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Ayush Tiwari

Ayush Tiwari

Pune

Summary

With 8 years of experience in DevOps and Platform Engineering, I am passionate about designing and implementing efficient, scalable, and secure cloud native solutions. I specialize in creating seamless CI/CD pipelines, optimizing microservice architectures, and enhancing Kubernetes orchestration. My work includes developing scalable microservices, integrating security practices, and automating infrastructure deployment. I thrive on modernizing legacy systems, ensuring zero downtime through innovative deployment strategies, and building observability platforms. Strong focus on adopting cost-saving measures, optimizing application performance, and continuously improving cloud infrastructure to support dynamic and robust environments.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4

Certifications

Work History

Cloud Engineering Lead

ZS Associates
10.2021 - Current
  • Designed specialized platforms using Kubernetes and AWS, developed scalable microservices, integrated static and runtime container security.
  • Designed Internal Developer Platform using Kubernetes and Terraform for Python and Node applications, simplifying development process while adhering to security and scalability standards.
  • Integrated Sysdig runtime scanners with ECS Fargate and EKS workloads.
  • Orchestrated operational pipelines for EKS node AMI patching.
  • Designed observability platform for EKS clusters, utilizing Amazon Managed Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana.
  • Implemented an in-house solution for maximizing GPU utilization through the use of HPA, leveraging DCGM exporter and Prometheus Adapter.
  • Implemented the adoption and rollout of container-native BottleRocket OS from AWS for enhanced security and faster boot-up times on EKS nodes.
  • Implemented OSS projects like Cilium CNI, Kyverno, and Karpenter to optimize Kubernetes orchestration.
  • Developed Terraform modules for AWS resource provisioning with adherence to standard naming and configuration best practices.
  • Developed and implemented scalable pipelines for hosting LLM’s on EKS.
  • Developed event-driven systems on EKS to adopt cost-saving measures.
  • Designed multi-tenancy patterns to enhance SaaS solutions' performance on EKS using namespace isolation, Cilium Network Policies, and Resource Budgets.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Codal Inc.
02.2020 - 10.2021
  • Designed CI/CD for various applications including Python Django, Node, Angular, WordPress, and PHP sites utilizing AWS CodePipelines, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins. Managed orchestration of micro-service architectures using Docker Compose and Kubernetes.
  • Actively optimized Docker and Kubernetes clusters for adherence to security best practices while managing them on AWS ECS, AWS EKS. Ensured scalability, robust availability, and facilitated continuous deployments.
  • Automated infrastructure deployment through the design of CloudFormation and Terraform templates. Orchestrated Serverless applications utilizing SAM templates with API Gateway and Lambda.
  • Defined reverse proxy configurations in NGINX and Apache.
  • Reduced latency between services, end-users and optimized billing costs for AWS and GCP.
  • Set up alerts on Slack and email for deployment success/failure, application availability, service availability, code best practice issues, and branch merge.
  • Designed architectures, managed, and integrated all AWS services.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant
07.2016 - 11.2019
  • Implemented cloud services in client’s MES domain for upgrading legacy physical and VM server architecture.
  • Implemented Blue-Green deployment strategy to avoid application downtime during updates on critical workflows.
  • Prepared log streams in CloudWatch for backend services and applied metric filters to detect errors and activate alarms
  • Visualized web server access data over Kibana and established a data pipeline with ELK stack.

Education

B.Tech -

SRM University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05-2016

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker/Docker-Compose
  • Terraform
  • AWS EKS
  • AWS ECS
  • AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy
  • AWS Batch
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Cloudfront
  • AWS S3
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS Cloudtrail
  • AWS Cloudwatch
  • AWS WAF/GuardDuty
  • AWS VPC
  • ArgoCD
  • Jenkins
  • Teamcity
  • Terraform Cloud
  • jFrog

Certification

  • CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, 09/01/23
  • Docker Certified Associate, 02/01/19
  • AWS System Solutions Architect - Associate, 04/01/18
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner, 11/01/17

Timeline

Cloud Engineering Lead

ZS Associates
10.2021 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Codal Inc.
02.2020 - 10.2021

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant
07.2016 - 11.2019

B.Tech -

SRM University
Ayush Tiwari