Abilash Kalpana Sivakumar
Hillsborough,NJ
Summary
A competent professional with 10+ years of experience in Cloud, DevOps, System Analysis and Designing; specializing in Configuration Management, CI/CD Process, Infrastructure Automation, Kubernetes Management and Deployment.
Experience in setting up Kubernetes infrastructure in On-Premises and Cloud Platform, orchestration, scaling and monitoring of application containers.
Ability to identify and analyze IT Infrastructure complex environment to provide creative, innovative, modernization and quality automation solutions leveraging the best breed of intelligent cloud services components and open-source tools.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Lead DevOps Engineer
Element Technologies Inc
02.2022 - Current
- Leading development and operations process inside team ∙ Developing containerization and IaC roadmap and implementing to the project
- Worked on setting up AWS resources using Terraform
- Worked on setting multi-Kubernetes setup using Rancher in both private and public cloud platform ∙ Worked on alert & monitoring setup using Prometheus and Grafana
- Worked on migration and implementation of multiple applications from on- premises to cloud using AWS services like EC2, S3, Glacier, EKS, VPC etc.
- Worked on setting up GitOps automation using ArgoCD and Rancher Fleet.
- Implemented OPA policy to centralize operational, security and compliance across multi-Kubernetes setup.
- Implemented Loft.sh to scale down workloads in Kubernetes when not in use and reduced pre-production infrastructure cost by 50%.
Senior DevOps Consultant
Ashnik Pte Ltd
08.2020 - 01.2022
- Performed hands on design work to prove Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Sysdig Container Security platform and HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise capabilities to customers during evaluation process
- Develop technical reference architectures, frameworks, strategies, and technology roadmaps for cloud hosted solutions to meet the business and application requirements
- Provided End-to-End consulting for digital transformation journey for the selected existing account and supporting sales team to form proactive business cases
- Worked with FinTech customer to automate their CDN configuration deployment for 250 domains using Terraform Cloud
- Implemented solutions using AWS Cloud platform and its features which include EC2, VPC, EBS, IAM, S3, EKS
- Responding to technical questions and RFT's and RFPs from customers and assist partners in same ∙ Providing demo and presenting solution to client and create solution/design to fulfil customer requirements.
Senior Kubernetes Engineer
ADDSTONES SAS
11.2019 - 08.2020
- Automated creation of AWS infrastructure resources VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, EBS, Route53, SNS, SES, SQS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Security Group, Auto Scaling and RDS using Terraform
- Installed and managed Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and EKS using For APAC and Europe site
- Setup Kubernetes platform monitoring using Prometheus for multiple clusters
- Responsible for coordinating with application teams and Dockerizing their components ∙ Implemented CI/CD process for application build and deployment
- Created Ansible script for automated installation and upgrade of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
DevOps Lead
NCS Pte Ltd
11.2018 - 10.2019
- Performed quality control and monitored production efforts.
- Lead technical implementations of Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation & C/CD projects
- Implemented production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Containerized all applications – Spring Boot Java applications using Docker
- Managed deployments in Kubernetes, creating cluster and deploying application containers.
- Created dynamic routing/load balancing capability enabling large application scaling, used ingress rules and Nginx.
- Orchestrated CI/CD processes by responding to Git triggers, human input, and dependency chains and environment setup.
- Used Terraform and Ansible as tool, Managed different infrastructure resources and configurations in Cloud, VMware, and Bare Metal Servers
- Displayed technical expertise in analyzing performance issues and suggest technical solutions.
Senior DevOps Consultant
DATAZOOM INC
06.2018 - 10.2018
- Deployed Kubernetes Infrastructure in Google Cloud and AWS platform using kops and writing initial YAML files to deploy
- Setup application and infrastructure monitoring using Datadog and Prometheus
- Performed load testing, performance tuning and Kubernetes auto scaling based on various metrics like CPU, web socket established
- Developed effective build automation, continuous integration and test environment that reduced integration issues and improved code quality.
Senior DevOps Engineer
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
08.2016 - 06.2018
- Led technical implementations of DevOps solutions and Containerization projects
- Led Docker based automation for build and production environment of Cognizant Global Technology Office(R&D) products
- Implemented Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and IBM UCD
- Worked on Hubot ChatOps framework for user to interact with various DevOps tools like Jenkins, GitHub and Ansible Tower
- Setup multi cloud automation using Spinnaker integrating with AWS, Azure and
- Kubernetes ∙ Developed scripts for build, deployment, maintenance, and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, Python and Groovy.
Build and Release Engineer
ZOHO CORPORATION PRIVATE LIMITED
03.2012 - 08.2016
- Instrumental in implementing CI/CD process for various Zoho and ManageEngine Products
- Involved in automating entire build process and packaging products using Ant, Shell scripts and created installers using InstallShield
- Designed, documented, and implemented build and local deployment system using Docker technology for all products in organization
- Developed Docker image management tool and automated process of Docker image creation
- Involved in installing and maintaining version control system tools like Mercurial, GitLab across organization and forming backup strategy
- Developed Cloud IDE product using java programming and responsible for
- Docker based functionalities, server architecture and monitored performance using Site24x7 product
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University
09.2007 - 05.2011
Certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Timeline
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
05-2023
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
03-2023
Lead DevOps Engineer
Element Technologies Inc
02.2022 - Current
Senior DevOps Consultant
Ashnik Pte Ltd
08.2020 - 01.2022
Senior Kubernetes Engineer
ADDSTONES SAS
11.2019 - 08.2020
DevOps Lead
NCS Pte Ltd
11.2018 - 10.2019
Senior DevOps Consultant
DATAZOOM INC
06.2018 - 10.2018
Senior DevOps Engineer
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
08.2016 - 06.2018
Build and Release Engineer
ZOHO CORPORATION PRIVATE LIMITED
03.2012 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University
09.2007 - 05.2011
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