Vishal Chotalia

Dairy products:

Organic food start-up delivering A2 dairy and chemical-free groceries through a direct-to-consumer model.

All produced using sustainable and chemical-free farming practices.

• Improved team collaboration with effective communication channels, documentation, and knowledge sharing practices.
• Developed custom scripts and tools for automating repetitive tasks, increasing productivity.
• Configured Auto Scaling and Load Balancers to efficiently handle traffic spikes and maintain optimal CPU utilization, ensuring high availability of healthy instances.
• Administering Linux servers with proficiency in command-line operations for monitoring, troubleshooting, and system optimization.
• Utilized Amazon CloudFront to distribute static assets efficiently, reducing load times through optimized caching mechanisms.
• Leveraged Amazon DynamoDB for secure, scalable data storage, enabling efficient handling of authentication data.
• Applied least privilege access using IAM and permission boundaries across AWS resources.
• Developed a serverless OTP generation and verification system using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and SNS, and integrated CloudWatch alarms to automate alerts and trigger workflows.
• Managed Amazon S3 for static content storage, with versioning enabled, supporting event-driven workflows, such as triggering Lambda functions on file uploads for automated processing.
• Strong focus on system reliability, security, and performance optimization across cloud-native environments.

• Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Jenkins, enabling consistent and reliable deployments.
• Optimized resource allocation strategies by analyzing usage patterns and workload requirements.
• Performed routine system maintenance, including updates, patching, and backups, to ensure system security, stability, and reliability.
• Leveraged master-slave configuration to automate deployments, updates, and system maintenance tasks.
• Resolved GTR tickets based on priority and business urgency, ensuring timely issue resolution.
• Developed modular code and configurations to support environment-specific deployments, and scalability.
• Established Jenkins as a centralized server for managing and executing team pipelines for testing and deployment activities.
• Configured Amazon S3 as a remote backend for Terraform state files, enabling team collaboration, versioning, and quick recovery during infrastructure failures.
• Handled Active Directory operations, system troubleshooting, and disaster recovery processes as part of daily infrastructure management.
• Managed server lifecycle, including setup, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Ensured the robustness of CI/CD pipelines by validating end-to-end workflows for consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Reduced operational overhead by state locking and leveraging DynamoDB TTL to automate the lifecycle management of transient data.
• Incorporated peer review in the process, and maintained code quality.
• Maintained company servers, computers, printers, cables, and other equipment.
• Updated and maintained tickets to reflect development progress and status changes.

• Proven ability to work in Agile environments, and deliver reliable solutions.
• Coordinated with the CMBD team to monitor resources for reporting and analytics.
• Updated Confluence documents by adding steps and process information in the runbook, SOPs, and deployment procedures.
• Reduced server downtime by proactively monitoring cloud resources and addressing potential issues before they escalated.
• Designed and executed effective cloud backup strategies, safeguarding critical data against loss.
• Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Assisted in migration projects from on-premises data centers to cloud environments, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Wrote an Ansible playbook to run it on different OS servers.
• Used AWS Lambda to stop/start EC2 instances at non-working hours.
• Fixed issues in Docker by running Docker commands, freeing up space, and removing unused resources.
• Checked the Security Group inbound and outbound rules for blocked ports.
• Wrote and maintained custom bash scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
• Designed and maintained an AMI and snapshot-based backup strategy for critical EC2 instances, enabling quick recovery and seamless replication.
• Troubleshot network and application connectivity by leveraging telnet, curl, and ping utilities.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning by executing Terraform scripts to deploy required cloud resources.
• Enhanced the CI/CD pipeline by installing and configuring critical Jenkins plugins.
• Implemented containerized SonarQube and Nexus environments, ensured service availability via port exposure and validation, and established secure Jenkins integration using credential-managed tokens.
• Configured AWS VPC, subnets, and security groups to support a multi-tier Java-based application, ensuring secure access between EKS clusters, EC2 instances, and external load balancers.
• Monitored and updated deployment-related tickets on JIRA, ensuring smooth release cycles.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and application deployment on AWS EKS, enabling scalable microservices deployment for an e-commerce application, reducing deployment time by approximately 40%, and minimizing manual intervention.
• Configured Amazon SNS for real-time notifications and alerts based on CloudWatch alarms.
• Coordinated disaster recovery efforts by developing comprehensive plans that outlined roles, responsibilities, and procedures during an event.
• Monitored AWS costs and billings, optimized cloud deployment expenses, and aligned resource consumption with business requirements.
• Committed to building scalable, reliable, and efficient systems.
• Responded promptly to user requests for permission changes, new storage and expansion questions.