Senior DevOps Engineer | Founder
2021 - PRESENTCloudRickshaw- Started a DevOps as Service offering with a team to help companies and startups streamline DevOps culture.
- Worked with a global team to design, build and deploy banking applications, adhering to strict security and compliance requirements. Provisioned infrastructures and environments with code from day one. Monitored security and operational requirements.
- Mentored fresh minds to explore and learn DevOps principles. Provided training on Kubernetes.
- Migrated the Odoo and ERP from odoo.sh to a self-hosted AWS set up. Helped the team improve the overall observability and performance of the system with graphs and logs.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Automation, Terraform, Linux, Kubernetes, Odoo, CI/CD PipelinesSenior DevOps Engineer (Contractor)
2020 - PRESENTInnovatetech- Introduced and mentored teammates for IAC with Terraform.
- Streamlined the deployments to be simple and continuous.
- Helped devs improve the health and performance of the system with the instrumentation of metrics, traces, and logs using Prometheus, Grafana, Elk, and APM.
- Involved in non-functional chores like hiring and mentoring DevOps members, advocating documentation and diagrams, and 12factor app design principles.
- Oversaw capacity planning for better resource utilization.
- Defined a granular DevOps Roadmap and delegated ownership among teammates.
- Performed general operational chores, specifically migrations, upgrades, rescue production, sharing postmortems, and improving reliability and security.
Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, ELK (Elastic Stack), Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, HelmDevOps Contractor
2019 - 2020Freelance Work (Various Companies)- Introduced DevOps concepts to ameliorate the company's infrastructure and services deployment process.
- Worked as a part-time consultant to improve the development and deployment process and tools. Trained developers about operational stacks.
- Helped establish a proper interview/screening process to hire their very first DevOps member in the company.
- Worked as a part-time consultant to improve service reliability by assessing the stack, supervising the deployment configuration, and migrating the database to more reliably managed services with disaster recovery and backup planning.
- Guided developers in setting up and performing containerized deployment on Kubernetes.
- Improved the infrastructure and resources security by scanning the AWS resources and suggesting fixes.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Git, AWS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), PHPSoftware Engineer (A Hobby Project)
2019 - 2020Enliv/Dibya- Worked on the project, Dibya.org, a mentorship platform for various people, mainly students, to leap forward to a successful career, learning all necessary skillsets directly from industry experts.
- Brushed up on my dev skills for front-end and React. Learned to write tests for back-end and Rails.
- Guided developers in building a secure, reliable, and scalable solution on different projects.
Technologies: React, Ruby, Go, GitHub, KubernetesDeveloper | DevOps Manager
2018 - 2019WhiteHat Engineering- Built a payment utility application bridging the crypto-legacy banking payment options.
- Developed the back end (API & custom CLI client), handled the deployments, and managed the team effort for continuous delivery and improvements. The solution was built on top of the Ethereum and Dwolla APIs.
- Worked on the project, Zenledger.io, a crypto-tax computation engine for easy tax report submissions to the IRS.
- Provisioned the infrastructure from scratch, guided developers, optimized the database queries, and made engine robust, scalable, secure.
- Organized the team effort to build a marketing utility suite.
- Built an engine that could run Golang functions from different projects without the need of dedicated servers (analogous to function as service but targeted for a marketing application).
Technologies: Web, React Native, Mobile, Ethereum, Blockchain, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Go, APIsDevOps Engineer
2013 - 2017CloudFactory- Deployed a Ruby runtime on AWS.
- Worked on capacity planning, and build solutions for cost reduction.
- Setup a CI/CD pipeline for a faster, reliable delivery.
- Monitored server/business metrics (over graphs, slack alerts).
- Deployed services with increase availability via clustering, replication (HA).
- Evangelized on better engineering principles/practices (12-factor app) across the team.
- Executed smooth downtime/service migrations, VMS, patching, and building immutable infrastructures.
- Developed bots to automate mundane tasks.
- Supported engineering teams in debug development chores.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Grafana, Prometheus, Ansible, AWS, Ruby on Rails (RoR)