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Forward Deployed Engineer

Arun Kumar Pandita

Engineering Manager and cloud platform leader with 13+ years in software engineering, system design, and team leadership. An AI-first approach to taking products from MVP to production.

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13+ years engineering
System design & platforms
MVP to production
About

Building cloud platforms with an AI-first approach

I work as a forward deployed engineer and engineering leader—close to product, infrastructure, and customers. I lead system design for managed Kubernetes, Database-as-a-Service, GPU inference, and cloud-native platforms, taking capabilities from MVP to production with reliability, observability, and operational readiness in mind.

At E2E Networks I have led architecture for Kubernetes on KubeVirt, isolated database workloads with Kata Containers, customer onboarding, compute nodes, DBaaS, and the TIR GPU platform. Earlier I built full-stack cloud products (Python, React, Angular), storage, CDP/backup, CDN, and payments. I mentor teams, review designs, and encourage responsible AI-assisted development with human review.

  • Forward deployed engineer mindset
  • AI-first approach to delivery
  • MVP to production ownership
  • System design & distributed systems
Expertise

Skills for system design and production

Platform engineering, cloud-native systems, and an AI-first approach to shipping from MVP to production.

Leadership & delivery

  • Engineering leadership & mentoring
  • System design & distributed systems
  • MVP to production
  • AI-first approach

Cloud & platform

  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • KubeVirt
  • Kata Containers
  • AWS
  • Linux & networking
  • Docker
  • CI/CD & automation
  • Observability & reliability

Engineering

  • Python
  • Go
  • Django
  • React
  • Angular
  • Generative AI & LLM applications
Experience

From MVP to production

Cloud platforms, system design, and team leadership—taking products from early delivery into reliable production operations.

  1. Engineering Manager

    E2E Networks Ltd. · New Delhi

    Nov 2025 – Jul 2026

    • Led system design and architecture for managed Kubernetes and DBaaS, including clusters on KubeVirt VMs and isolated workloads with Kata Containers.
    • Guided provisioning, lifecycle, networking, storage, scalability, security, and failure recovery.
    • Improved production observability via Sentry, logs, monitoring, and support tickets; coordinated incident response.
    • Mentored engineers, ran architecture reviews, and balanced new product work with reliability and technical debt.

  2. Technical Lead

    E2E Networks Ltd. · New Delhi

    Nov 2023 – Oct 2025

    • Directed a full-stack team (Python, React, Angular) delivering cloud-native customer capabilities.
    • Guided launch of compute nodes, managed Kubernetes, DBaaS, GPU instances, and TIR inference workloads.
    • Encouraged responsible AI-assisted development with human review of generated output.
    • Improved release readiness through validation, testing, observability, and post-deployment monitoring.

  3. Senior Software Engineer

    E2E Networks Ltd. · New Delhi

    Mar 2021 – Oct 2023

    • Full-stack work on customer-facing cloud products with Python, React, and REST APIs.
    • Block storage, E2E Object Storage (MinIO), Continuous Data Protection, backup and recovery.
    • Built the TIR GPU platform React UI for provisioning and managing GPU and AI workloads.

  4. Software Engineer

    E2E Networks Ltd. · New Delhi

    Mar 2019 – Apr 2021

    • Secure registration and onboarding with OTP flows; payment collection with idempotent processing.
    • White-labelled CDN (AWS CloudFront) and SSL certificate provisioning via SSL Store APIs.

  5. Senior Web Developer

    Artworld Web Solutions Pvt Ltd. · Mohali

    Oct 2012 – Mar 2019

    • REST APIs and backends with Django, Flask, Node.js, Express, MySQL, and MongoDB.
    • Production infrastructure on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), Docker, and Kubernetes microservices.
    • Payment gateways (Razorpay, Stripe, PayPal) and CMS work with PHP, Magento, and WordPress.

Education

MCA, Kurukshetra University (2010–2013) · B.Sc. Information Technology, Punjab Technical University (2006–2009)

Projects

Selected work

Demo slides for now—platform, system design, and AI-first delivery from MVP to production. Real case studies coming soon.

Managed Kubernetes platform

Demo: system design for cluster lifecycle, networking, and recovery on KubeVirt. Replace with a live case study.

  • Kubernetes
  • System design
  • MVP to production

Database-as-a-Service

Demo: isolated database workloads with Kata Containers and production observability. Placeholder content.

  • DBaaS
  • Kata
  • Reliability

TIR GPU inference

Demo: GPU platform UI and inference workloads with an AI-first approach. Update with real metrics later.

  • GPU
  • AI-first approach
  • React

Object storage & CDP

Demo: MinIO-backed object storage and continuous data protection flows. Sample project card.

  • MinIO
  • Python
  • Cloud

Customer onboarding & payments

Demo: OTP onboarding, idempotent payments, CDN and SSL provisioning. Placeholder for a write-up.

  • APIs
  • AWS
  • Forward deployed engineer