Ashish C.

DevOps Engineer

Bavaria, Germany13 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in OpenStack and cloud architecture.
Proven track record in CI/CD implementation.
Strong background in infrastructure automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with expertise in DevOps and automation technologies.

Contact

ashish@devopsdex.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

OpenstackCi/cdAwsDevopsInfrastructure Design

Other Skills

KubernetesDockerELKTICKAnsiblePrometheusHashicorp StackJenkinsShell ScriptingPuppetNew RelicInfrastructureBashStorageCeph

About

I am a creative and hardworking young professional with a inquisitive learning profile. I am self motivited learner, always eager to dive into new technology and always ready to go extra mile to be at par the expectations. Earlier, being a part of R&D team, designed, architected a full highly available private cloud Openstack with two layers of HA fusing CEPH as the backend for both block storage and Object Storage. Wrote end to end puppet scripts to automate the entire process running VMs across multiple high-end Cisco Blades. Experienced in Virtualization using KVM and Xen, and running container orchestration using Docker Swarm. Deployed monitoring systems using PRTG, Nagios and ELK for different level of alerting making teams proactive to achieve goals. Technology Stack : - Cloud : AWS, OpenStack (Juno, Kilo, Liberty, Mitaka, Newton ) (Deployment & development) - Technology: Ceph, Docker, Vagrant - Containerisation Platform: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes - CI/CD : Jenkins, Travis CI - Configuration Management : Puppet, Ansible - Version Control Tool: Git, SVN - Programming Languages : Python, C, Java, Shell - Database : MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Cassandra - Document Store: MongoDB, ElasticSearch - Monitoring: Nagios, Ganglia, StatsD, SNMP, Sensu, ELK, Grafana, New Relic (APM)

Experience

13 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Nexgen cloud

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

OpenStack, Ceph and Infra Automation

Genesis cloud

Senior System Engineer

Nov 2018 – Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Munich Area, Germany · Hybrid

Responsible for architecting, designing, improving and maintaining the cloud stack created in house.
Working with one of the most talented teams to create Next-Gen GPU Cloud service leveraging industry-standard technologies and cutting-edge tools.
Openstack expert, suggesting and implementing best practices to reach goals.
CI/CD using Jenkins, building deployment pipelines using Jenkins DSL and Jenkins file for reliability and reproducibility.
Proactively monitoring the application and infra, and quickly resolving and escalating the issues using ELK, InfluxDB, Sensu, Prometheus and Grafana.
Technologies Used: Openstack, Kubernetes, Docker, ELK, TICK, Ansible, Prometheus, Hashicorp Stack, Jenkins (CI/CD), Shell Scripting

OpenStackKubernetesDockerELKTICKAnsible+5

Propertyfinder.ae

Devops, SRE, Cloud Engineering

Apr 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Part of a highly focussed team, which maintains UAE's best real estate platform catering millions of
users using cutting edge technologies.
Responsible for maintaining and improving the current infrastructure (running on AWS) and CI/CD
using best DevOps tools and technologies guaranteeing 100% availability
Implementing best practices for platform management, provisioning, monitoring and performance
Building deployment pipelines and prototyping solutions from developer to production using
Jenkins and AWS Services (EBS, Code Deploy). Implemented zero downtime deployment using
Blue/Green and A/B strategies for multiple services. Using AWS ECS and Docker for different
pipelines, and moving towards micro services architecture using Kubernetes
Clustering services like Elasticsearch, MongoDB and RabbitMQ to be more fault tolerant.
Mitigating Bad Bots and securing application from Scraping. Using Akamai CDN to make things
faster.
Proactively monitoring the application and infra, and quickly resolving and escalating the issues
using ELK and APM tools such as New Relic.
Technologies Used: AWS, Docker, ELK, TICK, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins (CI/CD), Kubernetes, Travis, Shell Scripting, New Relic

AWSDockerELKTICKAnsiblePuppet+5

Earthlink telecommunication

Openstack Architect & Infrastructure Design

Jan 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Dubai

Designed and implemented 20 node Openstack private cloud setup from scratch with two layers of HA.
Wrote end to end Puppet scripts from scratch to deploy Openstack Kilo, Mitaka and Newton release.
Integrated Ceph with Openstack, for both block and object storage.
Designed automated deployment and configuration management for the entire cluster with puppet.
Monitoring system using ELK, Nagios and PRTG.
Role
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Design and implementation of Openstack public cloud offering, which includes network, server design, automation and toolset development, develop tools and deployment plans. Evaluate various cloud technologies like Ceph storage system, SDN implementation. Work on automation and CI/CD.

AnsibleInfrastructureBashStorageDevOpsOpenStack+1

Reliance jio infocomm

Openstack Developer, Storage Engineer (Ceph)

Dec 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

Openstack Developer with focus on Storage implementation. Worked extensively on Swift and Cinder. Evaluated and implemented as Ceph as backend for different Openstack services.

Bash

Ntt data

Software Engineer

Jul 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked extensively on OpenStack, Puppet, and Postgres. Mostly involved in Compute and storage. Wrote multiple plugins for Nagios and Ganglia, to monitor multiple Openstack services.

Bash