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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Enhanced KubeArmor's existing VM security functionality, focusing on improving its feature set and expanding capabilities in unorchestrated containers and non-Kubernetes environments.Developed and optimized 3 dynamic configuration interfaces (via karmor.yaml, gRPC, and CLI), allowing for real-time updates without restarts, improving configuration efficiency by 20%.Streamlined the installation process by refining the karmor install command for VMs, reducing deployment complexity and improving installation time by 25%.Extended karmor CLI with imperative policy management capabilities, enabling faster policy addition/deletion with a 20% reduction in operational overhead.Improved policy validation accuracy for non-Kubernetes workloads, reducing policy enforcement errors by 15% and enhancing security in VM environments.Strengthened host policy recommendations for VMs and unorchestrated containers, improving security posture compliance by 10%.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Revamped the QA Jenkins pipeline, optimizing it to utilize all 8 cores for various workflows (Frontend, website, engagement app), resulting in a significant reduction in testing time by up to 4 to 8 times.Spearheaded the daily deployment process of production code through an enhanced rolling deployment strategy on Kubernetes, orchestrating seamless updates across 5+ systems and leveraging automated tools to minimize downtime and enhance system reliability.Migrated bash-based deployment scripts to Helm charts, simplifying the deployment process, optimizing deployment time, and enhancing maintainability in the Kubernetes environment.Established a robust monitoring infrastructure by configuring alerts for PostgreSQL 13, specifically targeting long idling transactions, locks, and max concurrent connections, providing immediate visibility into potential issues and enabling swift resolution.Enhanced operational insights by setting up the Fluentd logging agent to push detailed, enriched application logs to New Relic, facilitating comprehensive analysis and streamlined troubleshooting, thus deepening the understanding of application behavior.Led SOC 2 evidence collection, coordinating efforts for certification and actively contributing to resolving vulnerabilities identified during VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing).Researched and analyzed the feasibility of replicating self-hosted read replicas, effectively reducing the load on the primary database replica, which decreased average CPU consumption and minimized alert occurrences.Researched the feasibility of Istio service mesh and implemented rate limiting using the NGINX Ingress Controller in a Kubernetes environment to enhance service performance and reliability.

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Alwar, Rajasthan, India

Conducted in-depth research on CPU usage, identifying over-provisioned infrastructure, leading to significant cost savings by reducing unnecessary resources.Set up Prometheus monitoring and Grafana dashboards on EC2 instances, revealing that the majority of servers were idle 24/7, contributing to further optimization efforts.Containerized applications to streamline deployments, enhancing the development of an optimal CI/CD pipeline.Pioneered the successful implementation of 8+ robust Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, automating build, test, and deployment processes.Executed a successful migration involving the seamless transition of 300+ repositories from Bitbucket to GitHub.Implemented comprehensive testing methodologies and conducted over 50 robust tests to establish secure hierarchical access controls for repositories and CI/CD pipelines, enhancing overall development efficiency.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Deployed and maintained CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins for faster and efficient build flowWrote bash scripts for automating setup for configuration on 10+ serversDeployed and configured server monitoring service using Grafana including data sources like Prometheus, Node exporter, Loki etc in both headed and headless modes

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Acted as General secretary for the Club and promoted Open Source software in the college among freshers by conducting several events

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Created and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using GitHub Actions andincreased development and testing efficiency by 30% by eliminating 70% of manual deploymentDeployed Server monitoring services including Grafana with utilities like Prometheus, Loki and Node exporter to enable real-time server monitoring and maintained 99% server up-time of Production & Development server and build pipelinesAdministered and performed successful migration of server from Oracle Cloud to AWS Cloud andimplemented infrastructure-as-configuration with Terraform for provisioning of resources on AWSMoved entire application from Docker image based hosting to full-fledged Kubernetes Environment with high availability and features like Vertical Pod autoscaling, Horizontal Pod autoscaling etc

India

Persuaded the team and revamped back-end infrastructure for a mobile app written in Flutter and GoCo-ordinated with the team and designed authentication API using AWS Cognito, AWS Lambda andAWS Go SDK in an event driven, server-less architecture and exposed the API using AWS API GatewayPerformed migration for several SQL Tables using PostgreSQL & deployed the CRUD API on AWS Lambda