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Palak Thakur

Palak Thakur

Gurugram

Summary

Crafting a stellar narrative in the ever-evolving world of IT meet me, a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of experience in conquering challenges in the dynamic realm of IT.


Armed with a profound grasp of DevOps principles and armed to the teeth with diverse tools and tech expertise, I currently orchestrate innovation at ChargePoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer.


My journey has taken me through a fascinating landscape of projects, spanning the realms of EV, Health, Digital, Retail, and Education. Each project, a unique adventure, has molded me into the skilled professional I am today. In this dynamic IT cosmos, am on the lookout for a role that not only challenges my limits but propels me towards my ultimate ambition – assuming the mantle of a Technical Architect.


I’m not just a 100% kind of person; I believe in giving it my all – a whopping 110% – because why settle for ordinary when you can achieve extraordinary results.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

ChargePoint
05.2021 - Current
  • Reduced deployment times with the introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
  • Automate infrastructure deployment processes using tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible
    Deployment of Mircoservices using GITHUB Actions , GITHUB runners , ArgoCD and EKS
  • Improved cost efficiency by reducing AWS account costs
  • Implement security best practices to protect our systems
  • Develop and maintain shell scripts for system administration tasks , Monitor and troubleshoot system.
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth integration of new features
    Maintain documentation of infrastructure and deployment processes
  • Mentoring and Preparing Freshers and Juniors in team to cope up with the latest changes in our infrastructure and tools we use.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sling Media
10.2019 - 04.2021
  • Planning and Implementation of new DevOps platform.
  • Managed migration of 1K plus microservices from a legacy system to the Kubernetes Rancher 2.x platform. This task demanded exceptional technical skill, strategic planning. Was able to get this to completion in 6 months of time.
  • Driven Chaos Monkey engineering strategies.
  • Have completed successfully a good amount of POC's related to Rancher 2.x, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, JFrog Artifactory and VMware Tanzu for testing the feasibility of these tools for the Company's benefit. After that based on the results we were able to get all these tools implemented.

Senior Software Engineer

HARMAN India
04.2017 - 10.2019
  • I have been working with Harman from close to 2 years as DevOps Engineer
  • Have worked in Health, Digital, Retail and Education domain
  • Details of the Projects that I have worked for: 1
  • Designation : Senior Software Engineer Client : Legrand (US & France) Date Joined : Dec-2018 - Till Date
  • Project Description: Description: Setup of end to end Azure DevOps infrastructure for Legrand
  • Technical Role: DevOps plan and implementation from scratch
  • Individual contributor for end to end automation
  • Provisioning of environments through CI and CD pipelines using terraform and PowerShell
  • Creating Azure Runbooks and Azure Functions Integrating Slack with Azure Pipeline for real time status reports
  • 2
  • Designation : Senior Software Engineer Client : Ellucian-Cloud Services ( US ) Date Joined : April 2017 - Dec 2018 Project Description: Description: Ellucian is an organization that build customized enterprise level ERP software for Higher education communities like Colleges and universities across the globe
  • Technical Role: Configuring PROD and NON-PROD environments for the client
  • Installing TOMCAT servers on the Linux EC2 machines and configuring them
  • Deploying Banner Modules on to these EC2 machines using Jenkins
  • Troubleshooting the errors during deployment
  • Performance tuning.

Software Engineer

Accenture in India
01.2014 - 04.2017
  • When in Accenture, I worked as a Middleware admin initially and then switched to a Devops role in the last one year of my tenure
  • I have worked on Weblogic application server, Apache Tomcat and Oracle HTTP web server, Oracle fusion Middleware suite, GIT, Jenkins and bash scripting
  • My roles and responsibilities:-
  • Domain Creation and domain resources like MS, NM and machine creation
  • Jndi/data source creation, JMS Resources creation
  • Weblogic deployments including jar, war and ear, both through scripts and using console
  • Apache Web server administration including apache deployment, configuration file editing, troubleshooting web server (front end) issues, restarting of apache server, and log related issues
  • Troubleshooting of WebLogic issues like performance tuning, heap memory issue, server restart up, maintenance of WebLogic servers
  • Performing root cause analysis and resolving issues for Server problems like Server Crashes, Hangs and Out of Memory issues
  • Have applied BSU patches as well as Oracle patches
  • Creation of OES, Webcenter, OAAM, ODSM domains
  • Proficient in deployment and troubleshooting of JAR, WAR and EAR files in domain and clustered environments
  • Respond to escalated client issues in a timely and effective manner
  • Creation of users and groups in security Realm for better and efficient use of WebLogic resources
  • Working as Technical analyst, have Strong analytical and problem solving skills, self-starter, good team player and highly self-motivated
  • Developed Automation Process using Shell script
  • Implemented DevOps for End to End integration
  • Documenting User Guide, KT documents and local environment setup documents.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Information Technology

University Institute of Information And Technology, Shimla
06.2013

12th - PCM

AKSIPS
Chandigarh
04.2009

10th -

AKSIPS
Chandigarh
04.2007

Skills

    TERRAGRUNT

    TERRAFORM

    CI/CD SETUP

    KUBERNETES

    GITHUB/GITLAB

    CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

    GITHUB ACTIONS & RUNNERS

    JENKINS

    AWS EKS

    BASH SCRIPTING

    ARGOCD

    AWS SERVICES

    MONITORING TOOLS [ GRAFANA , KIBANA , NEW RELIC ]

Websites

Certification

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Essentials

Languages

Hindi
English

Personal Information

Date of birth : 10 Sep 1991

Gender : Female

Address : G11 a , Oriental Villas , Sector 57
City : Gurugram
Country : India

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

ChargePoint
05.2021 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sling Media
10.2019 - 04.2021

Senior Software Engineer

HARMAN India
04.2017 - 10.2019

Software Engineer

Accenture in India
01.2014 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Information Technology

University Institute of Information And Technology, Shimla

12th - PCM

AKSIPS

10th -

AKSIPS

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