Varun Pujari
Krakow,PL
Summary
Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Certified AWS Solution Architect Associate with 10 years of IT experience. Deep knowledge and experience in containerization (Docker) and scaling with Kubernetes (EKS). Extensive experience implementing and maintaining automation/configuration management solutions such as Terraform, Ansible , and CloudFormation. Designed and built infrastructure-as-a-service cloud service models for customers using AWS components like EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, as well as serverless components like Lambda, API Gateway, and Dynamo. Proficient in deploying pipelines in GitLab as CI/CD pipelines for applications and services. Skilled in Service Mesh (Istio for Kubernetes) and administering Kafka Servers and Cassandra Cluster at the platform level. Experienced with monitoring tools such as New Relic, Splunk, and Prometheus. Expertise in Python scripting and bash. Proficient in AWS cloud services, RDBMS, SQL, and source code management tool Git. Collaborative team player ensuring successful sprint completion by effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams to give/take directions and provide assistance throughout task completion.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Devops Engineer
Caesars Entertainment
01.2023 - Current
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and some of the shared services like Cassandra and Kafka across platform
- Using infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation implement and maintain cloud and on-prem infrastructure
- Automating software builds using GitLab.
- Deploying and managing cloud services on AWS
- Analyzing and improving system performance and optimizing resource usage by using NewRelic monitoring tool
- Enhanced system stability by implementing robust monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Responsible for updating kubernetes dependencies across 30 clusters without downtime.
- Worked closely with Tech Leads of various teams to assess existing problems and to design process improvement solutions.
- Facilitated knowledge sharing among team members by documenting processes, best practices, and lessons learned from past experiences.
Cloud Platform Engineer
Wipro
04.2022 - 12.2022
- Worked with HSBC client as a Cloud Platform Engineer focusing maintenance of key infrastructure components using AWS Components and Kubernetes services
- Building repeatable solutions on Digital Cloud Infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code methods.(Terraform)
- I was responsible building and managing cloud environments to enable application deployments into test and production by creating kubernetes clusters and their dependencies.
- Ensuring the cloud-hosted solutions are integrated with or consume centrally provided HSBC services
- Developing and maintaining application-specific AMI’s using infrastructure as Code principles
Cloud Engineer, DevOps
WilliamHill PLC
01.2020 - 04.2022
- Working across teams as a Cloud Engineer focusing on delivering key components of infrastructure deployment and maintenance using AWS Components and Kubernetes services
- Automating the deployment pipelines and working closely with Team Leads across boards helping migrating the on-prem applications to AWS
- Deploying and maintaining the services and its associated monitoring toolset using NewRelic Monitoring
- Designing and Implementing the SolDefs which are highly resilient, fault tolerant into Dev/NonProd/Prod environments
- Deployment of application via CI/CD using Gitlab in all environments using terraform to spin-up/maintain/modify infrastructure in AWS
- Migration of application and services from on-prem to AWS EKS
- Improving and maintaining the deployment templates managed via helm charts
- Improving the deployment process replacing the manual stuff with on-click go-live approach
- Integrating the isolated testing process into a streamlined alert based triggers which depicts the code build tests result into slack alert channel
- Monitoring Kubernetes applications and services using kiali
- Contributing to organization’s opensourcing development model by publishing the improvements to code builds specifically maintaining the common build pipeline images like java, terraform, helm
- Experience in production support and production system in an enterprise and understanding of cloud paradigms (Iaas, Paas, microservices architectures, CI/CD)
Data Engineer, Developer, DevOps
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - 12.2019
- HP Cloud Native Architectural goal was to build the serverless, scalable architecture with minimal support requirements using ETL as a service and parallelizing job executions leveraging optimized data model using AWS Services against the existing server-centric, expensive and cumbersome-to-maintain architecture
- This preliminary result using this serverless architecture records 10x faster data ingestion and processing against the server-centric architecture
- This project data pipeline architecture consists of s3 for storage, Glue service for processing and Redshift data warehouse for report generation and Tableau for report visualization
- As a Data Engineer, I was responsible to understand the business end to end flow and help build data pipeline architecture
