Aakash Garg
Mumbai
Summary
A passionate and innovative Platform/DevOps Engineer having 9 years of experience working with different DevOps tools to design and implement application infrastructure & architectures Eager to contribute to an organization with my analytical and problem-solving skills to make processes better through automation.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead DevOps Engineer
Peoplegrove
Mumbai
07.2024 - Current
- Maintained version control systems such as GitLab for all software development projects.
- Managed infrastructure components including virtual machines, storage devices, networks.
- Set up monitoring tools like Graphite and Grafana to track performance metrics.
- Participated in disaster recovery exercises to test reliability of system.
Senior Platform Engineer
Zeronorth India
Mumbai
01.2024 - 06.2024
- ZeroNorth offers a leading multi-service platform which harnesses the power of data to create insights that enable voyage, vessel and bunker optimization and inform better decision-making for stakeholders across global trade
- Design, build and maintain data infrastructure/platforms to support DataOps and MLOps ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance within the data ecosystem
- Played a key role in orchestrating the integration of Airbyte, MLflow, and OpenMetadata on Kubernetes clusters, contributing to the enhancement of data processing efficiency and reliability across the organization.
Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead (Backup)
Cimpress India
Mumbai
09.2020 - 12.2023
- Cimpress seeks to develop an innovative e-commerce platform for mass customization, enhancing the customer experience for personalized product purchases
- My role as a Senior DevOps Engineer was to ensure the platform's reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement, ultimately delivering a superior shopping experience to customers
- Proficient in AWS for administering, and fine-tuning services such as ALB, ASG, EC2, IAM, S3, ElasticBeanStalk, ECR, EKS, Lambda, Route53, CloudFront, etc
- Adept at automating end-to-end AWS cloud deployments
- Implemented container orchestration using AWS EKS for microservices-driven applications
- Conducted routine updates of K8s versions, fine-tuned cluster node capacity for optimal resource utilization and leveraging cluster autoscaler for dynamic scaling
- Streamlined the provisioning of over 20 AWS cloud resources, reducing setup time by 60% and yielding cost savings
- Achieved a remarkable 95% compliance score while also enabling 75% faster deployments through Terraform
- Implemented on-demand 'Preview Environments' on EKS, leveraging Helm and Lambda (triggered upon PR initiation)
- This framework enabled proactive code testing by developers and QA, safeguarding staging environments, and resulting in early bug detection and stakeholder feedback aggregation, significantly enhancing developer efficiency and improving release processes
- Developed Helm charts to orchestrate infrastructure components, including pods, services, and ingress during microservice deployments on AWS EKS
- Additionally, Used Helm charts to set up various other components such as ingress-nginx, aws-loadbalancer-controller, efs-provisioner, external-dns, and more on the EKS platform
- Managed the migration of over 200 projects on Bitbucket
- Crafted usage guidelines and optimized branching strategies, benefiting 120+ team members
- Boosted code quality by 20% through Sonar integrations on Bitbucket
- Utilized New Relic Synthetics for 20% faster API failure detection
- Optimized capacity planning with monitoring insights
- Integrated with Lambda and Kubernetes
- Led root cause analysis and post-incident reviews
- Significantly improved security and cost efficiency using AWS Tag-based Service Control Policies
- This allowed us to achieve a 75% resource compliance rate, reducing unauthorized access and optimizing cost management
- Efficiently coordinated/executed tasks to resolve vulnerabilities reported by AquaSec/Orca
- Through these efforts, we achieved a reduction of up to 90% in identified issues, enhancing our overall security and minimizing potential threats
- Implemented Varnish Cache Server, resulting in a 60% reduction in website load times
- This enhancement contributed to a 30% overall performance improvement, ensuring a faster and more responsive user experience.
DevOps Engineer
SAP LABS
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 08.2020
- Implemented a production-ready, highly available, fault-tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure on Google cloud platform
- Managed load balancing, proxying and certificates for applications using Nginx Ingress and Cert- Manager
- Hands-on experience in automating Infrastructure provisioning as a code using Terraform
- Worked on the Dockerization of the Application stack
- Duties involved creating docker files, Base Docker images, packaging individual applications, and deploying containers
- Hands-on experience in developing Jenkins 'Pipeline as a code' for various Java, node-based applications in Microservice Architecture
- Enabled various enterprise-grade tools in Pipelines like White-source, Fortify, Vulas, PPMS, Checkmarx, etc to ensure the quality and security of artifacts
- Created Jenkins landscape centrally for testing automation jobs for all application teams across SAP Marketing Cloud
- Hands-on experience on software development version control using Git/GitHub
- Also Formalized Branching and Pipeline Model for Parallel Software Development
- Worked on Dynatrace for application monitoring
- Created OneAgent plugins to monitor custom metrics exposed by the application.
Build and Release Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai
09.2015 - 03.2018
- Streamlined CI/CD landscape and processes for multiple projects with Jenkins, Including build pipelines for applications and periodic execution
- Inculcated DevOps practices within the team
- Introduced Docker, developed docker images, and migrated applications to Docker containers
- Conceptualized Auto-scaling to ensure High Availability during Peak hours and assisted in the release management activities
- Automated Routine activities like server's health, performance, and error monitoring using linux scripts and integrated them with other tools
- Collaborated and Co-ordinated with various stakeholders and multiple development teams for all Infrastructure related issues and managing system notifications and availability.
Education
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication -
JECRC College
Jaipur, India05.2015
Skills
- Akamai
- AquaSec/Orca
- AWS
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Docker
- Git
- Helm
- Jenkins
- Jira
- Kubernetes
- Linux/Unix
- Microservices
- NewRelic
Timeline
Lead DevOps Engineer
Peoplegrove
07.2024 - Current
Senior Platform Engineer
Zeronorth India
01.2024 - 06.2024
Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead (Backup)
Cimpress India
09.2020 - 12.2023
DevOps Engineer
SAP LABS
04.2018 - 08.2020
Build and Release Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2015 - 03.2018
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication -
JECRC College
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