Dhawal Kamani
Devops Lead
India
Summary
DevOps Lead with over 7 of experience in spearheading end-to-end DevOps initiatives for Ecommerce, Trading, Media, OMS and Healthcare organizations. Proven expertise in optimizing software development lifecycle, enhancing collaboration between development and operations teams, and implementing automation solutions to drive efficiency and scalability. Adept at leveraging cutting-edge tools and technologies to streamline deployment processes, reduce time-to-market, and ensure seamless integration across diverse environments. Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and implementing best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and containerization. Possess strong communication and leadership skills, enabling effective collaboration with stakeholders at all levels. Committed to delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable solutions that align with organizational goals. Seeking to contribute my skills and experience as a DevOps Lead to drive innovation and operational excellence within a dynamic and forward-thinking company.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Lead
Ambab infotech pvt ltd
05.2013 - Current
- Led cross-functional design teams in creating innovative software solutions to enhance overall functionality and performance.
- Addressed business unit managers' requests, focusing on productivity improvements and process competence.
- Optimized existing projects by implementing strategic measures for increased process productivity, collaborating with software development and testing teams.
- Designed and deployed AWS-based applications, utilizing the full AWS stack, ensuring high-availability, fault tolerance, and autoscaling in AWS CloudFormation.
- Managed a robust AWS Cloud environment with 200+ instances, facilitating infrastructure capable of handling 5000+ concurrent visitors.
- Engineered project workflows/pipelines using Jenkins as a CI tool and BASH Script for automated build processes.
- Executed Build and Deployment of CI/CD Pipelines, deploying Microservices, and provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks and Kubernetes.
- Installed and configured Docker Datacenter, including Universal Control Plane (UCP) and Docker Trusted Registry (DTR) on a cluster of hosts.
- Coordinated release efforts among diverse teams (Dev, QA, DBA, and Business Analysis) in a geographically distributed environment.
- Implemented SonarQube code quality analysis tool and created load balancers (ALB) using Route53 for high availability and fault tolerance.
- Provisioned AWS resources, including EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, and S3 buckets, and established VPN tunnels between on-premise networks and AWS VPC.
- Automated tasks using Ansible playbooks, provisioning load balancers, auto-scaling groups, and launch configurations for microservices.
- Created dynamic inventories on Ansible for efficient resource management on AWS.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration processes, ensuring timely resolution of build/release failures.
Linux System Administrator
Socio-Legal Information Center
10.2010 - 05.2013
- Experienced Linux System Administrator with a strong background in Service Desk Management and hands-on expertise in handling L1 and L2 support calls for desktops, networks, and servers.
- Proficient in asset management and vendor coordination, ensuring smooth operations with minimal downtime. Track record of maintaining annual maintenance contracts (AMCs) and overseeing subsequent renewals.
- Skilled in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of CentOS and Ubuntu systems, including RAID+LVM setup on HP, Dell, and Intel servers.
- Proven ability to monitor system performance, optimize hardware resource utilization, and troubleshoot server hardware, platform, and high availability issues.
- Specialized in daily and weekly user data backup and recovery procedures, with expertise in configuring and maintaining web servers, such as Apache, and mail servers, including Postfix with MySQL and Postfixadmin.
- Demonstrated proficiency in SAMBA server maintenance, installation, and configuration of OwnCloud, DHCP server, DNS server, Squid Proxy, Yum server, and NIS/YP Servers.
- Experience in setting up secure NFS servers with multiple clients for file and disk sharing, along with installation, configuration, and maintenance of Nagios server for effective monitoring.
- Versatile skills extend to SVN server installation and configuration, VMware tools setup, and collaboration with HP, Dell, and IBM server vendors for efficient hardware issue resolution.
- Contributed valuable input on hardware and software purchasing decisions, prioritizing return on investment to optimize IT spending.
- Managed system-wide hardware components installation, ensuring seamless interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
- Proactively configured and maintained servers supporting 300 end users, emphasizing secure and high-performance solutions.
Skills
AWS DevOps
Continuous Integration (CI)
Continuous Delivery (CD)
Linux Operating System
Security Best Practices
Containerization Technologies
Performance Optimization
Jenkins
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
ECS
EKS
Linux
System Administration
Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Education
BCA - From Kalinga University 2021
Timeline
DevOps Lead
Ambab infotech pvt ltd
05.2013 - Current
Linux System Administrator
Socio-Legal Information Center
10.2010 - 05.2013