Kushan Thakur

Senior Software Engineer · DevOps & Platform

Senior Software Engineer with a DevOps and platform focus. Designing data-platform CI/CD with near-zero-downtime releases, instant recovery, and multi-region resilience — built on years of Java, Spring Boot, and Next.js.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ HSBC

present

Designing and developing Data Platform CI/CD with near-zero-downtime releases and instant recovery. Blue-green deployments on GKE that scale inactive workloads down for cost-efficiency without compromising rollback. Multi-region, resilient platform infrastructure. Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and developer-experience tooling on top.

Full Stack Pod Lead @ HSBC

earlier

Led a pod owning Java + Spring Boot query-engine services that integrated Impala, Trino, and Starburst against Hadoop and BigQuery. Contract-first REST APIs and Next.js frontends for the data-access layer.

Projects

kushan.studio

github.com/kushanthakur/terminal-portfolio

A Warp-style terminal that runs entirely in the browser. A React shell parses commands, streams ANSI-colored output, and mounts inline apps (Spotify, GitHub, neofetch) without ever leaving the page.

  • one experience, zero context switches — everything is a command
  • cached API layer (30s–1h) keeps third-party calls off the hot path

Next.js · TypeScript · React · Tailwind CSS · Three.js · Motion · GSAP

opus-devSecOps

github.com/kushanthakur/opus-devSecOps

An opinionated DevSecOps reference pipeline: every commit runs through secret, dependency, and IaC scanning before a signed, SBOM-attached artifact is promoted through Helm to Kubernetes.

  • secure-by-design: secret, dependency, and IaC gates block the build early
  • SBOM generated per build via syft

Bash · Groovy · Terraform HCL · Java · Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · Docker

Skills

Languages
Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Scala, Groovy, Bash, C++
Frontend
React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
Backend
Spring Boot, OpenAPI/contract-first, REST
Data
Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark/PySpark, Impala, Trino, Starburst, BigQuery, Doris, Redis
Databases
PostgreSQL, CloudSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
DevOps
Kubernetes, Helm, Helm templating, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Cloud
GCP, GKE, Cloud Run, CloudSQL, VPC / network config
Observability
Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Airflow, Control-M, Yarn, xMatters
Security
SonarQube, Nexus IQ, zero-vuln gating, secrets hygiene

Education

B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science

University of Delhi · Jul 2019 – Jul 2022 · CGPA 7.39

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Cisco