Pradeep G

Project#2

• Name: Bull Finch Software Pvt. Ltd.(Product based)
• Client: WNC UK
• Role: AWS & DevOps Engineer
• Date: August 2020 to date
• About Client: Wistron NE Web Corporation (WNC), established in 1996, is a product design and manufacturing company that provides high-quality services for
  communications products. WNC offers comprehensive technical support in RF antenna design, software design, hardware design, mechanical design, system integration, user interface development, and product testing & certification. Headquartered in Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park.
• Technologies/Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  Terraform, Nexus, SonarQube, Ansible, AWS sevices.
• Responsibilities:
• Continuous Integration and Deployment: Implementing and managing continuous
  integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes to ensure smooth and efficient delivery of software updates and releases.
• Infrastructure Automation: Automating the provisioning, configuration, and
  management of infrastructure resources using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation. This involves setting up scalable and reliable systems to handle e-commerce workloads.
• Cloud Platform Management: Working with cloud service provider Aws to deploy and manage the e-commerce infrastructure in the cloud. This includes setting up and monitoring server instances, load balancers, databases, and other cloud services
• Monitoring and Alerting: Implementing monitoring solutions to track the performance, availability, and security of the e-commerce platform. Configuring alerts and notifications to ensure timely response to any issues or anomalies.
• Configuration Management: Managing configuration files and ensuring consistency
  across different environments (development, staging, production). Using tools like Chef, Puppet, or Ansible to automate configuration management tasks.
• Release Management: Collaborating with development teams to plan and execute
  software releases. Ensuring smooth deployment of new features, bug fixes, and enhancements while minimizing downtime and impact on end-users.
• Security and Compliance: Implementing security best practices and ensuring
  compliance with industry standards and regulations (e.g., PCI-DSS for payment card data security). Conducting security audits, vulnerability assessments, and implementing appropriate security controls.
• Incident Response and Troubleshooting: Responding to and resolving production
  incidents or outages in a timely manner. Conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures to minimize the occurrence of similar issues in the future.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborating with cross-functional teams,
  including developers, operations, and quality assurance, to improve processes and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Communicating effectively with stakeholders and providing regular updates on project progress.
• Scripting and Automation: Developing scripts and automation workflows to streamline operational tasks, such as system provisioning, log analysis, data backups, and performance monitoring
• Designed and implemented a container orchestration solution using Kubernetes on both on-prem and AWS EKS.
• Administrated Kubernetes resources such as workloads, pods, deployments, RBAC, probes, services, storage, networking, ELB, ingress, logging and troubleshooting nodes, application, cluster component failures, etc.
• Developed and maintained Kubernetes manifest files using templates and helm
  packages & Rollout K8s deployments, widely used kubectl.
• Automated continuous build, Artifactory Repo, test, and release the deployments
  CI/CD systems using Jenkins pipelines with a combination of DevOps tools such as SCM, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, AWS & integrate,
  release and operational support for many critical applications of types such as
  microservices, containerized, web, monolithic,3-tier and legacy applications.
• Created CI/CD pipelines by integrating Git, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins,
  Monitoring tools, and AWS (provisioning). implement End-to-End Automation.
• Implemented Maven builds to automate JAR and WAR.
• Worked on AWS services VPC, EC2, ECS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups(ASG),
  EBS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, and Cloud Trail.

Project 1

Work Experience:

• Working as an AWS DevOps Engineer and linux administration in Bull Finch
  Software Pvt.Ltd , Bengaluru, from August 2020 to date..
• Role: Devops and Aws Cloud Engineer and linux administration.

