Akshay Nilawar

Sitecore Consultant.

• Manage and orchestrate containers using Kubernetes and AWS EKS, ensuring smooth deployment and scalability across multiple environments.
• Write and manage YAML files, .env files, and secrets for secure and efficient container operations.
• Use Lens for monitoring and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and individual containers.
• Manage horizontal scaling of applications to ensure that workloads are distributed effectively, optimizing resource utilization.
• Configure and maintain AWS Load Balancers (ALB/NLB) to distribute traffic efficiently across multiple containers and instances.
• Handle container deployments, including restarting, updating, and rolling back changes, while maintaining application secrets and configurations.

Senior Sitecore Developer

• Working on website performance improvement, enhancing user experience, modernize an existing application and create new modules.
• Capturing keys from Microsoft Azure Key Vault and utilizing as per the business requirement to authenticate/authorized customer data.
• Worked on Microsoft PowerBi Implementation for business analytics.
• Worked on Code Merging and Sitecore Packaging based on different environment. Deploying the code and content on CM/CD server. Production server deployment, Application server gateway management. Server testing and maintaining.
• Implemented Sitecore admin console authentication using Microsoft Azure AD.
• Actively update work progress and status through Azure DevOps management board.
• Participate in team agile meetings and practices.
• Participate in discussions with clients and team members about technical best practices and help teams identify optimal technical solutions

Sitecore Developer

• Manage ServiceNow tickets for live website issues and enhancements, ensuring prompt and effective resolution.
• Oversee and maintain DEV, UAT, PREVIEW, and PROD environments, guaranteeing stability and no outages during updates, testing, and deployments.
• Perform code fixes and optimizations for existing Sitecore 10.2 SXA sites, ensuring high performance and bug-free operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address client needs and implement development changes, while following best practices in Sitecore development.
• Develop and maintain a Sitecore Scheduler for email triggering functionality, ensuring press releases are sent out reliably whenever they are published.

Sitecore Developer

• Created a custom responsive web application to replace a legacy line-of-business web application using Sitecore.
• User Stories Implementation based on client requirement.
• Experience in IIS Server Website Hosting on CD/CM Server.
• RestAPI and GraphQL API unit testing and services integration. Hands-on experience on tools like SOAP, Postman, Advance Rest Client.
• Hands-on experience on Sitecore Analytics like creating Goals, Content Profiling and AB Testing.
• Exception handling and creating log files using Log4Net and integrating with Microsoft Application insight for monitoring.
• Functional unit testing using NUnit test cases. Domain driven code refactoring(Clean code) using assistant tools like JetBarins Resharper.

DevOps and Sitecore Developer

• Created a custom responsive web application using Sitecore.
• Implementing fundamental concepts like OOPs, Data Structures, Microservices, Exception handling and MVC framework in solution.
• Creation Template, Content item, View rendering, Controller rendering and dictionary item in Sitecore CMS.
• Requirement gathering and environment setup as per the solution architect for developer environment.
• GitLab repository creation and version control integration in Visual Studio Solution.
• CI(Continuous Integration) pipeline for build the MVC.Net solution using MSBuild, NUnit and SonarQube integration for static code analyzer.