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Prasanna V

Chennai

Summary

Prasanna is a passionate DevOps, SRE, and full-stack engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience. A quick learner who adapts to new technologies with ease. He is an open-source contributor who learns best practices and industry standards through code. He also has worked as an agile practitioner and Tech lead at ThoughtWorks.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Independent DevOps Consultant | SRE

nDimensional Inc
Chennai
06.2020 - Current
  • Contributed to the migration of the whole infrastructure from VM-based to Kubernetes with support for zero-downtime deployment, option to roll back deployments, and canary-based deployments. Revamped the entire CI/CD process using Jenkins.
  • Managed three DevOps engineers following the practice of Agile-based methodologies along with support for managing the production system. Set up a production-ready system with Prometheus, Papertrail, Jaeger, and Istio.
  • Did capacity and AWS cost estimation for the big data application with workloads for real-time data of 3 GB/min and storage of 2 TB in Cassandra. Managed distributed systems including Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Flink, and Akka Clusters in Kubernetes

Architect

Francium Technologies
Chennai
01.2019 - 05.2023
  • Set up a multi-cloud infrastructure leveraging services from AWS, GCP including orchestrating 30+ microservices using Kubernetes and created CD pipelines which significantly reduced the time to put services to production.
  • Established a proper monitoring-and-tracing system and scaled the product to handle 50x load with half the infrastructure cost. Set up the fitness function to track cost as one of the metrics for infrastructure (AWS and GCP).
  • Architected and led the company in high-performance DevOps culture by following principles of XP/lean for DevOps and automating the entire infrastructure using Terraform

Technical Lead

Thoughtworks
Chennai
06.2015 - 12.2018
  • Worked as part of multiple engagements ranging from startups to massive enterprises and led many projects involving various technology stacks. Followed TDD and agile (XP/lean) methodologies in all teams and tech stacks.
  • Set up an authentication system for a popular bank in Spain and handled many requests. Chose the tools to track performance and utilize the infrastructure efficiently. Used Kubernetes, Go, Prometheus, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
  • Worked at a client's location (UK) to refactor their core pricing engine. Followed a strangulation approach and, in the process, improved their CI/CD pipelines.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Madurai
05-2009

Skills

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Observability Tools, Prometheus, Datadog
  • Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions
  • Typescript, NextJS, NestJS
  • Python, Flask, FastAPI
  • Microservices

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Timeline

Independent DevOps Consultant | SRE

nDimensional Inc
06.2020 - Current

Architect

Francium Technologies
01.2019 - 05.2023

Technical Lead

Thoughtworks
06.2015 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Prasanna V