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Nitesh Ganesh Wayafalkar

Pune

Summary

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with extensive experience at Epam Systems Pvt Ltd, specializing in AWS services and Infrastructure as Code. Achieved zero-downtime deployments and reduced deployment time by 50% through automation. Proficient in CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools, fostering collaboration and enhancing application performance.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Epam Systems Pvt Ltd
02.2022 - Current
  • Scaled containerized applications on AWS EKS and ECR, implementing persistent storage solutions.
  • Established secure access control through AWS IAM policies, adhering to the least privilege principles.
  • Managed high-throughput transaction data in DynamoDB, ensuring low-latency access for financial applications.
  • Automated configuration management using Ansible playbooks while streamlining deployments with Packer and Terraform.
  • Created CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated builds, tests, and artifact generation.
  • Implemented Argo CD for deploying applications declaratively to Kubernetes clusters via GitOps practices, with the help of Helm charts.
  • Integrated automated security scans in CI/CD workflows utilizing OWASP, Trivy, and SonarQube tools.
  • Facilitated troubleshooting and performance monitoring by leveraging Kibana for log analysis.

QaOps [Quality Assurance and Operations]

Cerence Service Pvt Ltd
Pune
05.2020 - 02.2022
  • Implemented Auto Scaling Groups to dynamically manage EKS node capacity, mitigating server bottlenecks and ensuring optimal performance.
  • Functioned as the primary DevOps Engineer for a Kubernetes-based Conversational AI Platform, supporting a hybrid speech voice recognition service.
  • Architected and deployed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions on AWS using Terraform, provisioning and managing IaaS and PaaS services.
  • Automated microservice deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, achieving high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Configured and managed Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters on AWS, utilizing Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for container storage and leveraging EC2, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and NAT Gateways for robust infrastructure.
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for Java Spring Boot microservices, integrating code quality and vulnerability scanning with SonarQube and Static Application Security Testing (SAST).
  • Established comprehensive system monitoring and alerting using Prometheus/Grafana and Kibana, enabling proactive issue resolution and performance optimization.
  • Reduced deployment time by 50% through automation.
  • Achieved zero-downtime deployments, enhancing application availability.
  • Improved system observability and incident response times through comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions.

Test Automation Engineer

Barclays Global Services ,Sigma Oss System, Savy software Pvt Ltd
10.2015 - 05.2020
  • Enhanced reliability of software releases by integrating automated testing frameworks (Selenium, Rest Assured, Cucumber) into CI/CD pipeline.
  • Accelerated release cycles by engineering automated build, test, and deployment workflows with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ensured code integrity and facilitated collaboration through established version control strategies using Git.
  • Triggered automated QA test suites after deploying applications on AWS EC2 in QA environments for robust validation.
  • Enabled proactive issue detection with real-time monitoring of application metrics via Grafana and log analysis through Kibana.
  • Created, maintained and executed automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java and TestNG framework.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

D.Y.Patil College of Engineering & Tech.
Kolhapur
05-2015

Skills

  • AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM)
  • Infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform)
  • Continuous integration and delivery (Jenkins)
  • Version control (GitLab, Git)
  • Monitoring and visualization (Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus)
  • DevOps
  • Database management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • Programming languages (Python, Core Java / Dot Net /Go Architectures)
  • Scripting languages (Shell)
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
  • Operating systems (Linux)
  • Artifact repository management (Nexus)
  • Cloud services (Azure Cloud Services, AKS)
  • Git Ops practices (Argo CD, GitHub Actions)
  • Security scanning tools (Trivy, Snyk)
  • Code quality scanning (SonarQube)
  • CI/CD pipeline

Certification

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Epam Systems Pvt Ltd
02.2022 - Current

QaOps [Quality Assurance and Operations]

Cerence Service Pvt Ltd
05.2020 - 02.2022

Test Automation Engineer

Barclays Global Services ,Sigma Oss System, Savy software Pvt Ltd
10.2015 - 05.2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

D.Y.Patil College of Engineering & Tech.
Nitesh Ganesh Wayafalkar