Pradeep Kumar Ashokan

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in transforming legacy systems to microservices.
  • Proven track record in leading DevOps initiatives.
  • Strong collaboration with C-level executives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Architect with expertise in Cloud Infrastructure and Automation in the Healthcare and Ad Tech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Devops ArchitectureInfrastructure ManagementCloud ArchitectureDevops ImplementationCloud Infrastructure ManagementBig Data Solutions

Other Skills

CI/CDKubernetesTerraformAnsiblePythonShell ScriptingCloud MigrationDevOps PrinciplesContinuous IntegrationConfiguration ManagementAWSIBM SoftLayerBig Data TechnologiesVirtualizationMonitoring Tools

About

With extensive experience across multiple industries, I have successfully led numerous companies through complex migrations from legacy stacks to microservices architectures and the GitOps model, as well as the establishment of new DevOps teams. As a seasoned DevOps Architect, Senior Engineering Manager, and Director of DevOps, I have consistently driven transformative changes within organizations, working closely with CTOs and VPs to align technology initiatives with business goals and ensure seamless integration. My technical expertise encompasses a wide range of platforms and tools, including AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM SoftLayer Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and VMware. I have a strong foundation in Linux and excel in automation, utilizing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Crossplane, ArgoCD, and Python to streamline processes and enhance productivity. My hands-on experience with these technologies allows me to design and implement solutions that are both efficient and scalable, ensuring robust and reliable infrastructure. Throughout my career, I have been committed to fostering innovation, improving operational efficiency, and delivering scalable, robust solutions. My leadership style emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve complex challenges. I believe in empowering teams to achieve their full potential by providing them with the right tools, training, and support, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. In addition to my technical skills, I have a strong track record of strategic planning and execution, project management, and cross-functional team leadership. I have successfully managed large-scale projects from inception to completion, ensuring that they are delivered on time and within budget. My ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders has been key to my success in driving organizational change, bridging the gap between business and technology to deliver impactful results. I am enthusiastic about driving DevOps best practices and am always eager to connect with like-minded professionals to share knowledge and explore new opportunities. Let’s connect and discuss how we can work together to achieve your organization's goals and drive future success. Together, we can build innovative solutions that propel the industry forward and create lasting value.

Experience

Ai non-profit organization

Co-Founder

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Our mission is to bring open-source AI tools—backed by DevOps best practices—to the people and places that need them most.

Fico

Director of DevOps Engineering Enablement

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Statista

Senior Platform Engineer

Sep 2023Nov 2023 · 2 mos · Hamburg, Germany

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Senior DevOps

Mar 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hamburg, Germany

Verse innovation

DevOps & Infrastructure Architect

Oct 2021Mar 2022 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Fico

Senior Software Engineering Manager - DevOps

Apr 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Philips

DevOps Architect

Apr 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Helping Healthcare Industry to build robust and highly available infrastructure.
  • Experience maintaining CI environments with build automation tools like Jenkins and TFS and extensively used Jenkins to streamline CI/CD process , automated Master-Slave configurations.
  • Deploying the Kubernetes master, worker nodes, and management components within the cluster, such as Ingress application load balancer, at cluster creation time.
  • Experience in deploying Managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) and Helm Charts.
  • Terraform infrastructure provisioning
  • Ansible as Configuration Management
  • Packer to build the custom Image for various public and private cloud
  • Experience in deploying EFK, ELK, Consul, Vault, and Healthcare application service on Kubernetes
  • Python and Shell Scripting
CI/CDKubernetesTerraformAnsiblePythonShell Scripting+2

Sap labs india

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nov 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Preparing the Cloud migrations, starting the adoption of DevOps principle, modernizing the stack, containers and microservices.
  • Creating solution design for desired projects and programs, including detailed integration design including estimations and participating in vendor selection
  • Analyzing business requirements to provide functional specification
  • As a part of DevOps Architecture team, I was part of a transformation of current On-Premise services to cloud including the infrastructure and networking design, selection of Platform-as-a-Service offerings, providing integration to Software-as-a-Service offerings.
  • Drive DevOps adoption by recommending and implementing tool sets and best practices for automation, configuration and release management
  • System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains - will be expected to participate in on-call escalations to troubleshoot customer facing issues
  • Deep knowledge of continuous integration and configuration management tools
  • Experienced in building scalable applications (12-factor, micro-services, immutable production)
Cloud MigrationDevOps PrinciplesContinuous IntegrationConfiguration ManagementCloud ArchitectureDevOps Implementation

Dataxu

Senior Systems Engineer / Sr. DevOps Engineer

Nov 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr · Bangalore Area, India

  • Successfully build and deliver high-performance mission-critical system that served ads at internet scale. The platform powered by 3000+ machines across 13 data centers/regions is home to real-time ad-servers serving 3 million requests per sec, 100TB ingestion per day with a data warehouse containing 100's of terabytes delivering thousands of reports and extracts daily
  • Managing 3500+ Server on AWS and IBM SoftLayer Cloud. Designing, Implementation and Responsible for the following.
  • Cloud Technologies : AWS (EC2,VPC,S3,ELB, IAM & AWSCLI), IBM SoftLayer and SkyTap.
  • BigData Technologies : Cloudera Manager (NameNode, DataNode & Secondary NameNode), HDFS, MapR, HBase & Hive.
  • Operating System : CentOS, RHEL, Solaris 10/11 and Windows 2008, 2012.
  • Virtualization / Containers : VMware ESXi, XEN, KVM and Docker.
  • Monitoring : Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti and opsgenie.
  • DataBase : Postgresql, GreenPlum, Mysql and MongoDB, Oracle DB.
  • Application Tools : CI Tool (Jenkins & TeamCity), GitHub, SVN, Jira, Confluence, VictorOps, RabbitMQ & Kibana.
  • Automation Tools : Puppet & Ansible.
  • Storage : QuantaStor (OSNEXUS)
  • Load Balancer : NetScaler, AWS ELB & F5
  • Scripting : Python and Bash
AWSIBM SoftLayerBig Data TechnologiesVirtualizationMonitoring ToolsCloud Infrastructure Management+1

Xora, a clicksoftware company

Senior Cloud Engineer / Sr. DevOps Engineer

Oct 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Storage SAN/NAS : Netapp, Oracle / Tegile ZFS SAN/NAS.
  • Operating System : RHEL 5, 6, 7, Solaris10 & 11 and Windows Server
  • Virtualization : VMware ESX 5X and Solaris LDOM/Zones
  • Cluster Technologies : Solaris Cluster 3.2, 3.3 & 4.0.
  • Cloud Technologies : AWS and Open-stack
  • Application: Teamcity, SVN, Java, Jira, Confluence, QTP license Server, Nagios, Cacti and puppet.
  • DataBase : Oracle DB, Mysql DB and Mongo DB.
  • SAN Switch : Brocade
  • Network Switch : Cisco
  • Scripting : Bash shell scripting
  • Load Balancer : F5
  • Hardware : Dell 1955,2950 M1000e Blade chassis, Solaris Tseries / Mseries/ Xseries / Vseries, IBM P5 series.

Oracle

Technical Analyst

Jun 2011Jun 2014 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

Jpmorgan chase & co.

TechOps Engineer

Jul 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sasken network engineering ltd

System Engineer

Apr 2009Jun 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Cambridge technology (ct)

Associate Consultant

Oct 2007May 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE — Computer Science

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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