Hi there 👋, I'm Santosh Mahale
AVP of DevOps & Infrastructure Engineering with 11+ years of experience building cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and platform engineering teams at global scale.
Currently leading infrastructure engineering at a global financial institution, overseeing systems across the UK, US, and Asia. My work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, automation, and engineering culture.
✍️ Writing: I publish practitioner-level content on DevOps transformation, platform engineering, and cloud-native architecture on DEV Community and Medium.
🚀 Currently building: Interview with AI, an open source project to help engineers prepare for technical interviews using AI.
☁️ Currently exploring: CNCF ecosystem tools, Backstage, Crossplane, and FinOps practices.
🛠️ Tech Stack
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Cloud |   |
| Containers & Orchestration |   |
| CI/CD |    |
| IaC & Config |   |
| API & Observability |   |
| Languages & Scripting |   |
| Version Control |   |
📝 Latest Writing
- We Renamed the DevOps Team 'Platform Engineering.' Nothing Changed. Here's Why.
- Most AI Agent Failures Aren't Model Problems, They're Architecture Problems
If you are working on something in the DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud-native space, feel free to reach out. Always happy to talk about infrastructure, engineering culture, or career journeys.
Connect with me on LinkedIn or find me speaking at conferences via Sessionize.
Based in Pune, India.