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➤ Led transition of traditional virtual machines hosting Angular .NET applications to containerized Azure Kubernetes Services. ➤ Developed Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and ArgoCD manifests to streamline deployment processes during the migration of a software suite from Rackspace to Azure.➤ Developed CI/CD pipelines to automate the building of Angular and .NET Docker applications and their deployment to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) using ArgoCD and Helm. ➤Orchestrated the fully automated migration of over 800 databases from an on-premises SQL Windows server to Azure SQL Server using PowerShell script to invoke Data Migration Services (DMS) jobs and maintain state of each migrating database .➤ Architected a centralized DNS setup on AWS, facilitating DNS queries for all AWS accounts and Azure subscriptions, encompassing both private and public hosted zones.➤ Transferred an on-premises file server to Azure Premium FileShare with bi-directional synchronization enabled.➤ Implemented Security and DevOps best practices throughout the infrastructure.➤ Developed a Go-based Terraform provider for deploying k3s clusters on designated servers.➤ Created a React/Python application utilizing OpenAI text embedding models to assist the management team in allocating resources for projects. The application analyzes past experience, upcoming project details (SOW and SPW), and the current availability of team members in terms of hours.

➤ Developed a customized solution using Kafka MirrorMaker 2 to synchronize clusters with 1000+ topics across on-premises data centers and AWS (MSK).➤ Implemented a specialized approach for exporting EKS cluster logs to AWS CloudWatch and an on-premises ELK stack using fluent-bit and fluentd.➤ Utilized App Mesh for east-west traffic management in EKS clusters, contributing to the migration of 70+ servers from on-premises to EKS with enhanced security.➤ Orchestrated continuous delivery pipelines with ArgoCD across diverse Kubernetes clusters, incorporating manual and automated sync policies.➤ Established a robust, highly available AWS-to-on-premises connectivity solution using Direct Connect as the primary and VPN tunnel as the secondary connection via Transit Gateway.➤ Proficient in deploying AWS Control Tower and implementing the well-architected framework.➤ Implemented Karpenter with GitOps best practices for autonomous EKS cluster autoscaling, independent of EC2 Auto Scaling Groups.➤ Actively involved in proof-of-concepts (POCs) to integrate various SaaS products and services, aiming to enhance infrastructure efficiency and reliability.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

➤ Developed a Generic Terraform module that supported the deployment of a number of AWS services based on the user inputs. This saved a lot of time and repetition for the Cloud Engineering team.➤ Developed a python web scraping application using Flask with slack bot integration for price comparison of products on e-commerce websites➤ Developed a solution to monitor company wide aws cost based on team/project/user using python and slack bot integration which send weekly notifications to user based on the usage limit

➤ Development and Maintenance of Web Application for factorial material management and tracking supplier data using .Net, React js, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and SQL ➤ Automated, email triggers for customers using Nodejs api, cron expressions and extensive manual testing of Application workflow to ensure defect free flow.

➤ Trained on fundamentals of CSharp and SQL➤ Worked on a fullstack capstone project with .Net technology and Angular UI