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Avinash Gupta

Senior Consultant Specialist
Kolkata

Summary

11+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, and automation. Skilled in deploying robust DevOps strategies, utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, and Ansible to streamline application delivery and infrastructure management. Expertise in Python for scripting and automating processes, improving efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
2014
2014
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Consultant Specialist

HSBC Technology India
07.2024 - Current


  • Designed and implemented automated Kubernetes deployments using Helm and custom manifests, ensuring scalability and resilience.
  • Automated cluster management tasks, such as pod autoscaling, rolling updates, and resource monitoring, reduce manual intervention.
  • Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines, integrating GitHub hooks for automated builds, testing, and deployments, improving release velocity.
  • Set up an end-to-end observability stack using Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding.
  • Defined custom metrics and alerts, enabling proactive incident detection and reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery).
  • Integrated Splunk with xMatters to enable automated alert notifications for on-call teams, ensuring rapid response to high-priority incidents.
  • Created extensive documentation and provided training for DevOps tools and processes, enabling teams to understand and leverage automation for increased productivity.
  • Implemented advanced deployment strategies like blue-green, and rolling updates to ensure seamless application releases with zero downtime.

Technical Lead

LTIMindtree Limited
02.2022 - Current
  • Determined technical requirements for projects, and set work deadlines.
  • Automated patch management and security compliance processes with Ansible, cutting downtime for maintenance by 40%.
  • Created modular Ansible playbooks for the reusable automation of frequently performed tasks, reducing operational overhead by 50%.
  • Achieved time savings of 75% by automating change request creation using Ansible playbooks.
  • Developed Python scripts with Boto3 to automate the provisioning of AWS resources, including EC2 instances, and Load Balancer, reducing manual setup time by 70%.
  • Created Python-based cleanup scripts to identify and delete unused resources (EC2 instances), reducing cloud costs by 25%.

Executive Employee

UBS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED
11.2018 - 02.2022
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 60%, increasing release velocity, and stability.
  • Designed automation scripts in Python that reduced operational workload by over 40%, improving response times for routine tasks.
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to integrate DevOps best practices, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Expertise in using JIRA software with Jenkins and GitHub for real-time bug tracking and issue management.
  • A sound knowledge of the trade life cycle.

Field Engineer

Amdocs
07.2017 - 10.2018
  • Automation using shell script for daily sanity task.
  • Extensive experience in designing and implementation of continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment through Jenkins.
  • Sound knowledge of UNIX/Linux, SQL, shell scripting.
  • Planning and implementation of upgradation, enhancements, release or any changes in the existing functionality of the systems as per business requirements.
  • Interacting with clients and the onsite team to solve the issues.
  • System handling & Support.
  • Configuration and upgradation of nodes in IN system.
  • Extensive experience in supporting production environments.

Senior System Engineer

Infosys Limited
02.2014 - 07.2017
  • Identified software issues and handled troubleshooting to resolve quickly.
  • Strong knowledge on Change, Incident, Problem management.
  • Experienced in Automating the Monthly and Daily reports based on the requirement.
  • Creating and updating Remedy tickets for change and incident and problem management to document monitoring and recovery steps.
  • Providing regular incident and change notifications (planned & unplanned) to impacted lines of business and senior managers with appropriate data including business impact, application affected and relevant details regarding incident resolution.
  • Weekly Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.
  • Part of a team designated to maintain and upgrade all dedicated server.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology

Academy of Technology

Skills

GIT

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

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Certification

PCEP™ – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

Accomplishments

  • Spot On Award for contributing towards automation of change creation process using Ansible

Timeline

Senior Consultant Specialist

HSBC Technology India
07.2024 - Current

Technical Lead

LTIMindtree Limited
02.2022 - Current

Executive Employee

UBS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED
11.2018 - 02.2022

Field Engineer

Amdocs
07.2017 - 10.2018

Senior System Engineer

Infosys Limited
02.2014 - 07.2017

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology

Academy of Technology

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