Aravind Janakiraman

• Built an Infra accelerator with codified recommended best practices using IAC to quickly set up a base infrastructure platform on AWS in a short span of time, and an extendable implementation of tools for code coverage, metrics, testing framework, logging, and security baked to jumpstart any project.
• Recommended CI/CD flow and folder structure for code, aiding independent component-wise development and deployment across the environments.
• Deployed and Maintained the AWS ECS infrastructure for a Salesforce application.
• Deployed and Maintained the MLOPS infrastructure using AWS Sagemaker for the Lending products with high availability and scalability.
• Deployed the Cloud Intelligence dashboards and integrated with AWS SSO for enterprise AWS cost visualization.
• Automated the ECS Patching process through TeamCity with appropriate monitoring.
• Improved operational health and fixed the outstanding security maintenance issues.

I was part of the Cloud & DevOps solutions group, which provides infrastructure platform capabilities to the various product teams across the organization.

IAC Development

• Developed Terraform modules with enterprise-wide best practices baked for various AWS services and use cases.
• Automated the test-driven development of IAC using Terraform modules and Golang to simplify the launch and maintenance of infrastructure.
• Developed chef cookbooks for various application deployments.

Cloud Migration

• Migrated various DevOps tools like Nexus, Jenkins, and Chef from on-premises to AWS cloud with high availability, DR-capable production-grade infrastructure spanning multiple AWS regions and availability zones, with appropriate logging and monitoring.

Cost Optimization & Automation

• Developed the cost optimization tools using Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch to schedule start/stop of EC2/RDS instances during non-business hours across the accounts.
• Significantly decreased costs in lower environments by leveraging the aws-nuke tool to efficiently remove idle resources.
• Developed the Lambda functions to automate various scenarios like AMI update, Log forwarding to Splunk, EBS snapshots backup etc.
• Managed Database secrets and secret rotation using Lambda and Secrets manager for improving the security of Databases and aligning to security best practices.