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Akshay Wankhede

Akshay Wankhede

Pune

Summary

Certified Senior DevOps Engineer having 8.5 years of experience with a proven track record of building and maintaining fault-tolerant, highly-available, scalable, and secure production systems on AWS Cloud. Expertise in implementing end to end CI/CD pipelines for reliability and scalability.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Devops Engineer

Globant (HSBC Client)
07.2022 - Current
  • Led end-to-end CICD from scratch for large-scale Mobile Application, managing both cloud-based and kubernetes deployments.
  • Introduced continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) Gitops pipelines using ArgoCd reducing manual intervention by 90% and accelerating the release cycle by 50%.
  • Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-account AWS deployments, reducing infra setup time by 60%.
  • Optimized Dockerfile to around 50% by refining build instructions, resulting in improved containerization efficiency and faster CD process.
  • Designed a multi-branch CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins Shared Libraries to standardize builds across multiple projects.
  • Automated Devops tasks using multiple Python Lambda functions and Step Function.
  • Integrated AWS accounts with centralized Splunk via Terraform Cloud & Transient Gateway(TGW).

Devops Engineer

TIAA Financial Services
02.2020 - 07.2022
  • Implemented containerization of applications using Docker and managed deployments on AWS ECS and EKS for high availability and scalability.
  • Saved $18K annually by rightsizing EC2 instances, implementing spot instances, and automating unused resource cleanup.
  • Extensively worked on Infra as a Code - Terraform enhancing efficiency, security, and reliability.
  • Owned and operated a large-scale AWS environments encompassing 9 consoles , multiple AWS services, guaranteeing HA and performance.
  • Resolved frequent OOMKilled errors in production by analyzing NodeExporter metrics and optimizing resource limits and memory management.

Programmer Analyst

IBM
09.2016 - 02.2020
  • Administered and maintained Linux-based servers, ensuring high availability and performance of critical applications and services.
  • Implemented backup and recovery solutions, safeguarding data integrity and availability in case of system failures or disasters.
  • Written Cobol code for finetuning Mainframe servers and maintaining RMF and SCRT reporting.
  • Conducted system upgrades and patch management to address vulnerabilities.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering - Information Technology

Nagpur University
06-2016

Skills

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD: Jenkins
  • Scripting: Python, Bash
  • Monitoring: ELK, Grafana
  • Logging: Splunk, CloudWatch
  • GitOps: ArgoCD, Docker
  • Other: Git, Jira

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
  • Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect

Languages

English (Fluent), Hindi, Marathi

Timeline

Senior Devops Engineer

Globant (HSBC Client)
07.2022 - Current

Devops Engineer

TIAA Financial Services
02.2020 - 07.2022

Programmer Analyst

IBM
09.2016 - 02.2020

Bachelors of Engineering - Information Technology

Nagpur University
Akshay Wankhede