Akash Kakran Email & Phone Number

Mohali District, Punjab, India

• Devops Engineer (Azure and AWS)
• Enhanced application stability, achieving a 70% reduction in IIS downtime incidents through strategicimprovements.
• Streamlined deployment processes, instituting zero downtime methodologies for IIS clusters with legacyapplications, enhancing operational efficiency.
• Bolstered system resilience by advancing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) by ~60%, utilizing Azure basedproactive log analysis and deeply integrated alerting using application insights and Azure monitor.
• Led the modernization of Azure DevOps pipelines, optimizing deployments and artifact generation processes.
• Administered IIS clusters, ensuring seamless operation of Dotnet Framework applications.

Amritsar/Ludhiana Area

• Devops Engineer (Oracle and AWS)
• Directed cloud migration from AWS to Oracle Cloud, utilizing ARM architecture servers to achieve a 60% cost reduction.
• Established High Availability (HA) clusters with Blue/Green deployment strategies, tripling deploymentfrequency across environments using Jenkins and Docker Swarm.
• Dockerization of internal tooling for the DevOps team, streamlining processes and improving resourceutilization.
• Integrated Keycloak SSO for enhanced security and streamlined access across internal tools and applications.

Chandigarh, India

• Custom-built high-performance servers, specializing in assembly and configuration, utilizing AMD Threadripper and Intel Xeon processors.
• Developed bespoke cooling solutions and performance tuning for server CPUs, ensuring optimal operational conditions.
• Engineered multi-redundancy NAS setups, enhancing data storage reliability and accessibility.