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Kalavathi Y

Kalavathi Y

Round Rock,TX

Summary

Around 12+ years in IT industry with experience in DevOps, Kubernetes, Architecture, Development and Software Configuration Management which includes Build setup, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management process setup.

Certified AWS solution architect Professional and Kubernetes admin.

Knowledge in Amazon AWS Cloud which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, MSK, VPC, Subnets, ELB, Auto scaling and Security Groups.

Hands on Experience in Devops tools like Terraform, Git, GitHub, Maven,Nexus, Jenkins, Ansible, Datadog, ECS Kubernetes CI/CD, troubleshooting, monitoring .

Hands on experience on monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Hands on experience on configuring logstash to ingest logs.
Good experience with helm charts deployments .
Experience on IoT platforms.

Hands on Experience in DevOps tools like Terraform, Git, GitHub, Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Ansible, TeamCity, CircleCI, Datadog, ECS .

Experience in Docker images and virtualizing applications to cloud using Kubernetes, docker-compose.

Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to coordinated job tasks and strong commitment to work.

Experience on Amazon Sagemaker for Machine learning operations deployment.

Explored and implemented POC on chatbots using Amazon Bedrock models.

Enthusiastic to learn new technologies.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Thinklusive INC
08.2023 - Current
  • Worked with Kubernetes on EKS environments.
  • Worked on SageMaker for MLOPS deployment.
  • Deployed AKHQ using Kubernetes Helm charts.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting using Datadog.
  • Worked on AWS cost optimization using Cloud Custodian and implemented policies to optimize cloud costs.
  • Worked on Carpenter to optimize Kubernetes costs.
  • Involved in cluster upgrades and cluster deployment.
  • Worked with Terraform.
  • Worked on Kubernetes backup and restore using Velero.
  • Worked on Terraform automation and collaboration (Tacos) to deploy Terraform in the cloud.
  • Worked on cert-manager to deploy in Kubernetes.
  • Participated in Sprint planning and other sprint activities.
  • Effectively collaborated with new joiners on the onboarding process.
  • Explored and implemented chatbots (POC) using Amazon Bedrock models.
  • Explored Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for documents using GenAI embeddings.

Security DevOps Engineer-III

Robert Half Inc
03.2021 - 07.2023
  • Working with kubernetes on EKS environments
  • Used kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment,scaling and management of dockercontainers.
  • Used logstash to ingest logs from AWS.
  • Used Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.
  • Used shell,python for scripting along with other activities
  • Working on IoT environment to test MQTT client
  • Working on AWS cost optimization
  • Maintaining docker container clusters managed by kubernetes linux,GIT,Docker on AWS
  • Involved with working on Terraform cloud formation and python scripting.

Sr AWS DevOps Engineer

9Logic Technologies
03.2021 - 03.2022
  • Built entire infrastructure on AWS using hub & spoke models for all environments
  • Set up Single Sign On (SSO) connection with Google Apps identity provider to login to AWS console & cli
  • Implemented multi-tier architecture in a VPC using R53, ALB, ECS and Aurorapostgres db
  • Automated using cloud formation & terraform
  • Solid experience in setting up ECS cluster, services & tasks
  • Automated infrastructure & application pipe line using GitLab CI.

Sr AWS DevOps Engineer

Chubb Insurance
03.2019 - 03.2021

Devops Engineer

DHL Logistics
12.2017 - 03.2019
  • Experience in writing AWS cloud formation templates to spin up the entire infrastructure
  • Experience is setting up VPC Peering & Creating brand new VPCs, public subnet, private subnet, Route tables
  • Experience in setting up NAT instances and NAT Gateways
  • Implemented security policies using ACM certificates, security groups and NACL
  • Experience in setting up CI/CD pipeline to provision automatic deployment using cloud formation, team city and Ansible playbooks
  • Configured team city jobs to spin up the infrastructure and to deploy the application to ec2 instances using Ansible Playbooks and roles
  • Experience in setting up 20 + CI/CD pipelines for various applications based on team requirements.

Devops Engineer

AIA Insurance
04.2017 - 11.2017
  • Oversee the code releases and work with dev and IT staff
  • Creating and implementing systems to analyze data to improve existing systems
  • Monitor project health and keep track of everything in all systems.

System Engineer

Nielsen
04.2013 - 03.2017
  • To determine the problems with specific system
  • Provide solution for issues in process, design in new and existing systems
  • Upgrading and maintaining the existing system.

IT Analyst

Value Labs
04.2010 - 11.2012
  • Created a separate environment to accept high volumes of request from Digital Systems (My Vodafone) only with OSB Components
  • Created custom BPEL Processes based on the requirement and integrated successfully with OSB and deployed to the WebLogic server
  • Designed and Developed the CI/CD architecture for the government project.

Skills

  • Infrastructure / Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, Confluent Cloud,Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Bash script
  • Application / Web development: Python
  • Monitoring Tools: Datadog, Cloud watch, prometheus,Grafana
  • Testing Tools: Selenium, SOAP UI, RESTCLIENT, Postman, JMeter
  • Database: Oracle, SQL, NoSQL
  • Scripting: Bash, Python
  • Version Control: GitHub, Gitlab, SVN
  • Project Management: Jira, Confluence, Rally
  • Critical Thinking
  • Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Team work

Certification

  • Certified AWS solution architect Professional
  • Certified AWS solution architect Associate
  • Kubernetes Administrator

Currentlocation

Austin, TX

Hobbies and Interests

  • Cooking
  • Gardening
  • Yoga

Timeline

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Thinklusive INC
08.2023 - Current

Security DevOps Engineer-III

Robert Half Inc
03.2021 - 07.2023

Sr AWS DevOps Engineer

9Logic Technologies
03.2021 - 03.2022

Sr AWS DevOps Engineer

Chubb Insurance
03.2019 - 03.2021

Devops Engineer

DHL Logistics
12.2017 - 03.2019

Devops Engineer

AIA Insurance
04.2017 - 11.2017

System Engineer

Nielsen
04.2013 - 03.2017

IT Analyst

Value Labs
04.2010 - 11.2012
Kalavathi Y