Vikash Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Upgraded 120 EKS clusters with zero downtime.
Achieved 15% cost reduction using Graviton instances.
Designed metrics pipeline for 75 microservices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetesAwsTerraformAutomation

Other Skills

AnsibleApache KafkaBMC Control-MBackstageBuildkiteCC++CrowdStrikeDjangoDockerEKSElasticSearchElasticsearchGitGitHub

About

Site Reliability Engineer experienced with various cloud like AWS, GCP, Infrastructure monitoring and metrics collection, alerting, Kafka, Elasticsearch administration, Linux based operating systems.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Twilio

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban · Remote

Began in the Infra Compute SRE team and currently contributing to the Twilio Segment Developer Platform team (InfraEnablement):
1. Successfully upgraded ~120 EKS clusters from Kubernetes 1.21 to 1.23, encompassing more than 5,000 nodes, with zero downtime or SEVs.
2. Enabled the use of Graviton instances within our EKS clusters, achieving a ~15% cost reduction compared to x86 instances while maintaining equivalent performance.
3. Led the migration of services from ECS to EKS, ensuring a seamless transition.
4. Enhanced Terraform initialisation speed by 50% through targeted optimisation of Atlantis configurations.
5. Developed and implemented a comprehensive pipeline for managing Terraform modules in Buildkite Package, a dedicated registry, utilising Buildkite.
6. Successfully deployed CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor across all Segment nodes by implementing it as a daemonset within Kubernetes. This approach ensured continuous monitoring and protection of each node against potential security threats, leveraging Falcon's capabilities to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in real-time.
7. Developed Backstage templates to automate the creation of GitHub repositories for the golden terraform modules, ensuring consistency across the organisation.

TerraformKubernetesAWSBuildkiteBackstageEKS+4

Workspan

Site Reliability Engineer II

Jul 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

1. Led and streamlined release management, overseeing major, minor, and hotfix deployments.
2. Enhanced system reliability by improving metrics, monitoring, and error reporting.
3. Automated repetitive workflows to optimise efficiency.
4. Played a key role in achieving SOC2 compliance by implementing robust processes.
5. Integrated ScoutSuite for vulnerability scanning and established a static code analysis framework using SonarQube to improve code quality and security.
6. Designed and implemented Jenkins pipelines to streamline automation across various development and operational tasks.

Release ManagementMetrics MonitoringAutomationSOC2 ComplianceJenkinsSonarQube+1

Exotel techcom private limited

2 roles

Software Engineer - II

Promoted

Nov 2019 – Jun 2020 · 7 mos

1. Designed and implemented a metrics pipeline using Telegraf, rsyslog, Apache Kafka, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana to monitor approximately 75 microservices.
2. Developed visualizations and dashboards for monitoring in Kibana, and configured alerting mechanisms to proactively address issues.
3. Actively participated in DRI (on-call support) to troubleshoot and resolve incidents efficiently.
4. Mentored junior engineers and new team members, accelerating their onboarding process and enhancing their productivity.
5. Transitioned to the Billing team, where I contributed to feature enhancements and the development of new functionalities for the billing system.
6. Built a service for aggregating billing events from multiple AWS accounts, reconciling them, and generating customer invoices.

TelegrafApache KafkaLogstashElasticsearchKibanaSite Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer

Dec 2018 – Oct 2019 · 10 mos

Societe generale global solution centre

Associate

Nov 2017 – Oct 2018 · 11 mos · Bangalore

The project involves about deployment of the release, configuration management, release management. Creating work flows using control M workload automation. Database reloading.

Infosys

Senior System Engineer

Aug 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Project: Technical Operations - Cross-Functional Automation (Dec 2014 - Aug 2016), Bangalore
Client: Goldman Sachs
Technologies: Python, SQL Database, SVN
Overview: Led a comprehensive assessment of the client’s existing environment to deliver end-to-end runbook automation solutions across multiple infrastructure platforms, including Network, Windows, Linux, Storage, Backup, Database, and Voice, managing over 50,000 servers. Successfully implemented extensive automation for all operational runbooks.
Project: Wealth Management - Automation, Monitoring & Instrumentation (Sept 2016 - Nov 2017), Bangalore
Client: Morgan Stanley
Technologies: Python, Django, SQL, In-house Monitoring Tools, Splunk, Netcool, ServiceNow
Overview: Automated routine tasks and established continuous monitoring and instrumentation for Unix & Windows hosts, MQs, NAS shares, URLs, and log files. Managed daily incident resolution and developed a Django-based dashboard for the L1 team to monitor and analyze alert details effectively.

PythonSQLSVNAutomation