VENKAT G

DevOps Engineer

United States11 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 12 years of experience in scalable infrastructure solutions.
  • Expertise in cloud platforms and DevOps tools.
  • Proven success in automating workflows and optimizing infrastructure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in DevOps and automation across various sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)Infrastructure As Code (iac)Python (programming Language)DevopsCloud ComputingSystem AdministrationAutomationLinux System AdministrationTroubleshooting

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS LambdaActive DirectoryAmazon EC2Amazon S3AnsibleApache KafkaBashCSS SpritesCircleCICloudWatchContainerizationData EngineeringData InfrastructureData Lakes

About

With over 12yrs of experience, I specialize in designing, automating, and managing scalable infrastructure solutions across telecom, networking, and accessibility domains. Known for my ability to lead teams, streamline operations, and deliver high-impact results, I thrive at the intersection of technology and collaboration. 💡 Core Highlights: -Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OpenStack), DevOps tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes), and scripting (Python, Groovy, Shell). -Proven success in ensuring 99.99% system uptime, automating workflows, and optimizing infrastructure to reduce costs. -Strong leadership, mentoring, and team-building skills, driving career growth and innovation within my teams. 🎯 Key Achievements: -Built and managed enterprise-grade cloud solutions, enhancing scalability and performance. -Successfully led complex data migrations and automated CI/CD pipelines. -Designed multi-cloud monitoring dashboards, enabling proactive system management. Passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world problems, I am always eager to connect and collaborate on innovative projects. Let’s build something impactful together!

Experience

Deque systems, inc

Lead Dev/MLOps Engineer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Remote

  • 🔹 Conducted data analysis using Python to generate reports identifying security vulnerabilities.
  • 🔹 Developed a CloudFormation template to automate the creation of Lambda functions, AWS Config rules, and in-line permissions for detecting unused EBS volumes and improperly tagged AWS resources, with Slack notifications.
  • 🔹 Integrated Cloudflare with AWS Route 53 using CloudFormation for improved DNS management.
  • 🔹 Automated RDS instance type migrations and database engine upgrades (MySQL & PostgreSQL) using Python.
  • 🔹 Created automation scripts to dynamically scale self-hosted CircleCI runners for optimized CI/CD performance.
  • 🔹 Implemented auto-sync of CloudFormation with Git using GitHub Actions to streamline infrastructure as code (IaC) management.
  • 🔹 Performed regular security patching on EC2 instances and Docker images to maintain compliance and security.
  • 🔹 Integrated team-developed code into Jenkins pipelines, ensuring smooth and efficient CI/CD processes.
  • 🔹 Designed and optimized AWS Batch processing workflows using ECS and Fargate, improving resource efficiency and reducing processing time.
  • 🔹 Built a DevOps utility for automated secret management, integrating with Delinea Secret Server for secure credential handling.
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Juniper networks

Software Engineer 4

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.
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Brillio

Senior Software Development Lead

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.
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Cisco

2 roles

Software Engineer (DevOps)

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.
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Software Engineer Consultant

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.
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Capgemini

Senior Systems Engineer

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.
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Novel group

Software Developer

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.
TroubleshootingNetwork TroubleshootingLinux System AdministrationIncident ManagementSystem AdministrationScripting

Education

SRK Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

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