Rishi Pal

Engineering Lead | DevOps | Platform | AI Systems

Ireland

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Engineering professional with nearly 20 years of experience in software development, DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Blockchain, and Platform Engineering. Expert in Kubernetes and multi-cloud architectures. Key achievements include 40% cost optimization through modernization and automation, and leading a 12-engineer DevSecOps & SRE team managing complex blockchain infrastructures.

Skills

Terraform10/10

ArgoCD / GitOps10/10

AWS10/10

Azure10/10

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)10/10

Docker (10/10)GCP (10/10)Go (Golang) (10/10)Kubernetes (10/10)Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, Splunk) (10/10)Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (9/10)Helm (9/10)Smart Contracts / Validator Node Ops (8/10)Blockchain / Web3 (Ethereum, VeChainThor, Hyperledger, Ripple) (8/10)Service Mesh / OPA / Falco (8/10)Apache Kafka (8/10)AI Systems (RAG, LangGraph, LLM integrations) (8/10)Python (8/10)Node.js / TypeScript (7/10)Cassandra / MongoDB / PostgreSQL (6/10)

Work Experience

Engineering Lead

VeChain

Oct 2022 — Feb 2026

Led a 12-engineer DevSecOps & SRE team managing blockchain node infrastructure, RPC services, and data pipelines. Architected Kubernetes-based blockchain infrastructure, built cloud-native CI/CD pipelines, established GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, built observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog) reducing MTTR by 60%, and developed internal tooling in Go and Python for node deployment automation.

Lead Protocol Engineer

Blockdaemon

Oct 2022 — Present

Designed and operated multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Bare Metal) for blockchain nodes and validator systems. Built GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, packaged and deployed services using Helm, and improved cluster reliability and scaling strategies for validators, RPC, and indexing services.

Principal Software Engineer

Oracle

Feb 2021 — Jan 2022

Built a secure enterprise Kubernetes platform (RBAC, OPA, Falco). Automated multi-cloud deployments using Terraform, Docker, and Go. Implemented service mesh security and auto TLS. Developed Apache Kafka streaming platforms for real-time data processing.

Cloud Architect

Guidewire Software

Jul 2019 — Feb 2021

Standardized CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring practices across global teams. Architected enterprise observability stack using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Sumo Logic. Guided Kubernetes adoption in production for enterprise SaaS workloads.

Cloud Engineer

Pramerica

Apr 2016 — Jul 2019

Improved operational efficiency using AWS microservices architecture, reducing annual costs. Migrated on-prem systems to cloud. Built production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure.

Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase

Apr 2014 — Apr 2016

Site Reliability Engineering role at JPMorgan Chase, Singapore.

Infrastructure Engineer

IBM

Feb 2010 — Feb 2014

Infrastructure engineering role at IBM, Gurgaon, India.

Consultant

Jan 2009 — Feb 2010

Consultant role at LG.

Systems Analyst

Fidelity Investments

Nov 2006 — Jan 2009

Systems Analyst role at Fidelity Investments, Bangalore, India.