Ashish Rastogi
Lead Azure Platform & DevOps Solution Designer
Gurugram
Summary
Innovative technology professional with over 11 years of diverse experience. Specialize in enhancing Azure Cloud Services and aligning Azure technical solutions with business objectives. Proven track record in driving projects from start to finish, contributing to organizational growth and overall success. Skilled at leveraging technical knowledge and strategic thinking to deliver impactful results.
Work History
Azure Platform and Devops Lead
Capgemini (ABN AMRO Bank - Onsite)
11.2021 - Current
- Working as an Azure Platform Lead (onsite - Amsterdam) in developing and designing an Azure Kubernetes Cluster, and Azure AI and MLOps Application.
- Involved in standards setting for developing Azure infrastructure for Chatbot and AI project, with biceps and YAML as an IAAC.
- Involved in creation and design of generic application DevOps pipelines and networking design pipelines.
- Implemented robust backup and recovery plans, ensuring minimal data loss during infrastructure upgrades, patching, or unforeseen events or disasters.
- Involved in deploying applications using Helm in Kubernetes, which involves collaboration with application developers.
- Involved in collaborating with different stakeholders for architecture.
- Involved in integration of Azure monitoring with App Insights, Prometheus with Azure Kubernetes.
- Worked in migration from AWS to Azure, which involved Kubernetes, databases, NoSQL database, and web apps, vault, Alerting, etc.
- Providing technical guidance to junior team members, fostering their growth within the organization.
- Enhanced the system performance by optimizing Azure Application Gateways configurations and implementing efficient DevOps practices.
- Delivered training sessions on Azure Cloud technologies and best practices to internal staff, enhancing their understanding of key concepts relevant to their roles.
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies ( Western Union Bank)
6 2020 - 11.2021
- Worked as a lead DevOps Engineer on Azure Cloud DevOps.
- Involved in setting up and deploying apps using ARGO-CD.
- Managing Azure Data Factory pipelines.
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure a seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
- Automated auto versioning of CI image in pipeline management by integrating with Azure Container Registry.
- Worked on creating Azure metric and logging alerting using KQL for different teams using AKS.
Senior Software Engineer
Telus International (Dish Networks)
03.2017 - 05.2020
- Working as Senior Hadoop Platform Engineer
- Supporting Hadoop Production Environment (Cloudera Distribution - 5.10.3) 24/7.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting the Oozie Jobs (Job Scheduling tool, Oozie).
- Responsible for creating the Jobs workflows (using Hive, Unix shell scripting, sqoop), and coordinating the workflows using Oozie coordinators.
- Migration of on-premises CDH jobs to AWS EMR
- Deploying the on-premises data to AWS S3
- Setting Alerts in AWS using AWS service, CloudWatch, for different parameters.
- Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
DevOps Engineer
Clairvoyant LLC
08.2016 - 03.2017
- Working as a DevOps Engineer with the Truckstop Project based out in the US.
- Responsible for the creation of Hadoop CDH (Cloudera Cluster).
- Support Prod env for Hadoop with managing Service Now Tickets
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (Apple Inc)
07.2013 - 07.2016
- Started career as a trainee in TCS in July 2013 and was later promoted to system engineer.
- Worked on the Apple Project in iTunes for cluster setups for big data (Hadoop, Cloudera) for production.
- My responsibilities as a junior were:
- Creation of checklists for cluster setup configurations,
- Best practices for failover mechanisms,
- Setting up our big data test automation solution in the clusters and ensuring it is up and running,
- Resolving any issues found during the big data test automation solution setup in the clusters,
- Documenting and publishing the best practices on cluster setup for optimal performance and security,
- Working closely with the development team to create an automation tool for performing cluster checks, identifying configuration issues, and providing recommendations for optimal performance and security,
- Providing delivery support on cluster setup as and when required.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Application -
2013
- Ranked 3rd in Batch 2010-2013
- Final Grade: 78%
Master of Science - AI And ML
04.2001 -
Skills
Azure Solutions Architect AZ 305
Azure DevOps Engineer
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Azure Solution Designer
Azure Kubernetes
Problem-Solving
Infrastructure Automation
High Availability Strategies
Teamwork and Collaboration
Certification
ITIL V4 training
Designation
Currently Working as Kubernetes and DevOps Technology Lead
Residence
41, Prem Nagar, Behind Prem Nagar Park, Fort Road, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, 474002
Passportdetails
M5262040, 08/01/2015, 07/01/2025, India
Devops
Azure DevOps, AKS, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, PowerShell Scripting, Python, SQL, Shell Scripting, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Centos, Ubuntu, Microsoft Window -2000/XP/2007/2008/2010, NPM, Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/30/1991
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Accomplishments
- Achieved Practice innovator recognition
- Achieved Migration Champion
- Achieved Capitan-Cobb Sustainably idea provoker
Timeline
Azure Platform and Devops Lead - Capgemini (ABN AMRO Bank - Onsite)
11.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer - Telus International (Dish Networks)
03.2017 - 05.2020
DevOps Engineer - Clairvoyant LLC
08.2016 - 03.2017
Systems Engineer - Tata Consultancy Services (Apple Inc)
07.2013 - 07.2016
IIIT Banglore - Master of Science, AI And ML
04.2001 -
Technical Lead - HCL Technologies ( Western Union Bank)
6 2020 - 11.2021
JIWAJI University - Bachelor of Computer Application,