Rahul Verma

DevOps Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom10 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 7+ years of experience in platform engineering.
  • Expert in building multi-datacenter geo-distributed environments.
  • Proficient in CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in CI/CD and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

CicdInfrastructure As CodePerformance TuningCloud Computing

Other Skills

AWSActive DirectoryAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentArgoArgoCDAwkAzureAzure InfrastructureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)BashBatch ProgrammingCI/CDCI/CD PlatformCassandra

About

Senior Platform Engineer with 7+ years of experience who is extremely passionate about solving problems at scale. Built multi-datacenter geo-distributed environment at Farfetch spanning Europe and China Skills: - Languages: Python, C, C++ - Infrastructure as Code: Saltstack - CICD: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, JFrog Artifactory - GitOps: ArgoCD, Helm, Gitlab - Databases: MySql, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis - Secret Management using HashiCorp Vault - Service Discovery using HashiCorp Consul - DevSecOps using JFrog Xray, Blackduck - Observability using Prometheus, Grafana

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Samsara

Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom

Farfetch

2 roles

Senior Platform Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2021May 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Farfetch is a global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.
  • Working in a global team spread across the UK, Portugal, India, China.
  • Key achievements:
  • Setup and designed architecture for multi-datacenter geo-distributed environment spanning Europe and China
  • Built a highly efficient and robust developer experience platform
  • Summary:
  • Developed CICD and Infrastructure Pipelines within a multi-tenant ecosystem using Jenkins and ArgoCD
  • Automated Database scripts execution within CICD pipelines for MSSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra
  • Led the DevSecOps project to setup on-premises JFrog XRAY (a software composition analysis tool),
  • Developed monitoring framework for monitoring Saltstack configuration management service
  • Setup and maintain Kubernetes clusters at scale
  • Worked on establishing a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) setup for Gitlab and Artifactory to ensure business continuity
  • Automated infrastructure patching to ensure the infrastructure remains PCI compliant
  • Led multiple cost saving initiatives to reduce infrastructure hosting costs across Data centers
  • Handling on-call support, established SLOs and doing RCAs for incidents to constantly improve the current setup and processes.
CICDInfrastructure PipelinesJenkinsArgoCDDatabase AutomationDevSecOps+5

Infrastructure Engineer

Aug 2018Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Led a research POC project with Microsoft, to migrate Dotnet framework services from Windows to Linux
  • Led the project to setup on-premises JFrog Artifactory (Container & package registry management
  • repository)
  • Improved the performance of a core infrastructure pipeline duration by 85%, reducing it from ~3h 45 min to ~35 mins
  • Developed Farfetch Status Page to show healthiness status of all production services concisely
Dotnet MigrationJfrog ArtifactoryPerformance ImprovementStatus Page DevelopmentInfrastructure as Code

Innovation it (now trignomix)

Software Developer

Apr 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

  • ▪ Worked on setting up Azure infrastructure for the entire organisation
  • ▪ Optimised existing website by improving page load time by 40-70% for top 5 important and slowest performing webpages
  • ▪ Performance tuning of Stored Procedures and improved performance by 40-70%
  • ▪ Implemented and deployed ETL processes using SSIS to make data available to Analytics team for reporting and analysis
  • ▪ Designed and setup Data Marts in Azure cloud
Azure InfrastructureWebsite OptimizationETL ProcessesData MartsCloud Computing

Snapdeal

Software Engineer

Jul 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Snapdeal is India's leading E-commerce platform
  • Key achievements:
  • Designed and developed fully automated infrastructure and CI/CD platform
  • Migrated 500 microservices from AWS to Snapdeal’s on-premise data centre which reduced the infrastructure hosting cost by $1 Million/month
  • Designed and developed first Performance testing infrastructure and scaled website for 10x traffic for annual biggest festive sale of India
  • Roles and responsibilities:
  • Ensured a functioning saltstack setup for configuration management for both Linux and Windows
  • Completely automated the infrastructure setup using Saltstack, a python based configuration management tool.
  • Analysed website performance & behaviour by load testing based on user journeys (Discovery flow, Buy flow) using Java based tool JMeter to scale AWS servers
  • Developed a framework in python to automate performance testing, generating reports and pushing results to MySQL DB.
  • Developed a framework to plot TTFB, DOC-ready graphs for all Web pages after fetching data from Kafka
Infrastructure AutomationCI/CD PlatformMicroservices MigrationPerformance TestingInfrastructure as Code

Defence research and development organisation (drdo)

Internship

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Developed 'USB Device Handler' so that DRDO Scientists can have full control over the USB devices. It involves setting Access levels for known devices (Installed USB devices) and unknown devices.This ensures the security of the organization where the sharing of an important file could lead to a drastic loss.
  • Technology Used : Java, Batch Programming
USB Device HandlerJavaBatch Programming

Education

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — CSE

Jan 2011Jan 2015

DAV Public School

XII — High School

Jan 2010Jan 2011

DAV Public School

X — Secondary School

Jan 2008Jan 2009

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