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Kavitha Thirukandalam

Edison,NJ

Summary

With over 6 years of experience in application support and DevOps Developer, my goal is to enhance IT operations while utilizing my expertise in DevOps technologies and cloud infrastructure to bring value to a new team

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

RDE Systems LLC
02.2016 - 05.2019
  • Helped in migrating 6 different applications for scalable & secure app deployment on AWS
  • Built a highly available AWS 3-tier architecture using EC2, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), and Application Load Balancer (ALB) to ensure scalability and fault tolerance
  • Enhanced cloud security by configuring IAM roles and policies, ACM-managed SSL certificates, AWS WAF, Shield and CloudTrail, reducing security incidents and ensuring compliance with HIPPA regulations
  • Optimized performance and cost efficiency with Amazon RDS, S3, CloudFront and Route 53, enabling low-latency content delivery and DNS management
  • Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 20% through resource optimization and efficient scaling strategies

Application Support Engineer

RDE Systems LLC
01.2013 - 01.2016
  • Was level 2 support dev for 6 different HIPAA-compliant applications
  • Responsible for interacting with respective teams to resolve issues
  • Used ColdFusion, JavaScript and SQL as the primary coding languages to run applications
  • Used AWS cloud to deploy and maintain the applications
  • Improved customer satisfaction by promptly addressing support tickets and providing accurate solutions
  • Experience using collaboration apps like Asana and Jira
  • Reduced downtime to 50% for clients by swiftly addressing and troubleshooting software defects and bugs
  • Enhanced system performance for clients through monitoring and troubleshooting of technical issues
  • Streamlined support processes by creating detailed documentation and knowledge base articles for common issues
  • Provided training sessions to end-users as needed, improving their understanding and proficiency in using applications effectively

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

NJIT
Newark, NJ
06-2013

Skills

    Networking - Subnets, VPC, Load Balancer, Route 53
    Cloud Platforms - AWS
    Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform, CloudFormation
    Configuration Management Tool - Ansible

    Scripting Languages - Bash, PowerShell
    Containerization - Docker
    Container Orchestration - Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, EKS
    Monitoring and Logging - Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail
    CI Tools - Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild
    CD Tools - Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy
    Security - IAM, SSH, KMS, VPN, Firewall
    Source Code Management: Git, GitHub

    Databases - SQL, RDS

    Operating Systems - Linux, Windows

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) - JUL 2024
  • Hashi Corp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) - NOV 2024

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
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Full TimePart TimeContract WorkGig Work

Work Location

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCareer advancementWork from home option

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

RDE Systems LLC
02.2016 - 05.2019

Application Support Engineer

RDE Systems LLC
01.2013 - 01.2016

Master of Science - Computer Science

NJIT

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