Mandar Kulkarni

FedEx (Offshore-India)

• Senior DevOps Engineer:
  Supported the infrastructure of a Fortune 500 company, including Cloud, AWS EC2
  instances, databases, Elastic Load Balancers, S3 buckets etc.
  ● Automated deployment of 7 new servers using Ansible playbooks to reduce
  manual effort by 92%.
  ● Spearheaded migration of all servers to CloudOps, reducing cost by 64% and
  increasing server performance by 87%.
  ● Reduced deployment time from 4 days to 30 minutes using Ansible
  automation tool for configuration management within 5 months.
  System Administrator:
  Reduced average server downtime by 67% through improved monitoring
  processes and 24/7 maintenance checks.
  ● Installed new RHEL8 operating systems on 100+ servers using CloudOps Infra.
  ● Created a comprehensive inventory of all hardware, software, supplies, and
  documentation for 100+ servers.
  ●Deployed the applications to Weblogic and Tomcat Application Server and static content to Apache web servers.
  ●Automated the continuous integration and deployments using Jenkins, Docker.
  ●Installed, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Nagios for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring.
  ●Worked on Docker container to create Docker images for different environments.
  ●Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using Maven and package it in its distributable format, such as a WAR file.
  Implemented process for release management, automated code deployment, configuration management, and monitoring.
  ●Used Shell scripts to day to day activities and tasks for automating.
  Used Jenkins tool to automate the build process.
  Installing and configuring Jenkins master and slave nodes. Built CI/CD pipeline and managing the infrastructure as code using chef and puppet.

Worked as Onsite Lead DevOps Engineer and handling a team of 10(3 onsite, 7 offshore) effectively. Delivering solutions on DevOps area including CI/CD, Server Configuration Management using Ansible, Docker, GCP, Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.

1. Managing Deployment Environment: - Manage the DEV/QA/PROD environments, OS patching, application and server patching, tools/software upgrades etc., Dealing with bash/shell scripts for application needs.

2. CI-CD automation: Writing and maintaining Fully automated Jenkins Pipelines setup for CI-CD in all applications. Automated deployment using shared libraries within pipeline scripts. Writing and maintaining Automated Jenkins Pipelines for spring boot application deployed to PCF spaces.

3. Configuration Management: - Setting up and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, performing requirement PROD releases, maintaining and executing batch/shell script through automation, Jenkins Administration,

Writing and maintaining Ansible automated scripts and jobs for configuration management tool in projects.

• Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.
• Managed playbooks in Ansible ENV and Implemented environments, roles, and templates in Ansible Tower for better environment management.
• Used Shell scripts to day to day activities and tasks for automating.
• Used Jenkins tool to automate the build process.
• Installing and configuring Jenkins master and slave nodes. Built CI/CD pipeline and managing the infrastructure as code using chef and puppet.
• Have experience in cloud platform like AWS and CloudOps.
• Created and implemented chef cookbooks for deployment and also used Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 instances.
• Worked in GIT to manage source code.
• Setup Ansible Server, workstation, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications.
  Deployed the applications to Weblogic and Tomcat Application Server and static content to Apache web servers.
• Automated the continuous integration and deployments using Jenkins, Docker.
  Installed, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Nagios for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring.
• Worked on Docker container to create Docker images for different environments.
  Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using Maven and package it in its distributable format, such as a WAR file.
• Implemented process for release management, automated code deployment, configuration management, and monitoring.

As Onsite Lead DevOps Engineer and handling a team of 6(2 onsite, 4 offshore) effectively

• Delivering solutions on DevOps area including OpenShift, Docker containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Server Configuration Management using Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, etc
• Openshift configuration and support: Application migration to Docker Containers using OpenShift platform and Kubernetes orchestration
• Proof Of Concepts for Containerization/migration: Done various POC projects demonstrating the different application structs, deployment and configuration on OpenShift container platforms(Jboss, Tomcat, OpenJDK, Java-mule, spring-boot etc.)
• Configuration Management: Setting up and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, performing requirement PROD releases, maintaining and executing batch/shell script through automation, Jenkins Administration, Writing and maintaining Ansible automated scripts and jobs for configuration management.

As Onsite Lead DevOps Engineer and handling a team of 10(3 onsite, 7 offshore) effectively. Delivering solutions on DevOps area including CI/CD, Server Configuration Management using Ansible, Docker, GCP, Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.

1. GCP configuration and support: Create/modify/destroy the projects/resources/accounts on GCP using terraform scripts. Also manage the VPC, subnet, pub-sub subscriptions, firewalls, permissions for the same.

2. Configuration Management: - Setting up and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, performing requirement PROD releases, maintaining and executing batch/shell script through automation, Jenkins Administration,

Writing and maintaining Ansible automated scripts and jobs for configuration management tool in projects.

