Hello, I'm Rolind Roy

DevOps Leader

Currently in Dubai 🇦🇪

Building infrastructure that scales — and teams that do too.

About Me

I'm a DevOps Leader and Cloud Architect with 13+ years of experience designing scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure. My work spans cloud architecture, platform engineering, and team leadership — helping organizations streamline operations, accelerate delivery, and operate with confidence.

I've designed and managed complex cloud environments across AWS and Oracle Cloud, led high-impact automation initiatives, and built observability systems supporting mission-critical workloads at scale. I care as much about DevOps culture as I do about DevOps tooling.

Recently, I've been focused on integrating AI into DevOps workflows — building internal tools that let engineers query infrastructure state in plain English, surface anomalies from logs, and reduce the operational cognitive load on teams.

Most of my work is proprietary enterprise infrastructure. Reach out and I'm happy to walk through specific projects in conversation.

Technical Skills

Core competencies across DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and AI tooling

Cloud Infrastructure

Linux

Platform Engineering

Kafka

Cloud Governance

Cost Optimization

Platform Reliability

Kubernetes

Containerization

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Ansible

Configuration Management

CI/CD

DevOps Automation

Workflow Optimization

Release Management

Fluent Bit

Vector.dev

Elasticsearch

Logging and Monitoring

Observability

Access Management

LLMs & AI Tooling

Natural Language Interfaces

Intelligent Alerting

AI × DevOps

One of the problems I keep running into: infrastructure knowledge is locked inside dashboards, runbooks, and the heads of senior engineers. A junior engineer at 2am shouldn't need to know 5 tools to answer “what's wrong with this service.”

I've been building internal tooling that uses AI to close that gap — natural language interfaces over infrastructure state, intelligent log analysis, and context-aware alerting that surfaces the “so what” instead of raw metrics.

This is still early, but it's where I'm investing time — applying LLMs where they actually reduce toil rather than add complexity.

Interested in exploring this for your team? Get in touch

Professional Experience

My journey through various roles and responsibilities.

Almosafer(Dubai, UAE)

DevOps Manager

Jan 2022 – Present

Currently leading the DevOps function for a large-scale travel platform, with responsibilities spanning infrastructure architecture, cloud operations, automation, and team leadership. Focused on optimizing cloud environments, improving deployment reliability, and streamlining release processes. I work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure platform stability, security, and scalability while fostering a culture of DevOps best practices. Built and scaled observability infrastructure processing millions of log events daily; led cloud cost optimization initiatives reducing infrastructure spend significantly while improving availability.

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

Fluent Bit

Kafka

Vector

Elasticsearch

Slack

Jira

Oracle India(Bangalore, India)

DevOps Developer III

Nov 2020 – Dec 2021

Contributed to enterprise-level DevOps initiatives by automating cloud infrastructure, enhancing deployment workflows, and supporting internal platform tools. Collaborated with engineering teams to strengthen security compliance, reduce manual operations, and enable consistent deployment strategies across development environments. Automated cloud provisioning workflows reducing environment setup time from days to hours across enterprise development teams.

Oracle Cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

NVD

Tata Communications(Chennai, India)

Sr. Technical Associate

Jan 2017 – Nov 2020

Played a key role in managing global infrastructure environments with a focus on container orchestration, configuration management, and infrastructure automation. Provided DevOps solutions to improve operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and enforce consistency across multiple data centers and cloud regions. Managed container orchestration across multiple global data centers, improving deployment consistency and reducing unplanned downtime.

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Ansible

Virtusa Polaris(Chennai, India)

Associate Consultant

Feb 2016 – Jan 2017

Implemented DevOps pipelines and supported release automation for enterprise applications. Involved in version control management, build automation, and lifecycle maintenance of deployment systems. Ensured smooth delivery across multiple environments with an emphasis on stability and speed. Delivered CI/CD pipeline improvements that accelerated release cycles for enterprise clients.

Git

SVN

Jenkins

Ansible

AWS

Ruby Seven Studios(Cochin, India)

DevOps Engineer

Sep 2013 – Feb 2016

Responsible for managing cloud-based infrastructure to support online applications. Automated recurring operational tasks, monitored application performance, and contributed to improving deployment efficiency and system availability in a fast-paced development environment. Built and maintained AWS infrastructure supporting production applications with high availability requirements.

AWS

Jenkins

Ansible

RDS

Aurora

Redshift

DynamoDB

What I Do

This is what I do best - turning complex challenges into elegant solutions

Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering

Designing and building enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS and Oracle Cloud — from Kubernetes platforms and CI/CD pipelines to observability stacks and cost-optimized architectures. I focus on infrastructure that is operable by the team, not just the person who built it.

DevOps Leadership & Team Enablement

Leading DevOps functions across engineering organizations — building practices, not just pipelines. I work with teams on release processes, on-call culture, incident management, and the kind of automation that actually reduces toil rather than adding complexity.

Get In Touch

Open to consulting engagements and advisory conversations. If you're working on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or AI × DevOps — I'd love to talk.

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