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Ketan Kondvilkar

Ketan Kondvilkar

Thane

Summary

Seasoned Devops Tech Lead with 10+ years of experience resourcefully planning and deploying necessary application tools to meet organizational goals. Expert at generating quality coding to enhance critical software automation, accuracy, agility and security based on latest industry-standard concepts. Established history providing pivotal consultation with Dev, QA, security and IT operations staff to influence software development effectiveness. Resourceful when overseeing group projects and providing detailed analysis to craft practical processes.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Devops Engineer

Soho Dragons Solutions Private Limited
Ahmedabad
2021.04 - Current

Client - Mizuho Bank, NYC.

Profile - Consultant - Engineer

  • Analyzed existing infrastructure and systems for optimization opportunities.
  • Maintained and monitored production environments for high availability, scalability, and performance.
  • Collaborated with development teams to ensure application deployments were successful.
  • Performed troubleshooting on a variety of issues impacting system health or performance by using OpsRam tool.
  • Built out automated testing suites that ran against all new code changes prior to release into production by using SonarQube quality gates.
  • Performed regular audits of system configurations in order to identify vulnerabilities or misconfigurations.
  • Managing below tools - Upgrade the version, cleanup activity, etc.

1.] Collaboration tools - Jira, Confluence, Subversion, Gitlab, Nexus repositories

2.] Development CI/CD - Jenkins, Rundeck, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, MotioCI, Nexus IQ Server

3.] Reporting Applications - Cognos, Qlikview, StealthAudit, PowerBI report scheduler

4.] Application Servers - IIS, Tomcat

5.] Miscellaneous Applications - SharePoint, Aveska, IBM InfoSphere

6.] Messagiing Services - IBM WebSphere MQ

Devops Engineer – Assistant Manager

Fullerton India Credit Company Limited
Mumbai
2018.10 - 2020.10
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Attlasians’s tools such as Bitbucket and Bamboo
  • Managing Atlassian tools such as BITBUCKET, BAMBOO, CONFLUENCE and JIRA
  • Actively manage, improve and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, ElastiCache including backups, patches and auto scaling
  • Reduced costs by ~$300-$400 each month by eliminating unnecessary servers and consolidating databases
  • Worked on Digital transformation with Agile methodology such as Scrum and Kanban
  • Create 2-tier and 3-tier architecture for almost 5 Go LIVE projects
  • Worked with development in sprint 0 to address technical challenges w.r.t
  • Network topology and find solutions on it
  • Managed and configured web services like Apache Tomcat and Wildfly
  • Enabled NGINX software load balancer to leverage reverse proxy as well as load balancing
  • I have migrated all codes from GIT to BITBUCKET and deployment plans from JENKINS to BAMBOO.

Software Engineering - System Administrator

Checkapp Healthcare Technology PVT LTD
Mumbai
2017.09 - 2018.10
  • Designing of new VPC setup for staging and production environment
  • Cost estimation for AWS services
  • Moving all setup from OnDemand to spot instances to minimize the cost of amazon services
  • Cleanup of all irrelevant services and resources from aws which were there more than a year
  • Installation of technologies like nodejs, redis-cli, zookeeper, kafka
  • Installation of monitoring tools like NAGIOS (Server-client configuration) and Ganglia (Server-client configuration)
  • Setup of Solr 6.0
  • Setup of authenticated mongodb
  • Creating users with restrictions to access mongodb
  • Setup of load balancer (Haproxy)
  • EBS Management.

System Administrator

Germinait Solutions PVT LTD
Mumbai
2013.01 - 2017.08

System Administrator ( May 2016 to August 2017)

System Engineer ( May 2014 to April 2016 )

Source Analyst ( January 2013 to April 2014 )

  • Designing and setup of Production servers based on CentOS
  • Working on BIG data technologies (SOLR, Hadoop, Kafka, Zookeeper, MonoDB)
  • Setup of Apache and Tomcat
  • Performance tuning for MYSQL, Apache and tomcat
  • Taking snapshots of data on Amazon
  • Backup of MYSQL database on Amazon S3
  • Creating security groups on Amazon Cloud for better security
  • Writing shell scripts for making maximum tasks automated
  • Deployment of builds and patches related to our product
  • Testing new versions of servers and upgrading it on production
  • Setup of SOLR servers
  • Finding stats for relevant and irrelevant data according to keyword combination by using solr queries
  • Setup of Nagios on every server for better monitoring of machine health
  • Using Ganglia for monitoring of server's health
  • Resolving client issues using our tool Explic8 and Trooya
  • Monitoring Exception logs related to product
  • Raising tickets to developers related to issues found in our tool GSI and Trooya
  • Follow up on tickets so that tool should be error free
  • Writing program (Scrapers writing) to provide support to web sites like forums, blogs, microblogs, news, complaint sites, reviews, classifieds, video sharing, image sharing for data crawling by using xpath, xquery and xml
  • I have developed a UI on Java which helps to crawl data from aggregators' sites
  • Extracting RSS feeds for data crawling
  • Working on Media Tagging, URL discovery.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

St. Andrew's College, Mumbai University
Bandra, Mumbai
04.2012

Skills

  • Solution Building
  • Network Design
  • Resource Allocation
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Agile/Scrum Methodology
  • Continuous Integration Systems
  • Software Development Standards
  • Software Documentation Control
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Source and Version Control: Git, Github
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Cost Assessment
  • Linux Environments

Why me?

  • I reduced the deployment time of a web application by 80% by automating the build, test, and release stages using Bitbucket and Bamboo.
  • I improved the availability and scalability of a microservices-based system by migrating it to AWS, achieving a 99.9% uptime and a 50% cost reduction.
  • I implemented a DevSecOps strategy for a financial application, integrating security tools and practices into the DevOps pipeline, ensuring compliance and reducing vulnerabilities by 90%.
  • I trained and coached a team of junior DevOps engineers, improving their skills and performance by 40%.

Accomplishments

  • In the 2nd quarter of 2023, I got "Soho Employee Recognition Award" in Soho Dragons Solutions pvt. ltd.
  • I have got Best performing employee of the month in Fullerton India Credit Company Limited.
  • Performed the pivot role in achieving Digital transformation by using Agile methodology such as Scrum and Kanban.
  • Migrated AWS setup to Azure Devops in strict time bound in Germinait Solutions pvt. ltd.
  • Migrated on premises CICD pipeline on Atllasian product such as Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.

Languages

Marathi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2

Affiliations

  • I was a member of cultural committee in FICCL and Germinait Solutions pvt. ltd. and have organized many events such as overnight picnics, team building activities, award and recognition programs.
  • Also, I have choreographed the whole Townhall Event including fashion shows and dance.
  • I have choreographed “Flash Mob” in Germinait.

Timeline

Senior Devops Engineer

Soho Dragons Solutions Private Limited
2021.04 - Current

Devops Engineer – Assistant Manager

Fullerton India Credit Company Limited
2018.10 - 2020.10

Software Engineering - System Administrator

Checkapp Healthcare Technology PVT LTD
2017.09 - 2018.10

System Administrator

Germinait Solutions PVT LTD
2013.01 - 2017.08

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

St. Andrew's College, Mumbai University
Ketan Kondvilkar