Nikhil Kumar Email & Phone Number

Markham, On, Ca

Markham, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Analyze and review the requirements, identified process improvement and automation opportunities within the release process to continuously improve the overall product quality. • Implemented and managed release processes for code through development, test and production environments • Designed and implemented multiple deployment strategies using CI/CD Pipeline through automation with enterprise GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar Nexus, Docker and AWS AMI's in Linux environment. • Worked with many different concepts of Chef like Roles, Environments, Data Bags, Knife and Chef Server Admin/Organizations. • Scripted Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize product configuration, altering production support scripts to Chef Recipes and AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes. • Involved in designing and deploying various applications utilizing almost the entire AWS stack (EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling. • Used Terraform Plan to meticulously detect and analyze the changes that will be inflicted after Terraform Apply. • Extensively used Ansible Configuration management to deploy packages with the required build artifacts from Artifactory and facilitate a stable and scalable build and deploy infrastructure. • Responsible for writing Bash, Shell, Perl, Python scripts to ping servers and adding users to the boxes and proficient in scripting languages to automate daily activities. • Developed Gradle and Maven scripts to automate the compilation, deployment and testing of Web and J2EE applications. • Built end to end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins to retrieve code, compile applications, perform tests and push build artifacts to Nexus using Nexus antifactory plug-in. • Set up the build and deployment automation for Java base project by using JENKINS and Maven.

Waterloo, On, Ca

• Involved in maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB and SNS services in AWS cloud. Used Ansible Automation tools for configuration management in different systems. • Utilize Cloud formation and Ansible by creating DevOps processes for consistent and reliable deployment methodology. • Managed AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT env. • Hands on experience in EC2, VPC, Subnets, Routing tables, Internet gateways, IAM, Route53, VPC peering, S3, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, SNS on AWS. • Integrated the CI workflow with static code analysis tool: SonarQube and generated code coverage metrics. Create AMI images of critical EC2 instances as backup.• Experience in managing configuration of web applications and deploying through AWS cloud server by using the configuration management tool Chef. • Expertise on setting up build and deployment automation for Java based project by using Jenkins, Git Maven• Managing and creating a pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins. • Improving the Performance of Jenkins by implementing the setup of Master-slave architecture. • Setting up the jobs for Continuous Integration Pipeline, also to execute test cases using Jenkins. • Automated Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment setup using Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible. • Extensive experience using Maven Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (JAR, WAR & EAR) from source code. • Configured GIT with Jenkins and schedule jobs using Poll SCM/Web hooks. • Ensuring that the servers and environments are available for developments and testing results are meeting the expectation. • Assisting Clients to understand issues and help/coordinate with multiple teams to resolve issues and make the environment stable. • Implemented and Enhanced the Existing Scripts which are developed in Shell, Perl, Ruby and Python.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

• Designed and implemented Continuous Integration process using tools like Hudson with approval from development and other affected teams. • Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process. • Designed and implemented public facing websites on Amazon Web Services (AWS). • Developed Shell/Bash Scripts for Automation purpose. • Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using GIT source control. • Wrote ANT and MAVEN Scripts to automate the build process. • Developed build and deployment scripts using Ant and Maven as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments. • Involved in Research of the project application architecture to support/resolve Build, Compile and Test issues/problems. • Experience with Chef Enterprise as well as On-Premise, Installed Workstation, Bootstrapping Nodes, Wrote Recipes and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server. • Experience in Chef& Knife to manage the interface between Chef Workstation and your chef server.• Carried Deployments and builds on various environments using (CI) tool Jenkins. Developed and implemented the software release management for the release of web applications. • Setup and configuration of Web servers using Apache and NGINX. • Designed a customized Status Reporting tool used currently, based on the specific requirements using J2EE/Struts and Web Sphere Application Server with DB2 as Database. • Networking and Infrastructure trouble shooting and Administration experience - TCP/IP, DNS etc. • Co-coordinated Instance Refreshes and Environment Re-base lining. • Coordinated all the IT projects successfully by resolving release interdependencies and planning release. • Planning, scheduling and documenting releases at code Freeze Periods. Sole person to be responsible for Release/Change control Process