Pavan Kulkarni
Devops & SRE Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Seasoned DevOps Engineer with expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, contributing to enhanced deployment processes and system reliability. Proficient in managing cloud infrastructure services and skilled in scripting languages including Python, Bash, and Perl. Recognized for analytical problem-solving abilities that address complex technical challenges. Aiming to leverage proven skills to drive operational excellence in a forward-thinking organization.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Devops and Dataops Engineer P4
Pluralsight India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
11.2023 - Current
- Optimized monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Deploying and supporting data-intensive systems.
- Building and maintaining production data pipelines for data science and analytics.
- Optimizing the data environment.
- Building production applications from data science research and exploratory analytical work.
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, ASG, ELB, Route 53, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM).
- Knowledge of container orchestration tools, infrastructure management, and monitoring tools.
- Experience with Terraform, Linux administration, Python programming, Docker and Docker compose
- Expertise onf Event Streaming Platform like AWS MSK (Kafka)
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Gitlab, Teamcity and Github Actions
- Migrated the scala, nodejs,dotnet, reactjs application to docker and kubernetes
- Implemented automated security testing tool(Synk) for vulnerability assessment and mitigation in early development lifecycle
Lead Devops Engineer
Rafay Systems India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
07.2020 - 10.2023
- Manage and configure monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and Cloud Watch
- Manage and configure metrics monitoring systems using Fluentd/logstash, Kafka, elasticsearch, and Kibana
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Implemented on-demand environments (VPC, firewall, K8s, VM’s) using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
- Setup and manage AWS RDS instances
- Installed and configured multi region Cassandra and Redis clusters in GCP
- Migrated Java, Spring Boot, Go, and Python applications from VM environment to Docker and Kubernetes
- Experienced in plugin management, user management, Build/Release pipeline setup, and End-End job setup for all the projects
- Experienced in RDBMS databases like MySQL, Oracle, Postgresql and NOSQL databases like Cassandra
- Experience in load balancer setup and maintenance using HAProxy and Nginx
- Knowledge of YUM, system patching, and other administration tools.
- Experience in deploying ingress controllers, microservices, Istio service mesh, and Kubernetes clusters.
- Design solutions for data storage, monitoring, and deployment automation, while continually enhancing DevOps tools, processes, and procedures.
- For Docker image daily scanning, integrate the technology Trivy on the machine.
Senior Devops Engineer
Akamai Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
02.2020 - 07.2020
- Worked closely with engineering, customer support, and SRE teams to design tools and procedures to reduce the occurrence of any errors in the globally distributed NetStorage production network
- Assisted the NetStorage software deployments in the production network to deploy bug fixes and roll out features by doing feature activations
- Designed procedures and tools for system troubleshooting, maintenance, migrations, etc., and reduced manual operations work for product improvement
- Continuously improve visibility and operability of the platform using the data and metrics from the log analysis, customer use cases, etc
- Understand the operational challenges in the product, assist the engineering team with that feedback and prioritize them to address them in design and development
- Supported the production issue's escalation to the development engineering team
Senior Devops Engineer, Senior Engineer, Operations
Rakuten India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
10.2017 - 01.2020
- Manage IAM applications in production environment
- Manage and configure tools for monitoring systems, applications, and infrastructure
- Experience on the cloud platform (GCP) Implemented on-demand environments (VPC, firewall, K8s, VM’s) using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
- Setup and manage a RabbitMQ cluster
- Configured multi region Cassandra and Redis clusters in GCP
- Migrated development applications from VM to Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experienced in plugins, user, Build/Release pipeline setup, and End-End job setup for all the projects.
- Experienced in RDBMS databases like MySQL and Oracle and NOSQL databases like Cassandra and Kyoto Tycoon
- Ability to setup load balancer using HAproxy and Nginx
- Knowledge of YUM, system patching, and other administration tools
- Experience in deploying ingress controllers and microservices in a Kubernetes cluster
- Developed solutions for data storage, monitoring, and deployment automation.
- Achieved rapid deployment turnaround through enhanced infrastructure and server optimization.
