Nikita Balasaheb Dhumal

• Troubleshot and resolved various CI/CD issues across multiple projects, including failures related to Artifactory, SonarQube, and GitHub integrations.
• Implemented GitHub Advanced Security (SAST, Secrets Scanning, Dependency Review) for multiple repositories across Java, Python, C++, and JavaScript, strengthening the overall security posture.
• Built a custom CodeQL-based container to optimize resource usage, achieving a 50% reduction in memory consumption while maintaining the CPU at the required level, contributing to lower operational costs.
• Modified and enhanced Grafana dashboards to improve monitoring visibility and meet project-specific reporting needs.
• Contributed to setting up and maintaining periodic pipelines across multiple projects for scheduled validation, scanning, and maintenance activities.
• Worked with Grafana and Prometheus to enhance dashboards for performance indicators, job durations, and failure rate tracking.
• Provided CI/CD support to multiple development teams, acting as a bridge between developers and infrastructure/DevOps groups.
• Documented CI/CD processes, troubleshooting steps, and best practices to improve the overall developer experience.
• Integrated external tools (Artifactory, SonarQube) into centralized CI workflows.

• Contributed to BMW projects with a focus on CI processes and workflow optimization using the Zuul CI/CD tool.
• Designed and implemented a complete CI/CD pipeline for the ESDF project from scratch, including check, gate, test, release, and post-pipelines in alignment with project standards.
• Developed an automated script to clean up temporary Confluence review pages, and integrated it into the post-pipeline to ensure automatic deletion and workspace hygiene.
• Implemented tasks to preserve and archive log files from temporary nodes, and upload them to zuul-logs, improving traceability and debugging efficiency.
• Created reusable Ansible roles to minimize redundancy and enhance maintainability across the ESDF project’s automation workflows.
• Configured and managed a technical user for repository automation, including:

Automating the upload of PyPI packages to Artifactory

Managing secret encryption for secure repository operations

• Experience in Amazon web Services environment, and good knowledge of AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load balancers, IAM, S3, RDS, VPC
• Implemented DevOps CI and CD process using open-source tools
• Provisioning, managing and Administration of Cloud based resources
• Worked on Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub
• Jenkins as a primary tool for implementing the continuous integration and continuous delivery of their code releases
• Docker container creation and management, Docker file management, deploying micro services to Docker container
• Created Ansible playbooks for the Deployment and Infrastructure automation purpose

• Support the deployment of fixes and changes into production environment
• Act as a second level escalation point for resolution of technology problems and events, performing daily monitoring on Citrix farms, servers hosted in environment
• Maintaining and managing Citrix Applications
• Install and upgrades on Farms