May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Remote

• 🔹 Developed a Python script with complex algorithms to process and refine large datasets for monitoring, exporting structured insights into spreadsheets using DataFrames.
• 🔹 Optimized system performance by implementing multithreading and parallelism in Python, improving efficiency and speed.
• 🔹 Utilized advanced data structures in Python to streamline data gathering, reducing the monitoring workload for developers.
• 🔹 Enhanced cloud security by setting up robust access controls using AWS IAM, KMS, and other AWS security services, ensuring compliance with best practices.

May 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs · Remote

• 🔹 Responsible for the strategy, planning, direction & coordination of all activities associated with the enterprise product and managed a small team of multi-skilled DevOps engineers.
• 🔹 Formulated the on-prem & cloud infrastructure’s strategic & operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing initiatives, coordinating the evaluation, deployment & managing of multiple AWS cloud accounts of the enterprise product.
• 🔹 Contributed vision & leadership consistent with the company’s technology strategic plans and objectives to deliver technology initiatives in support of the growth of the BPE project with new automations.
• 🔹 Created custom index pattern in Kibana of Logstash while integration.
• 🔹 Implemented the Logstash event processing pipeline in Elasticsearch.
• 🔹 Written custom filebeat.yaml file to configure Logstash for the logs to capture and send its output to Elasticsearch.
• 🔹 Applied multiple filters in Logstash to actually send the necessary data/metrics to Kibana.
• 🔹 Categorized the Kibana visualization charts and added alerts to it based on the threshold levels.

May 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

• 🔹 Performed end-to-end CI/CD for application releases.
• 🔹 Developed Maven pom.xml file and linked it with the parent POM.
• 🔹 Added external libraries to Maven’s pom.xml to assist developers with code coverage.
• 🔹 Assigned work to DevOps engineers based on issues in their respective BUs.
• 🔹 Traced errors in the pipeline, raised tickets, discussed them with team members, and assigned them based on issue priority.
• 🔹 Improved efficiency by automating tasks, streamlining workflows, and introducing better tools to enhance daily operations.

Mar 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

• C2H: Cisco India
• 🔹 Extensive knowledge of vSphere, vCenter, VHA, vApp, VA Marketplace, and site management.
• 🔹 Troubleshot KVM issues on Cisco CIMC and Dell iDRAC.
• 🔹 Executed Python scripts on switches to retrieve status and configuration.
• 🔹 Installed ESXi on bare metal and deployed VMs.
• 🔹 Joined vSphere to a data center and created vApps.
• 🔹 Troubleshot VMs and recovered VMDK objects without data loss.
• 🔹 Configured local YUM repositories, proxies, and appended iptables.
• 🔹 Migrated and cloned VMs between hosts or across datastores.
• 🔹 Cleared logs in vCenter and managed custom permissions for domain users.
• 🔹 Cloned OS within the same vSphere environment in vCenter.
• 🔹 Added vCenter or VCSA to a domain and fetched user data.
• 🔹 Troubleshot vCenter databases and created distributed switches for hosts.
• 🔹 Installed VMware tools on Linux via CLI.
• 🔹 Mounted NFS paths with automounts on client VMs.
• 🔹 Installed and managed KVM, including VM creation and maintenance.
• 🔹 Worked with DM multipathing I/O, teaming, and bridging in KVM environments.

Jun 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

• 🔹 Developed Python automation scripts for package installation.
• 🔹 Parsed the manifest file of deployment tools applications using Python.
• 🔹 Proactively managed server and application health by analyzing health trends through various scripts.
• 🔹 Triggered CD jobs in Jenkins upon detecting changes in the channel version.
• 🔹 Pulled code from Bitbucket, modified scripts from a private branch, and raised pull requests.

May 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Project: Aditya Birla Insurance
• Technical Experience:
• 🔹 Experience with network monitoring tools and alarm triggering.
• 🔹 Worked on Spiceworks monitoring tool for servers and network devices.
• 🔹 Maintained Linux proxy server across the network.
• 🔹 Created and managed users in Active Directory (AD), including adding/moving users in desired OUs.
• 🔹 Worked with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on IBM RAID 1 servers.
• 🔹 Knowledge of Python scripting, including functions and regular expressions.
• 🔹 Configured domain controllers (DC) and additional domain controllers (ADC) by installing the AD DS role.
• 🔹 Strong understanding of Linux server roles and features (RHSA-certified knowledge).
• Project Services:
• ✅ Customer Services Module:
• Processed and completed customer applications for insurance policies.
• Utilized RESTful web services to transmit data to Android and iOS applications.
• Implemented vocal and facial recognition (voice, image, and video capturing) for authentication.
• ✅ Admin Services Module:
• Developed a web-based admin panel accessible only to Aditya Birla administrators.
• Enabled admins to check application status and review customer-submitted images, videos, and audio recordings.
• Development Contributions:
• 🔹 Developed various Java Bean components to implement business logic.
• 🔹 Built JAX-WS (SOAP) layers to facilitate communication between clients.