Dhruv Thakkar

• One of Technical SPOCs for Architectural and Design, Platform Offering till Run activities
• Contributed to cross-functional PaaS scrum teams OpenShift/Kubernetes Platform Provisioning Automation, DevSecOps lifecycle, GitOps, Security, FinOps, Day2 Operations
• Integration of new OCP/K8S release features and functionalities
• Supported Various Applications Onboarding to the Platform, Traffic Cutovers from Legacy to Cloud Platform, Technical support pre and post migration
• Generic SRE activities related to Platform Availability, Resiliency Metrics, SLA/SLO, Observability and Monitoring, Incident Response/On Call, Best Practices and so on
• Gen AI initiative - Streamline and deflect Support related queries with Chatbot implementation built with Microsoft Teams Apps and Azure OpenAI

• Key areas: OpenShift(Kubernetes) based Platform as a Service hosted on Azure Cloud
• RH OpenShift based PaaS offering for Application teams across organization (Prod/Test/Dev) and lifecycle spanning across provisioning, DevOps, security, automation, support, On call roster and overall platform optimization.
• Tech Stack: Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, Azure, Docker/Podman, CI/CD - Jenkins + GitHub Actions, GitOps -ArgoCD, Shell scripting, Artifactory, Git, OPA/Gatekeeper, RHACM (Fleet management), RHACS (Clusters Security)
• Soft skills: Team upskilling and Internship Mentorship, Hiring panel
• Game Changer award: Transversal Topics, Sandbox config, PaaS Automation

• Key areas: DevOps and laas (Cloud Native PaaS Application)
• Day-to-day tasks involve Automation, Build/Release activities and Feature enhancements to enable DevOps and Agile Development process workflow for CF/k8s based Cloud native PaaS Application
• Deployment, Run and Maintenance of CF Landscapes and CF based PaaS service offerings on Multi Cloud providers

• Key areas: OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform, Automation, Monitoring
• Red Hat OpenStack laaS solution Implementation, Ownership and Offering for Business functions
• Applications network connectivity onboarding to Google Cloud Platform
• Tech Stack - Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Bash Scripting, GCP shared VPC network, IAM, Prometheus, Grafana
• R&R: Pat on the back award, Master Collaborator, High Flyer Award and The Dream Formation - Delivery Award (Team)

• Part of a global team responsible for Design, Implementation and Administration of Infrastructure provisioning hosted on VMware virtualization
• Linux VM Provisioning as a Service, Administration and troubleshooting of various OS distros

Internship - As a part of Internship project, worked on OpenStack POC setup focused on Sahara service for automated provisioning of Big data cluster