Nikhil Kumar Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.