Akash Singh

Akash Singh

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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  • Allen Digital
    Senior DevOps Engineer
    Allen Digital
    Sep 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)
    • 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 w
  • vmware
    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
  • Pharmeasy
    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 var
  • phData
    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
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  • Babu Banarasi Das University
    B.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering)
    Babu Banarasi Das University
    Aug 2015 - May 2019 (3 years 10 months)