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United States

Columbus, OH, US

• Planned and executed infrastructure decisions related to managing AKS clusters in a cross-regional active-active architecture hosting 200+ micro-services, high availability and geo-redundancy of Azure resources, and.
• Led the design and implementation of a cross-regional Kafka disaster recovery strategy, leveraging Confluent Cloud Kafka and Confluent Replicator
• Planned, coordinated, and developed tech designs for Java Spring Boot applications, Kafka Connectors, Kafka consumers, Kafka producers, Kafka Streams, and Function Apps, considering business requirements, performance.
• Proactively identified observability gaps in existing monitoring and alerting strategy and implemented new alerts for AKS, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Azure Data Factory, and Azure API Management
• Maintained and upgraded infrastructure components, including AKS nodes, Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, Istio control plane and gateway, KEDA operator, Kafka Connect, Confluent Replicator, and Azure Data Factory.
• Identified significant cloud cost-saving opportunities and performed infrastructure capacity planning, resulting in purchasing Azure resource reservations, optimizing VM SKUs, right-sizing Kubernetes deployment.

Columbus, OH, US

• Built and maintained Terraform infrastructure as code for Azure resources including Azure Kubernetes Service, storage accounts, Key Vault, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Data Factory, SQL Server
• Developed Java Spring Boot Kafka consumers, producers, and Kafka Streams applications
• Created infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards and alerts for proactively detecting performance degradation and failures, using Splunk and Dynatrace
• Built and maintained Gitlab CI/CD templates, Azure DevOps CI/CD templates, and Helm charts used for application build, testing, security scanning, and deployment
• Created templatized Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for standardized and governed SQL database changes, leveraging Liquibase change management
• Maintained and built pipelines for managing Kafka topics, schemas, and consumer groups

Chicago, IL, US

• Migrated emergency call handling Java micro-services to an event-driven architecture, using Kafka
• Developed application testing ensuring low-latency and reliable operation during sustained load, traffic spikes, and Kafka consumer rebalancing
• Created Elasticsearch watchers and Kibana dashboards for proactively identifying application failures
• Built and maintained infrastructure maintenance scripts and Terraform infrastructure as code
• Developed CI/CD pipeline templates for micro-service build, testing, security scanning, and deployment
• Developed and maintained Java libraries and Python tools for monitoring, reporting, and enforcing FedRAMP security requirements

Chicago, IL, US

• Developed services using Node.js for managing ASTRO radio infrastructure data
• Developed and designed user interface for an application used by field engineers to resolve ASTRO radio system security issues, using Typescript andAngular

Chicago, IL, US

• Worked remotely 10-15 hours a week from school
• Deployed internal fork of cert-manager and setup automatic renewal of TLS certificates
• Developed Docker image repository automation tools, using Go
• Contributed to infrastructure management Python and Bash scripts

Chicago, IL, US

• Contributed custom certificate issuer support for internal fork of cert-manager TLS certificate management system, using Go
• Contributed to application deployment Jenkins pipelines