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Vishal Kumar

Google Cloud Architect
Pune,
Vishal Kumar

Summary

Forward-thinking Senior Cloud Engineer with 6 plus years of hands-on experience in the GCP ecosystem, specializing in Terraform, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures. Actively pivoting towards AI-driven infrastructure as an M.Tech candidate in AI & ML at BITS Pilani (WILP Program). Passionate about applying DevOps principles to Machine Learning workflows (MLOps) to solve complex challenges in model training, deployment, and monitoring in production environments.

Overview

8
years of professional experience
6
Certifications
3
Languages

Work History

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)

Deputy Manager (GCP Cloud Architect and DevOps)
12.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:


Project: Teradata migration
Description: Infra Automation
Role: Senior GCP Devops Engineer
Technologies Used: Github, Terraform
GCP Services Involved: IAM, Cloud build, Network, Compute Engine, Instance Group, Load Balancer, Hybrid Connectivity, Logging, Monitoring, Security Command Centre, KMS, Secret and VPC SC.
Organization: Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
Duration: May 2023 to Present
Responsibilities:
▪ Deployed migration pipelines for Teradata migrations from on-premises to GCP.
▪ Implemented Cisco IDPS firewall devices to secure Teradata database connections.
▪ Set up active-standby backend configurations for load balancers to ensure high availability.
▪ Configured traffic routing between IDPS NICs by setting up routes, firewall rules, and load balancers.
▪ Published IDPS servers as services to allow consumers in other VPC networks or projects to connect privately and securely using Private Service Connect.
▪ Established consumer endpoints on multiple GCP projects to connect with published services.
▪ Provided application migration support from on-premises to GCP.

Project: Raid
Description: Infra Automation + Application End to End Deployment.
Role: Senior GCP Devops Engineer
Technologies Used: Github, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible.
GCP Services Involved: IAM, Cloud build, Cloud Source repository, Network, Hybrid Connectivity, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Function, Looker Core Instance, File store, Private Service Connect, Logging, Monitoring, Security Command Centre, KMS, Secret and VPC SC.
Organization: Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
Duration: November 2023 to Present
Responsibilities:

▪ Infrastructure Design.

▪ Provided infrastructure support for file transfer activities from on-premises to GCP.

▪ Set up Cloud Interconnect for on-premises connectivity.

▪ Configured VPC peering between network and workload projects.

▪ Set up Looker Core Instance for data analysis.

▪ Configured Private Service Connect to connect on-premises systems with non-routable IPs.

▪ Created Dockerfiles, built Docker images, stored them in Artifact Registry, and deployed them to GKE via CI/CD pipelines.

Project: AL-AOM Infra automation
Description: Landing zone setup + Application end to end deployment.
Role: Senior GCP Devops Engineer
Technologies Used: Github, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible
GCP Services Involved: IAM, Cloud build, Cloud Source repository, Network, Hybrid Connectivity, Compute Engine, Managed instance Group, Load balancer, Cloud DNS, Cloud SQL, Cloud Composer, Cloud Function, Logging, Security Command Centre, KMS and VPC SC.
Organization: Vodafone Intelligent Solutions

Responsibilities:

▪ Infrastructure and Network Design.

▪ Automated GCP folder and project setup.

▪ Created GitHub repositories to manage IaC code.

▪ Set up CI/CD pipelines to deploy GCP resources via IaC.

▪ Developed startup scripts to install Pega applications during server boot.

▪ Configured instance templates and managed instance groups to host Pega applications.

▪ Set up internal HTTPS load balancers to expose Pega applications.

▪ Configured private cloud DNS zones.

▪ Set up reverse proxies and VPN tunnels for forwarding requests from on-premises to Pega workload projects.

▪ Configured DNS peering.

▪ Set up Cloud SQL to store application data.

▪ Deployed applications end-to-end to GKE using Docker, Artifact Registry, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.

▪ Configured file transfer via GCS mount between GCP and on-premises.

▪ Set up monitoring and alerting via GCP Monitoring.

▪ Scheduled weekly maintenance for patching.

Project: DCH-BCE Infra automation
Description: Infra Automation
Role: Senior GCP Devops Engineer
Technologies Used: Github, Terraform.
GCP Services Involved: IAM, Cloud build, Network, Cloud Run, Load balancer, Cloud DNS, Cloud Armor, Cloud Storage, Pubsub, Cloud Function, GKE, Logging, Monitoring, Security Command Centre, KMS, Secret and VPC SC.
Organization: Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
Duration: November 2022 to April 2023
Responsibilities:

  • Infrastructure Design.
  • Created reusable Terraform modules for GCP resource deployments, including networks, serverless connectors, firewall rules, IAM role bindings, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, GKE clusters, service accounts, and Cloud Storage.
  • Created GitHub repositories to manage IaC code.
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines to deploy GCP resources via IaC.
  • Configured Cloud Armor policies to secure applications behind load balancers.
  • Set up private DNS for load balancer endpoints.
  • Configured private Google access for API access.
  • Integrated projects with VPC Service Controls to secure API communications.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting via GCP Monitoring.

