Struan Alec Souto
Hyderabad
Summary
An IT Professional with 9.6 years of experience, spanning across the Life Insurance and Telecom Domains.
An AWS trained Cloud Architect with hands on experience working in IaaS and PaaS services to implement secure, optimized and well architected cloud deployment.
Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, resilient, zero downtime SaaS solutions across on-premises, private and public cloud offerings, with emphasis on orchestration, automation, and security, driving efficiency and productivity.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Solutions Architect
Sureify Labs Technology Pvt. Ltd.
09.2024 - Current
- Designed and implemented, easy to maintain, secure, scalable, resilient and fault tolerant cloud infrastructure, by leveraging automation tools and best practices with keen focus on observability.
- Increased overall system performance using load balancing, auto-scaling techniques in Kubernetes, thereby improving efficiency by 70% and reducing monthly costs by 50%
- Reduced deployment timing by 67% using an optimized a multi-tenant deployment strategy for microservices hosted on EKS
- Ensured business continuity by creating disaster recovery strategies, backup procedures, and failover plans for critical applications in the cloud environment.
- Established strong relationships with stakeholders by effectively communicating technical concepts in a clear and concise manner, ultimately fostering trust and buy-in for proposed solutions.
Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Sureify Labs Technology Pvt. Ltd.
02.2022 - 09.2024
- Improved IAC and application code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines reducing manual intervention by 99% with modern day tooling like Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform
- Designed and implemented blue-green deployment strategies for both Infrastructure and Application software facilitating zero downtime, isolation, testing new software without impacting existing software, seamlessly make traffic live, easy-rollback without any manual intervention
- Automated active-active, active-inactive infrastructure to ensure failover between availability zones and regions of AWS to align with SLAs (99.5% availability) and RPO/RTOs (1 hour)
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
- Contributed to the creation of a DevOps culture within the organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration.
- Facilitated team training sessions on latest DevOps practices, elevating team skill levels and productivity.
Product Owner
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
04.2021 - 02.2022
- Collaborated with software development teams for the solutioning and delivery of agnostic containerized solutions
- Conducted data-driven analysis to measure product success metrics, informing future enhancements or adjustments.
- Developed comprehensive roadmaps outlining the product vision, goals, and milestones for successful execution.
- Worked with other Product Owners and Project stakeholders to plan, deliver integrated solutions and to also identify and flag risks in case of a potential delay in the delivery of dependent services
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders by maintaining open lines of communication and addressing concerns promptly.
Information Technology Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
07.2019 - 04.2021
- Spearheaded development and test solutions across different microservices covering end to end use case development
- Identified an integrated logging solution using Python, Filebeat as a Side Car Agent and Logstash for a 3PP based containerized Datawarehouse service
- Identified an integrated monitoring solution for containerized Spring Boot applications using Spring Boot Actuator and Prometheus
- Identified Secure Solutions for interservice communication using OpenSSL, Kubernetes Secrets and Custom Resource Definitions, Vault and 3PP utilities
- Identified a Backup and Restore solution for the containerized Datawarehouse service
- Researched Identity and Access Management solutions using KeyCloak and captured business directly benefiting TCS
- Direct involvement in a 6-month client study pertaining to the setup of IaaS (Multi-Node Architecture) using Openstack and its relevant services - Neutron, Nova, Cinder and Manila
- Spearheaded the design and development of a storage, OS migration solution
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
09.2015 - 02.2017
- Provided Support First Office Application / Beta Testing for OS and Platform Migration Solution
- Solaris10 to Solaris11 - Analyzed, implemented and tested a DataWarehouse major version upgrade solution
- Implemented a minimal downtime data migration solution facilitating export and import of
business data - Identified an alternative Backup and Restore for critical data corruption issue with the DataWarehouse
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Mumbai University
06-2015
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Openstack
- Programming Languages: Python, Groovy, Shell
- Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, NewRelic
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools: Terraform, Cloudformation
- CICD: Jenkins, Spinnaker, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible
Certification
- Data Science and Machine Learning, Grey Atom School of Data Science, completed
- Advanced Certification in Software Engineering for Cloud, Blockchain & IoT, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, completed
- Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), Great Lakes Executive Learning, in progress
Timeline
Cloud Solutions Architect
Sureify Labs Technology Pvt. Ltd.
09.2024 - Current
Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Sureify Labs Technology Pvt. Ltd.
02.2022 - 09.2024
Product Owner
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
04.2021 - 02.2022
Information Technology Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
07.2019 - 04.2021
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
09.2015 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Mumbai University
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