Gunaseelan Sakkarapani — DevOps Engineer

• Overall 14 years of experience as Software Professional contributed to different areas like Test Automation, QA, DevOps Practices and Infrastructure Automation in on-premises cloud. • Design, Implementation, Maintenance/Support of Automation about 5 years and develop cloud native application for on-premises cloud. • 2 years’ experience in DevOps Practice and contributed for automated deployment, continuous integration, continuous delivery and release engineering to Development, QA. • Exposure in IaaS (AWS), On-premises cloud • An Automation Engineer with expertise in designing, coding, execution and review automation frameworks. • Developed the automation framework for different functional areas using pytest and Robot Framework and maintained automated test suites • Experience in Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, Docker, and data center technologies. • Working Knowledge in EFK for logs aggregation for containers and monitoring using Prometheus. • Working knowledge of Jenkins pipelines and Devops tools • Work closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements. • Seeks and offers constructive feedback, learned from mistakes • Contributed to Open Source Community for the Open CORD project that combines SDN, NFV, and Cloud. • Self-motivated Quick learner and adaptable to new and changing situations. • Received SPOT Award from Radisys and appreciations from clients for completing disk firmware upgrade in data center with automation. Skills: • Docker & Kubernetes Python • Ansible & Ansible Tower • Automation • DevOps, CI/CD, Pytest, ROBOT framework, SonarQube, Concourse CI • ServiceMesh(istio), etcd, Vault, OVS, FreeIPA, SSL, Glusterfs, Elastic Search, FluentD, Kibana (EFK), Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, REST API • AWS Cloud, Serverless Computing, VLAN, Network Automation, Virtualization, KVM, Linux

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Test Automation expert in the Telecommunications and Infrastructure sectors.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 20 yrs

Skills

Devops
Containerization
Infrastructure Management
Test Automation
Continuous Integration

Career Highlights

14 years of experience in software engineering.
Expertise in test automation and DevOps practices.
Contributed to open source projects in cloud technologies.

Work Experience

Dell EMC

Principal Software Engineer (7 yrs 7 mos)

Radisys Corporation

Staff Software Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Lead Software Engineer (1 yr 8 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 6 mos)

Sasken Technologies Limited

Senior Software Engineer (3 yrs 1 mo)

Mobax Networks

Senior QA Engineer (2 yrs 10 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at PSNA College of Engineering

Gunaseelan Sakkarapani

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14 years of experience in software engineering.
Expertise in test automation and DevOps practices.
Contributed to open source projects in cloud technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Test Automation expert in the Telecommunications and Infrastructure sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsContainerizationInfrastructure ManagementTest AutomationContinuous Integration

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleBugzillaBuild AutomationCI/CDCORDConcourse CIContinuous DeliveryContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)CoreOSData CenterDockerDocker ProductsEFKELK

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Experience

Dell emc

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Collaborate with the team to evolve the containerization ecosystem, establish and mature standards and integration for infrastructure management domains - logging, monitoring, configuration management and orchestration. Identify and implement standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
Developed the Ansible modules using Redfish API to check the complete system health that including disks/network interfaces.
Design, implement and integrate management solutions to effectively manage private cloud implementation (Docker, Kubernetes)
Configure/Manage Switches through Network Automation with Ansible
Contributed the CI/CD PR Pipelines using Concourse CI and Implemented branching strategy.
Engagement with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders.
Automated deployment, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and release engineering to Development, QA and Production environment
Ensure platform relevance and drive adoption, enable the application transformation from monolithic to microservices.

DockerKubernetesAnsibleCI/CDConcourse CIDevOps+1

Radisys corporation

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Contributed plan, design, implementation, execution and report generation for the Radisys Test Automation Framework to bring CORD Platform quick way by install OS and specific services and validate CORD Platform micro services using python and robot framework.
Contribute to upstream project cord-tester to test R-CORD and XOS API.
Involved in Performance test using COSBench ( tool to measure the performance of Cloud Object Storage services) to calculate performance metrics like response time, success rate, throughput and bandwidth.
Hands-on experience in design Jenkins of workflow to run static cod analysis tool (pylint, pep8 and ansible-lint) and code coverage tool for Continuous Integration.
Automated REST API with JSON using python to provision the POD and query the health of the POD in data center.
Developed scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Python and Bash.
Mentored/guided/trained team members

PythonRobot FrameworkJenkinsDockerTest AutomationContinuous Integration

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

Involved in debugging Framework failure and provide correct workaround at right time.
Contributed to feature enhancement and bug fixes of Automation Framework to support different project cycle.
Developed the log collector module to aggregate the log information from System Under Test automatically, if specific crash or catastrophic occurs.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2011 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Contributed to create test case for different features of Application Server (AS) Release
Involved in different test execution cycle of Application Server Release and reporting the defects and follow-up with team to track and close the defects.
Designed, developed and implemented the AS Call Flow Automation Framework from scratch to interact with different in-house tool to perform reservation less audio conferencing
Created regression suite with 100 test cases and AS Call Flow Automation.
Developed Framework to automate the regression suite and integrated as part of nightly build that saves time by 30% to declare specific build is ready to use for QA testing.

Sasken technologies limited

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Involved in test case design and development and test execution cycle Test harness creation for SMSC Web UI using Python and Selenium open source tool.
Through utilization of the software testing lifecycle, develop test plans, cases and scripts against platform testing scenarios providing analysis and reporting on the results.

PythonSeleniumTest Automation

Mobax networks

Senior QA Engineer

Oct 2005 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Coimbatore Area

Involved in test cases design and development and black box Testing, Sanity Testing, Protocol Conformance testing, Regression testing, Fault injection, Stress Testing and Acceptance Testing (SIP, RTP/RTCP, Timers)
Monitors and tracks resolution of defects, coordinating with scrum teams in order to prevent, report, and resolve them.
Designs, monitors, and analyzes test results and provide quality metrics such as KPIs, defect counts,