- Automate deployment of applications, system configurations, and security settings in GCP and AWS cloud-based environments while implementing integrations, updates, and fixes
- Enhance customer experience by optimizing web services on virtual infrastructure and swiftly investigating to resolve technical issues
- Experience with the Continuous Integration Tool Jenkins and creating CI/CD pipelines for automation
- Experience in integration of multiple tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and AWS for infrastructure setup, configuration, and deployment
- Knowledge of Terraform in the infrastructure setup and build of AWS and GCP
- Knowledge of ANT and MAVEN as build tools for the building of deployable artifacts from source code
- Troubleshooting deployment and installation issues, assisting teammates to understand issues, and help/coordinate with multiple teams to resolve issues
- Having hands on experience in helm chart installation in Kubernetes clusters, both on GCP and AWS
Devops Engineer (SMTS)
MetricStream Infotech Pvt Ltd
04.2015 - 10.2017
- Worked on Docker containerization tools, having knowledge of orchestration tools like Docker Swarm, Kubernetes on GCP, AWS, and Bare Metal, monitoring tools like Munnin and Nagios for server resource monitoring, version control tools like git and svn, and ticketing tools like Trakr, Bugzilla, and JIRA
- Setup Docker and develop scripts for creating docker images, instances that run on VMs, and tagging Docker images
- Setup Jenkins pipeline for implementing GitLab CI to build, test, and deploy the code on Docker containers
- Jenkins was migrated from a virtual machine to a Docker container, and Gitlab and Artifactory were installed on the Docker container
- Implemented microservices for Apache and Tomcat applications
- Large applications were divided into smaller microservices using orchestration tools like Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes
- Expertise in setting up Jenkins and integrating with different tools to achieve continuous integration, delivery, and pipeline
- Configure GIT with Jenkins and schedule jobs using Poll SCM option
Middleware Administrator (MTS, MTS-Trainee)
MetricStream Infotech Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 04.2015
- As a part of the CORD (Cloud research and development) team, involved in the installation and deployment of the J2EE application on Weblogic, JBoss, WebSphere, and Apache-Tomcat
- Ability to set up the standalone instance on Weblogic, JBoss, WebSphere, and Apache-Tomcat
- Web server setup, including complex secure server layer (SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server (Apache Based), IIS 6.x/7.x/8.x
- Responsible for Infrastructure deployments
- Strong technical knowledge includes Tomcat Application Server, WebSphere Application Server, JBoss Application Server, Oracle Weblogic Server implementation, fail-over support, workload management (WLM) using horizontal and vertical scaling, and performance tuning
- Ability in Analyzing logs, troubleshooting, and taking appropriate actions for Application / Web server errors
- Extensive experience in setup, configuration, upgrade, maintenance, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting on different UNIX platforms like Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX
- Experienced in Application Deployment and troubleshooting in Production environments
- Having experience in configuring NTLM SSO, LDAP, and SAML 2.2 SSO Authentication
- Involved in Application Server Installation, Configuration, and Administration
- Responsible for configuring and maintaining the Application server
- Engaged in setting up QA environment by creating and managing the Nodes, Application Servers, and Clusters for Load Balancing and Fail-Over
- Deployed application ears on Application server in Non Production and Production environments.
- Troubleshooting issues across all environments
- Monitoring Application Server performance through setting the performance tuning parameters
- Optimized application server and its interaction with Web servers and database servers
- Engaged in optimizing the application server
Education
M.Tech - VLSI Design and Embedded Systems Engineering
VTU University
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India01.2016
B.E - Electronics and communication engineering
SLNCE
Raichur, Karnataka, India01.2010
Skills
- Public Cloud Providers: GCP, AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure cloud
- Application Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Wildfly, and Tomcat
- Web Servers: Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS Server, OHS, and Nginx
- Operating Systems: Linux – RedHat, CentOS, Windows, and Ubuntu
- Continuous Integration Tool: Jenkins Pipeline, Argocd, Teamcity, Gitlab and Github actions
- Configuration Management Tool: Ansible, Salt-stack
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform ,CloudFormation
- Version Control Tools: SVN, GIT (GitHub), Bitbucket
- Containerizations: Docker
- Orchestration Tool: Docker compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes
- RDBMS Databases: Oracle, MySQL, and Postgresql
- Streaming Tool/Platform: Apache Kafka,MSK
- NoSQL Databases: Cassandra, Redis
- Ticketing/ Bug Tracking Tool: Bugzilla, Atlassian JIRA, trakr
- Server Monitoring Tool: WLST, Nagios, Grafana, Loki
- Container Monitoring Tool: Datadog, Prometheus, and Muninn
- Application and log Monitoring Tool: New Relic, Kibana, and Cloudwatch
- Scripting Languages: Shell scripting, Python Basics
- Artifactory: Nexus, JFrog
- Service Mesh: Istio Service Mesh
- Ingress controllers: Nginx, traefik
Certification
- CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation
- Advanced diploma in software programming (ADSP), RiiiT IT Finishing School, Mysore, 07/01/10, 01/31/11
Timeline
Senior Devops and Dataops Engineer P4
Pluralsight India Pvt Ltd
11.2023 - Current
Lead Devops Engineer
Rafay Systems India Pvt Ltd
07.2020 - 10.2023
Senior Devops Engineer
Akamai Technologies India Pvt Ltd
02.2020 - 07.2020
Senior Devops Engineer, Senior Engineer, Operations
Rakuten India Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 01.2020
Devops Engineer (SMTS)
MetricStream Infotech Pvt Ltd
04.2015 - 10.2017
Middleware Administrator (MTS, MTS-Trainee)
MetricStream Infotech Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 04.2015
M.Tech - VLSI Design and Embedded Systems Engineering
VTU University
B.E - Electronics and communication engineering
SLNCE
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