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Meenakshisundram Chandran

Meenakshisundram Chandran

Coimbatore

Summary

Dynamic Lead Systems Engineer with a proven track record at EPAM Systems and Sysvine, specializing in AWS and Azure infrastructure automation. Expert in CI/CD processes and container orchestration, I excel in driving efficiency and scalability. My strong analytical skills and passion for innovation have consistently enhanced system performance and reliability across diverse projects.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Platform Operations Engineer

EPAM Systems
Coimbatore
12.2023 - Current

Project: OneInc

One Inc provides insurance companies with a digital payments platform designed to maximize policyholder retention, while reducing security risks, and minimizing payment processing costs. Managing over $15 billion annually, it is the fastest-growing digital payments platform in the insurance industry.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Serving as a Platform Engineer for infrastructure automation and environment management.
  • Led large-scale OS migration from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 22 across 150+ clients, with 4 environments each.
  • Automated system administration tasks and deployment pipelines using Ansible and Python.
  • Worked extensively in Azure Cloud, managing infrastructure components, and environment provisioning.
  • Developed and maintained reusable automation playbooks and scripts for consistency and scalability.
  • Ensured system stability and compatibility throughout the migration and post-migration phases.

Senior Systems Engineer - II

Sysvine Technologies
Chennai
03.2020 - 12.2023

Project: Elsa.

With Elsa, you can collaborate more efficiently, reach more readers, and spend more time writing and less time on formatting tasks, saving you time and effort from start to finish.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Designing, provisioning, and maintaining AWS Cloud Infrastructure through Terraform.
  • Implementing and automating the entire CI/CD process through Jenkins and the Blue-Green deployment model.
  • Orchestrating Docker containers through Elastic Kubernetes Services.
  • Configuration management through Ansible and Packer.
  • Ensuring high availability and self-healing ability through auto-scaling.
  • Monitoring various components of the cloud and application through New Relic Monitor.
  • Writing Kubernetes manifests, Groovy, Python, Shell, and PowerShell scripts for various needs of the application.

Systems Engineer & Python Developer

Sysvine Technologies
Chennai
04.2018 - 02.2020

Project: ERP Applications (Odoo).

Clients: Jeyanth Ship Chandlers, SnB Brands Drop Shipping and Manufacturing.

The Odoo platform helps to digitalize all aspects of business, from manufacturing to selling.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Provisioning and maintaining infrastructure components in AWS.
  • Implementing and Automating CI/CD Pipelines Using Jenkins.
  • Dockerizing, running, and monitoring the Odoo application in Elastic Container Service.
  • Automating hot and cold backups of the databases in RDS.
  • Analysis and breaking the requirements into user stories.
  • Writing custom Odoo modules based on the client's business cases.
  • Automating the order import into ERP as they are created in Amazon Seller Central.

Quality Engineer

Sysvine Technologies
Chennai
06.2017 - 03.2018

Project: Health Practice Classic.

HealthPractice Classic is a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. HealthPractice Classic has many crucial features that will come in handy for hospitals, clinics, and healthcare centers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Involved in analysis, planning, and design reviews.
  • Manual regression, smoke, and sanity testing the application.
  • Writing test cases for every new and existing feature.
  • Automating all the test cases using Jubula test automation.

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Nandha Engineering College
Erode

Skills

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Packer
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • GitHub Actions
  • TeamCity
  • Grafana
  • New Relic

Accomplishments

  • Awarded for appreciation - 3
  • Awarded for Recognition - 2
  • Awarded as the Gem of the Year - 1

Additional Information

  • Office Fun Enthusiast: Organizing Annual Trips and Success meets for the Company
  • Actively participating in Tree Plantation events and Blood donation camps

Personal Information

Title: Senior Systems Engineer - II

Hobbies

 Cooking, Cricket, Gaming

Affiliations

  • Cricket
  • Gaming
  • Cooking

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Platform Operations Engineer

EPAM Systems
12.2023 - Current

Senior Systems Engineer - II

Sysvine Technologies
03.2020 - 12.2023

Systems Engineer & Python Developer

Sysvine Technologies
04.2018 - 02.2020

Quality Engineer

Sysvine Technologies
06.2017 - 03.2018

Master of Computer Applications -

Nandha Engineering College
Meenakshisundram Chandran