Pawan Kumar Gupta

DevOps Engineer

Fremont, California, United States16 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in CI/CD and cloud deployment strategies.
Strong experience with AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Proven track record in designing scalable infrastructure solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong DevOps and cloud infrastructure capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ci/cdKubernetesTerraformKafkaAwsJava

Other Skills

AWS RDSAWS cost managementAgile MethodologiesAmazon ECSAnsibleApache KafkaArgoCDBashCI/CD pipelinesCentralized loggingCircleCICloud VPNsCore JavaData infrastructure pipelineDatabases

About

Expertise in DevOps tools and technologies which includes On Premise and Cloud deployment Strong in Shell Scripting, Python, Java, Container Orchestration tools (ECS + EKS). Good exposure to microservices based architecture systems. Strong with AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Strong in Data-structures and Algorithms. Designed and Implemented CI-CD pipelines for on-premise and cloud products deployment. SKILLS: Programming languages -> Shell Scripting, Python, Java. Cloud Experience -> AWS, Google Cloud Platform. Tools -> Vault, Kafka, Gitlab, Jenkins, InstallAnyWhere. Infrastructure Management -> Terraform, Ansible Logging and Monitoring -> Graphite, Kibana, Prometheus, Nagios, ELK. Container Orchestration -> AWS ECS, EKS. Database -> DynamoDB, MySql. Subversion Tools -> GIT, Perforce. Webserver ->. WebLogic, Tomcat, WebSphere. Cloud Specific Tools -> Terratest, Helm, Ingress-nginx, Istio, AWS Lambda. Other -> AI/ML

Experience

Id.me

Lead Cloud Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Engineered and implemented a CI/CD pipeline for a Java-based Validator application deployed on Kubernetes, leveraging GitHub Actions for automation, ArgoCD for GitOps continuous delivery, and Helm for package management.
Served in 24/7 on-call rotation, troubleshooting production incidents across HashiCorp ecosystem (Nomad for orchestration, Consul for service discovery, Vault for secrets management).

CI/CDKubernetesGitHub ActionsArgoCDHelmHashiCorp ecosystem

Anaplan

Senior Cloud Engineer

Jun 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Designed and developed an account factory using Terraform Enterprise for seamless account provisioning, IAM, and centralized logging.
Deployment and management of EKS, GKE, and Datacenter Kubernetes clusters for the Anaplan platform.
Handling (on call) production issues and promptly resolving them required extensive collaboration across various teams. Successfully defining, implementing, and monitoring SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs led to a
well-defined and reliable service delivery process.
Expertly managed connectivity between Data centers, AWS, and GCPthrough Direct Connects, transit gateways, and Cloud VPNs, ensuring robust and reliable network performance.
Successfully led the migration from Splunk to Grafana for enhancedlogging and monitoring of cloud networking, Kubernetes.

TerraformEKSGKEIAMCentralized loggingSLAs+6

Bigcommerce

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Oct 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Developed and maintained the entire data infrastructure pipeline atBigCommerce, including Kafka Cluster, ECS containers, EMR, and AWS RDS.
Successfully deployed a predictive AI model to identify potential customer churn, allowing proactive interventions to improve retention.
Managed CI/CD processes for various BigCommerce products using CircleCIand an internal tool, Launchbay.
Utilized AWS ECS extensively to handle dynamic traffic, with the entireinfrastructure managed using Puppet and Terraform.
Played a key role in migrating the existing data pipeline to Google Cloud.

Data infrastructure pipelineKafka ClusterECS containersEMRAWS RDSPredictive AI model+5

Zapr media labs

Lead DevOps Engineer

Sep 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka · On-site

Deployed the Polestar application on AWS, managing 120 servers including 15 on-demand and 115 spot
instances.
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for all Zapr products, enhancing development efficiency andnreliability.
Collaborated with stakeholders to set up Grafana dashboards for critical application and service metrics,defining threshold values and configuring alerts through PagerDuty.
Managed and guided a team of 7 engineers, from hiring to full team setup.
Monitored AWS cost expenses, ensuring optimal resource utilization and cost-efficiency.

AWSCI/CD pipelinesGrafanaPagerDutyAWS cost managementCI/CD

Oracle

Principal Engineer

Feb 2014 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Responsible for the installation, provisioning, and verification of OKCS (Oracle Knowledge Cloud Services) in the RightNow Cloud environment.
Designed and implemented core deployment code using Core Java and WLST (Java + Python) scripts.
Managed infrastructure using Ansible to ensure smooth operations and efficient resource management.

Core JavaWLSTAnsibleJava

Informatica

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2008 – Feb 2014 · 6 yrs · Bangalore,India · On-site

Participated in various releases of Informatica products such as PowerCenter, Informatica Data Quality,
Informatica Data Explorer, and Informatica 9.0.0.
Developed configuration wizards using Core Java APIs, Swing (for the front end), and InstallAnywhere as the engine.
Addressed challenges in localization (L10N) and internationalization (I18N) through wizard development for seamless installation and configuration.

Core JavaSwingInstallAnywhereJava