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About
crafting efficient and scalable cloud solutions.
Awards
The Kubestronaut program recognizes community leaders who have consistently invested in their ongoing education and grown their skill level with Kubernetes.
Individuals who have successfully passed every CNCF’s Kubernetes certifications – CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA – will receive the title of “Kubestronaut”.
Speaking
Focused on improving cloud-native security by using identities instead of traditional passwords or keys to access cloud resources. Highlighted Google Cloud's Workload Identity and CloudSQL Auth Proxy, showcasing how they enable secure and seamless connections for GitLab pipelines and applications without relying on long-lasting credentials. Provided insights into how these tools simplify and strengthen cloud security.
Work Experience
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Established standards for implementing changes across teams.
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Successfully refactored and migrated the entire frontend routing structure, consisting of thousands of routes, from legacy IIS path-based routing to cloud-native tools.
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Implemented Keyless Auth using WIF on GCP and Azure. Delivered public and internal talks on this topic.
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As one of the first members of the Platform Engineering team, worked in a greenfield landscape to establish new infrastructure and migrate on-premise services to GCP. Authored numerous RFCs on architecture design, covering areas such as TLS, load balancing, secret management, observability, Kubernetes, and database design.
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Led the creation and implementation of initial CI/CD pipelines and deployment Helm charts, and scaled them to support multiple teams.
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Led the development of a self-service platform solution using Pulumi and Golang to enable end-to-end independent infrastructure resource creation.
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Tech Stack: VMware, GCP, Azure, k0s, GKE, Terraform, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Grafana Cloud, Datadog
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Part of a small team of 3 managing 30+ Kubernetes clusters (10-50 nodes each) for E-commerce Core, Member, and Global tribes, encompassing a total of 12 development teams. Worked closely with these teams to help in design and implementation of projects around building a more secure, operable and reliable system.
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Facilitated teams in transitioning from push-based deployment to ArgoCD.
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Created and maintained platform tools using Golang and Python.
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Participated in on-call rotation, and assisted as incident commander for incidents.
Tech Stack: OpenStack, VMware, GCP, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Vanilla Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, Grafana Stack, Elastic Stack, Consul, NewRelic, Falco, ArgoCD (Scale of the infrastructure: inframetrics.trendyol.com)
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Worked in a multicultural environment and improved the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the following services: AT&T(apimarket.att.com), Kandy CPaaS (kandy.io)
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Created a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics.
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Tech Stack: VMware, AWS, Vanilla Kubernetes, Terraform, Bitbucket, Elastic Stack
Side Projects
A terminal UI to monitor and query Elasticsearch. Currently, it is not maintained due to time constraints.