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Senior DevOps Engineer

Allen Digital

Sep 2024 - Current (1 year 8 months)

• Spearheaded AWS cost optimization initiatives, including rearchitecting applications to reduce inter-AZ data transfer costs. • Successfully migrated from AWS OpenSearch to a self-hosted Terraform-based solution, reducing annual costs by 56% ($80k to $35k). • Enabled granular cost tracking via proper tagging and workload segregation, reducing Spark compute expenses by 53% ($96K → $45K) through effective use of Spot Instances. • Implemented solutions to improve infrastructure efficiency and minimize cloud expenditure. • Used service mesh to enable HTTP/2 load balancing, enforce rate limiting, and achieve zone-aware routing, improving reliability and latency while reducing network costs by 40%. • Worked extensively with Kubernetes, Docker, J

Site Reliability Engineer

vmware

Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 (1 year 1 month)

• Managed Kubernetes clusters with 1000+ vCPUs in production, ensuring optimal performance and resource management. • Utilized Gatling to identify bottlenecks and improve application performance, ensuring systems meet benchmarks under varying loads. • Created test plans, scenarios, and scripts to simulate real-world usage and measure performance metrics. • Actively participated in on-call rotation to support production systems, ensuring uninterrupted service. • Developed and implemented monitoring dashboards and alerting systems using Dynatrace and Wavefront, significantly reducing incident response times and improving system reliability • Identified, prioritized, and remediated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures to maintain a secure envi

Site Reliability Engineer

Pharmeasy

Jan 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 8 months)

• Helped in the cost optimization of AWS services and reduced the overall cost by ~25%. • I helped in building an in-house bot for deployment using Python, which improved the developers productivity. • Provisioning and working with AWS resources as per the need while saving cost by doing extensive research. • Collaborated closely with development teams to set up infrastructure, capacity planning, monitoring, and performance testing. • I helped and supported developers on a day-to-day basis to troubleshoot issues related to networking and deployment. Helped them choose the proper resources based on the use case. • I created and deployed a fully automated Ansible playbook to provision using Terraform and configure various environments to fulf

DevOps Engineer

phData

Jul 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 7 months)

• Proven troubleshooting, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. • Proficient in Unix-based systems, command-line tools, and general system debugging. • Mitigated business impact by identifying RC and resolution plans during platform outage incidents. • Experience managing Hadoop/YARN clusters with thousands of nodes and 40+ petabytes of data running 10's of thousands of jobs. • Currently working with the FinTech company Mastercard team, supporting 400+ node Hadoop clusters, driving incidents to resolution, minimizing client impact, tackling many services, and cluster upgrades/optimization. • Developed automation scripts, Ansible Playbooks to improve productivity, monitored, and documented the process. • Providing 24*7 on call suppo

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