Kartikey Kothe

• Designed and implemented GitLab CI/CD pipelines with reusable templates, runners, and security automation.
• Integrated DevSecOps tools (SonarQube, Checkmarx, Black Duck, Snyk, Vault) into CI/CD pipelines for continuous security validation.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes, reducing environment setup time by 70%.
• Delivered observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and evaluated Dynatrace for application performance monitoring.
• Partnered with security teams to implement IAM, RBAC, secrets management, and compliance-by-design controls. • Piloted AI/ML integration into DevSecOps by applying anomaly detection and automation concepts from MLOps practices.
• Mentored and led a 10-member DevOps engineering team, driving the adoption of cloud-native DevSecOps practices. Regularly presented architecture reviews and KPIs to leadership, influencing platform modernization strategy.

Client: Willis Towers Watson.

• Worked on automating the build process using CI/CD tools like Team Foundation Server and Octopus Deploy.
• Experienced in release management activities to deliver the application updates to production servers in a timely and efficient manner.
• Creating application-specific application pools on IIS, setting up the identity as a service account.
• Interacting with Dev teams in order to fix the deployment/configuration issues.
• Manual and automated deployments in non-production and production environments using a customized tool.

Client: Credit Suisse

• End-to-end deployment ownership of all six projects for the Credit Suisse client.
• Maintaining the source code in SVN, which included branching, merging, and giving access to users.
• Creating and maintaining build and deployment jobs in TeamCity.
• Creating and maintaining deployment scripts, which included PowerShell scripting, Batch scripting, MSBuild, and NAnt.
• Creating higher environment deployment packages and installation guides.
• Supporting the production deployments on calls.
• Release management activities on SNOW (ServiceNow).

• Creating or updating Blade Logic package creation scripts for local environments and iAT/PROD environments.
• Aware of all configurations to make any changes and creating a centralized location to maintain up-to-date information for all releases.
• Creating new local environments for new releases, configuring all required software, deploying applications, and testing basic tests before starting a new release.
• Creating a deployment package and instruction notes for database deployments.
• Strong in troubleshooting issues in all environments, and working with different teams to resolve the issues on time.
• Good knowledge of the Splunk tool to monitor all environments to find out the environments' status.
• Worked closely with the development teams who manage UI, middleware, and back-end code, and provide SVN support for all different code sets across the TLM, eZLM, and WFN, and learned the architecture of all the applications to help troubleshoot any issues for each application.
• Experience in build automation using NANT, BMC BladeLogic, Hudson, Jenkins, batch and PowerShell scripting, and SQL queries.

• Responsible for migrating all applications of Volume License from physical servers to Windows Azure VMs.
• Setting up the working environment for applications on empty servers.
• Responsible for doing Octopus deployment.
• Testing end-to-end application flow, including upstream and downstream testing.
• Creating virtual directories, application pools for applications on IIS 8.
• Supporting IIS and any other deployment issues.
• Creating backups and restoring databases, creating Active Directory and service accounts, giving permissions to users.
• Troubleshooting SSIS packages to make the SQL jobs run successfully.
• Creating roles and permissions in SQL databases.

• Involved in the project setup and infrastructure of the project over servers.
• Used TFS team build definition with custom templates for building the VS2010 solutions.
• Build and Release: Manage builds and releases to QA. Resolve and repair compilation and deployment errors specifically related to the building of source code, and the maintenance of daily builds and production releases.
• Prepared release documentation for the customer delivery.
• As the TFS admin did the branching, merging, and labeling if required.
• As per the client's requirements, the product delivery process has been set up.
• Evaluated the progress and necessitated initiatives to meet the project-related build deliverables.