Nikita Kumar
DevOps Engineer
Pune,Maharashtra
Summary
Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with 9 years of experience in extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Engineer
Wipro Limited
Pune
Jun.2022 - Current
- Served as the primary technical contact for the DevOps team, addressing all technical issues and providing solutions.
- Mentored and trained team members on DevOps tools and best practices.
- Led the implementation of DevOps practices, improving the efficiency and reliability of the deployment processes, designing the branching and CI-CD pipeline strategy.
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Worked on provisioning Infrastructure using Terraform in Azure for services such as App Service, Function App, VM and MsSQL DB.
- CI-CD pipelines in GitLab CI created for React Native Frontend Application, and Sprint Boot Java Backend Application and then deploying on App Services.
- Created CI-CD pipeline for Scala Application to publish artifact to Nexus and then deploying on various environments using an in-house deployment tool.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Mobiquity Inc
Nov.2018 - Jun.2022
- Contributed to creation of a DevOps culture within the organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration.
- Mentored junior team members, fostering professional growth and improving overall team performance.
- Streamlined infrastructure management through automation using industry-leading tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform for architecture hosted on AWS using services EC2, VPC Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, SNS, SES, EKS, ECR.
- Designing of Helm charts for deploying Backbase and other applications on Kubernetes cluster hosted on EKS.
- Jenkins Integration with GitHub, Gitlab, AWS and Terraform to implement CI/CD pipelines for Android, iOS, and web applications. Also worked with GitHub Action for running CI pipelines.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Implemented automation scripts and processes, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors.
Software Engineer
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd
Aug.2015 - Nov.2018
- Worked as a developer on Web Application for an Audit Company using c# and Angular JS.
- Analyzed the current system setup to identify how it deviates from the DevOps best practices and provided consultation to improve the project to make the best use of existing tools and update to new tools if needed.
- Provided consultation for Implementation of Git Branching Strategies in a way which best suits the requirements of the project
- Designed Jenkins job configurations to perform Code build using Ant/Maven, Static Code Analysis using SonarQube and deployment to Artifact Repository such as Artifactory, Nexus, S3, Creation of a Docker Image as the final product of the Jenkins CI process and pushing of this image to DockerHub, all using Jenkins
- Creation of AWS Infrastructure using Terraform.
- Provided Trainings on Jenkins at the Organization Level.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, India - Computer Science, India
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune, India Aug.2011 - May.2015
Higher Secondary School Certificate -
St. Mary's School
Pune, India Jul.2010 - May.2011
Secondary School Certificate -
St. Helena's School
Pune, India Jun.2008 - May.2009
Skills
Git
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm Charts
SonarQube
Terraform
Ansible
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Bash, Shell Scripting
Azure DevOps
Linux Operating System
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
06-2024
Lead Engineer
Wipro Limited
Jun.2022 - Current
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
07-2020
AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate (Validation Number –X1Z8RE4KNB4QQ99Z)
11-2019
Senior DevOps Engineer
Mobiquity Inc
Nov.2018 - Jun.2022
Software Engineer
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd
Aug.2015 - Nov.2018
Bachelor of Engineering, India - Computer Science, India
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Aug.2011 - May.2015
Higher Secondary School Certificate -
St. Mary's School
Jul.2010 - May.2011
Secondary School Certificate -
St. Helena's School
Jun.2008 - May.2009