Ujwal Kasala
Hyderabad
Summary
Highly skilled DevOps Engineer with over 12+ of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable software systems in cloud and On-premises. Successful in reorganizing, streamlining and strengthening existing operations, identifying inefficient processes and implementing reliable and cost-effective solutions through DevOps and DevSecOps. Strong in suggesting SAST and DAST tools to scan and kill vulnerabilities from the source code binaries and also at the run time stages. Expertise on collaborative development teams practicing configuration management and deployment using tools such as SVN, Harvest, GIT/Bit Bucket, Git lab, CloudBees Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Nexus, Ant, Maven, IBM WebSphere, Akamai Cloud Test and AWS. Worked on setting up containerized applications through EKS Cluster updating the templates and applying configurations through Kubernetes. Utilizing CHEF as configuration management for updating property files in all environments before deployments. Setting up approvers and merging approved branches from lower environments till customer facing environments. Experienced in Procuring instances, S3, Autoscaling, Load balancers and setting up VPC's. Working with S3 buckets, S3 replications, Hosting static URL in S3 bucket and allowing public access. Automating containerized application deployments to deploy via Jenkins file (Pipeline). Assistant consultant skilled in conducting research, analyzing data, and preparing reports to assist senior consultants. Proficient in collaborating with team members and clients to identify opportunities for improvement and develop effective solutions.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant consultant, Solutions Architect
TATA Consultancy Services Limited
08.2022 - Current
- Automated creation of 100+ CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud resources using Terraform and Jenkins, reducing manual efforts
- Orchestrating the provisioning and management of 20+ Kuberenetes clusters across AWS, Azure and AliBaba, streamlining resource allocation and acheiving 99.9% uptime.
- Analyzing the existing tools in existing landscape and there by offering new tools to provide better solution and driving them towards the best outcome.
- Expertise in planning, executing and spearheading various projects in compliance to security standards with expertise on all stages of a project life cycle right from defining scope, system design to go-live in different roles with high focus on timely deliverables.
- Strong in suggesting SAST and DAST tools to scan and kill vulnerabilities from the source code binaries and also at the run time stages.
- Sound in demonstrating the right set of DevOps tools available both in Open sourced and enterprise level.
- Sound in Pricing models based on the Test cases and number of FTE's required for project.
DevOps Engineer & Sr. DevOps Engineer
PDI Software, Firestreame, GXX INDIA PVT LTD
10.2018 - 07.2022
- Deploying configuration files through Chef, and Ansible
- Worked on setting up containerized applications through EKS Cluster updating the templates and applying configurations through Kubernetes.
- Good in troubleshooting containerized applications failures issues to make it work.
- Having good experience in replicating the containerized applications from int environment to higher environments like staging and performance.
- Deleting pods, rescaling the pods, applying config changes to the pods and monitoring logs by logging to the pods.
- Deploying the builds to performance environment and performing the load test.
- Load test / Performance testing through Akamai Cloud test.
- Ramping up virtual users and testing the application for it maximum load before taking it customer facing environment.
- Launching new instances, performing AMI Rollouts of existing instances through Cloud formation with AWS.
- Worked and created new Redis refresh cache script for Auto backup, Flush All, SAVE, STOP, GET, SET, PUBLISH.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Virtusa Consulting services
10.2016 - 09.2018
- As a process of continuous improvement First Data planned to migrate applications from existing repositories such as Gerrit / harvest to Stash with complete source code and baselines with a standardized builds and deployments.
- Worked on build and release process and tools to accommodate project specific requirements
- Ensure the migrated applications are build and deployed through AutoCM.
- Monitor Adherence to SCM Process as per the organization Standards
- Provided hands on training to Application Teams / SCM Engineers.
- Jenkins Instance creation, Job creation, Master/slave configuration.
- Configuring Nodes, installing plugins and other administrative activities
- Integrations of Jenkins with other third-party tools like JIRA.
Senior systems Executive
Cognizant Technologies
09.2012 - 10.2016
- First Data plans to migrate applications from the existing 15+ repositories (around 1000+ applications) to Harvest as part of Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool consolidation and process standardization.
- Coordinating with Application Development team for the migration of project to Harvest
- Maintain Metrics sheet and Weekly/Monthly Status Deck
- Facilitate weekly status meeting with Managers to discuss and rapidly resolve open issues
- Implementing SCM process for the benefit of the project.
- Analyzing and rectifying issues instantly during build and release.
- Gathering the details for each application with help of Development team as part of migration.
- Loading the source code to Harvest from RAD/Eclipse and Visual studio.
- Build & deploy the applications using AutoCM.
- Supporting Java & dot net applications.
Education
B.E - Computer Science
Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyala Universtiy
Kanchipuram01.2012
Skills
- CA Harvest
- SVN
- GIT Hub
- Git Lab
- Ant
- Maven
- Gardner
- OpenSearch
- Grafana
- AutoCM
- CloudBees Jenkins
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Bitbucket
- Rally
- CHEF
- Ansible
- Amazon AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Akamai Cloud Test
- Unix
- Shell script
- LINUX
- Windows
Certification
ITIL-V3 Foundation, 2015
Lingual Status
- Telugu
- Hindi
- English
- Tamil
- Kannada
Accomplishments
- Automated about 200+ Jenkins Jobs to trigger via Email. Extensive knowledge in troubleshooting issues in Email trigger jobs.
- Very good experience in upgrading the CloudBees Jenkins whenever there is an update released by CloudBees. Good at Helm Upgrades.
- Having good experience in configuring system Admin Email address in CloudBees Jenkins.
- Good experience in Procuring License certificate from CloudBees support to upgrade the license for the right Instances Id before the validity.
- Good knowledge in setting up the right JVM Heap ratio for necessary managed masters In CloudBees Jenkins.
- Coordinated multiple times directly on call with CloudBees Support for troubleshooting during the peak times by supporting them with support bundle.
Tools And Technologies
CA Harvest (Admin and Workbench), SVN, GIT Hub, Git Lab, Ant, Maven, AutoCM (Inhouse), CloudBees Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Rally, CHEF, Ansible, Amazon (AWS), Knowledge on Kubernetes, Terraform, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), JBoss, Akamai Cloud Test, PRTG, PTS, Unix, Shell script, Knowledge in Python, LINUX, Windows
Personal Information
- Age: 32
- Father's Name: Damodara Chetty K
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Telugu
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Proficient (C2)
C2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Malayalam
Beginner (A1)
A1
Timeline
Assistant consultant, Solutions Architect
TATA Consultancy Services Limited
08.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer & Sr. DevOps Engineer
PDI Software, Firestreame, GXX INDIA PVT LTD
10.2018 - 07.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
Virtusa Consulting services
10.2016 - 09.2018
Senior systems Executive
Cognizant Technologies
09.2012 - 10.2016
B.E - Computer Science
Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyala Universtiy