Viduthalai Kanagaraj
Dallas,USA
Summary
Motivated IT professional with over 15 years of experience specializing in the design and implementation of automated solutions and software delivery on cloud-native platforms. Proven problem-solver with a strong passion for learning new tools and technologies, demonstrating adaptability to various team cultures and a proactive approach to analyzing and resolving issues. Expertise in architectural design ensures projects are innovative and adhere to industry standards for ease of debugging. Certified in CKA, AWS, Azure, and Terraform, bringing a robust skill set to drive successful project outcomes.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Infrastructure Engineer
American Airlines
Dallas, TX
07.2023 - Current
- Kubernetes Administrator hosting highly available fault tolerant and secured apps and ensures consistency across all development and production environments.
- Custom Resource Operator (CRD) setup and utilize tools such as istio(service mesh) castai(workload and sku optimization), gpu operators,kserve on k8s platform to efficiently run AI/ML, GPU workloads and models.
- Automate deployments to Cloud and on-premises Infrastructure using Terraform and GHA.
- End-to-end monitoring infrastructure (Logging, Metrics, Tracing) and work closely with other Product Teams to provide the right tooling to measure the reliability of our systems.
- Improves DevOps practices and accelerating delivery and takes a lead role in troubleshooting technical issues and recommending changes to improve resiliency.
- Efficiently handle live production incidents, debug/troubleshoot application, hardware and infrastructure related issues and implement SRE best practices.
- Contribution towards multi-cloud architecture designs, migrations, and implementations. Review and Monitor networking best practices and strong security fundamentals.
DevOps Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
Plano, TX
04.2017 - 07.2023
- Administrated infrastructure and platform application hosted in openshift kubernetes platform, monitored applications using splunk, scheduled and rolled out upgrades and bug fixes
- Designed,built and rolled-out repeatable patterns for DevOps implementation for Webapps (Java/python),BI applications,Oracle Application Express,Teradata,ETL and apache airflow applications using devops tool stacks i.e jenkins,docker,maven,ansible,git, artifactory
- Architected and implemented CICD pipeline solutions for various applications on prem and in cloud (AWS) using cli,terraform and jenkins
- Tools Research, learn and adopt new devops tools and technologies in order to perform poc for the purpose of improvising the existing automated delivery of applications.
- Client :Cigna
- Azure,GCP
- Private Cloud - Symphony | Unity/VMware
DevOps Consultant
Infosys Ltd
Austin, TX
02.2015 - 03.2017
- Enabled team to become CICD compliant, this includes automating components, developing processes, identify and automate build, test & deployment stages using pipelines.
- Designed repeatable patterns of rollouts of self-service solutions using with git, Jenkins, python and other automation tools
- Spearheaded the implementation of Continuous Integration in validating each build using automated smoke test after each deployment, troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Client: AT&T
Senior System Analyst
Infosys Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2012 - 01.2015
- Implemented Selenium Java based- Automation testing for browser-based SAP BI applications.
- Spearheaded Informatica DVO- Automation testing for data warehouse using informatica DVO (Data Validation Option) tool to design and implemented test approach, design, execution, scheduling and result analysis.
- Managed offshore team in knowledge transfer, assigning work, reviewing, tracking the progress, and escalating in case of issues, integrating closely with the development groups to understand and test business requirement needs.
- Client: BP
Automation Specialist
Infosys Ltd, BP UK
London, UK
06.2010 - 06.2012
- Developed automation strategy for the Project using Informatica ETL& BI Selenium Java cucumber automation Frameworks.
- Interacted with Business Analyst and developers at onsite on regular basis, apprise the technical/ functional issues of the offshore team and got it resolved.
- Coordinated in setting up test environment and test data and designed Excel macro-based data validations.
Automation Engineer
Infosys Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2007 - 05.2010
- Identified automation candidates from test cases/test plans/test scenarios and liaised with automation engineer to prepare the automation framework using QTP.
- Involved in writing and documenting entire Test Plans, Functional Test Cases, Test Scripts, Pre Test Conditions, and Test Procedures for various applications.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Information Systems
Bharathiar University
01-2012
Bachelor's degree - Electronics Technology
Bharathiar University
01-2007
Skills
- Containerization and Micro services - Kubernetes OpenShift EKS AKS GKE Helm Docker Images ArgoCD Rancher
- CICD tools - Jenkins Pipeline Code Pipeline Code Deploy Git Hub actions
- IAC - Terraform Cloud Formation ARM AWS CDK
- Monitoring - Splunk Mezmo LogDNA Dynatrace Alert Manager
- Other tools - Maven Ansible Tower udeploy Selenium Web driver Akamai Prometheus Grafana networking load balancing istio mezmo Azure Event Hub Flask OIDC OAuth okta Pingfed Informatica Oracle Data Warehouses/ETL Agile Informatic DVO Apache Air Flow
- Scripting Language - Python Go Java Groovy Linux Shell/Bash
- Databases - Postgres Oracle Teradata MSSQL
- Public Cloud Providers - AWS, Azure,GCP
- Private Cloud - Symphony Unity/VMware
Certification
- Azure Fundamentals, 08/2023 Microsoft Azure
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 06/2023 The Linux Foundation
- Terraform Associate, 04/2023 HashiCorp
- Developer - Associate, 05/2018 Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- SysOps Administrator - Associate, 04/2018 Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Solution Architect - Associate, 04/2018 Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Timeline
Sr Infrastructure Engineer
American Airlines
07.2023 - Current
DevOps Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
04.2017 - 07.2023
DevOps Consultant
Infosys Ltd
02.2015 - 03.2017
Senior System Analyst
Infosys Ltd
07.2012 - 01.2015
Automation Specialist
Infosys Ltd, BP UK
06.2010 - 06.2012
Automation Engineer
Infosys Ltd
08.2007 - 05.2010
Bachelor's degree - Electronics Technology
Bharathiar University
Master of Business Administration - Information Systems
Bharathiar University