Akhil S
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a proven track record of enabling smooth cloud operations and services. Proficient in utilizing tools such as GitLab, Jira, Jenkins, and Rundeck to streamline processes. Former senior DBA specializing in DBMS technologies including DB2, Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase ASE, MaxDB (SAPDB), and SAP HANA. Skilled in scripting languages like Shell for development purposes. Highly experienced in performance tuning and resolving upgrade/installation issues. Known for developing scripts to automate complex procedures, reducing manual efforts. Recognized as a 2X certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), providing training on Dockers and Kubernetes. Additionally, ITIL 4 Foundation certified.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Equinix
06.2023 - 11.2024
- Maintaining K8s orchestration via Rancher
- GitHub repo maintenance
- Argo CD implementation
- Observability via Prometheus and Grafana
- Java Springboot for application Development
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Azuga, Inc.
11.2021 - 05.2023
- Deployment of components as requested by Dev teams into production via tool Rundeck
- JIRA administration
- MySQL/MongoDB administration
- Recurring cronjobs via tool Airflow
- Performing JAVA runtime analysis to provide better stability
DevOps Engineer
SAP
05.2020 - 11.2021
- Exploring the cloud world of DevOps, I landed with this opportunity
- Part of the SRE team my role involved providing enhanced monitoring and process creation for the landscape
- ITIL 4 foundation certified
- Completed the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification from CNCF
- Continued providing trainings on Docker and Kubernetes
- Completed the CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) certification from CNCF
Developer
SAP
04.2018 - 05.2020
- Promoted to Developer role which would help me nurture the team more with my learnings
- Took the opportunity to do my Masters in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani through correspondence
- This was fruitful as the understanding of Software was at a much lesser level prior to this
- Automation was the key responsibility of the team to ensure we avoid repeated tasks and could focus more on stability of the environment
- Shell/Bash scripted paved the way for new learning during this tenure
- Docker and Kubernetes was something that caught my attention and this learning eventually led towards the way of DevOps
- Trained several hundereds of colleagues on the same technology and was recognized for that
Associate Developer
SAP
02.2016 - 04.2018
- Once into SAP completely was provided more responsibilities
- Promoted to being a SPOC for all RDBMS topics in the team
- Primarily working on the all the flavors of DBs
Associate Consultant
SAP
09.2013 - 02.2016
- Fresh into the world of IT with very limited knowledge
- Started working for SAP on SAP Basis, Database (RDBMS)
- Invested time in learning newer technologies, Strived hard to be acquired by SAP
Education
Master's degree - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
01.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2013
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Argo(CD)
- GitHub/GitHub Actions(CI)
- Jenkins/Pipelines(CI/CD)
- Docker
- Troubleshooting and resolution
- Testing and deployment
- JIRA
- Bash/Python Programming
- Automation using scripts
- AWS
- Database management
Certification
- 2 X CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- IT Information Library Foundations Certification (ITIL)
- CKAD
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Equinix
06.2023 - 11.2024
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Azuga, Inc.
11.2021 - 05.2023
DevOps Engineer
SAP
05.2020 - 11.2021
Developer
SAP
04.2018 - 05.2020
Associate Developer
SAP
02.2016 - 04.2018
Associate Consultant
SAP
09.2013 - 02.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master's degree - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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