ARJUN R MENON
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven DevOps engineer with over 5 years of experience in software development and infrastructure engineering. Proven expertise in building and deploying large-scale cloud-based applications and infrastructure using DevOps principles, complemented by a strong background in automation, configuration management, and cloud architecture, particularly on AWS. Proficient in leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform to enhance operational efficiency and drive continuous improvement. Committed to delivering high-quality solutions that align with business objectives while fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Platform Engineer/SRE
Pharmeasy
06.2024 - Current
- Manage complex big data systems like hive, trino, hue, spark and hive metadata server on Dataproc and EMR.
- Manage and streamline non-prod environments from cloud to on-prem servers by hosting VMs using Proxmo to reduce cloud bills by 42%.
- Implementation of Victoria Metrics as we were moving to a multi-cloud setup which was not suitable for Prometheus.
- Self-managed Kafka on Virtual Machines which was producing messages at more than 10GBps
- Deploy and maintain in-house LLM models by creating a cluster of broken Macbooks to run model M1 chips.
- Deploy and maintain core infrastructure systems like Elasticsearch, Victoria Metrics, Jenkins and ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflow and ArgoRollouts
- Lead and Develop companywide used IdP platform to manage and provision access management which was built on ReactJS and Django framework.
- Migrating complete data and analytics platform from AWS to GCP and managing all the components using terraform in a GitOps model.
Platform Engineer
Fractal
03.2023 - 05.2024
- Streamline deployment processes by restructuring CodePipelines and build stages using agile methodologies
- Migrating existing airflow infrastructure from 2.2.1 to 2.5.1 and resolve dependencies that goes with it
- Improved DAG run performance from an average of 12minutes to 8minutes (33% improvement) Migrate to Redshift Serverless from Redshift provisioned cluster
- Performance tests and result driven decision making for correct use case for serverless
- Architectural design to integrate Redshift serverless with existing data engineering platform
- Migration Strategy to switch over from provisioned to serverless with minimum impact to business
- Reduced cost by 35% using serverless compared to provisioned cluster
- Started an internal project using OpenAI api's that generate Infrastructure as Code, based on user inputs.
DevOps Engineer
Leadsquared
04.2022 - 03.2023
- Created serverless stack using Terraform for frontend deployment.
- One touch deployment for all the frontend applications
- Multiple containers on ECS which serves requests through load balancers for dynamic content
- CDN and S3 deployment for serving static content
- Reducing dependency on DevOps team which reduced bug resolution and feature release time by 18% over 4 months
- Create custom airflow on Kubernetes by migrating from MWAA setup to a custom airflow on Kubernetes.
- Manage EKS cluster and all other AWS infra components like RDS, Redis and EFS necessary for a working airflow environment
- Reducing Airflow management costs by 45%.
Associate
Deloitte
09.2020 - 04.2022
- Deployed BenefitsCal – an online portal for Californians to get and manage their benefits such as CalFresh, CalWORKs, Medi-Cal, etc
- Writing IaC scripts to stood up the environments and application components
- Worked with existing DevOps team to streamline CI/CD Pipelines
- Reduced technical debt and backlog to bring the project back on schedule
- Build live monitoring dashboards for real-time troubleshooting of the application.
Education
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology
07.2020
12th - undefined
Apeejay School
05.2016
Skills
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Python
- SQL
- Git
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Elasticsearch
- Linux
- Apache Kafka
- Terraform
- Airflow
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Spark
- EMR
- Trino
Certification
- AWS Certified DevOps Professional (Professional)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)
- AWS Certified Developer (Associate)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator ( CKA )
- MySQL for Beginners(Coursera)
- Python for Everybody(Coursera)
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Human Resources and Finance Head of MUTBI Student Entrepreneurship Cell
- Fnance Head for Revels 2019 (Revels is the cultural fest of MIT,Manipal)
- Category Head of Bizzmaestro in TechTatva 2018(The annual business based event of MIT, Manipal)
- Manipal Conclave correspondence team ( Similar to TedTalk)
Achievements
- A-Certificate of NCC (State level RD parade for 3 years)
- 1st Dan Black Belt in Karate.
Timeline
Platform Engineer/SRE
Pharmeasy
06.2024 - Current
Platform Engineer
Fractal
03.2023 - 05.2024
DevOps Engineer
Leadsquared
04.2022 - 03.2023
Associate
Deloitte
09.2020 - 04.2022
12th - undefined
Apeejay School
B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology