About

Arpit Somani is a Senior Manager at Morgan Stanley with over 7 years of experience in overseeing infrastructure, application support, and security services. He is currently managing the DevOps/SRE chapter and has hands-on experience in implementing best practices of SRE/DevOps, including automation and optimization of all aspects of deployments, IaaS and PaaS offerings over cloud, and migration from VMs to cloud services. Arpit is dedicated to client satisfaction and focused delivery of technical solutions. He is a proven leader in directing operations, support, and maintenance of complex solutions and develops innovative solutions by leveraging diverse methodologies. Arpit has worked as a DevOps Consultant at McKinsey, where he gained hands-on experience on container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and containerization platform like Docker. He has successfully migrated five applications from VM (on-prem) to cloud (AWS) and has experience/knowledge on major cloud service providers like AWS and Azure. Arpit has strong automation and scripting skills, and he has developed tools to automate daily manual tasks. He is also experienced in infrastructure setup, migration, monitoring, and securing, LAMP and Drupal applications. Arpit is an excellent communicator and has proven experience in implementing innovative solutions. He has mentored and guided team members to ensure that their development plan and pathway to success is clear and transparent. Arpit has worked as a DevOps Engineer at Amdocs, where he ensured high availability of enterprise IT Infrastructure and data platforms that support internal employee business functions and external customer contact. He served as one of the primary points of contact for external and internal users to access the firm's underlying infrastructure, provisioning, installation, and perform troubleshooting, incident response, patching in a timely manner. Arpit has efficiently led the team and delivered successfully over 15 projects with zero major incidents. He has developed and implemented strategies for migration, consolidation, and upgrade of integration components. Arpit holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from GLA University, Mathura. He has also completed his schooling till XII from Army Public School, Mathura Cantt, and basic schooling till X grade from St. Dominic's Sec. School, Mathura. Arpit has expertise in SRE, DevOps, infra, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Terraform, test, Kubernetes, Docker, Integration, CI/CD, Python, Jenkins, and is a Senior Software Engineer with relevant experience of 8.78 years.