- Responsible for building the code pipeline
- Responsible for spinning up required infrastructure for the data pipeline jobs
- Responsible to build the pyspark validation code and deploy them into Glue service using cloud formation template
- Responsible for building the complete cloud formation templates for the entire data pipeline jobs
- Responsible for building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins
- Responsible for performing the deployment activity in the cluster
- Responsible in performing the Knowledge Transitions to responsible stakeholders
Data Engineer, Developer
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
04.2018 - 08.2019
- Weather Channel is one of the leading satellite tv channel
- Accenture helps this client to study the data and draw reports to help them leverage the business decisions utilizing the BigData technology and AWS cloud infrastructure
- As a Data Engineer, responsible to understand the business end to end flow and help build data pipeline architecture
- Responsible for creating Data Pipeline leveraging AWS infrastructure support
- Responsible understanding the data pattern and build the code accordingly and document them
- Responsible for performing the Unit Testing and documenting and providing the handout to test team
- Responsible for building the CI/CD pipeline for the project using the AWS CloudFormation Template
- Participated in daily Scrum calls with stakeholders to achieve and discuss the sprint goals and technical issues
- Responsible for providing client deployment activity
- Responsible in providing the code transitions, code walkthrough and spring demo to responsible stakeholders
Designer, Developer
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
12.2016 - 04.2018
- Accenture StormTest is a video service test automation platform possessing cutting edge automation techniques to meet, scale and validate the modern video software delivery across video platforms like Set top boxes, Smart TVs etc
- Design and Develop automation scripts per client requirement
- Develop and implement Common Methods for code reusability and perform Unit Testing before deploying the same to production
- Participated in daily Scrum calls with stakeholders to achieve and discuss the sprint goals and technical issues
- Responsible for creating sprint deployments and builds using continuous integration tool Jenkins
- Performed thorough analysis for the sprint backlogs and providing the root cause for the failures to customer through tickets in JIRA
- Performed Test Monitoring and Debugging activity using Datadog
- Client satisfaction with timeliness and quality of support, Meet the deadlines in handling the development work related specific requests and priority defects
- Responsible for providing accurate status reports regularly to onshore/offshore team leads via daily mails and weekly calls
- Responsible in providing release handout documents and summary notes to the stakeholders
Automation Tester
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 12.2016
- CareCentrix is the leading provider of home health benefits management services to the health care industry
- They provide health care plans and providers with a one-stop solution that coordinates all of a patients home health care needs
- Involved in Test Planning Activities and providing LOE for the CR’s and Reliability Tickets
- Responsible for performing Requirement Analysis for assigned CR’s and Tickets
- Responsible for designing High Level Test Cases and Identifying required test conditions for the same
- Involved in Test Implementation and Execution activities documenting them in Silk Central Test Management Tool
- Performing Peer Review activities
- Involved in Test Data creation for complex UAT Testing that is being handled by Business Team
- Responsible for preparing daily status reports and sharing them to client
- Created Automated Test scripts with Selenium Using Java
- Participated in Team Meeting and ‘Automation Code Review’ meetings and provide suggestion if needed
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Osmania University
Hyderabad11-2014
Skills
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Linux
- NewRelic
- Prometheus
- Bash
- Python
- Splunk
Certification
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Associate
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Accomplishments
- Achieved Accenture Apex award for consistently delivering high performance and excellence.
Languages
English
Hindi
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 08/23/91
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Senior Devops Engineer
Caesars Entertainment
01.2023 - Current
Cloud Platform Engineer
Wipro
04.2022 - 12.2022
Cloud Engineer, DevOps
WilliamHill PLC
01.2020 - 04.2022
Data Engineer, Developer, DevOps
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - 12.2019
Data Engineer, Developer
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
04.2018 - 08.2019
Designer, Developer
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
12.2016 - 04.2018
Automation Tester
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 12.2016
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Associate
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Osmania University
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