Rahul Bhatia Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Managing a team of 27 DevOps Engineers supporting 100+ applications with a Strategic goal of digitally transforming these applications using DevOps principles around Infrastructure Automation, CICD, and Security in the AWS cloud environment without wavering away from core leadership principles within Fannie Mae.📌Collaboration with C-level management, developed a fully automated CICD pipeline, “Push Button,” which enables on-demand Production deployments. Capability helped Fannie Mae’s speed to market by 75% and reduced the failure rate by 80% in Production. DevOps tools used are Jenkins, Terraform, ServiceNow for change validation/approval, and REST calls to Infosec binary to validate/approve NFRs. With this effort, deployed AWS resources, such as Route53, API Gateway, ALB, Lambda, Microservices in ECS, Global DB-SQL Aurora and NoSQL Dynamo.📌 Implemented Blue-Green Deployment strategy within the same AWS region in Production by configuring listener rules in ALB that enables zero downtime for applications, thus minimizing impact on the customer experience. In addition, work-life balance for employees and contractors is restored as Production deployments are performed during business hours, thus bringing ROI of > $1.8M per year.📌 Developed capability for industry practice “YBYO – You Build, You Operate,” where squads are T-shaped and all the skillsets required from ideation to production. As a result, squads are empowered with production support tasks like triggering Lambdas, starting ECS tasks, inserting, updating, and deleting S3 bucket objects, and inserting messages in SQS, et al., thus eliminating the need for L1/L2 support teams. This capability brought an ROI of > $2.65M per year.📌 Integrated code quality and vulnerabilities tools, SAST - SonarQube, NexusIQ, Twistlock, Checkmarx, and Fortify into the CICD pipeline and DAST tool Netsparker to transition Organization from DevOps to DevSecOps. This effort reduced the security findings in apps by 70%.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Led a team of 5 DevOps Engineers on a time-critical application delivery, “Obamacare,” which allowed millions of uninsured people with medical insurance and reducing insurance costs for millions of other individuals.📌 Developed Jenkins declarative CICD DevOps pipeline with deployment tool Urban Code Deploy (UCD) to reduce deployment lead time and improve deployment frequency to provide key insurance features delivered efficiently to customers with an improved time of 80%.📌 Used configuration management tool Puppet to install the software in the virtual machines. It helped maintain consistency between various environments, thus eliminating manual configuration updates. As a result, it led to a stable production environment and reduced the failure rate by 60%📌Leadership responsibilities– hiring, performance evaluation, supervision of 5 directs, IT capacity planning, Task Order and SOW management.

Mclean, Va, Us

Engaged as a Senior DevOps in Automation team's delivery of the Single-Family Bond Administration and Disclosures validations, the development of new Disclosures and SF Forbearance initiatives.📌 Designed, Architected and Implemented build and deployment automation for ETL tool Informatica and Reporting tool Cognos using REST APIs. As a result, increased deployment rate for new software releases by 30%.📌Mentored DevOps and new hire Developers on automating build for Java applications using MAVEN by creating templates for common use-cases and storing those in a repository, thus reducing cycle time by 25%.📌Leadership responsibilities – hiring, mentoring new hires on DevOps tools, automation, process and practices. Documented onboarding process for new hires thus allowing them to provide value to the application teams in less than 2 weeks.

San Francisco, California, Us

As a senior DevOps Engineer in the Single-Family division for SOX relevant assets, focusing on production validations critical for SF disclosures.📌Migrated 60+ applications from SCM tool ClearCase to open source Subversion thus saving organization $1.5M/year license cost.📌Implemented "BODM - build once deploy many", an essential principle of software development. This approach enabled easy deployment and testability thus increasing productivity of applications, speed to market by 30%.📌Pioneered transition of 30+ business applications from complex release based branching strategy to trunk based development thus reducing the complexity of merging events and keeping code current, eventually saving Developers time.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

As a DevOps Engineer, I supported Single-Family application development of Excel Document Extraction and Document Validation, provided technical support on SF 4th Dimension squad and organized weekly Tech Forum.📌Simplified "build and deploy" automation by segregating configuration changes from the JAR artifact. This change helped manage configuration changes in Production with an operation ticket, thus eliminating a need for the big-bang major release requiring CAB approval. It improved the productivity of stakeholders by 50%.📌Pioneered transition of applications from ANT to MAVEN builds to reduce the complexity associated with dependencies as all are downloaded automatically. With standard MAVEN structure, time to learn, implement and build an Artifact, reduced cycle time by 60%.📌Championed working with Internal and External Auditors to prove that no single employee can deploy a software code change unilaterally into production as per the SOX act. Also, maintained internal controls to ensure NPI customer data stayed private.📌Automated post-deployment smoke tests using Python programming to ensure application context path is reachable, logs of web servers and app servers like Tomcat and WebLogic are free of errors and exceptions. As a result, helped quickly identify the root cause of the issue, thus reducing turnaround time by 50%. 📌Documented and maintained DevOps standards and procedures, including branching, versioning, configuration item identification, SCM best practices, baseline management and governance. Documentation helped newly hired DevOps during initial 2 weeks of onboarding.

Masters, Computer Science

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