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Ahamed N

Ahamed N

Principa Software Engineer
Bengaluru, India

Summary


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

  • Professionally accomplished IT Professional with over 12+ years of diversified IT experience in Linux administration, Build and Release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) in runtime with various tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Bitbucket, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes and managing cloud services with Azure & AWS.
  • Experienced in migrating application from Data centers to Cloud services like AWS and Azure.
  • Experienced in administration, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of RHEL Linux
  • Involved in setting up Jenkins Master and multiple slaves for the entire team as a CI tool as part of Continuous development and deployment process
  • Proficient in all aspects of software life cycle like Build/Release/Deploy and specialized in cloud automation through open source DevOps tools like Jenkins, Chef.
  • Extensive experience in designing and implementation of continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment through Jenkins.
  • Creating and maintaining Infrastructure for Applications in AWS using Terraform. Building & Automating CICD pipelines for different applications.
  • Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, and Traffic Manager.
  • Strong experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading Patches, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on Red Hat Linux Systems.
  • Major focus on Configuration, SCM, Build/Release Management, Infrastructure as a code (IAC) and as Azure DevOps operations Production and cross platform environments
  • Experienced in working on DevOps /Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools.
  • Worked on deployment automation of all the microservices to pull image from the private Docker registry and deploy to Docker swarm cluster using Ansible.
  • Experience in setting up CICD pipeline integrating various tools with Jenkins to build and run Terraform jobs to create infrastructure in AWS
  • Installing and configuring the applications like docker tool and Kubernetes for the orchestration purpose
  • Developed and managed cloud VMs with AWS EC2 command line clients and Services AWS provisioning and worked on services like EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB (Load Balancers), RDS, and EBS.
  • Involvement in developing APIs using Kubernetes to manage and specify the copies of the containers to run the actual servers in the cloud environment. Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and deployed Docker containers through Kubernetes to manage the microservices using its Nodes, Pods, ConfigMaps, Selectors, Services.
  • Configured and managed Linux and Cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) including EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers).
  • Maintained various DevOps related tools for the team such as deployment tools and development and staging environments.
  • Deep knowledge on CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies with Jenkins.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

Alcon Laboratories Inc.
01.2023 - Current
  • Increased customer satisfaction rates through diligent collaboration with cross-functional teams on feature development and bug resolution.
  • Mentored junior engineers to strengthen their technical skills and improve overall team efficiency.
  • Completed code debugging, software troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and program reviews.
  • Mentored junior engineers via careful supervision through onboarding process and beyond.

Specialist Cloud & Infra Services

LTIMindtree
08.2021 - 12.2022

Projects - eClinical Health

  • Enhancing and supporting a CI framework for deploying applications and managing Linux (CentOS) servers.
  • Running development, stage and production environments and deployments.
  • Migrating the applications from Private Cloud to Microsoft Azure.
  • Supporting and working alongside Agile development teams to ensure they have all the facilities to get the job done.
  • Driving best technology and software deployment practices into the team with passion and enthusiasm.
  • Designing and implementing a platform including security, management infrastructure (e.g. DNS, time, Authentication, mail and directory services)
  • Written Templates for Azure Infrastructure as code using Terraform to build staging and production environments. Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics and used Terraform as a tool, Managed different infrastructure resources Cloud, VMware, and Docker containers.Providing on-going support on a third line basis – this may involve out of hours call out.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cognisive (Indmax)
08.2017 - 08.2021

DevOps Specialist

Cognizant
03.2017 - 07.2017

Senior System Administrator

Origin Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 03.2017

System Administrator

Light Mass Solution Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 06.2015

Technical Support Staff

Aegis
01.2013 - 05.2014

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University
Chennai, TN
06.2009 - 2012.05

Skills

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

Alcon Laboratories Inc.
01.2023 - Current

Specialist Cloud & Infra Services

LTIMindtree
08.2021 - 12.2022

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cognisive (Indmax)
08.2017 - 08.2021

DevOps Specialist

Cognizant
03.2017 - 07.2017

Senior System Administrator

Origin Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 03.2017

System Administrator

Light Mass Solution Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 06.2015

Technical Support Staff

Aegis
01.2013 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University
06.2009 - 2012.05
Ahamed NPrincipa Software Engineer