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Hardik Desai

CTO

Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India15 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led a high-performing team of 6 Cloud and DevOps Engineers.
  • Championed DevSecOps and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
  • Designed and deployed large-scale OpenStack Clouds.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert with extensive experience in hybrid cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsSreAwsCloud InfrastructureDatabase Management

Other Skills

OptimizationCustomer SatisfactionMigration ProjectsProblem SolvingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Capacity PlanningAutomationMonitoringDecision-MakingReliabilityOpenStackDevOps ToolsHybrid CloudMigration

About

Total 14 Years of strong experience in Cloud Services (IaaS/PaaS) delivery, deployment and support as part of various roles (Cloud DevOps Engineer, SRE, System & Database Engineer, System Support etc.)  Strong hands-on working experience on multiple variants of Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Oracle-Linux etc.)  Strong hands-on experience in administration of private and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI)  Highly skilled on DevOps Tools & Technologies (e.g. Terraform,,Github, Sonarqube, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes,MultiCloud, Grafana, Prometheus etc.)  Deep Level understanding and working experience on Heterogeneous and distributed Database systems RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres) & NoSQL (MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis)  Strong hands-on working experience on Open Source Cloud Technologies: Hypervisors for Virtualization (KVM) etc.  Good working experience on ETL & Data Warehousing projects  Very Good Experience Handling Cloud and Systems Operations  Good understanding of Power Edge Servers, Blade Servers, Storage and Networking Components of IT Infrastructure  Working knowledge of Orchestration and Containerization technologies of Docker & Kubernetes  Good experience on Shell Scripting for Automation  Led and mentored a high-performing, geographically distributed team of 6 Cloud and DevOps Engineers, overseeing all aspects of performance management, career growth, and technical standards.  Championed a cultural shift toward DevSecOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) best practices, which enhanced team collaboration and reduced cross-functional friction by around 35%.

Experience

15 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Viewtrade holding corp.

Head of DevOps & Cloud Platform

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India · Hybrid

Liminal custody solutions

Sr Devops -SRE Engineer

Nov 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

OptimizationCustomer SatisfactionMigration ProjectsProblem SolvingDevOpsSRE

Novo

Sr. Devops Consultant

May 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Capacity PlanningOptimizationdevopsCustomer Satisfaction+7

Emxcel

Cloud Devops Engineer

Apr 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Ahmedabad Area

OptimizationCustomer SatisfactionProblem SolvingReliabilityDevOps

Reliance jio infocomm ltd

2 roles

cloud infrastructure Devops Engineer

Apr 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Migration ProjectsReliabilityCloud Infrastructure

cloud infrastructure devops engineer

Apr 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Designed, Deployed Multiple variants of OpenStack Clouds (Biggest in Open Source Community worldwide) through complete Automation using Devops Tools (SaltStack, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins Pipelines, IaaC, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Handled Level 3/4 Complexes issues related to Cloud System
  • Hands-on Working experience with AWS platform & services
  • Drove the migration of multiple application workload from AWS to Private Clouds and supported Hybrid Cloud design
  • Implemented migration strategy of Hybrid cloud setup where heavy application workload migrated from AWS to Private Cloud
  • Built CI/CD pipe lines using Devops Tools to deploy, update and upgrade Cloud Platforms
  • Successfully implemented in production Oracle Active Data guard solution for multiple projects using Max availability protection mode & fast start failover (RPO=0 and RTO=300sec)
  • Expansion of Cloud footprints (100k+ Cores & 100PB Storage) to offer VM and Containers, being leveraged by 500+ different application tenants. Leading the Micro Services Apps to run on Hybrid Clouds (AWS and Private Clouds)
  • Install and managing operations for ~100 PB of CEPH cluster storage for various use cases of projects
  • Automated process of installation and configuration of MySQL & Oracle DB systems on the VMs with designed Ansible scripts. This increased customer flexibility and ease of working on the Cloud Setup & customer can very well focus on the deployments on top of ready VM including DB Systems.
  • Drove Cloud Infrastructure implementation & management of more than 3000 physical servers at geographically spread locations.
  • Designed backup & disaster recovery solution at physical & system level by ensuring data center architecture setup & feasibility study and implementation of various live projects at DR site
  • Contributing Member for design & deployment & management of K8s cluster from containerized requirements using Kubernetes As a Service (KaaS) platform (Open Source Project) through complete Automation
Reliability

Nj technologies pvt ltd

System and Database Administrator

Dec 2010 – Apr 2016 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Greater Surat Area

  • Designed, Deployed Multiple variants of MySQL & Oracle Database Systems with high availability & load balancing approach (For various financial products) from scratch
  • Hands-on working experience to handle, manage and support hybrid distributed Database systems of Oracle , MySQL , Postgres , Hadoop Cluster both On-premise & on Cloud
  • Handled Level 2/3 Complexes issues related to Databases & System with periodical Database audits, run database consistency checks, monitor and manage database servers, deploy procedures and codes on production setup, resolve Real time database & system issues
  • Drove the data migration strategy for Disaster recovery site for various Banking clients to make the database highly available at any time with NO downtime
  • Created Data pipelines and Bi-directional replication channel from source to destination for various data sources for structured & semi structured data for business requirements that makes architecture easy and error free with almost 1150+ replication channels for data transfer
  • Oracle Active Data Guard implementation with real-time data sync on both Enterprise and Standard editions to achieve Zero Data loss and MTTR = 5 mins
  • Designed & implemented end-to-end Data Warehousing & ETL projects for business requirements for adhoc reporting, decision making, recommendation generation using Business Intelligence algorithms to help management further.
  • Implemented & managed ~5TB of database restoration in very short time span using robust backup & disaster recovery policies in place
  • Performance fine tuning & benchmarking at System, Application and Database level helped to gain performance up to 7-8 times with ecosystem of 30L+ direct customers and 25K+ distributing partners
  • Hands-on working experience in Maintaining Data standards by adherence of data masking & data protection policies to keep safe customers financial data
  • Executed Very Large DB migration and version up gradation without downtime

Education

Dharmsinh Desai University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Jan 2005 – Jan 2009

VD Desai Vadiwala School

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