DevOps Engineer

About Me

Hi 👋, I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in:

🚀 Streamlining Cloud Solutions: Skilled in managing AWS resources such as SQS, S3, and EKS for highly scalable, automated solutions.

⚙️ CI/CD Expertise: Built and refined pipelines deploying to Kubernetes (EKS) for seamless application delivery.

📦 Infrastructure as Code: Proficient in tools like Helm, ACK, and Terraform for automating infrastructure deployment and policies.

🌍 Global Collaboration: Supported multi-regional applications ensuring secure communication with AWS services.

📈 Optimization Expert: Simplified lifecycle management for cloud storage and streamlined workflows for efficiency.

💼 Professional Aspirations: Exploring impactful opportunities, such as contributing to cancer research societies through DevOps innovation.

When I’m not architecting solutions, I explore innovative technologies to help organizations achieve their DevOps goals faster. I’m also passionate about knowledge-sharing, and my projects here reflect my journey in mastering and refining DevOps best practices.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at Cengage Group (October 2019 - Present)

• Design highly available, multi-AZ Kubernetes cluster deployments on AWS using Terraform, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Open source contributor for Kubernetes initiatives such as Goldilocks.
• Led migration of legacy applications to AWS EKS, guiding teams in Dockerizing dozens of Java applications and deploying them via Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
• Developed custom Helm charts for deploying applications and AWS resources, including Elasticache, ElasticMapReduce(EMR), and SQS, using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACKs).
• Integrated Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper into Jenkins pipelines to enforce compliance, optimizing application deployments with automated policy checks.
• Participate in RBAC designing across k8s clusters and its dashboard access.
• Enhanced cost efficiency of Kubernetes clusters by implementing Kubecost and Karpenter, achieving a combined cost reduction of $250k through optimized compute resources and autoscaling.
• Engineered python, Terraform and Ansible modules for infrastructure automation, including S3 data migration, AMI cleanups, regular repository backups, and reverse proxy setups in CI/CD pipelines.
• Conducted regular k8s upgrades and containerized application releases to production, maintaining stability and security.
• Setting up managed observability solutions, including Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, and Dynatrace, to monitor infrastructure and ensure quick issue resolution.
• Contributed to infrastructure as code (IaC) transformation by automating artifact registry management, enabling rapid provisioning and version updates.
• Supported generative AI by deploying AWS Bedrock services and setting up vector databases like Qdrant for Kubernetes-based applications.
• Performed database administration for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora, ensuring data integrity and performance across environments.

Senior Software Engineer at smartShift Technologies (May 2016 - September 2019)

• Led teams in adopting microservices architecture on the Cloud Foundry, enabling modernization of legacy applications by adopting industry best practices.
• Automated PCF setup using Terraform and Concourse CI, ensuring faster deployments and simplified infrastructure management thus resulting in 30% reduction in cost.
• Developed Concourse pipelines to automate backup and restore processes for non-production environments, facili- tating weekend shutdowns contributing to lowering the cloud provider monthly bills.
• Achieved a 30% improvement in efficiency and significant cloud cost savings by transitioning teams to deploy applications on Cloud Foundry.
• Implemented CIS benchmarking for security hardening of Windows and Azure.
• AWS CloudFormation, terraform, CloudFoundry, MS Azure, Jenkins, Concourse, python, bash, Azure Resource Tem- plates, AWS CodePipeline, Groovy, Jenkins

Software Engineer at Qburst Technologies (May 2015 - April 2016)

• Designed and developed custom internal tools for server maintenance notifications using Python and the Django frame- work, improving operational efficiency.
• Implemented AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions with CloudFormation templates to support scalable, auto- mated deployments.
• Provided web hosting support using Nginx and Apache, ensuring security, optimal performance and uptime for hosted applications.
• Python, Django, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS EC2, Cloudformation, MySQL

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India (June 2013 - May 2015) M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in Cloud Computing (CGPA: 8.26/10) Relevant Coursework: Object Oriented Programming, Databases, Discrete Maths, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing Architecture, Virtualization, Data Clouds and storage, Advance Data Structures and Algorithms

Awards and Certificates

• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional - (L7EHBX6LCBVEQK34)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist - (LF-jb0qyh2ccs)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - (LF-wsscyuv4yj)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator - (LF-1kfqvwvten)