About

Sahil Davawala is an Associate Manager - DevOps at Litera Microsystems with over 9 years of experience in the field of DevOps. He is a technically savvy professional who has spent most of his career automating infrastructure, architecting setups with different tools, and working on the latest DevOps technologies. He has successfully set up CI/CD pipelines and executed them while being part of the Agile process. Sahil has also led DevOps teams and collaborated with clients globally for enterprise projects. As a DevOps Engineer, Sahil orchestrates the journey of software development from commit to production. He drives performance and reliability across multiple platforms, working closely with the Development and QA community to understand requirements for build, test, deploy, and release processes. His experience includes shortening and automating testing and release cycles to get things done faster. Sahil's strengths include excellent communication and mentoring skills, quick learning abilities, and problem-solving skills. He is a technical leader, mentor, coordinator, motivator, negotiator, and process adapter. His expertise includes engineering CI/CD pipelines, build/test automation, infrastructure as code, Docker/Containers/Kubernetes, configuration management, logging, monitoring, alerting, and designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient architectures. Before joining Litera Microsystems, Sahil worked at Zymr, Inc. as a Software Architect - DevOps and Lead Software Engineer DevOps. He has experience in architecting and developing DevOps-enabled solutions for applications, automating server-level infrastructure with the help of Docker & containerization via microservices, leveraging ECS & EKS for orchestration & clustering, and automating server-level infrastructure with the help of Docker & Kubernetes and deploying it into Azure Kubernetes Service. Sahil has extensively worked with cloud provider Microsoft Azure and its services. He has also set up CI/CD pipelines in Bamboo and Jenkins, created & customized Docker images for different applications as per project requirements, and set up PostgreSQL service of Microsoft Azure as well as AWS and integrating it with the existing application. Sahil has experience in puppetization & orchestration by writing puppet scripts for setting up the Infrastructure and leveraging AWS OpsWorks service for Puppet Enterprise. Sahil holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from Indus Institute of Tech & Engg. and has completed his secondary education from M.K. Secondary & Higher Secondary School, GLS. His tech stack includes DevOps, test, CI