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Nishant Prakash

Nishant Prakash

Noida,UP

Summary

Accumulating over 4 years of experience in the tech industry, focusing on Automation, Process Improvement, and Risk Mitigation within DevOps.
Leading the MLOps efforts at Omilia Ltd., driving collaboration and testing for the setup of CICD for the Llama model from Huggingface to be deployed on AWS Sagemaker using Terraform and GitLab CI. Along With Setting up and upgrading the legacy CICD pipeline for applications written in Python, Java, Node JS, etc.. Acknowledged for enhancing the security of Docker images by updating the entry points, ensuring robustness in legacy systems.

Successfully implemented architecture enhancements leading to a substantial reduction in latency and enhancement of user experience, resulting in a significant improvement in deployment efficiency.
Proficient in resolving Service Integration issues involving Lambda functions, API gateways, and Step functions, ensuring seamless operation and functionality.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Engineer

Omilia Ltd
12.2023 - Current
  • Architected and implemented end-to-end Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipeline for Machine Learning models on AWS Sagemaker, enhancing deployment efficiency and automation.
  • Configured AWS Sagemaker Domain to facilitate collaboration, testing, and model registry setup, utilizing Terraform for infrastructure as code.
  • Collaborated with AWS team to deploy and troubleshoot MLOPS architecture, ensuring seamless integration and cost optimization by up to 45%.
  • Established CICD pipelines for Frontend, Python, and Java applications using GitLab and Ansible, enabling streamlined deployment to Docker Swarm clusters.
  • Developed helm charts for applications using ArgoCD, facilitating their deployment on Kubernetes (K8S) clusters & ensuring scalability & reliability.
  • Enhanced Docker image security by updating Docker entry point configurations, mitigating potential vulnerabilities.
  • Utilized Terraform to set up AWS infrastructure components, ensuring reproducibility, state awareness & scalability of cloud resources
  • Refactored legacy CICD processes for applications utilizing GitLab CI, improving deployment efficiency and reliability.
  • Implemented Jenkins pipelines for deploying Terraform scripts, automating infrastructure provisioning & management processes.

Cloud Support Associate

Amazon Web Services
11.2021 - 04.2023
  • Managed DDOS attacks on APIs, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery and security.
  • Implemented robust security measures for API gateway using Lambda authorizer and Cognito, safeguarding sensitive data.
  • Configured network settings for Lambda functions, optimizing performance and resource utilization.
  • Utilized SAM to set up API gateways, streamlining deployment process for applications.
  • Resolved access and integration issues, ensuring seamless operation of services for customers.
  • Provided expert guidance on setting up custom runtimes and resolving cross-account access challenges.
  • Collaborated with customers to optimize architectures, reduce latency by up to 30%, and enhance serverless environments.
  • Assisted in cost reduction strategies and managed high traffic scenarios effectively.

DevOps Specialist

Opstree
01.2020 - 11.2021

DOCASAP :

  • Conducted Proof of Concept (POC) on Docker Swarm, Docker Compose and K8s, enhancing containerization strategies.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, and AlertManager for Monitoring and alerting.
  • Executed rolling deployments on AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless updates.
  • Set up Kubernetes clusters using KOPS, optimizing container orchestration and scalability.
  • Led POCs on Kubernetes, Helm, and various components, exploring innovative solutions for application deployment.

RAILYATRI:

  • Established multi-node Dockerized Elasticsearch cluster and configured related tools like Kibana, Metricbeat, Filebeat, and Dockerbeat. Created Kibana dashboards for visualization.
  • Deployed Percona in Dockerized environment.

FIFTY-FIVE TECH:

  • Provisioned Azure VMs and Web Apps manually and via Terraform.
  • Conducted POC on Azure Pipelines and set up release pipelines for deploying Web Apps using Azure DevOps.
  • Developed Terraform modules for Azure app services, load balancers, and API gateways.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for Function Apps.

SIMSIM:

  • Configured managed and updated Redash and Metabase application for database analytics. Established application and node monitoring dashboards using AWS CloudWatch.
  • Set up VPN server and automated scripts for S3 bucket management. Deployed AWS CloudFront and WAF using SLS code.
  • Implemented API gateway compression techniques and performed upgrades for BuildPiper.

MOBIKWIK:

  • Implemented monitoring solutions with Prometheus and Grafana for various server services.
  • Automated S3 bucket storage class updates and resource tagging compliance checks in AWS.
  • Configured S3-backed SFTP using AWS Transfer Family. Set up Jenkins server behind ALB using Terraform and Docker.
  • Automated server provisioning using Jenkins Bootstrap Job with Terraform backend.
  • Provisioned AWS Network infrastructure and services such as ECS clusters, S3, Lambda functions, etc. using Terraform.
  • Created golden AMIs with partition volumes and Consul master node AMIs using Ansible and Packer.

Education

B.Tech - CSE

IEC College Of Engineering & Technology
Greater Noida, India
06.2020

Skills

  • Automation & CICD Tools: Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker Travis CI, Azure DevOps, Argocd, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, ECS
  • Cloud Platform: AWS Cloud
  • IAC: Terraform, Serverless, SAM, CloudFormation
  • Scripting and Programming Languages: Python, Bash & Reactjs
  • Logging, Monitoring, and Visualization Tools: Elasticsearch Stack, AWS CloudTrail, Prometheus Stack, Pagerduty, AWS CloudWatch
  • Other Technologies: Metabase Analytics, Redash, Maven, Terragrunt, Packer, Nginx, Apache, Pulumi, AWS Sagemaker
  • Operating System: Linux

Accomplishments

  • Proficient in optimizing infrastructure costs and resource allocation through strategic insights and cost-effective solutions, driving significant savings for organizations.
  • Implemented automated testing processes and best practices for training ML models on AWS Sagemaker, reducing testing time by 30% and ensuring faster and making it 50% more cost-effective
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate security measures into CICD pipelines, such as using image scanning and implementing code scanning within pipelines, resulting in significant decrease in security vulnerabilities.
  • Achieved significant improvement in deployment efficiency through implementation of optimized Jenkins pipelines, and setting up Jenkins multi-master cluster ensuring higher availability and better scalability.
  • Developed and implemented a cost optimization strategy for Lambda functions, resulting in up to 20% reduction in operational costs for customers.

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional: Amazon Web Services Training and Certification, 2022
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate: Amazon Web Services, 2021
  • Infosys certified software programmer: Infosys, 2019
  • Python 3 Programming Specialization, Coursera, 2019
  • FOSSEE IIT BOMBAY Basic Programming using python
  • NASSCOM JAVA Developer

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Cloud Engineer

Omilia Ltd
12.2023 - Current

Cloud Support Associate

Amazon Web Services
11.2021 - 04.2023

DevOps Specialist

Opstree
01.2020 - 11.2021

B.Tech - CSE

IEC College Of Engineering & Technology
Nishant Prakash