Abdul Salam
Chennai
Summary
Adaptable professional with a quick-learning ability and a talent for adjusting to new environments. Skilled in rapidly acquiring new knowledge and applying it effectively. Driven by a passion for continuous learning and successfully navigating change.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Lead
data.ai
05.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: The 1st Unified Data AI Company to combine consumer and market data with the power of artificial intelligence to fuel insights
- Led and coordinated a team of 5 members with skills in engineering and design
- Handling multiple projects as DevOps representative
- Trained 3 junior engineers in project on DevOps architecture and reporting
- Contributed in delivering 3 major releases
- Enhanced Automation framework
- Reduced Cloud costs by 15% for Q3, 2023
- The 1st Unified Data AI Company to combine consumer and market data with the power of artificial intelligence to fuel insights
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Pegasystems
Bangalore
09.2021 - 04.2023
- Company Overview: Pegasystems develops software for customer relationship management 'CRM' and business process management 'BPM'
- Led a team of 8 site reliability engineers ensuring cloud 99% service uptime for global customer base
- Part of designing 3 site reliability projects
- Took initiatives to increase SRE metrics
- Pegasystems develops software for customer relationship management 'CRM' and business process management 'BPM'
Consultant
Capgemini
Chennai
01.2018 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Capgemini is service based MNC prominent in Fintech, Digitization and Cloud Industries
- Worked as an IC for our Fintech client DTCC with 2 promotions in 3.5 years
- Integrated Jenkins pipelines for robust and Agile release cycles
- Managed Cloud compliance and security
- Reduced cloud cost by 20% with AWS ops automator
- Decreased manual effort and dependencies on release cycles by automating multiple task which resulted in 20% faster product launches
- Capgemini is service based MNC prominent in Fintech, Digitization and Cloud Industries
Team Lead
BankBazaar
Chennai
11.2015 - 12.2017
- Company Overview: BankBazaar is an online financial service marketplace which gives customers instant customised offers on loans and credit cards
- Led a team of 6 members for Offers and Landing pages framework
- Automated web and app page content update
- Automated deployment with custom python scripts
- Train and improvise team performance
- BankBazaar is an online financial service marketplace which gives customers instant customised offers on loans and credit cards
Technical Analyst
Amazon.com
Chennai
04.2012 - 10.2015
- Company Overview: World's Largest E-commerce & Tech giant
- Web scraping and collecting data from various websites for pricing implementation within Amazon
- Developing tools & configuration to automate the mapping process
- Developing applications internally to reduce the manual effort of the team
- Debugging, Code fix and Deployment of configurations to the production/test environment
- World's Largest E-commerce & Tech giant
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Thangavelu Engineering College
Chennai, IND01.2011
Diploma in Information Technology -
Sri Sairam Polytechnic College
Chennai, IND01.2008
Skills
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- AWS
- Ansible
- Terraform
- JIRA
- Python
- Asana
- GitLab
- AWS
- New Relic
- Linux
- Databricks
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Automation
- Cluster management
- Application Monitoring
- Zabbix
- New Relic
Accomplishments
- Project Lead, DevOps in data.ai: As I took part in hiring, training and delivering results in my current team without impacting in given role I was granted lead role to manage DevOps projects.
- Got promoted twice on Amazon: Consistent performance in CMT team and managing multiple internal projects helped me get promoted twice.
- Got promoted twice in Capgemini: Created multiple POC for Cloud computing for DTCC to migrate from On-Premise setup to cloud setup and executed multiple serverless automation pipelines in AWS cloud.
- Won 3 awards on Amazon for Consistent performance and Innovation in Web scraping and web crawling: I was part of CMT which works to set product prices across countries, I innovated the way of collecting data from sitemap.
Timeline
DevOps Lead
data.ai
05.2023 - Current
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Pegasystems
09.2021 - 04.2023
Consultant
Capgemini
01.2018 - 08.2021
Team Lead
BankBazaar
11.2015 - 12.2017
Technical Analyst
Amazon.com
04.2012 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Thangavelu Engineering College
Diploma in Information Technology -
Sri Sairam Polytechnic College
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