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Chava Himalay
Bengaluru
Summary
IT professional with a solid foundation in Red Hat OpenShift and containerization. Certified Red Hat Architect with hands-on experience in optimizing deployment processes. Committed to enhancing system reliability within collaborative teams. Prepared to contribute skills to impactful projects utilizing OpenShift technology.
Overview
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Automation Specialist
IBM
Bangalore
05.2022 - Current
- Designed and implemented enterprise-grade automation solutions using Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Ansible Playbooks, Bash scripting, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows.
- Automated deployment, configuration management, patching, compliance validation, and day-2 operations across Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms.
- Developed reusable Ansible roles, collections, and automation frameworks that significantly reduced manual effort, improved deployment consistency, and accelerated platform delivery.
- Leveraged Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for centralized automation execution, workflow orchestration, and credential and inventory management, enhancing enterprise-scale automation governance.
- Integrated automation solutions with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) to enable fully automated application and infrastructure delivery pipelines.
- Built and maintained OpenShift platform automation for cluster provisioning, application onboarding, namespace management, certificate lifecycle management, and operational support.
- Developed monitoring and operational automation with Prometheus, Grafana, and custom alerting workflows, enhancing observability and streamlining incident response.
- Supported multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud deployments across AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure, VMware, and on-premises environments through Infrastructure as Code and automation-first strategies.
- Contributed to enterprise OpenShift modernization initiatives, helping organizations adopt cloud-native architectures, GitOps practices, and automation-driven operations.
Site Reliability Engineer
OSDU Forum
04.2022 - Current
- Designed and implemented EDN (Energy Data Nexus), an automation operator built for OSDU Services Operations, enabling streamlined deployment and operations across any cloud-native platform.
- Developed EDN (Energy Data Nexus) Operator: Designed as a wrapper on top of OSDU Core Services to automate operations and accelerate OSDU adoption.
- Deployed and integrated OSDU on AWS for a European supermajor, supporting enterprise-scale data operations.
- Implemented OSDU/EDN Solutions across multiple platforms: Delivered automation for a national oil company on Nutanix Platform.
- Collaborated with AWS Outposts and IBM TechZone teams to deliver proof of value projects and rapid environment provisioning, enhancing deployment capabilities for energy sector use cases.
- AWS Outposts Collaboration: Partnered with the AWS Outposts team to deliver an OSDU Proof of Value (POV) Project, ensuring hybrid cloud integration and OSDU compliance.
- Created automation frameworks in IBM TechZone to provision OSDU/EDN environments rapidly for client previews and proofs-of-concept.
- Provided preview and demonstration environments using IBM TechZone hosted on IBM Cloud.
Infrastructure Specialist
IBM
03.2022 - Current
- Designed, implemented, and maintained IT infrastructure including servers, networks, and storage systems.
- Ensured high availability, performance, and security of systems while troubleshooting issues, managing upgrades, and supporting cloud and on-prem environments.
- Collaborated with teams for system integration and automation to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.
Application Developer
IBM
09.2021 - Current
- Certified Red Hat specialist in containers with practical training in Red Hat OpenShift Development.
- I bring hands-on expertise in OpenShift, emphasizing a strong foundation in containerization.
- Automated processes using Tekton pipelines, enhancing deployment efficiency.
- Built and maintained production-level Kubernetes cluster, ensuring reliable application performance.
- Eager to apply my skills and contribute to dynamic projects that leverage OpenShift's capabilities.
OSDU Infrastructure Specialist
OSDU IBM Implementation Product
05.2024 - 05.2025
- Validated client infrastructure to ensure successful installation of IBM EDN (Open Source OSDU) in client environments.
- Successfully installed and configured IBM EDN on both cloud and on-prem environments.
- Provisioned and configured OSDU EDN environments quickly and reliably for internal review and testing.
- Enhanced efficiency and reliability of IBM EDN Operators by optimizing and extending Ansible automation scripts.
- Reduced deployment time and increased reliability through optimized provisioning workflows.
- Performed end-to-end troubleshooting of infrastructure-related issues, supported robust deployments, and improved provisioning and operational workflows across both on-premises and cloud-based environments.
- Troubleshot and resolved complex infrastructure issues, ensuring high system availability.
- Contributed to CI/CD pipeline integration for automated infrastructure validation and setup.
- Improved internal tools to support monitoring and operational visibility.
- Ensured infrastructure compliance with client-specific security and operational standards.
- Created a Technology Preview of the OSDU EDN Product in the IBM Technology Zone.
- Developed fully automated deployment and configuration pipelines using Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton).
- Showcased scalability, operational benefits, and ease of adoption of the OSDU EDN solution.
- Accelerated time-to-value by providing a robust, reproducible environment for stakeholders and evaluation teams.
Infrastructure Engineer - RedHat OpenShift
IBM Internal
05.2024 - 10.2024
- Led the provisioning and administration of Red Hat OpenShift sandboxes across IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for a global IBM hackathon.
- Supported an internal global IBM hackathon by provisioning and managing Red Hat OpenShift sandboxes hosted on IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Set up OpenShift namespaces, managed access, resolved deployment and configuration issues, and provided hands-on support to participants.
- Administered isolated OpenShift projects and namespaces, ensuring seamless access and availability for participating teams.
- Resolved technical issues related to deployments, access, and environment configurations within OpenShift clusters, delivering rapid support during the hackathon.
- The project enabled teams from across the organization to build, test, and demonstrate innovative ideas within isolated, secure environments.
- This initiative facilitated seamless collaboration, rapid prototyping, and an overall successful hackathon experience.
- Collaborated closely with developers and participants to enable a smooth and productive hackathon experience.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
SASTRA DEEMEED TO BE UNIVERSITY
IN01-2020
Skills
- Cloud-Native Development
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Kubernetes management
- Kubernetes deployment
- CI/CD
- CI/CD pipelines
- Continuous deployment
- Infrastructure Automation
- Infrastructure as code
- Scripting & Automation
- Scripting technology
- Ansible automation
- Cloud Architecture & Deployment
- Red Hat Technologies
- Observability
- Software development
- Cloud integration strategies
Languages
- Telugu
- Tamil
- English, Fluent
- Telugu, Fluent
- Tamil, Basic
Publications
Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Installation on AWS, 2024
Certification
- Red Hat Certified Architect
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator - EX200
- Red Hat Certified Engineer - EX294
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers - EX188
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration - EX280
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Developer - EX288
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Building Resilient Microservices - EX328
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift AI - EX267
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing automation with Ansible Automation Platform - EX374
- Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Microsoft certified Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
OSDU Infrastructure Specialist
OSDU IBM Implementation Product
05.2024 - 05.2025
Infrastructure Engineer - RedHat OpenShift
IBM Internal
05.2024 - 10.2024
Automation Specialist
IBM
05.2022 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
OSDU Forum
04.2022 - Current
Infrastructure Specialist
IBM
03.2022 - Current
Application Developer
IBM
09.2021 - Current
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
SASTRA DEEMEED TO BE UNIVERSITY