintaining development, staging, and production infrastructure for the Joystream blockchain on AWS. Anuj is an Educator and Software Engineer who is passionate about building highly scalable applications with a beautiful design. His expertise lies in JavaScript, Python, and AWS. Anuj has a diverse skill set, which includes writing Ansible playbooks, Bash scripts, and AWS CloudFormation templates for dynamic infrastructure creation. He has also written CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and custom self-hosted runners per operating system type in AWS. Anuj is well-versed in automation and has automated stack deployment of various components on AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters using Pulumi. Before joining Toptal, Anuj worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Crossover for Work, where he was responsible for migrating projects from on-premise and hybrid cloud environments to VMware on AWS. He also developed internal tools using FastAPI (Python) to automate the migration process and wrote Infrastructure-as-Code modules using Terraform & Ansible for provisioning and configuration management. Anuj has also worked as a Curriculum Specialist at Pesto Tech, where he taught technical topics like Git architecture, Software Development workflow, and JavaScript ES6. He designed and updated the Full Stack Curriculum and helped hundreds of developers upgrade their careers. Anuj holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. His tech stack includes AWS, DevOps, infra, Ansible, SRE, Blockchain, Python, Javascript, CI/CD, Software Engineer, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Anuj is a prolific writer and has contributed articles to various publications. He is also an active contributor to the world of Open Source Software.