Dharti Patel

Tampa,USA

Summary

Highly motivated and experienced DevOps engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure. Experience in developing and deploying applications through Tomcat and application servers like IBM WebSphere and JBoss. Experience in working with NoSQL Database like MongoDB to manage extremely large data sets. Expert level programming skills in UNIX and shell scripting, CVS tools used Perforce. Good knowledge with CVS, Clear Case, GIT and SVN for code management and version control. Experienced CICD in Gitlab CI and Jenkins for CI and for End-to-End automation for all build and CD. Good knowledge of Rabbit MQ and Apache Kafka asynchronous messaging systems. Expertise in implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) using XML based Web Service such as SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. Worked with the build tools like Jenkins and Hudson. Skilled in a wide range of technologies, including cloud computing, containerization, and automation. Having Experience on UNIX, Linux commands and Deployment of Applications in Server and ability to work effectively. Managed 50+ Linux servers with 99.99% uptime, created a Docker container cluster using Kubernetes/Docker, and prevented network failures Worked with 3rd party vendor images and support to deploy it to production. Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products and services.

DevOps Engineer with proven expertise in cloud computing, containerization, and automation. Achieved a 30% reduction in deployment cycles and enhanced system reliability through effective CI/CD pipeline management and infrastructure automation.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

CitiBank

Tampa, FL

06.2022 - Current

CI/CD Pipeline Management: Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and GitLab runners, automating the process of code deployment and integration. Reduced deployment cycles by 30% and improved application stability.
Infrastructure Automation: Utilized Ansible for infrastructure automation, reducing manual configuration time by automating application deployments and environment configurations, enabling the team to scale effortlessly. Automated common administrative tasks, enhancing the reliability of production systems.
Cloud Infrastructure Management: Managed cloud resources across AWS and Azure, using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation for provisioning and scaling services. Oversaw the deployment of containerized applications to Amazon ECS, improving infrastructure efficiency and reducing operational overhead.
Containerization and Orchestration: Led the containerization of legacy applications using Docker, streamlining the development pipeline and ensuring consistent environments across all stages of deployment. Orchestrated containers with Kubernetes, setting up clusters and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
Monitoring and Logging: Integrated Grafana, Kibana, and AppDynamics for application performance monitoring, providing real-time insights into system health. Developed and maintained custom dashboards and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify system anomalies and reduce downtime by 15%.
Automation & Scripting: Wrote custom shell and Python scripts to automate various infrastructure management tasks, including system provisioning, application deployment, and log aggregation, reducing the manual workload and increasing team productivity.
Version Control & Code Management: Oversaw version control using Git, SVN, and ClearCase, ensuring smooth integration and release management. Worked closely with developers to resolve merge conflicts and ensure continuous delivery practices were maintained.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Spearheaded the implementation of Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, maintaining environments in a version-controlled, repeatable manner, leading to a 40% reduction in environment provisioning time.
Disaster Recovery & Incident Management: Coordinated disaster recovery and data recovery tests, ensuring system resilience and minimizing downtime during critical failures. Worked on incident response, including root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reporting to prevent recurrence of issues.
Security & Compliance: Ensured security best practices were followed by automating patch management, implementing vulnerability scanning, and maintaining compliance standards across environments. Worked with security teams to review configurations and apply hardening standards to all systems.
Collaboration & Agile Practices: Actively participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, contributing to continuous improvement of DevOps workflows. Worked closely with development and QA teams to ensure the seamless integration of new features with minimal disruptions.
Performance Optimization: Improved application and system performance by fine-tuning server configurations, optimizing network and storage management, and implementing caching solutions to minimize latency. Led initiatives to upgrade servers, databases, and applications, improving overall system performance by 20%.
Disaster Recovery & Backups: Managed and tested disaster recovery (DR) plans, ensuring systems were always recoverable within set timeframes. Worked with the team to create automated backup solutions for critical applications and databases.
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Developed comprehensive documentation on all DevOps processes, deployment strategies, and troubleshooting guides, fostering knowledge sharing within the team. Conducted training sessions to upskill junior engineers on DevOps best practices and tools.

