About Naval
18+ Years in DevSecOps, CloudOps, and FinOps Leadership.
Professional Bio
Naval Thakur is a seasoned technologist and transformation leader with over 18 years of experience helping enterprises scale their software delivery and operations. He has successfully led large-scale DevSecOps initiatives, cloud migrations, and FinOps implementations in complex, regulated environments across Energy, Technology, and Global Delivery sectors.
Value Proposition
"Empowering enterprises with over 18 years of experience leading DevSecOps, FinOps, System Architecture, SRE, and AIOps initiatives across complex, cloud-native environments. Having guided multi-disciplinary teams and multi-million-dollar cloud portfolios, the focus is on aligning technical delivery with measurable business value. Through secure-by-design architectures, cost-optimized cloud operations, and resilient delivery pipelines, this work has helped organizations reduce risk, improve reliability, and significantly lower operational and cloud spend."
SLB
8 years 5 months (Total)Practice ManagerCurrent
- Establishing industry aligned best practices in the SDLC and DevOps areas.
- Evaluating and Maturing the DevOps best practices adhering to DORA, DOCA, and i3PM frameworks.
- Managing tools landscape and achieving cost leadership through tools rationalization.
Program Architect - IT Systems
- Accountable for Integrated Project, Program and Portfolio management systems including Planisware, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, and SonarQube.
- Enabling GenAI across all phases of DevOps lifecycle to achieve Cognitive DevSecOps.
Cloud Enablement Architect
- Consultant for Cloud Economics, Cloud CoE, Cost optimization and Capacity management.
- Product owner for Hosting Cost Model (COSMO) providing cost attribution/allocation.
- Led Hybrid Hosting Cost Optimization Initiatives including Reservations, commitments, and rightsizing.
Global Leader - Cloud Computing SIG
- Provided a forum for knowledge sharing on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS across SLB.
- Organized webinars, workshops, published newsletters, and managed community channels.
Global Leader - Open Source SIG
- Led community input into developing and adopting Open source standards.
- Managed community channels and moderated discussions to foster innovation.
DevOps Practice Lead
- Driven DevOps transformations to Agile ways of working.
- Implemented strategies for Consolidation, obsolescence and modernization on Tools landscape.
- Enabling, empowering and scaling cross-functional, distributed teams.
- Modernized platform tools by decommissioning legacy Serena tools suite and 20+ servers.
FinOps Foundation
2 years 7 monthsFinOps Practitioner and Community Member
- Demonstrated working knowledge of Cloud Cost Optimization, Efficiency, and Financial Management.
- Executed Reserved Instance Purchasing, Rightsizing, Tagging Strategy, and Chargeback.
GENPACT
2 years 1 monthTFS Admin and Project Manager
- Saved $600K by evangelising migration of existing incident management system to TFS.
- Performed role of Application Lifecycle Management architect.
- TFS Admin activities: Process template customization, Source code control, Build/Release management.
Wipro
5 yearsProject Lead
- Managed Software configuration, Change and Release Management activities.
- Executed Source code administration (TFS, VSS, GIT, CVS) and Product installers packaging.
- Handled Project Management including Onsite-offshore coordination and stakeholder management.
Vertex Data Science
2 years 9 monthsConfiguration Analyst
- End-to-end knowledge of Infrastructure migration and rehosting.
- Re-solutioning production systems architecture for High availability, fault tolerance, and load balancing.
- Monitoring utilizing Quest, PerfMon and SilkPerformer.
Sapient UK
3 years 3 monthsInfrastructure/Technology Associate
- Deployment and Implementation Activities for 'going-to-be' live environments.
- Monitoring, managing and tuning server/infrastructure performance.
- Project planning for HA, fault tolerance, and Disaster Recovery.
Associate Technology
- Web Application development using .NET technologies.
- Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Functional testing using Nunit and Testpartner.
- Maintained Continuous integration environments (Nant, Cruisecontrol.Net).
Management Development Institute (MDI)
MBA - Finance, Information Management (IT)
2015 - 2017
TERI University
PG Diploma, Renewable Energy
2013 - 2015
Landmark Education
Landmark Curriculum Graduate, Organizational Leadership
2012 - 2013
Maharshi Dayanand University
B.E, Computer Science & Engineering
2002 - 2006
MBA Convocation
Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon — one of India's premier business schools. Naval's MBA in Finance and Information Management laid the foundation for bridging technical delivery with business value.