david chakumkal

DevOps Engineer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India29 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team to reduce infrastructure costs by over 50%
Designed and implemented AWS and Azure infrastructures from scratch
Managed critical audits and ensured infrastructure readiness

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDevops

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AntArtifactoryBashCapacity PlanningCloud ComputingConfiguration ManagementContainer OrchestrationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DatabasesElasticSearchEnterprise SoftwareGNU MakeGitlab

Experience

29 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Ola

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Devops

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Leading a team of amazing Devops Engineers who run production environments for Ola verticals like OlaCabs , Ola Electric, OlaMoney and other upcoming verticals.
We have helped Ola to maximize on revenue by reducing infra cost by more that 50 % in the past year due to our efforts.

Reliability EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringGitlabSystems EngineeringArtifactoryContainer Orchestration+13

Production Engineer 3 - TL - OlaMoney

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Owns OlaMoney infrastructure
Manage OlaMoney Devops Team
Helped design and setup Ola Electric infra
Groom and mentor team members
Handle RBI and other audits from infra perspective
Audit infra for periodic cost cutting
Review quarterly and monthly infra for releases
Security audits of infra
Plan infra patching and execution
Handle RCAs for issues and remediation
Review infra readiness for traffic surges.
Handle P0 production issues with minimal downtime

Reliability EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)GitlabSystems EngineeringArtifactory+15

Production Engineer

Mar 2016 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Move AWS Infrastructure from OlacCabs Devops for OlaMoney
􏰀 Setup AWS and Azure Infrastructure from scratch for OlaMoney and Ola EV
􏰀 Setup automation tasks and monitoring
􏰀 GIT Administration and AWS / Azure Admin tasks
􏰀 Evaluate and install required software
􏰀 Onboard of Apps on Production
􏰀 Design effective workflows and processes for release
􏰀 Move to automated releases using Puppet / Chef/ Ansible/Mesos
􏰀 Setup Monitoring for Servers and Applications
􏰀 Prepare and present Status Report to Management on issues
􏰀 Provide quick and effective solutions for issues faced by team
Work with Amazon and Microsoft teams to share requirements and implement the same in our accounts
Work with external and internal RBI mandated audits
Periodic Security review of infrastructure
Cost reduction reviews for infra
Setup infra for partners
Sandbox envs for partners / vendors