Vinay Kumar

Project 1: Intuit

• Led a team in building deployment pipelines for microservices on Jenkins and GitHub Actions, integrating with AWS services such as ECR for Docker image storage.
• Drove incident management processes, ensuring prompt resolution of production issues while minimizing impact on business operations.
• Developed comprehensive technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing and improve product understanding.
• Orchestrated the setup and management of Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) for scalable microservices deployment.
• Managed AWS resources and services, ensuring efficient integration and optimization, including IAM roles, VPCs, and CloudFormation templates.
• Integrated SonarQube with Jenkins pipelines to automate code quality checks and vulnerability assessments, enhancing application security.
• Provided leadership in delivering P1, P2, and P3 support for the Intuit Production Environment, leveraging monitoring tools like AppDynamics and Wavefront.
• Directed the team in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, automating the provisioning and configuration of AWS resources.
• Implemented AWS CloudWatch for centralized logging and monitoring of AWS infrastructure and applications.
• Conducted regular security audits and implemented best practices to ensure compliance with industry standards like ISO

Project 2: ContiTech

• Directed the configuration and management of Docker containers, leveraging AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry) for secure Docker image storage and distribution.
• Led the team in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, ensuring high availability and scalability for containerized applications.
• Advised ContiTech on AWS hosting solutions, implementing best practices for infrastructure architecture and cost optimization using AWS Cost Explorer.
• Implemented DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Ansible for automating CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure management.
• Led the adoption of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and monitoring, ensuring real-time visibility into application and infrastructure health.
• Managed Linux-based EC2 instances, automating configuration management and updates with Ansible playbooks to maintain system reliability and security.
• Provided technical leadership and mentorship to the team, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement in DevOps practices.
• Implemented AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing, optimizing resource utilization and reducing operational costs.

• Managing an application which handles ~150k concurrent logged in users
• Configured such systems which can manage 1st level alerts itself
• Migrating server applications to micro service architecture
• Which is very cost efficient
• Implemented various Grafana and Kibana dashboards for Business
• Automated report was also there to work on stats
• Leading a team of 5 DevOps folk
• Working tightly with Developers team to resolve problem quickly
• Setup CICD deployment process for microservices using docker, EKS, Jenkins and Kubernetes
• Setup latency-based routing in AWS
• Configure Docker containers
• Troubleshooting server performance and AWS resource related issues
• Working actively for the cost optimization of AWS Infra
• Configure monitoring and alerts on AWS Production environment
• Provide L2 support
• Backup of Database servers and periodically maintenance for old data.
• Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
• Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.

• Installed, Configured and Maintained Ubuntu Linux in AWS environment
• Created Virtual Machines by utilizing AWS EC2 and configured security groups to restrict Inbound and Outbound acess
• Automated backups by shell scripting to transfer data in S3 Bucket
• Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53
• Focus on continuous integration (CI) and deployment, promoting Enterprise Solutions to target environments
• Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT
• Terraform creation for backend applications like EC2, RDS, S3
• Amazon CLI used to create vaults
• Implemented Continuous deployment (CD) push button deploy using Jenkins
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of various systems problems such as application, network and hardware related issues
• Involved in Agile process, by-weekly Sprints and, daily Scrums to discuss the progress
• Used tracking tool JIRA and also triaged the issues and maintained bugs using JIRA tool.

• Launched Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications
• Create the stack using Cloud Formation Template to launch multiple Instances
• Installed the application on AWS EC2 instances and also configured the storage on S3 buckets
• Deployed EC2 Instance, adding (EBS) block level storage volume to increase the availability of the website
• CICD setups for Gitlab
• Taking Encrypted Snapshots from the Encrypted volumes to create new volumes size
• Using Simple storage services (S3) for snapshot and Configured S3 lifecycle of Applications & Databases logs, including deleting old logs, archiving logs based on retention policy of Apps and Databases
• Setting up the Elastic load balancer (ELB) to send traffic to all instances in the availability zone
• Designed a security group for maintaining the inbound and outbound traffic
• Managed hosted Zone and domain name service using Route 53
• Using various routing policies in Amazon Route53
• Setup of Virtual Private Networks across Departments with strong Network ACLs at both the Subnet and the Instance level
• Auto scaling of Web Application instances based on the Cloud watch alarms during sudden increase in network traffic