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Vignesh Velumani

Bengaluru

Summary

  • 12 years of proficient experience in DevOps/Build and Release management with good hands-on experience in building, scaling and automating infrastructures in both on-premises environment as well as in cloud platform (AWS).
  • Proficient in Python and Shell Scripting.
  • In depth understanding of the principles and best practices of software configuration management.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Principal Engineer

Dell Technologies Ltd.
Bengaluru
01.2023 - Current
  • Installed and maintain production logging cluster using Fluentd, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana as a centralized solution to parse logs from 10+ microservices and supporting docker containers.
  • Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipelines for a Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, reducing deployment time and increasing overall deployment reliability(ArgoCD)
  • Participate in on-call support on a rotational basis.
  • Part of the team that migrated production applications from Rancher onto VMware Tanzu.
  • Perform capacity planning and resource optimization for Kubernetes clusters.
  • Hands-on experience in confluent-kafka python library to develop event driven python based microservices.
  • Part of 3 member team that implemented Observability platform for our 20+ microservices covering metrics, traces, logging, and alerting based on combination of Prometheus, Grafana and Slack.

Software Engineer IV - DevOps

Cisco System India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
10.2020 - 12.2022
  • Developed and maintained Ansible scripts that automates the provisioning of Kubernetes cluster(s) and its supported tools.
  • In depth knowledge of provisioning and handling Kubernetes infrastructure and its components.
  • Wrote Python automations around the existing deployment process to support the upcoming hybrid build and deployment architecture.
  • Introduced GitOps practice to manage Kubernetes cluster management and application delivery.
  • Automated the provisioning of CI and CD pipelines for any upcoming release(s) or for patch fixes, using Groovy and Python.
  • Hands-on knowledge of networking in AWS provisioning Virtual Private Cloud, NAT Gateway, NACL, Security Group, storage systems and computing platforms.
  • Developed and used cloudformation to provision stack in AWS such as application load balancers, routing rules, security gateways, IAM roles etc.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sabre Corporation
Bengaluru
09.2018 - 10.2020
  • Involved in designing and deploying applications on AWS Cloud platform using cloudformation - utilizing most of the AWS stack like EC2, Route53, S3, IAM etc., focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
  • Analyzed the existing infrastructure setup on AWS platform and provided solutions to reduce the server footprint and cost without sacrificing application's standard.
  • Setup monitoring for the mission critical applications using CloudWatch, Lambda, AppDynamics, and Kibana.
  • Enhanced the existing CI & CD pipeline set up by introducing automation best practices.
  • Successfully owned and delivered the project of migrating production customers from on-premises environment on to AWS cloud platform.

Lead DevOps Engineer

Envestnet Yodlee
Bengaluru
03.2018 - 09.2018
  • Provide support to the business during day-to-day activities and ad-hoc requests.
  • Support engineering plans and schedules by providing release schedules and services to build, deploy, develop scripts, oversee branch and merge strategies, and build automated tools as necessary.

Associate/Technical Lead

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Bengaluru
03.2015 - 03.2018
  • .Built and configured end-to-end CI and CD pipelines for multiple projects across multiple business domains
  • Configured AWS IAM and Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
  • Configured load balancers (ELB) and Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Administered multiple tools - JIRA, Confluence, Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, SVN, Maven, Jenkins, ANT, Git, GitHub and their process ensuring traceability, repeatability, quality, and support, including upgradation and migration.
  • Create and monitor Prometheus and Splunk dashboards for both Application & Server monitoring.

Associate/Technical Lead

Informatica
Bengaluru
05.2014 - 03.2015
  • Created as well as improved existing build scripts – Maven and ANT and automated deployment procedures.
  • Owned and delivered multiple Hotfix releases.
  • Triaging day to day builds and deployment issues.

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd.
Bengaluru
07.2010 - 05.2014
  • Handled day to day-to-day build and deployment issues.
  • As an administrator carried out installation, configuration and upgrade activities of following tools - Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus, Perforce, Fortify and SonarQube Wrote multiple Bash automations to avoid repetitive manual tasks.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering -

SASTRA University Tanjore
06.2010

Skills

  • GitHub
  • AWS
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • Jenkins X
  • GitOps
  • Helm
  • Prometheus
  • ELK Stack
  • Grafana
  • AppDynamics
  • SonarQube
  • Groovy
  • Nexus
  • Artifactory
  • Black Duck
  • Twistlock

Timeline

Software Principal Engineer

Dell Technologies Ltd.
01.2023 - Current

Software Engineer IV - DevOps

Cisco System India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2020 - 12.2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sabre Corporation
09.2018 - 10.2020

Lead DevOps Engineer

Envestnet Yodlee
03.2018 - 09.2018

Associate/Technical Lead

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
03.2015 - 03.2018

Associate/Technical Lead

Informatica
05.2014 - 03.2015

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd.
07.2010 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering -

SASTRA University Tanjore
Vignesh Velumani