Girish Dudhwal

Technology Director | Head of Cloud/SRE Practice

A seasoned Technology Director with over 15 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Cloud Management. Proven track record of leading global teams of 80+ engineers, delivering large-scale cloud migrations, and driving engineering excellence.

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AWS Solutions Architect – Associate — verified

Years in Infrastructure

Engineers Led (peak)

Servers Automated

Organizations

Leadership Scope

Team Scaling (0-80+)

Strategic Planning

FinOps

Pre-sales & Solutions Architecture

Agile/Scrum

Experience

Technology Director | Cloud & SRE Practice Head

active

Wizeline · Apr 2022 – Present

Leading the global Cloud & SRE practice, defining technical strategy, and driving digital transformation for enterprise clients.

Spearheaded multiple cloud migration and modernization projects, transitioning from CloudFormation to Terraform.
Managed and mentored a diverse global team of 80+ engineers, fostering a culture of excellence.
Directed the complete customer pipeline from initial consultation to solution deployment.
Acted as a key link between executive leadership and solution architecture teams on strategy.
Led pre-sales conversations with key clients across US and LATAM, shaping custom cloud/DevOps solutions.

Global Head of DevOps Department

Distillery · Jan 2021 – Apr 2022

Oversaw global DevOps operations, driving standardization and best practices across distributed teams.

Managed DevOps department processes, handling high-level client and project interactions.
Established best practices, roadmaps, and onboarding protocols for the DevOps organization.
Identified expansion opportunities within existing client accounts to drive business growth.
Analyzed current operations to implement efficiency improvements and scaling strategies.

Principal DevOps Engineer

Globant · Apr 2019 – Jan 2021

Architected cloud-native solutions and led DevOps transformation initiatives for key clients.

Automated infrastructure and implemented a hybrid DevOps + SRE team for Realogy operations.
Managed complex infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, Glue, Athena) and Google Cloud.
Designed architecture for multiple Data Lake solutions.
Implemented distributed technologies like Kafka, NiFi, and Spark (Sagemaker).
Owned company-wide build processes and pipelines using GitLab and Jenkins.

Key Projects

shipped

Mesos Migration

Migrated Hadoop-based computational jobs to Mesos infrastructure for Adobe, optimizing resource sharing.

stack

Docker

Mesos

Marathon

Zookeeper

Java

shipped

Enterprise Monitoring Framework

Designed and integrated a scalable monitoring solution for Wize Commerce using Graphite and Python.

stack

Graphite

StatsD

Python

Cubism.js

Tattle

shipped

Global Deployment Automation

Automated deployment processes for over 3000 servers using LinkedIn Glu platform.

stack

Groovy

Python

Grails

LinkedIn Glu

shipped

AWS Cloud Migration

Architected S3 to Google Nearline data migration with client-side encryption.

stack

AWS

GCP

Python

Encryption

Talks & Media

Speaking engagements, interviews, and discussions on Cloud, SRE, and Leadership.

3 sessions logged

Growing with Wizeline: Culture and Opportunities

Sharing insights on Wizeline's culture and career opportunities at AWS Community Day Mexico City.

Hybrid Cloud, AI, and Continuous Assessment

The 2025 Cloud Forecast: Discussing the future of Hybrid Cloud and AI-driven assessment.

How has the SRE role evolved in recent years?

#WizeSRETips: A deep dive into the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering and modern operations.

Service Inventory

cloud

AWS (Expert)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

devops

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Chef

observability

Dynatrace

ELK Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

DataDog

Nagios

languages

Python

Shell/Bash

Java

Groovy

Ruby

databases

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

MongoDB

Redis

InfluxDB

os

Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu)

Unix

Windows

networking

SSL/TLS

VPN

MPLS

Wireshark

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing (DAC)

2011

CDAC, Noida

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Information Technology

2007 – 2011

Chandigarh Engineering College / PTU

Let's talk about your next migration.

Whether it's a Director-level role, an infrastructure practice to build, or a speaking slot on Cloud and SRE — reach out directly.

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