Makarand Thengdi
About
Makarand Thengdi is from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Makarand is currently Director of Engineering — Head of Platform Engineering (DevOps, FinOps & Cloud Infrastructure) at LeadSquared, located in Bengaluru. In Makarand's previous role as a Technical Architect at LeadSquared, Makarand worked in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India until Apr 2021. Prior to joining LeadSquared, Makarand was a Software Development Manager at LeadSquared and held the position of Software Development Manager at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Prior to that, Makarand was a Technical Lead at LeadSquared, based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India from Apr 2014 to Mar 2016. Makarand started working as Sr. Software Engineer at LeadSquared in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India in Apr 2013. From Apr 2012 to Mar 2013, Makarand was Software Engineer at LeadSquared, based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Prior to that, Makarand was a Technical Associate at Hobitute Arts & Media Service Pvt. Ltd, based in Bangalore from May 2010 to Apr 2012. Makarand started working as Freelancer at Pyamlight Group in Sep 2011.
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Makarand Thengdi's current jobs
Lead the platform engineering function — a 15-person org including 3 senior leads — owning DevOps and FinOps and operating cloud infrastructure across ~55 AWS accounts in 8 regions; the backbone our SRE and Security teams build on. - Owned a 32% reduction in monthly cloud spend (~$1.0M/month → ~$3.8M annualized) via a workload-matched commitment strategy - Compute Savings Plans across the Compute fleet, Reserved Instances for Aurora, OpenSearch, and ElastiCache - plus rightsizing and autoscaling remediation, with no impact to reliability. Recognized internally as the org’s top cost initiative and externally with the 2026 India DevOps Show “Best Cost Reduction in DevOps (SaaS)” award. - Leading infrastructure modernization, migrating VM-based workloads to Kubernetes/EKS to standardize deployments and improve resource efficiency across the fleet. - Built a self-service platform portal and change-management automation that drove CM turnaround (created-to-closed) toward a sub-40-hour SLA, cutting manual handoffs and approval-queue bottlenecks. - Building agentic AI operations - a change-management executor, an RCA agent, and an AI on-call assistant to scale platform throughput faster than headcount. - Architected a multi-region database migration on Aurora Global Database, designing a phased cutover to eliminate the cross-region latency that broke an earlier attempt. - Own critical database operations, multi-account governance, and on-call/DR readiness across the regional fleet.
Makarand Thengdi's past jobs
- Hobitute is an online Art Education Platform that offers Art Education Courses and an online gallery for paintings. As part of the development team, I was involved in designing, developing and testing of the application as well as handling the releases and maintaining the platform infrastructure. - Migrated 5 on-prem Sharepoint sites to the Windows Azure Cloud Platform end-to-end with zero-downtime. - Designed the logo, brochures, pamphlets, and hoardings for the Art In Me Painting Competition held by Hobitute. The contribution to the competition’s marketing materials must have helped attract more participants and promote the event.
Pyamlight, a group of top-notch designers and 3D freelancers, envisioned to create a space where the group members can shine by showcasing their work, and clients can seamlessly connect with for their projects with the group. I had the privilege of being part of their team and bring their vision into reality by developing a online hub, a website meticulously crafted to showcase the brilliance of the diverse team.