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Ashish Shahane

Dallas,Texas

Summary

Results-driven DevOps/SRE engineer with over 6 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructures. Proven expertise in leading cross-functional teams, automating complex workflows, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance in production environments. Strong background in AWS cloud services, microservices architecture, infrastructure as code (IaC), and performance engineering. Adept at mentoring teams, optimizing processes, and delivering robust technical solutions aligned with business objectives

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Dallas, Texas
05.2023 - Current
  • Lead and mentored a team of DevOps engineers in the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless code integration and delivery across multiple environments
  • Architect and implement NSA compliance scalable, high-availability solutions on AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and IAM to support microservices-based applications
  • Oversee the adoption and automation of infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using Cloud Formation and ansible playbooks reducing manual configurations and enhancing deployment consistency
  • Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to define and enforce best practices for version control, configuration management, and continuous integration
  • Drive the automation of monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Amazon-managed Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic
  • Manage the implementation of security and compliance protocols with the help of tools like 42-crunch, Sysdig, and Sonar scan, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements
  • Spearheaded the migration of legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, resulting in improved performance and cost efficiency
  • Develop technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, deployment guides, and disaster recovery plans, to support ongoing operations and onboarding

Devops Engineer

Purepath Technologies Inc
Dallas, Texas
05.2022 - 05.2023
  • Designed highly available, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling groups, Elastic Load Balancers, and AMIs
  • Managed databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud and designed, built, and deployed multiple applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, R53, S3, RDS, SNS, and IAM) by focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and elasticity
  • Developed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, and NAT to ensure successful deployment of applications
  • Administering Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Creating users, groups, policies, and roles
  • Infused a process of using roles in API calls instead of using access keys
  • Created Ansible playbooks for post-deployment fixes on the AWS platform after rehydration
  • Installed, Configured, and managed in Ansible Centralized Server, created the playbooks to support various middleware application servers, and configured the Ansible tower as a configuration management tool to automate repetitive tasks
  • Deployed and configured blockchain-managed applications on EKS with the help of helm charts
  • Automated the release pipeline to achieve zero-touch deployments using Jenkins and Jfrog Artifactory
  • Expertise in troubleshooting AWS Cloud platform and K8 cluster issues from Fault detection, fault isolation, and resolving many key issues
  • Created snapshots and encrypted Amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup & creating clone instances
  • Deployed and Configured applications on Amazon Managed Blockchain
  • Onboarded the Opensearch logging tool and deployed fluentd pods on the eks cluster to collect the pod logs
  • Developed and Managed confluence pages for team collaboration
  • Created Jenkins schedule jobs to take EBS snapshots, backup k8 deployment files, application config files

Devops Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Dallas, Texas
08.2019 - 11.2021
  • Created Apigee proxies to protect the microservices exposed externally
  • Applied continuous attention to technical excellence and good design principles, resulting in a scalable, reliable, performant, and maintainable infrastructure
  • Worked extensively on the AWS cloud platform, including services such as EC2, S3, Glacier, RDS, ELB, EBS, Route53, CloudFront, VPC, Auto Scaling, Security Groups, EMR, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, ECR, and ECS clusters
  • Provisioned and maintained RDS MySQL, MongoDB, and other databases in the cloud environment
  • Maintained AWS IAM to create new user accounts, roles, and groups
  • Worked on CI/CD Jenkins pipelines to automate the build/deployment of entire applications, using Git to push applications developed with different source codes such as Node.js, Java, Spring Boot, and Angular
  • Used Artifactory for Maven dependency management, deploying snapshot and release artifacts to share across projects and environments
  • Used SonarQube for code quality analysis in Maven-based Java projects, covering areas such as Architecture & Design, Complexity, Duplications, Coding Rules, and Potential Bugs
  • Worked with web deployment technologies such as Linux/Nginx/Apache/Tomcat
  • Created AWS Lambda functions to upload files
  • Deployed and maintained microservices and Docker images in AWS ECR, JFrog, and EKS for services for different vendors like ForgeRock
  • Installed and maintained Kubernetes Engine for orchestrating Docker containers/images for microservices
  • Created and managed AWS Route53 health checks
  • Have a good understanding and knowledge of Kubernetes architecture
  • Deployed Docker images from AWS ECR and JFrog to Kubernetes through Kubernetes UI and Jenkins
  • Deployed application containers in Kubernetes clusters and exposed the deployments as services by creating Load Balancers to access applications publicly

Education

Professional Master of Business Administration -

Campbellsville University
Kentucky
10.2022

MS - Telecommunications and Network Engineering

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
05.2018

Skills

  • Linux
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • GitHub
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Maven
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • ECR
  • Jfrog
  • Shell Scripting
  • New Relic
  • AMP
  • Networking
  • Confluence
  • Forgerock
  • Sysdig
  • DNS
  • HTTPS
  • LDAP
  • Jira
  • Cloud Formation Templates
  • Helm
  • Apigee
  • OpenSearch
  • DHCP
  • TCP/IP

Timeline

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2023 - Current

Devops Engineer

Purepath Technologies Inc
05.2022 - 05.2023

Devops Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2019 - 11.2021

Professional Master of Business Administration -

Campbellsville University

MS - Telecommunications and Network Engineering

Southern Methodist University

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