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Shashikumar Akler

DevOps / AWS Engineer
Chicago,IL

Summary

  • Around 4 years of work experience as DevOps Engineer in implementing Continuous Integration and Deployments and configuration management tools.
  • Experienced in using AWS resources such as EC2, S3, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, ECS, Cloud watch, Cloud Trail, Route53, Lambda Serverless, Firewall, load balancers, auto-scaling, security groups and Cloud formation.
  • Using Terraform modules wrote automation scripts for creating resources in the cloud and versioned them in S3.
  • Implemented software configuration management solutions using ansible and Jenkins.
  • Hands-On Experience on Docker and Kubernetes based container deployments using Docker Files and Helm charts.
  • Hands-on knowledge of working with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana.
  • Involved in setting up JIRA as bug tracking system and customized workflows or plugins for the JIRA bug/issue tracker.
  • Worked on source code management tools like GIT and Bitbucket.
  • Involved in designing, architecting and utilization of almost all the AWS stack including EC2, VPC, DynamoDB, Cloud watch, S3, SQS, SNS, Cloud formation, RDS, Elastic search, EBS, Amazon Cloud Front, Elastic Load balancer, Elastic Beanstalk, AMI, Cloud trail, Lambda.
  • Experience in Configuration, Deployment, and Management of AWS Infrastructure using AWS Control Tower and related services.
  • Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery tools Jenkins.
  • Virtualized Docker Images on Amazon EC2, created Docker files, used Nexus Repository as a Private Docker Registry for Docker Images.
  • Configure the app logs, syslog, network, and tomcat logs in Splunk.
  • Worked on configuration management, change Mgmt., Incident Mgmt., problem Mgmt. and release event Mgmt. to integrate existing IT services and components.
  • Experience on Ansible and Ansible Tower to automate repetitive tasks, to deploy critical applications quickly, and proactively manage the changes and wrote playbooks to manage Web applications.
  • Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
  • Working experience with Python and scripting languages.
  • Passionate in learning new technologies and improving work environments with best practices.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Quantum Technologies
09.2019 - 08.2023
  • Worked on AWS services like EC2, S3, ELB (Load Balancers), RDS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, Cloud Watch, Elastic Beanstalk Cloud Formation, IAM, SNS etc
  • Generated alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch feature
  • Supervised and Managed IAM accounts and IAM policies to meet security compliance obligations
  • Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Built a VPC, established the site-to- site VPN connection between Data Center and AWS
  • Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
  • Analyze cloud infrastructure and recommend improvements for performance gains and cost efficiencies
  • Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up production processes
  • Creating the DOCKER containers for managing the application life cycle
  • Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices
  • Used KUBERNETES to deploy, load balance and manage docker containers in multiple clusters and namespaces
  • Upgrading the tools and services with latest versions and images for hassle free work environment for the developers
  • Migration of environments from one KUBERNETES cluster to another and managing resources for the clusters
  • Created automated scripts for the Jenkins job to run and scan all the repositories overnight
  • Developed TERRAFORM scripts to Destroy environments after Closure of Business and Create them back before Resume of Business to save costs incurring
  • Generated Shell scripts in Jenkins for entire CI/CD pipeline to be automated from development to deployment in the environments
  • Working on Quality control tools like SONARQUBE and VERACODE to ensure proper scanning of code developed
  • Writing shell scripts to automate the jobs and scheduling cron jobs for job automation using commands with Crontab
  • Participating in agile ceremonies and working in sprints
  • Assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using Git
  • Worked on JIRA for defect/issues logging & tracking and documented all my work using CONFLUENCE
  • Collaborating with other DevOps engineers to maintain a deployment and management strategy
  • Worked efficiently with applications development team to implement, test and rollout new patch releases
  • Interaction with the vendors on various issues needed for troubleshooting , Providing Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Education

Masters - Information Technology Management

Webster University
St. Louis, MO
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Maven

  • Gradel

  • Jira

  • CloudWatch

  • Datadog

  • Dynatrace

  • Prometheus

  • Grafana

  • Apache

  • nginx

  • GIT

  • Bit bucket

  • Gitlab

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Helm

  • Jenkins

  • GitHub Actions

  • Ansible

  • Terraform

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Shell scripting

  • Python

  • Typescript

  • Groovy

  • Linux

  • MacOS

  • AWS RDS

  • DynamoDB

  • Kafka

  • Redis

  • Visual studio code

  • IntelliJ IDEA

Timeline

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Quantum Technologies
09.2019 - 08.2023

Masters - Information Technology Management

Webster University
04.2001 -

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