Optimizing Costs : A Platform Engineers Playbook

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DEVOPS
Apr 11, 2024

About Speaker

Avinash Kumar Gupta

Avinash Kumar Gupta

Head of DevOps, Razorpay

Avinash is an innovative leader with a multifaceted tech background. From Software Development to DevOps and SRE, he excels in optimizing costs, enhancing availability, and boosting developer productivity. Their expertise in building self-serving tools has streamlined operations, driving efficiency across the board.

Beyond leadership, Avinash is a technical powerhouse, with a knack for solving complex challenges. They've led teams of over 100 engineers, leveraging their years of experience to achieve organizational success. Notably, he has played a pivotal role in supporting solutions generating revenues in the hundreds of millions, showcasing their strategic impact on business outcomes.

In essence, Avinash blends technical prowess with visionary leadership, shaping the future of tech innovation and driving tangible results.


Avinash is an innovative leader with a multifaceted tech background. From Software Development to DevOps and SRE, he excels in optimizing costs, enhancing availability, and boosting developer productivity. Their expertise in building self-serving tools has streamlined operations, driving efficiency across the board.

Beyond leadership, Avinash is a technical powerhouse, with a knack for solving complex challenges. They've led teams of over 100 engineers, leveraging their years of experience to achieve organizational success. Notably, he has played a pivotal role in supporting solutions generating revenues in the hundreds of millions, showcasing their strategic impact on business outcomes.

In essence, Avinash blends technical prowess with visionary leadership, shaping the future of tech innovation and driving tangible results.


Avinash is an innovative leader with a multifaceted tech background. From Software Development to DevOps and SRE, he excels in optimizing costs, enhancing availability, and boosting developer productivity. Their expertise in building self-serving tools has streamlined operations, driving efficiency across the board.

Beyond leadership, Avinash is a technical powerhouse, with a knack for solving complex challenges. They've led teams of over 100 engineers, leveraging their years of experience to achieve organizational success. Notably, he has played a pivotal role in supporting solutions generating revenues in the hundreds of millions, showcasing their strategic impact on business outcomes.

In essence, Avinash blends technical prowess with visionary leadership, shaping the future of tech innovation and driving tangible results.


About Host

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Co-founder and CTO, Amnic

Sathya is an experienced technologist with over two decades in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles (EV), and Distributed Systems. As the Co-founder and CTO of Amnic, he drives the development of a cloud Intelligence Platform, emphasizing efficiency, cost reduction, and reliability. Sathya's leadership spans roles at Ola Electric Mobility, Ola Cabs, Yahoo and many internet companies. With 11 patents in AI, EV, and Distributed Systems, he is committed to knowledge sharing and guiding industry thought leaders.

Summary of Podcast

About Amnic

Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform, helping businesses measure and rightsize their cloud costs. Amnic helps businesses visualize, analyze and optimize their cloud spends, in turn building a lean cloud infrastructure. Amnic offers out of the box solutions that help breakdown cloud bills and provide greater visibility and understanding into cloud costs along with recommendations to lower spends, alerts and anomaly detection.

Amnic delivers a wide range of features including K8s visibility, cost analyzer, alerts and custom reporting, budgeting, forecasting and smart tagging. DevOps and SRE teams rely on Amnic to deliver a simplified view into their cloud costs, allowing them to maintain governance and build a culture of cost optimization. Setup in 5-minutes and get 30-days of free trial.

Visit www.amnic.com to get started.

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