About

Apurva Saxena is a Director of DevOps at DeCurtis Corporation with over 14 years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering Web, Desktop, and Mobile applications for Hospitality, Cruise Industry, and Financial domains. He is responsible for managing a department that handles CI/CD/CT pipeline for the products, Network security and deployment, and support for in-house and customer environments. Apurva is an expert in requirements analysis, product/project architecture, design, delivery, and support. He has hands-on experience in Architecture of Projects, Design Patterns, Microservices, SOA, Windows, and Web services design. User Interface and User Experience Design in form of Wireframes, Mockups, and Prototypes (UI, flow, navigation, animation, interactions, behaviors, and special effects). He is well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies. Apurva has experience in building teams from scratch as well as identifying and encouraging potential individuals and leaders. He has outstanding experience in customer communication as well as managing the customer in times of crisis and conflict. He has a good understanding of Cruise, Hospitality, and Financial domains, and can quickly grasp different cultures and communicate accordingly. Apurva is 2x GCP Certified and 1x Microsoft Certified. He has extensive experience in DevOps, GCP, Microservices, Web, CI/CD, Senior Software Engineer, test, Kafka, iOS, Backend, AWS, Frontend, dotNET, Redis, ASP.NET, UI, Selenium, Docker, MySQL, MSSQL, Jenkins, Azure, Integration, Mobile, Android, Elastic Search, and Python. In his current role at DeCurtis Corporation, Apurva focuses on maintaining and upgrading Complete CI/CD/CT pipeline starting from on-demand Developer environments (one per developer) in GCP with 150+ microservices running in Docker under on-demand GKE including Databases like PostgreSQL, Couchbase, MariaDB, MySQL and tools like Kafka, Zookeeper, MinIO, Redis, WordPress, Magnolia, Elastic Stack. He manages a team of Engineering and Operations that are responsible for the implementation and deployment of technical systems & software solutions. He oversees and supports multiple implementations of the product. Apurva has architected and managed the transition from in-house On-premise Datacenter with everything running on Virtual Machines to GCP spanning across multiple VPCs and GCP Projects and using GKE for Development environments. Apur