Vijay Kestwal

CTO

India14 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable, cost-effective platforms.
Proficient in Kubernetes and cloud cost optimization.
Strong background in DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and DevSecOps expert with a focus on cost optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevsecopsFinopsAwsMachine Learning

Other Skills

TerraformJenkinsPythonDataDogAWS CloudWatchPagerDutyDockerPostman APIIT Cost OptimizationSeleniumAWS Elastic BeanstalkPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Agile MethodologiesScrum

About

With extensive experience as a DevSecOps Engineer, I excel at managing and optimizing complex technical environments. My expertise includes Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and cloud cost optimization, with a track record of implementing robust monitoring solutions to ensure production system reliability and performance. Passionate about emerging technologies, I am eager to explore AI and ML to address business challenges. Currently, I am focused on crafting innovative cost optimization strategies for Cisco Secure Access.

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Cisco

2 roles

Engineering Technical Leader

Promoted

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

DevSecOpsFinOps

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

As a DevOps Engineer responsible for building and maintaining framework needed for spawning AWS environments comprising Services, DB and supporting stacks for production and non-production workloads.
Involved setting up and maintaining monitoring tools, analyzing performance metrics, and implementing improvements to optimize system reliability and performance. Defining metrics like RTO/RPO and implementing guidelines to meet HA/DR events. My role ensures that our services meet the highest standards of availability and responsiveness.
Led the team activites in expanding service coverage by doing feature GAP analysis, deployment of Infra and services in AWS in GovCloud and China.
Day to dat activties mainly involves :
Developing/Maintaining Python code base and Terraform scripts.
Monitoring using DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, PagerDuty and few other third party tools.
Adhere to security standards w.r.t FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO27001 and ISMAP compliance and participate in the Internal and External Audits
Infra and Service deployments to Private and Public Cloud environments.
Extensive use of AWS Infrastructure to host the Enterprise Application
Use of AWS services like EKS, RDS, Kafka Cluster, EC2,VPC,ELB,DynamoDB,Route53 and others.
CI/CD of Micro-services on Kubernetes on AWS managed Kubernetes(EKS) using Helm Chat and Jenkins, Certified Kubernetes Administrator - CKA.
Managing outages, doing detailed RCA with developers, and identifying ways to avoid that situation.
On-call support and runbook creation and management.

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Wipro limited

Architect

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Creating Jenkins build pipeline for deployment of services in AWS EKS.
Created terraform module for managing Infra as Code using terraform.
Implementation of Role Based Access for AWS, updating and managing PSP, PSA in EKS.
Ensured HA and Scaling of service and infra by Cluster Autoscaling and Horizontal Pod
Autoscaling implementation in EKS Clusters.
Integration of services with SonarQube in CI CD piplines.

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Axtria - ingenious insights

R&D Manager

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos

Implementing CI pipeline as code for Unit test case execution, Code Coverage, Static Code
analysis and SonarQube Analysis before deployment using Docker for React frontend and
Django backend in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Integration of selenium test suites in Jenkins for regression testing.
Implementation of Infra provisioning using terraform.
Monitoring service and Infra resources using Prometheus, Grafana Loki and visualization
using Grafana.

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