Ankit Charolia

Ankit Charolia

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Founder and Cloud Consultant
Hamburg, Germany

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  • C
    Founder and Cloud Consultant
    Cogniveu
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 10 months)
    Provide cloud consulting and DevOps services to modernize infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, improve observability, and execute cloud migrations using Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Terragrunt, Observability stack and ArgoCD.
  • JAKALA
    Senior DevOps Engineer
    JAKALA
    Aug 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 9 months)
    - Led the migration of microservices from AWS to GCP, enabling cost savings and improved scalability.
    - Automated deployments using ArgoCD/Argo-Rollout, reducing deployment time by 60%
    - Infrastructure: hands-on experience with setting up Google Cloud infrastructure using GitOps approach, including Istio managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, with Terraform/Terragrunt.
    - GCP Networking: Implement GCP Private Service Connect (PSC) to securely publish and manage services within a single project, facilitating seamless and secure service consumption across multiple GCP projects.
    - CI/CD: configure Gitlab CI pipeline for application dockerization and infrastructure changes deploymen
  • JAKALA
    DevOps Engineer
    JAKALA
    Aug 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year)
    - Led the migration of microservices from AWS to GCP, enabling cost savings and improved scalability.
    - Automated deployments using ArgoCD/Argo-Rollout, reducing deployment time by 60%
    - Infrastructure: hands-on experience with setting up Google Cloud infrastructure using GitOps approach, including Istio managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, with Terraform/Terragrunt.
    - GCP Networking: Implement GCP Private Service Connect (PSC) to securely publish and manage services within a single project, facilitating seamless and secure service consumption across multiple GCP projects.
    - CI/CD: configure Gitlab CI pipeline for application dockerization and infrastructure changes deploymen
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    DevOps/System Engineer
    Lotto AG Member of ZEAL Group
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2022 (5 years 10 months)
    Role:
    Managing 50+ instances, and 10+ database instances on VMware.
    Supporting in-house development team to migrate services to Kubernetes and troubleshooting.

    Tools: Ansible, Jenkins, Nginx, GitHub, Confluence, JIRA , Splunk, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Datadog, AWS, MariaDB Galera cluster,MySQL, Kubernetes, Helm (Kubernetes Package Manager), Docker, VictorOps, Slack, Splunk

    - Provisioned and maintained AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, Secrets Manager, RDS) to ensure scalability and reliability.
    - Administered VMware vSphere/vCenter and performed P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) migrations.
    - Managed GitHub Enterprise appliance with a fully automated backup solution.
    - Deployed and ma
  • C
    DevOps Engineer
    CLOUD HEAT Technologies GmbH
    Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 (7 months)
    DevOps tools: Docker, Vagrant, Chef, Packer, Git, Openstack.
    Version Control System: Gitlab
    Languages: Ruby and Shell Scripting

    Activities:
    • Automate Openstack Infrastructure using Chef
    • create/modify Chef cookbooks and test cookbooks using kitchen.
    • Continuous deployment of dockerized services using Jenkins.
  • D
    Student Internship
    Datenwerk GmbH
    Apr 2015 - Feb 2016 (11 months)
    • Openstack Kilo test deployment in Ubuntu (Manually deployed Openstack)
    • Installation and configuration of active/active cluster with HAProxy and Keepalived
    • Installation and configuration of active/active RabbitMQ and Galera MySQL (MariaDB) cluster.
    • Integration of CEPH storage with Openstack Cinder and Glance.
    • Libvirt integration with CEPH Storage and boot VM from CEPH.
    • Basic Shell scripting
    • Knowledge about Linux Bonding and PXE Network booting with Linux.
  • P
    System Engineer Intern
    PPiT GmbH
    Nov 2014 - Jan 2015 (3 months)
    • Deploying Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Platform (Mirantis Openstack)
    • Deploying Mirantis Openstack using of Mirantis Fuel master Node.
    • Working with VMware vSphere 5.5 HA/DRS cluster and Virtual Machine Operation. • MS-SQL installation and creation of database.
    • Working with windows DNS server and basic active directory operations.
  • T
    System Engineer Trainee
    Training Institute
    Aug 2012 - Dec 2012 (5 months)
    • VMware vSphere 5.x Install, Configure and Manage training.
    • Working with VMware HA/DRS cluster and Virtual Machine Operation.
    • Working with vApp, Resource pools and Templates.
    • EMC VNX 5300 and Clariion storage administration with Brocade Switch.
    • VMware Backup product and Performance Monitoring of Data Center using tools.
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    Linux based Hosting Server (Bachelor Final Year Project)
    gwwindia
    Nov 2011 - Apr 2012 (6 months)
    • Installation and configuration of Kloxo web hosting control panel.
    • Configuration of NFS Server, Web Server, FTP Server and DNS Server.
    • Package management and Disk management.
    • Working with different repository (YUM and EPEL Repository).
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  • Fachhochschule Kiel
    Master of Science in Information Technology
    Fachhochschule Kiel
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2016 (4 years)
  • V
    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineer
    VVP Engineering College Gujarat Technological University
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2012 (5 years)