NIKHITHA KANDALA

Project: D/cipher

The Big data Team is currently building and enhancing the D/cipher Platform. This platform is powered by user data and provides a range of features including user segment creation, user segment targeting report creations and will be managing all these features and help build prototype and deliver world-class features for advertising.

• Responsible to create Git Repository setup for our Development team
• Implementing and advocated for Git best practices, including regular commits, detailed commit messages, and branching strategies
• Experience with ticketing management tool Jira
• Configuring the flow of CI and CD via Jenkins and setup the environment with the Dockerfile
• Responsible to configure Jenkins job for the requirement
• Developing and maintaining the continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Maven, Nexus, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes
• Involved in creation of Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline configuration using declarative pipeline for each stage of deployment
• Writing the Ansible YAML scripts to configure the remote servers
• Configured the Docker based application and Deployment users as per business requirements
• Creating Virtualization containers with the help of Docker to run specified applications
• Responsible to create a EKS cluster and Manifests like Deployment and Services
• Demonstrated proficiency in Ansible and Terraform, creating infrastructure on AWS using Terraform
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project delivery in an Agile environment
• Application monitoring configurations - setting up the Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience in automation of manual tasks & processes enabling better governance and compliance using python.

• Designed and implemented scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure solution using AWS services and technologies
• Automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes using infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation
• Involved in the creation of Monorepo Architecture on Github with AWS Codepipeline for streamlined deployement, incorporating services like Lambda, ApiGateway, SNS, Eventbrige rule
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including developers, system administrators to define and implement cloud-based solution that meet business requirement
• Developed and managed CI/CD pipelines in AWS to ensure efficient and reliable code deployments
• Created and managed IAM users, groups, and roles, including updating team members' access keys to maintain security protocols
• Experienced on Branching, Merging concepts in Version Control tool like Git and Github
• Configured EC2 instances with Load Balancers and Target Groups for scalable and high-availability applications
• Managed ECS services by creating ECS clusters, task definitions, and ECR repositories
• Implemented ECS clusters with EC2 instance type and fargate, integrated with Auto Scaling Groups to optimize resource usage
• Maintained monitoring and alerting of production servers using Cloud Watch service.
• Keeping up-to-date with latest AWS services, features and best practices and providing recommendations for their adoption
• Conducted cost analysis and optimization exercises to ensure optimal resource utilization and cost savings
• Optimized S3 storage costs by implementing lifecycle rules to transition from one storage class to another storage class
• Automated S3 lifecycle rule management with Python scripts using Boto3 library
• Design and implementation of RDS Database services to host DB instances to the endpoint and involved in the RDS major version upgrades(Mysql and Postgresql)