Reading, Technology, Backpacker and Explorer
Kalim Qureshi
Tech Lead - Devops
Mumbai,Maharashtra
Summary
ABOUT ME: I'm a confident IT professional with an infectious enthusiasm for technology. Having 9.8 years of total experience in Devops, AWS Cloud and DBA. Currently working as Tech Lead (DevOps/AWS Cloud/Kubernetes/Microservices) in Aegon Life. Responsible for end to end Design and Implement DevOps Pipelines, Infrastructure Readiness and Automation on Cloud and DC, Container Orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes, Severless architecture, BigData Architecture and Monitoring.
Overview
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of post-secondary education
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead - Devops
Aegon Life Insurance
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2019 - Current
- Understanding pain points of application development and application delivery and helping teams/business in resolving it.
- Responsible for designing and implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment on for EC2/ASG,EKS and Lambda based environments on AWS Cloud.
- Designing and Implementing AWS Cost optimization strategies for various environment.
- Responsible for POC and implementation of new technologies with industry standard best practices.
- Responsible for creating infra with Infra as a code like CFN and Terraform.
- Responsible for creating and managing EKS/Kubernetes clusters and migration of microservices from EC2/DC to EKS Env.
- Responsible for creation and managing networking for various environment using AWS VPC.
- Implementation of monitoring for Non prod and Prod environments using Cloudwatch/Cloudwatch Insights/Container Insights and Cloudwatch Agents.
- Responsible for creation and managing of Infra EC2/K8 and serverless Stack including Lambda, Api Gateway, DynamodB,S3,Cloudfront etc.
- Responsible for hosting and deploying static websites using S3, Cloudfront and Route53.
- Application load balancing using ALB/NLB and Classic Load Balancers.
- Responsible for Cloud and application security using various strategies and tools.
- Responsible for Devops automation using Python and Shell scripts.
- Responsible for creation and managing of Devops tools like Jenkins/Ansible/Sonarcube,Nexus etc
Devops Principal Engineer
Continuum Managed Services
Mumbai, Maharashtra
08.2016 - 11.2018
- Understanding pain points of application development and application delivery.
- Responsible for designing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using Jenkins and Ansible and other deployment tools.
- Responsible for configuring Jenkins as continuous integration tool for regular source code builds.
- Responsible for writing Infrastructure as a code scripts for server provisioning and configuration using Ansible and AWS Cloudformation Templates
- Responsible for writing Dockerfile for containerized deployment.
- Responsible for writing manifest files for Kubernetes based deployment.
- Responsible for automation of Serverless infra like Lambda and Dynamodb tables.
- Versioning and labelling package and build respectively Setting up merging and branching strategies using git in Software development life cycle.
- Responsible for Application and Cloud security implementation.
- Designing and Implementing AWS Cost optimization strategies for various environment.
- Experience in Artifactory version control using JFrog tool.
- Experienced in using Devops automation using Python and Shell scripts.
- Setup, configuration, Management and administration of Cassandra Cluster on AWS.
- Setup, configuration, Management and administration of Zookeeper and Kafka Cluster on AWS.
- Implemented Monitoring solution using Telegraf + influx + Grafana for Cassandra, Kafka and EC2 instances.
- Designing and Implementing CI/CD pipelines for Go, Talend, Mule ESB and other projects.
- Experience in Implementation of Infrastructure and application monitoring through Telegraf+Influx+Grafana.
Principal Engineer
Datavail Infotech Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
04.2014 - 07.2016
- Creation and Maintaining AWS machines via ansible modules.
- Hosting application on EC2 and load balancing on Classic Load balancer.
- Creation of Jenkins Job for deploying microservices on AWS environments.
- Creation of Jenkins jobs for deployment of SQL databases scripts using liquibase.
- Writing Ansible scripts for automating SQL Databases backup and restoration from one server to another
- SQL Server Database Administration for all the clients.
- SQL Server Performance tuning/Replication/Database Mirroring and Clustering.
MSSQL Server DBA
Clover Infotech Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
03.2011 - 05.2014
- All SQl Server DBA tasks.
- Monitoring backups,user jobs,database growth, reindexing job,errorlogs and drive size on all Servers.
- Monitoring and tuning SQL Server performance with Performance Monitor,DMV’s, SQL Server Profiler, Database Tuning Advisor,Execution Plan etc.
- Installing SQL Server 2005,2008 on Stand Alone Servers including service pack deployments.
- Manually backup and restorations of databases as per requirement.
- Configuration and Maintenance of all the DR servers.
- Creation and managing databases with Log- shipping.
- Daily monitoring of all servers through SQl Server Reporting services(SSRS) and DBmail alerts from
- Ensuring Data consistency in the database through DBCC commands
- DR Drill for Business continuity process.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
05.2007 - 05.2010
HSC - Science, Maharashtra Board
04.2005 - 03.2007
Skills
Amazon Web Services
Docker/Kubernetes/EKS
SDLC
DevOps
Shell scripting
Cloudformation/Terraform
SQL Server/ PostgreSQL/Cassandra/DynamoDB/AuroraDB
Linux/Redhat/Ubuntu
Ansible/AWS SSM
Jenkins
Kafka/Kinesis/Zookeeper
Nexus/Jfrog
Cloudwatch/Grafana/Prometheus/Nagios
Nginx/ALB/NLB/Classic LB
AWS API Gateway
S3/Cloudfront/Route53
Jira/Confluence
Lambda
EC2/ASG
SNS/SQS/Pinpoint
VPC
Accomplishments
2020 - RED Carpet Certificate of Excellence Award, Aegon Life
2017 - CEO Circle of Excellence Award, Continuum
2017 - Change Champion Award, Continuum
2013 - Best-Business Partner, Edelweiss Securities
2013 - Team Award, Edelweiss Securities
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Interests
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
08-2020
Tech Lead - Devops - Aegon Life Insurance
01.2019 - Current
Devops Principal Engineer - Continuum Managed Services
08.2016 - 11.2018
Principal
Engineer - Datavail Infotech Pvt Ltd
04.2014 - 07.2016
MSSQL Server DBA - Clover Infotech Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 05.2014
Mumbai University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
05.2007 - 05.2010
Marceline Jr. College - HSC, Science, Maharashtra Board
04.2005 - 03.2007