Sep 2018 – Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Coordinate with clients & internal stakeholders and understand their requirements.
• Design of distributed systems and troubleshooting in upstream kubernetes. • Created reproducible builds of Kubernetes applications, templatize
• kubernetes manifests using Helm packages.
• Design and implementation of a continuous build-test-deployment (CI/CD)
• system using Jenkins to support weekly and out-of-cycle releases based on
• business needs.
• Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault
• tolerant & CIS compliant Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Involved in design of architecture and building of Minimum Viable product
• (MVP) for containerization platform using kubernetes.
• Design of virtual data center comprising of 200+ unix servers.
• Broke monolith application into microservices using kubernetes.
• GitOps implementation for deployment & upgrade of applications using
• FluxCD.
• Setup of jenkins pipelines for self-provisioning of kubernetes clusters using
• terraform and ansible.
• Open source contributor to various projects like Spark K8s operator,
• Ansible OpenNebula module, Terraform OpenNebula provider, Rancher K3s, MinIO operator.

Jan 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Responsible for day-to-day management for all Development, Test, Stage and Production for various enterprise applications.
• Automation, configuration and deployment on AWS, Azure cloud environments & customer private data centers.
• Writing ansible playbooks for installation & configuration of Hadoop, Yarn & Kafka clusters.
• Management of local deployments in kubernetes, creating local cluster and deploying application containers.
• Implemented ansible to manage all existing servers and automate build/configuration of new servers.
• Protection of encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible vault.
• Setup Continuous Integration (CI) environment to run build, and other
• stages in a kubernetes cluster using Jenkins & Gitlab CI.

Jul 2014 – Jan 2015 · 6 mos

• Supporting pre-sales POCs and post-sales deployments.
• Lead product demos to multiple customers.
• Configuration and management of Hadoop clusters for Spark streaming jobs.

Jul 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr

• Deployment & Management of large scale fault tolerant distributed systems with varying level of downtime restrictions.
• Leverage business agility by using Hadoop based data analytics.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos

• Deployment of Guavus Big Data Analytics Software across tier1 & tier2 ISPs across USA.
• Deployment, configuration & monitoring of HDFS, YARN, KAFKA clusters.

Jul 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune, India

• Primarily responsible for management of Squid proxy servers for Amdocs APAC sites.
• Setting up of site-to-site IPSEC vpn tunnels.
• Configuration of network devices like switches, routers, vlan setup etc. • WAN, LAN, Remote Access & TCP/IP troubleshooting.
• RedHat Linux, HP UX, IBM AIX servers installation, patching & upgrade.