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SANDEEP GORU

Orlando

Summary

Results-driven Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with over 15 years of IT experience across diverse clients. Specializes in designing and implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, leveraging expertise in Python, Jenkins, Ansible, and Chef. Proven track record of architecting complex enterprise environments utilizing IBM, Red Hat, AWS, Atlassian, and JBoss products. Committed to optimizing systems for enhanced performance and reliability.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Solutions Specialist

Deloitte Consulting LLP
Orlando
04.2017 - Current
  • Consulting with multiple state clients on modernization, migration to the cloud, containerization of applications, DevOps culture, and also best practices to reduce deployment cycle time and increase productivity for developers.
  • Hired, trained, and led the L2 teams and peers.
  • Automated the build and deployments using Ansible and Jenkins by creating and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines, eliminating 80 percent of the manual efforts.
  • SME for IBM, HCL, AWS, Atlassian products used in the projects, installed, configured, maintained them and troubleshooting the issues across all the environments on 100+ AWS Linux EC2 instances
  • Involved in change management process and working through sprints and reduced AWS cloud costs by optimizing the EC2 instances for the efficient usage across all environments

Senior Analyst E-Commerce Engineer

Macys Systems and Technology
San Francisco
09.2015 - 03.2017
  • Led an end-to-end project by working with teams from spinning up bare metal and IBM cloud server across multiple data centers, creating firewalls and through installing and configuring JBOSS servers and deploying through CI/CD pipelines
  • Refactoring cookbooks and creating new ones for new installs and configurations used Chef and shell scripting and for health checks of the servers across all environments
  • Trained and led the offshore teams with the on-going projects
  • Worked with network teams, dev teams, performance teams and monitoring teams to resolve issues as part of the project lead

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Philadelphia
03.2014 - 08.2015
  • Implemented middleware solutions for customer engagements as part of a 9-member team for a smooth install of the servers and daily deployments across multiple environments
  • Designed, installed and configured IBM products for the developers to deploy code and automated these deployments by using Jenkins and reduced the deploy times
  • Automated day to day activities and played a key role in resolving production and non-prod troubleshooting calls when needed and training, leading the offshore team involving day to day activities

Middleware Administrator

Pioneer Technologies Inc.
Harrisburg
11.2011 - 02.2014
  • Implemented multiple environments for various clients for 20-60 applications
  • Worked closely with developers to build their development pipeline and deploy code to various environments
  • Participate in deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production system

WebSphere Administrator

Ample IT Solutions.
Dallas
02.2008 - 10.2011
  • Have worked with multiple clients installing and configuring IBM HTTP server, WebSphere Application Server v5.0/6.x/7.x and v6.0 and Websphere Commerce, Process Server, Click Software on UNIX platform and Windows 2008 server
  • Configuring Web Server interfaces, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Server and monitored application log files, performance tuning and tuning for DB pool connections

Education

Master - Electrical and Computer Science

Cleveland State University
12.2007

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications

JNTU Hyderabad
05.2004

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS EKS
  • Unix/Linux
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Containers
  • Agile
  • System Administration
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving
  • Active Learning
  • Time Management
  • Jenkins
  • Argo CD
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Shell Scripting
  • Git
  • Bitbucket

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Professional
  • AWS Developer and AWS SysOps
  • Cloud, Python, Kubernetes and Terraform courses in Coursera and other similar platforms

Accomplishments

  • Won multiple applause awards including playing a critical role in getting a 9+ year contract with a client and for successful completion of the projects.
  • Have been employee of the month a few times for outstanding work in successfully deploying applications and resolving the issues raised in the timely manner.

Leadership Experience

  • Currently leading the team of 4 junior consultants with day-to-day activities, setting up of new environments and troubleshoot applications to resolve issues.
  • Led and trained a team of 9 engineers including 4 offshore engineers to installing, configurations and the smooth running of the applications.
  • Was vice president of a large organization of 300+ students while pursuing masters in my school and organized many social events over the last 10 years.

Timeline

Senior Solutions Specialist

Deloitte Consulting LLP
04.2017 - Current

Senior Analyst E-Commerce Engineer

Macys Systems and Technology
09.2015 - 03.2017

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
03.2014 - 08.2015

Middleware Administrator

Pioneer Technologies Inc.
11.2011 - 02.2014

WebSphere Administrator

Ample IT Solutions.
02.2008 - 10.2011

Master - Electrical and Computer Science

Cleveland State University

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications

JNTU Hyderabad

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