Java Developer

Pfizer

San Diego, CA

03.2020 - 06.2022

Develop application modules using Spring MVC, JSP, JSTL and AJAX on the presentation layer, the business layer is built using spring and the persistent layer uses Hibernate 4.0.
Following AGILE to implement the application.
Developed a RESTful Web Services using Spring MVC Rest and Jersey.
Used Spring Boot to develop the middleware.
Handled Transactions using JDBC and Spring declarative approach.
Implemented Junit Test cases for java middleware.
Implemented various design patterns like Singleton, MVC and Front Controller.
Implemented faster mobile-friendly applications using Twitter Bootstrap framework.
Implements Persistent layer using Spring Hibernate with Spring Boot.
Develop Hibernate.cfg.xml to define the connection pooling which was being provided by Hibernate, create mapping for the POJOs in the application for which tables existed in the back-end DB and develop corresponding HBM files.
Design Web applications using JSP, Servlets, HTML5, CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery and Angular 4.0.
Used Flex profiler sampling to resolve performance issues.
Implement Object-relation mapping in the persistence layer using hibernate with Spring Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) functionality.
Developed Micro Service to provide Restful API utilizing Spring Boot with Spring MVC.
Wrote SPA (Single Page Applications) using RESTful web services plus AJAX and Angular 4.0.
Involve in analysis, specification, design, testing and implementation phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
Implemented BDD with cucumber.
Create a shell script to register data load requests automatically.
Extensively used Java 1.8 features such as Lambda Expressions, Parallel operations on collections for effective sorting mechanisms and new Date Time API.
Involved in writing application level code to interact with APIs, Restful Web Services using AJAX, JSON.
Used AJAX to make the web application more interactive without refreshing the data frequently.
Implemented Micro Services based Cloud Architecture using Spring Boot.
Expertise in Amazon Web Services like VPC, EC2, IAM, Route 53, S3, Dynamo DB, RDS, Elastic Cache, Storage Gateway, Direct Connect, Cloud Watch, API Gateway, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Elastic Beanstalk etc.
Design and implementation of a dependency manager for the process involved in a given task using graphs.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Gujarat Technological University

Amedabad, Gujarat

05.2025 - 05.2016

Skills

Cloud Computing: Amazon web services(AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platforms(GCP)
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
Automation: Ansible, Chef
Databases: Mongo as a service(MaaS), MySQL as a service(MSaaS), PostgreSQL
Frameworks: Struts 20, JSF 30, Spring 3x/2x, Apache Camel

Monitoring and logging: Grafana, ELK Stack, ITRS, AppDynamics, Kibana
Agile Development: Scrum, Kanban
Operating Systems: Windows 10/8/7/NT/XP/2000/98, Unix, Linux
Design Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Test Driven

Accomplishments

Coin Vault Integration, Successfully integrated Coin Vault for secure secrets management, reducing the risk of data breaches by implementing robust encryption and key management policies.
CyberArk Implementation, Onboarded CyberArk to manage privileged accounts and access, significantly reducing security risks and improving compliance with internal policies.
Non-Compliant FIDs Remediation, Led the effort to monitor and manage non-compliant FIDs, ensuring all devices were brought into compliance and mitigating any security threats.
Disaster Recovery & COB Testing, Actively participated in COB testing, ensuring business continuity procedures were properly validated and recovery procedures were optimized to meet organizational needs. Improved recovery time objectives (RTO) by 20%.
Cost Reduction, Reduced infrastructure costs by 15% by optimizing resource usage in cloud environments and utilizing spot instances for non-critical workloads.
Kubernetes Implementation, Implemented Kubernetes-based container orchestration that increased application scalability and ensured high availability in production environments, reducing system downtime by 20%.
Monitoring System Deployment, Led a team of 3 engineers in deploying a new monitoring and alerting system, improving incident response times and reducing troubleshooting time by 30%.

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