Responsibilities:

• Managed AWS infrastructure, configured security groups, implemented load balancing, monitored server performance, maintained S3 services, created alarms in CloudWatch, and managed user accounts.
• Mitigated security risks by conducting regular vulnerability assessments and applying necessary patches.
• Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.
• Contributed to the creation of a DevOps culture within the organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration.
• Spearheaded migration efforts from monolithic architectures to microservices-based designs, enhancing modularity and maintainability of applications.
• Used insight into user needs and requirements to quickly reach development prototyping stage.
• Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance.
• Created secure custom coding to prevent network threats.
• Teamed with business analysts to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
• Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
• Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
• Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
• Designed and developed analytical data structures.
• Tested functional compliance of company products.
• Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
• Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
• Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
• Rapidly prototyped new data processing capabilities to confirm integration feasibility into existing systems.
• Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
• Created detailed documentation on system configuration and troubleshooting guides for reference by both internal staff and external vendors.
• Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels
• Developed incident response plans that decreased resolution times for production issues
• Collaborated with development teams to streamline software releases, resulting in faster timetomarket
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution
• Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines
• Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles
• Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution
• Spearheaded migration efforts from monolithic architectures to microservices-based designs, enhancing modularity and maintainability of applications
• Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance
• Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance
• Managed testing cycles and coordination of user acceptance testing for software and applications
• Drove project lifespan from concept to final rollout in development and deployment

Aws- DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing an application which handles ~150k concurrent logged in users.
• Configured such systems which can manage 1st level alerts itself.
• Migrating server applications to micro service architecture. which is very cost efficient  Implemented various Grafana and Kibana dashboards for Business. Automated report was also there to work on stats.
• Working tightly with Developers team to resolve problem quickly.
• Setup CICD deployment process for microservices using docker, EKS, Jenkins and Kubernetes.
• Setup latency-based routing in AWS.
• Configure Docker containers.
• Troubleshooting server performance and AWS resource related issues.
• Working actively for the cost optimization of AWS Infra.
• Configure monitoring and alerts on AWS Production environment
• Provide L2 support.
• Backup of Database servers and periodically maintenance for old data.

Aws- DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Maintained Ubuntu Linux in AWS environment.
• Created Virtual Machines by utilizing AWS EC2 and configured security groups to restrict Inbound and Outbound acess.
• Automated backups by shell scripting to transfer data in S3 Bucket.
• Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53.
• Focus on continuous integration (CI) and deployment, promoting Enterprise Solutions to target environments
• Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT.
• Terraform creation for backend applications like EC2, RDS, S3 .
• Amazon CLI used to create vaults .
• Implemented Continuous deployment (CD) push button deploy using Jenkins.
• Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.
• Built and supported Development, Integration, Staging and, Production environments.
• Installed and configured Jenkins and created parameterized jobs to kick off build for different environments.
• CICD setups for Gitlab as well.
• Pipelined Application Logs from App Servers to Elasticsearch (ELK Stack) through Logstash.
• Designed Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
• repository.
• Troubleshooted the issues related to connectivity and low response times of applications on EC2 instances.
• Setup Jenkins push button deploy to integration, staging and, productions environments.
• Installed and configured HAProxy load balancer to route the traffic between application servers.
• Created Ansible Playbooks for Push Button Deployments through Jenkins.
• Created Server Build Playbook from the Scratch that does Tomcat App Server Installation, Nagios Agent Installation and App Deployments through Ansible Tower.
• Involved in Designing and Implementing host level migrations and replacing virtualization using P2P and P2V.
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of various systems problems such as application, network and hardware related issues.
• Involved in Agile process, by-weekly Sprints and, daily Scrums to discuss the progress.
• Used tracking tool JIRA and also triaged the issues and maintained bugs using JIRA tool.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, Route 53, Digital Ocean, CentOS, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Tomcat 8,JDK 8, Nagios, App Dynamics, Docker, BitBucket, VPC, Amplify, Code Deploy, Cloud watch

Linux Administrator.

• Responsible for company's local Linux network.
• Defining and managing user rights and access rights.
• Working with support team to identify and work on problems.
• Planning projects to restore smooth operation in event of major disruption.
• Eliminating errors and malfunctions.