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VASANTH KUMAR

Cloud Solutions And Devops Architect

Chennai

Summary

Cloud and Platform Architect with 13+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems using cloud-native, DevOps, and SRE practices. Delivered event-driven, microservices platforms aligned to business outcomes.

Professional Summary:

Architecture Excellence: Designed and implemented modern software architecture patterns, including event-driven systems, microservices, domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS (decoupled read/write), and serverless-first workloads, enabling scalable, decoupled, and resilient cloud-native applications.
Cloud Platform Leadership: Led the end-to-end delivery of EKS-backed multi-tenant platforms using EKS Blueprints, Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps ArgoCD. Integrated encryption, autoscaling, traffic shaping, and security by design using NFR Principles.
Strategic Partnerships: Collaborated with AWS TAMs, Datadog, and Couchbase, contributing to fixes in ALB keepAlive feature and Aurora Global DB secondary autoscaling issues —amplifying platform reliability and performance.
SRE & Operational Maturity: Directed a 24-member SRE and DevOps team across proactive engineering, platform observability, and infrastructure resilience—improving uptime, agility, and performance.
Event Readiness at Scale: Engineered high-performance systems with DDoS mitigation and predictive auto-scaling for FIFA World Cup 2022 and Euro 2024, achieving 99.99% during global event spikes.
DevOps Enablement: Championed CI/CD automation (Jenkins, GitOps), Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef), and containerization practices across teams and pipelines.
Observability & Performance: Delivered platform-wide observability through Datadog, Splunk, and Grafana, enabling real-time insights and reducing time-to-detect and resolve.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Served as a strategic partner to product, program, and engineering teams—bridging deep technical context with business impact via Agile/PI planning and leadership reviews.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certificates

Work History

Principal Solution Architect

COMCAST INDIA ENGINEERING

Chennai

09.2017 - Current

Designed and implemented DevOps solutions for enterprise-level clients, resulting in increased productivity, faster time-to-market, and improved quality of software products.
Managed use of various types of databases and configured, installed and upgraded new ones.
Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.

Developer and Senior Devops Engineer

MSYS TECHNOLOGIES

10.2015 - 09.2017

Configuration Tools : Chef, Docker
CI Flow Setup : Gerrit, SVN, Gitolite, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus
CD Flow Setup : Chef, Rundeck
Build Tools : Maven, Gradle
Automation Script : Python, Ruby, Shell and Groovy
Devops Achievements:
Setting up and Administration of Enterprise Chef Server on client Network (Creating Organization,
Environments, Policy, Data bags, Bootstrapping Nodes)
Jenkins Job DSL and Pipeline DSL scripts to nullify Efforts on Jenkins job creation
Writing Self composed Cookbooks with the power of Ruby for the Deployment and Configuration of Tomcat and Split Tomcat, MongoDb, Solr, Piwik, Apache ActiveMQ, AppDynamics, Mule, Java
Libraries, executing Flyway scripts
Planning and Execution of Zero Downtime Deployment using Blue / Green deployments
Introduced code review system and Lead a team of 3 to Migrate all projects to Gerrit and implement CI
Automation scripts using Python to bootstrap Nodes using Chef api, Nexus clean using Nexus api,
Rundeck Tag fetch from Chef server
Datacenter Migration of Devops and SCM tools – Chef, Gerrit, Jenkins, GIT, SVN, JIRA, Crowd,
Crucible Fisheye, Rundeck
Development Responsibilities:
Technologies : Java 8 , JSP, Spring MVC, Hibernate
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The system “Core Platform” is an ecommerce application, where the any bank card holders can redeem rewards points against any products
Core is a base platform application where the users can access and buy any products available in their market
Platform application will internally communicate with number of services to get data
Major four services are product service, pricing service, Epsilon services and order service
Epsilon is the point bank which will maintain all user data and reward points details
All other services are REST web services, either it will be accessed from platform application or by background jobs.

Java Developer

Tata Consultancy Services, AXA Equitable

11.2011 - 11.2015

Core Java, JSP, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Rest Service, Spring Boot,
Micro services and SQL
Responsibilities:
Developed new EPAC application, which streamline contribution processing framework so that manual back office intervention can be reduced thereby resulting in Cost savings
Designed and developed new web pages required for the product to show various processes deployed in server to the UI
Hands on application developer with extensive development experience in building and supporting J2EE based web services using both SOAP and REST
Part of the Team Designing and Implementing Multiple Java Portlets which are pluggable components of AEP (Axa Equitable Portal) with different functionalities
It provides functionality the Plan sponsors and other user groups can use to effectively manage and Administer the Plan
Preparing Unit Test cases as part of Development
Coordinate Testing with Interfacing systems
Team Member Role delivering the assigned tasks On-Time with Less Rollback rates.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Rajalakshmi Engineering College

Skills

Compute: EKS, EC2, Serverless (Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions), RDS, DynamoDB, MSK

Networking: WAF, AWS Shield, Global Accelerator, VPC (Lattice, Privatelink), ELB, Route53

IaC and Programming: Chef, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Ruby, Groovy

CI/CD: ArgoCD, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Concourse, TeamCity, Rundeck, Octopus Deploy

Monitoring: Datadog, Pixie, AWS CUDOS, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Opensearch