Tata Consultancy Services

GCP DevOps / ML Engineer
12.2021 - 12.2022

Job overview

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:

Project: - Banking
Role: - DevOps / MLOps Engineer (Google Cloud)

  • Worked on various google cloud technologies like Google Document AI, Vision AI, Vertex AI, GKE, GCE, Cloud Storage.
  • Performed continuous integration and continuous deployment to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Cloud Build.
  • Securing GKE Deployments with Binary Authorization and RBAC policies.
  • Used Google DOC AI Processors to create datasets for classification and parser AI models.
  • Created and deployed Vertex AI/ML models.
  • Created AI/ML models as microservices.
  • Implemented DOC AI solution for text extraction and Dataset creation for AI/ML models.
  • Designed API specifications and Low-Level Design for different use cases.
  • Used FastAPI web framework for building APIs with python.
  • Used Cloud Run and Cloud Functions for serverless deployments.
  • Learning to deploy ML Training Pipeline and implement Continuous Training (CT) for automatically retraining and serving the models.

Project: - Telecom
Role: - GCP DevOps Engineer

  • Trained on various google cloud technologies like Google Big Query, Data Flow, GKE, GCE, Cloud Storage
  • Worked on creating Google Container Registry and tagging docker images.
  • Deploying microservices in Google Kubernetes cluster
    Used various services like Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes engine.
  • Deploying and configuring scalable microservices based application.
  • Troubleshooting errors of build and deployment failures.

Accenture

System Engineer
05.2018 - 11.2021

Job overview

Projects: - Healthcare/ Telecom
Role: - DevOps/ Application Security Engineer (on premise/AWS)

  • Used various services like AWSEC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Security Groups, Route53, Iptables, Elastic Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, CloudTrail
  • Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform and cloudformation to build staging and production
  • Deploying and configuring GIT repositories with branching, tagging, notifying.
  • Worked on Container tools like Docker and Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS).
  • Worked on build Automation tools like Maven for building of jar, war and ear files.
  • Define and apply common approach for build schedules, deployments, release requests, environment outage tracking and resolution.
  • Advise on best practices in scheduling, testing, acceptance, post implementation process to ensure environment stability.
  • Worked with Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management and IBM Access Management Tools.
  • Troubleshooting and resolving access management and provisioning workflow errors
  • Updating existing access management and provisioning workflows
  • Execute and track security process related activities including User ID management

Education

BITS PILANI

Master of Technology - M.Tech. (WILP Program) from Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
04.2001

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology -KIIT

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from Electrical Engineering
04.2001

University Overview

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Skills

Cloud Platform: GCP (Primary) / AWS

DevOps Tools: Kubernetes, Cloud Build, Git, Jenkins, Terraform, JIRA

Databases: Cloud SQL(Mysql ,PostgresSQL), BigQuery

AI/MLOps Services: Vertex AI, Document AI, Kubeflow, Tensorflow

Scripting Language: Bash Scripting, Python

Operating systems: Ubuntu, RHEL, Cent-OS, Windows server

Monitoring Tools: Prometheus and Grafana, Google Cloud Logging, AWS Cloud Watch

Security: Qualys, ICS, Cloud Armor, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), SonarQube,

Container Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE)

IAC: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation

CI/CD: GoCD, AWS Code Pipeline, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

Web Technologies: HTTP, SSL, REST API, HTML, JavaScript

IDE Tools: VS code, Google Colab, Jupyter notebook, Cloud 9

Certification

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Timeline

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

02-2026

Google cloud certified Professional Cloud Architect

01-2026

Google Cloud Generative AI Leader Certification

11-2025

Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification

10-2025

Deputy Manager (GCP Cloud Architect and DevOps)

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)
12.2022 - Current

Google cloud certified Professional Devops Engineer

07-2022

GCP DevOps / ML Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2021 - 12.2022

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

08-2021

System Engineer

Accenture
05.2018 - 11.2021

BITS PILANI

Master of Technology - M.Tech. (WILP Program) from Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
04.2001

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology -KIIT

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from Electrical Engineering
04.2001

Personal Information

Strengths: Consistency, Self-Discipline, Positive Attitude

Hobbies: Tech blogs, Traveling, 

Vishal KumarGoogle Cloud Architect