3. CI-CD automation: Writing and maintaining Fully automated Jenkins Pipelines setup for CI-CD in all applications. Automated deployment using shared libraries within pipeline scripts. Writing and maintaining Automated Jenkins Pipelines for spring boot application deployed to PCF spaces.

4. Managing Deployment Environment: - Manage the DEV/QA/PROD environments, OS patching, application and server patching, tools/software upgrades etc., Dealing with bash/shell scripts for application needs.

5. Data Center Migration: - Application and DB migration across different Data Centers. Lift and Shift, app modernization, CI-CD advancement involved in all the activities. Mentored team of 10+ members for start-end migration efforts.

• Smoothed development cycle and increased team collaboration by implementing process improvements.
• Recommended process improvements to enhance operational safety and efficiency.

As Offshore Lead DevOps Engineer and handling a team of 6(offshore) effectively. Delivering solutions on DevOps area including CI/CD, Server Configuration Management using Ansible, Docker, GCP, Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.

FedEx (Offshore-India) -DevOps Engineer (July 2018 - Feb 2020)

1. Configuration Engineer: - Setting up and maintaining Jenkins build jobs, performing requirement builds, maintaining and executing batch/shell script, Jenkins Administrator. Setting up Jenkins jobs/pipeline for the production environment with code analysis.

2. Build and Deployment automation: Writing and maintaining Fully automated Jenkins Pipelines setup for CI-CD in all GRD applications. Automated deployment using shared libraries within pipeline scripts.

3. Managing Deployment Environment: - Publish build and release for daily in DEV, TEST, Quality and higher environments. Managing servers, space monitoring, cleanup, backup. Dealing with bash/shell scripts for application needs.

4. Deployment automation for cloud: Writing and maintaining Automated Jenkins Pipelines for spring boot application deployed to PCF spaces.

5. Configuration Management: Writing and maintaining Ansible automated scripts and jobs for configuration management tool in projects.

• Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.
• Created CI and CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker to automate the build process of applications.
• Maintained version control systems such as GitLab for all software development projects.

Bank of America (Offshore-India) -DevOps Engineer (March 2017 – July 2018)

1. Configuration Engineer: - Setting up and maintaining CI-CD environments Jenkins Pipelines, performing requirement deployments, maintaining and executing batch/shell script/crons, Jenkins Administrator. Setting up Jenkins jobs/pipeline for the production environment with code analysis.

2. Managing Deployment Environment: - Publish build and release for daily in DEV, TEST, Quality and higher environments. Managing servers, space monitoring, cleanup, backup.

3. Ansible Implemantation/Configuration Management: Implemented Ansible as SCM tool in the client environment and migrated the traditional deployment and configuration scripts to the ansible executables. Implemented in all lower and higher environments.

Volkswagen (Offshore-India) -DevOps Engineer (August 2016 – March 2017)

1. Build-Release and Configuration Engineer: - Setting up and maintaining Jenkins build jobs, performing requirement builds, maintaining and executing batch/shell script, Jenkins Administrator. Setting up Jenkins jobs/pipeline for the production environment with code analysis.

2. CI-CT-CD configuration: Setting up continuous Integration, Deployment and testing jenkins pipelines to have smooth and hassle free automated executions for releases.

3. SVN Admin: - Creating new components(projects), setting up initial branching strategies, managing user access.

4. Code analysis – Static/Dynamic code analysis, using client tools, using Google code analysis tools. Integrate the tools within Jenkins pipelines to showcase automated way of code analysis.

4. Defect Tracking Tool Administrator: - JIRA defect tracking and managing application defect workflow. Creating and handover Confluence pages.

5. Managing Deployment Environment: - Publish build and release for daily in TEST, Quality and Production environments. Managing servers, space monitoring, cleanup, backup.

• Ensuring that the application works smoothly in live environment after conversion.

2. Build and SCM: - Jenkins builds, batch/shell script, run the Jenkins jobs, Jenkins Administrator. Setting up new jobs and configuring different kind of jobs for different build tools like Ant, Maven.

3. Code Repo: - SVN Administrator, SVN backup Engineer (Weekly and daily backup) and provide SVN Support to developers

4. Defect Tracking Tool Administrator: - TRAC administrator, Define and implemented workflow for Delivery, Support, Development.

5. Code Coverage: - Implemented code coverage. Did research on JaCoCo maven plugin and SONAR maven, PMD Plugin through continuous integration tool Jenkins, also created technical document for the same.

6. Release Engineer: - Publish build and release for daily in ECS Environment. Maintain ECS environment and solve issue of ECS and maintain DB version according releases.

7. Automation: - Automate the build and deployment process to reduce the time gap between executions and make the entire process faster with accurate results. Using various plugins in Jenkins, Ant/Maven, shell scripting etc.

8. WAS Migration: Migrated WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 8.5 and applies all required cosmetic changes to build and deployment for all the applications.