Nitin Khaneja

AI and Data Solutions Engineer

Application DevOps · Data DevOps · LLMOps

My journey spans cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, data platforms, DataOps and MLOps — evolving into GenAI, RAG, AI agents and AI platform engineering. I build the engineering foundations that make applications, data and AI systems reliable, secure and repeatable.

Drawing Engineering Resume
Discipline App DevOps / Data DevOps / LLMOps
Based Delhi NCR, India
Experience 8+ yrs — since 2017

Sheet 01 / 06 — Title

My Engineering Journey

From cloud engineering and automation to DataOps, MLOps and GenAI — a progression from infrastructure and delivery foundations to intelligent, production-ready platforms.

2017
01
FOUNDATION

Cloud Engineering

02
AUTOMATION

DevOps / Automation

03
INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure as Code

04
DELIVERY

CI / CD

05
DATA

Data Engineering Platforms

06
DATA

DataOps

07
MACHINE LEARNING

MLOps

2025–2026 AI EVOLUTION
01 GenAI
02 RAG
03 AI Agents
04 AI Platform Engineering

Sheet 02 / 06 — Engineering Journey

Experience

May 2021 — Present

Gurgaon · Hybrid

AI and Data Solutions Engineer — Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd — Application DevOps, Data DevOps & LLMOps across the end-to-end data product lifecycle

  • Designed and operationalized an enterprise MLOps framework across 5+ ML use cases, cutting deployment cycle time by 50%.
  • Built CI/CD for ML components on Azure DevOps with a centralized Artifacts feed for versioning Python packages, reducing manual integration effort by 20%.
  • Deployed models to Kubernetes for batch and real-time inference, supporting 100k+ inferences per month in production.
  • Built Streamlit applications for data exploration and model inference, with authentication and access controls for secure self-service.
  • Established DataOps standards and CI/CD frameworks across 2,000+ data pipelines and 3 environments for Ebusiness and CX platforms.
  • Developed "Operate," an LLM-based incident-assist tool that recommends ServiceNow resolutions from historical incident data, lifting support-team productivity by 30%.
  • Built "Docuflow," an automated documentation agent for ADF pipelines, SQL objects and Databricks notebooks — documenting 5,000+ assets and cutting manual effort by 50%.
  • Shipped "Talk to Code," a RAG chatbot over a Databricks vector database built from Docuflow's wiki output, for natural-language access to platform knowledge.
  • Defined a DevSecOps framework standardizing promotions across ADF, Databricks, Synapse, SQL Server, Function Apps and Logic Apps, reducing deployment defects by 50%.

Oct 2019 — May 2021

Noida

Cloud Automation Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Brainscale Inc

  • Delivered infrastructure as code with Terraform across 3 environments, improving provisioning consistency.
  • Designed RESTful APIs on Azure Functions for scalable serverless integrations.
  • Built Azure Functions web-scraping solutions to automate data extraction into downstream workflows.
  • Deployed and managed Azure Windows Virtual Desktop with automated, form-triggered provisioning.
  • Implemented Azure DevOps CI/CD for Terraform, Functions and application components, cutting release time by 40%.
  • Introduced release governance — approval gates, artifact versioning, environment-specific configuration — for stronger auditability.

May 2018 — Oct 2019

Noida

Software Engineer — DevOps, Network & Cloud Automation

Tech Mahindra Limited

  • Built and orchestrated lifecycle promotion for Azure data engineering assets, with validations and test cases in Azure DevOps CI/CD.
  • Developed an inventory tool for Cisco IOS devices and automated network configuration changes with Ansible.
  • Automated 5+ recurring service-request tasks per month, improving operational turnaround.

Dec 2017 — May 2018

Noida

Cloud Engineer

Compunnel Technology Ltd

  • Maintained high-availability AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts and client environments.
  • Resolved infrastructure outages and production incidents within SLA across Windows and Linux.
  • Automated patch management with AWS Systems Manager, improving compliance and reducing manual work.

Sheet 03 / 06 — Experience

Technical Skills

AI / Data platforms

Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, ETL orchestration, data warehousing, vector databases

DataOps / CI-CD

Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, Git, YAML pipelines, release automation, environment promotion, test automation

MLOps

ML lifecycle management, model packaging, pip package management, batch & real-time inference, model deployment

Cloud platforms

Microsoft Azure (primary), AWS

Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Containers

Kubernetes, Docker

Programming / automation

Python, Shell scripting

Web / APIs

Azure Functions, Flask, Gunicorn, Streamlit, Azure App Service, REST APIs, AWS API Gateway, Lambda

Identity / monitoring

Azure Active Directory, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, AWS IAM

Databases

SQL Server, MySQL

Sheet 04 / 06 — Skills

Certifications

Ten, spanning both clouds — kept current alongside delivery work.

AZ-305

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

AZ-400

DevOps Engineer Expert

AZ-500

Azure Security Engineer Associate

AZ-204

Azure Developer Associate

AZ-104

Azure Administrator Associate

DP-203

Azure Data Engineer Associate

DP-900

Azure Data Fundamentals

AZ-900

Azure Fundamentals

SAA-C03

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

CLF-C02

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Sheet 05 / 06 — Certifications

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science

IK Gujral Punjab Technical University

2013 — 2017

Sheet 06 / 06 — Education & contact