About

Sarika Gaonkar is a highly skilled Azure Customer Engineer at Microsoft with over 9 years of experience in Azure cloud solutions, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Azure DevOps. She is a Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Professional and Azure Solution Architect, possessing extensive knowledge of Agile and DevOps theory and practice. Sarika has successfully implemented Agile and DevOps into major corporations, combining her IT and business expertise to deliver comprehensive infrastructure and PaaS solutions. Currently working as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, Sarika has previously served as a Lead DevOps Consultant and Azure Solution Architect at Capgemini, where she implemented automated client provisioning solutions, developed and designed multi-tier, high-availability architecture, and served as the technical SME for comprehensive infrastructure and PaaS solutions. She has also worked as a Senior Azure Consultant at Kalpavruksh, where she configured Operation Management Suite, set up log analytics and application insight, and monitored server health and performance. Sarika is skilled in cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline setup, security scan, and various tools involved in the process. She has also enhanced scripts to make them modular and extended them to be used for automated deployments of Azure services like Web App, API, Function App, Web job, and logic app. Sarika has mentored new people and developer communities to improve DevOps maturity in teams and has set up pipelines for automated backup of databases and creation of new databases. Sarika holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree in Computer Engineering and a Master of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Mumbai. Her technical skills include Azure, Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, infra, Docker, integration, Web, Kubernetes, and AngularJS. With 11.95 years of relevant experience, Sarika is a focused and enthusiastic professional with a career objective to be in a challenging and growth-oriented position to pursue her chosen profession with dedication and dynamism.