Nikita Chetia

Project - Powerflex

• Led the setup and governance of Git repositories, establishing secure branching strategies aligned with team workflows.
• Implemented branch protection rules, Github hooks, and pull request checkers to enforce code quality and streamline the merge process.
• Integrated Git Large File Storage (LFS) for managing binary assets efficiently.
• Collaborated with development teams to design and implement the build and release pipelines using tools like Jenkins, docker, artifactory and integrating with slack.

Project - Powerscale

• Automated end to end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, significantly reducing manual intervention and build times.
• Designed and configured CI jobs, integrated with version control systems(Git) and implemented parameterized and multi-branch Jenkins pipelines to support various development workflows.
• Enabled automated testing, artifact management and notification mechanisms to improve visibility, reliability, and traceability in the build process.
• CI/CD Automation for Kubernetes Workloads to define the manifest files and enable mechanisms to auto deploy on test environments.
• Automated publishing of opensource terraform module for provisioning powerscale clusters in azure.

Project - System Engineering

• Automated the process of upload of template from vcenter to cloud (aws/azure) .
• Enhanced the SaltStack for enabling seamless provisioning of minions across development and production environments.

Role - Scrum Lead

Scrum Lead for a cross functional Devops team.

Coordinating with leadership and management to maintain focus on delivering high value increments every sprint and making sure the team is aligned with the program milestones.

Project - Barclays

• Orchestrating and developing cookbooks for development and production infrastructure using Chef.
• Development of release and build pipeline in Jenkins.
• Setting up nagios for seamless monitoring of different environments.