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Dharmik Thakkar

Dharmik Thakkar

DevOps Engineer
London

Summary

DevOps Engineer with background automating, optimizing mission critical deployments in Kubernetes and managing cloud infrastructure as well on-premises data-centers, CI/CD, monitoring and security. Experienced in implementing organization DevOps strategies in various operating environments in Linux and Windows servers along with cloud strategies of Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Language

Work History

Senior Associate Technology L2

Publicis Sapient
London
08.2022 - Current
  • Built and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform resulting in a 50% reduction in infrastructure provisioning time
  • Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, resulting in 90% faster deployment times and a 50% reduction in deployment errors
  • Led efforts to automate monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana, reducing response time to critical issues by 75%
  • Worked with development team to design and implement microservices architecture using Kubernetes, resulting in improved scalability and resilience of application
  • Coordinated with security team to implement best practices for securing cloud infrastructure and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Mentored junior team members on DevOps practices and provided training on automation tools and processes

Analyst Programmer - DevOps

Gateway Group of companies
Ahmedabad, India
01.2021 - Current
  • Worked with Development Team to understand and containerized applications and deployed on docker environment
  • Provided DevOps support for existing client projects to solve challenges on deployment process and optimized build and deployment process Worked as part of core infrastructure team to design architecture of micro-services based project on AWS
  • As part of core planning team in project to perform modernization of existing monolithic application to microservice based application.
  • Spinning up resources for infrastructure in AWS, GCP and Azure with Terraform like VPC, IAM, S3 buckets, EKS cluster, EC2 instances, etc.
  • Worked on CI/CD tools to deploy application on EKS, GKE, AKS and other services with Jenkins, GitLab, Code Build and Spinnaker.
  • Implemented helm charts to manage and reusability of packages for all applications.
  • Designed and implemented multi-tenancy dynamic deployment process for application with EKS.
  • Reduced costs by 30-45% each month by eliminating unnecessary servers and consolidating databases, moved the critical instances to the reserved family

Senior Engineer - DevOps

SourceFuse
Mohali, India
06.2020 - 01.2021
  • Demonstrated expertise in creating architecture blueprints and detailed documentation
  • Implemented AWS SecurityHub following AWS best practices.
  • Monitoring setup Grafana, Prometheus, G-Cloud logs, Loki
  • Designed and deployed dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS Cloud
  • Deployment on EKS using Azure DevOps pipelines with Helm Chart reusable package multi environment deployments
  • Performed chaos engineering with Gremlin on AWS Cloud Infrastructure
  • Worked well independently and on team to solve problems Optimized build pipelines and Managed Security Measurements such as image vulnerabilities scanners.
  • Daily client meetings to discuss on-going project or newer requirements Train, mentor and managed team of DevOps who managed operations Improved release pipeline by generating helm-charts for applications.
  • Configured infrastructure for applications on clouds like AWS, Azure and monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance.

Technology Analyst - DevOps

FIRMINIQ SYSTEMS
Chandigarh, India
11.2018 - 06.2020
  • Explored Source Code Management tool like Git and GitLab for repository management.
  • Worked closely with Development Team to understand and Dockerized applications and deployed on K8s environment.
  • Implemented auto scaling, health-check probes and update strategy such as rolling update to achieve maximum uptime and availability of application
  • Configured Security enhancement tools such as Calico and Istio to lockdown cluster with Mutual TLS.
  • Automated builds and deployment of applications using Spinnaker, GitLab CI/CD And Google cloud build and deployment.
  • Setup monitoring components such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Alert manager and Cloud Watch to achieve maximum up time for applications.
  • Provided solution using best architectural design principles based on customer requirements.
  • Selected appropriate AWS service based on computing, data, or security requirements.
  • Implemented AWS SecurityHUB, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail and Shield to improve security on AWS Services.
  • Designed Disaster Recovery on Serverless architecture for high availability, implemented on multiple environments.
  • Automated CI/CD process using AWS CodePipeline to deploy Application on AWS Serverless architecture and spinning up services like CloudFront, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, etc using AWS CloudFormation.

Senior Operation Executive

INFOSYS LTD
Pune, India
08.2015 - 11.2018
  • Implemented Disaster Recovery for AMLD (Anti Money Laundering Department) CITI Bank
  • Automated existing project running on server-based environment, created services required for automated deployments
  • Jenkins CI builds, deployment, and Smoke test for all major branches and components which helps developers to identify build failures at earliest
  • Deployed dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS Cloud
  • Monitoring processes required for service health monitoring, implemented unified CloudWatch agent to run deep monitoring and configured Alarms with AWS CLI.
  • Designed Disaster Recovery and created Infrastructure from scratch on AWS
  • Created AWS DATA Pipeline for bulk data Migration
  • Integrated GIT Hook with AWS Code Pipeline to deploy code on environment based setup
  • Experience in guiding classification, plan, implementation, growth, adoption, and compliance to enterprise architecture strategies, processes, and standard
  • Resolved issues and recommended actions based on production and compliance reports.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Application & Information Technology

KSV University
Gandhinagar
06.2012 - 04.2015

Skills

Microservices

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Certification

Tree Linux & UNIX Certification held by internal Organization

Timeline

Senior Associate Technology L2

Publicis Sapient
08.2022 - Current

Analyst Programmer - DevOps

Gateway Group of companies
01.2021 - Current

Senior Engineer - DevOps

SourceFuse
06.2020 - 01.2021

Technology Analyst - DevOps

FIRMINIQ SYSTEMS
11.2018 - 06.2020

Senior Operation Executive

INFOSYS LTD
08.2015 - 11.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Application & Information Technology

KSV University
06.2012 - 04.2015

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