resume

Basics

Name S Raghav Pillai
Label Software Engineer
Email raghav.pillai@vologue.dev
Url https://vologue.dev

Work

  • 2023.03 - Present
    Senior Software Engineer I
    Moveworks India
    Built internal frameworks and developer tooling to reduce DevOps toil and improve reliability.
    • Designed and rolled out ArgoWorkflow framework enabling developers to write, test, and deploy workflows in Python without DevOps involvement – widely adopted across the org.
    • Implemented RBAC for OpenSearch with document-level field-based authorization.
    • Developed automatic infra health check system for dependencies like PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, improving reliability.
    • Owned Istio and logging infrastructure.
    • Set up Bazel for k8s manifests repo with pre-merge validation, reducing outages from manual errors.
  • 2022.04 - 2023.03
    Software Engineer I
    Moveworks India
    Managed cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity tooling.
    • Migrated from monolithic deploy pipeline to service-specific pipelines, reducing deployment time from 2+ hours to <10 minutes.
    • Implemented automated deep health checks for all microservices.
    • Built EU region infrastructure to meet GDPR compliance requirements.
  • 2021.11 - 2022.04
    Platform Engineer II
    Citrix R&D India
    Built and maintained internal services on Azure.
    • Developed automation to publish customer IP ranges for whitelisting.
    • Maintained internal developer services and CI/CD pipelines.
  • 2020.07 - 2021.10
    Platform Engineer II
    Zolostays
    Managed infra, access, and microservices deployments while building automation to improve efficiency.
    • Launched and managed Zolo’s bug bounty program.
    • Performed cost optimization saving $2000+ per month.
    • Built pipelines and automation frameworks to save engineering hours.
  • 2020.01 - 2020.06
    Platform Engineering Intern
    Zolostays
    Worked on microservices infra, deployments, and monitoring.

Education

Projects

Skills

Programming Language
Python
GoLang
Build Systems
Bazel
Cloud Providers
AWS
Container Orchestration
Docker
Kubernetes
Misc
ProtocolBuffers
GRPC
REST
Kafka
OpenSearch
Postgresql

Interests

Distributed systems
Music
Running