Akshay Lavhale
Pune
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
10.2021 - Current
- Developed automation to provision ephemeral environments in AWS within 90 minutes and implemented cost optimization strategies for long-running environments.
- Developed and managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines to provision ephemeral environments in AWS within 90 minutes.
- Deployed and maintained Kubernetes services using Helm charts across multiple environments.
- Authored Python automation scripts for tasks such as schema creation, tenant provisioning, and operational workflows.
- Wrote Terraform IaC scripts to provision AWS infrastructure components including EKS, RDS, AWS Glue, and MSK.
- Achieved 50–60% cost savings by implementing automation to shut down idle environments after 2 hours of inactivity.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support and scale development and deployment operations.
- Role - Senior Staff DevOps Engineer (AWS, Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Python, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana)
Senior DevOps Engineer
Thomson Reuters (EPAM Systems)
03.2021 - 09.2021
- Automated ingestion of AWS Lambda logs into Datadog, enabling centralized monitoring and faster troubleshooting.
- Developed bootstrap scripts to automatically configure prerequisites on EC2 instances during provisioning.
- Authored AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy and manage infrastructure for Lambda log forwarding to Datadog.
- Utilized AWS CloudFormation as an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool for repeatable and scalable environment setup.
- Built CI/CD pipelines to execute bootstrap and Lambda logging scripts, streamlining the deployment and observability process.
- Role - Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS, Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, Cloud Formation, Python, Bash, Powershell, AWS Lambda, Datadog)
DevOps Engineer
Schlumberger (Wipro)
04.2018 - 03.2021
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for Angular, Scala, Golang, and .NET Core applications using GCP native tools and DevOps best practices.
- Containerized applications using Docker by writing optimized Dockerfiles and Kubernetes manifests for seamless deployment in GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine).
- Developed and maintained infrastructure provisioning scripts using Python and Google Cloud Deployment Manager for automated and consistent environment setup.
- Configured Kubernetes CronJobs and Jobs for automated backup and restore operations of license files using GCP Secret Manager.
- Implemented DevSecOps practices by integrating security scans (e.g., image scanning and static code analysis) into the CI/CD pipelines and enabled monitoring with GCP operations suite.
- Role - DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Linux, Windows, GIT)
DevOps Engineer
Bugaboo (Zensar)
06.2016 - 04.2018
- Setup and configuring jobs in continuous integration tool Jenkins for project builds.
- Deploying the Jenkins builds into the application server and deploying the Jenkins build into application server.
- Checking logs, database and codebase and find first-level root cause of issue and assign to right team to fix the issues.
- Providing solutions to developers for check-ins, checkouts, build failure related issues.
- Setting up ETL migration.
- Role - DevOps Engineer (AWS Cloud, Linux, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, GIT)
Release Engineer
Nokia (Zensar)
Finland
02.2014 - 05.2015
- Attend daily status meeting and provide status to onsite team under Daily Scrum.
- Run nightly builds and releases.
- Fix build issues.
- Manage Batch jobs.
- Role – Release Engineer (Linux, Maven, Tomcat, Jenkins, Java)
Education
B.E - Computer Engineering
Nagpur University
01.2012
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS
- CI/CD Tools: Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Jenkins, Tekton
- Containerization and Orchestration tools: Docker, Dockerfile, Kubernetes, Puppet, Basic Vagrant
- Databases: Cassandra, OrientDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, RDS, Postgres
- Scripting Languages: Shell, Python, Basic Powershell
- Version Control Tool: Git, GitBash, GitHub
- Web Hosting Server: NGINX, Apache, IIS, Tomcat
- Monitoring Tools: Lightbend Console, Prometheus, Stackdriver, Grafana, Datadog, Cloudwatch
- Application Security Testing Tools: Veracode (SAST and DAST), Fortify, Whitesource, IBM App Scan, Qualys SSL scan, Sucuri site check, Web Header Analysis, Virus Total, TFsec, Gitleaks, Checkmarx, Twistlock
- Provisioning Tools: Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager
- Code Coverage Tools: Sonarqube, Cobertura, S-Coverage
- Operating System: Windows (7,8,10), Redhat7, Centos7, Ubuntu (1604 & 1804)
Certification
- CL210: -Red Hat Certified Openstack Administrator
- RHCSA: -Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Languages
English, Hindi, Marathi
Timeline
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
10.2021 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
Thomson Reuters (EPAM Systems)
03.2021 - 09.2021
DevOps Engineer
Schlumberger (Wipro)
04.2018 - 03.2021
DevOps Engineer
Bugaboo (Zensar)
06.2016 - 04.2018
Release Engineer
Nokia (Zensar)
02.2014 - 05.2015
B.E - Computer Engineering
Nagpur University
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