Akash Reddy

DevOps Engineer Phone: (571) 234 8567

www.akashreddy.com Email: [email protected]

4+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer Supporting Infrastructure (AWS, Linux, Windows), DevOps
(Build & Release Management) with strong background on web applications, middleware, and
databases.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 Experienced in creating, configuring and maintaining Infrastructure on AWS Cloud services including
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, CloudFront, CloudWatch and IAM.
 Experienced in migrating servers from data center to Amazon Web Services cloud
 Experienced in creating various dashboards, metrics, alarms and notifications for servers using AWS
Cloud Watch, Grafana and Nagios.
 Experienced in creating complex IAM policies, Roles and user management for delegated access
within AWS.
 Experienced in creating complex caching and routing policies with content delivery network (CDN)
using Akamai/CloudFront to improve the page speed and TTFB values.
 Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL) creating users, performing
dump/restore and taking automated snapshots.
 Experience working with version control systems like Subversion, GIT and used Source code
management tools GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket including command line applications.
 Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving BitBucket, Jenkins, Chef, Docker, and Selenium for complete
automation from commit to deployment.
 Installed and configured Chef Enterprise and Chef Workstation hosted as well as On-Premise;
Bootstrapped Nodes; Wrote Recipes, Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server.
 Experienced in Bug/Issue tracking tool like Bugzilla, JIRA, FreshService.
 Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies Waterfall, and Agile.
 Experienced in multi platforms like UNIX, Ubuntu, RHEL and Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
supporting production, test, and development environments.
 Strong work ethic with good Interpersonal and Organizational skills.
 Ability to work under minimal supervision and guidance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILL AREA TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Docker, Chef, Kubernetes, Akamai
Version Control: Subversion, Git
Source Management Tools: Gitlab, GitHub, GitBash, Bitbucket
Bug Tracking Tools: Jira, FreshService, BugZilla
Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services
Monitoring Tools: AWS Cloud watch, Nagios, Grafana, Kibana, NewRelic
Collaboration Tools: HipChat, Confluence, Slack, Skype, Stride
Security Tools: Evident, ShieldSquare, SiteLock, CloudHealth, ModSec
SDLC: Agile, Waterfall
Languages: HTML5, CSS3
Operating Systems: Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Windows 98/XP/7/Vista/8/10
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business.com (Formerly Purch Group Inc) Dec. 2018 – Till Date

DevOps Engineer

Multiple Projects: Worked closely with department heads, developments teams, editorial staff, IT
helpdesk and executives to produce world class electronic media and product services.
 Participation and Contribution in design and deployment of multitude of cloud services on AWS
stack such as EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, IAM and Cloud Watch while focusing on high-availability, fault
tolerance, and auto-scaling.
 Participation and Contribution in migration of servers from current data center to Amazon Web
Services Cloud.
 Performed Infrastructure maintenance tasks such as ensuring system availability, performance,
capacity, and continuity through proper response to incidents, events and problems.
 Automated the build and release management process with CI/CD across Dev, QA, Staging and
Production environments including monitoring changes between releases.
 Used chef and several of its components like attributes, files, recipes, resources, templates to make
configuration changes, and installed apache, nginx, php-fpm on several servers.
 Deployed and configured Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search,
application monitoring in integration with Cloud Watch and Nagios.
 Managed help-desk request tickets in fast paced environment.
 Used security tools such as Site Lock, ShieldSquare, Evident.io and Cloud Watch for monitoring and
blocking unauthorized access to several of our websites
 Hands on experience on JIRA for creating bug tickets, workflows, pulling reports from dashboard,
creating and planning sprints.
 Documented the entire installation process for various tools and provided on-call support.
 Worked in conjunction with multiple teams to make sure that the infrastructure and customer
applications work harmoniously together.
 Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management

Environment: Amazon Web Services EC2, Akamai, Evident.io, CloudWatch, Grafana, Kibana, NewRelic,
Agile, Jenkins, Chef, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, FreshService, PagerDuty, OpenVPN,
ShieldSquare, CloudHealth, SiteLock, Windows 10, Linux, and Ubuntu.

Purch Group Inc, MA Mar. 2017 – Nov. 2018

DevOps Engineer

Multiple Projects: Worked closely with department heads, developments teams, editorial staff, IT
helpdesk and executives to produce world class electronic media and product services.
 Participation and Contribution in design and deployment of multitude of cloud services on AWS
stack such as EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, IAM and Cloud Watch while focusing on high-availability, fault
tolerance, and auto-scaling.
 Participation and Contribution in migration of servers from current data center to Amazon Web
Services Cloud.
 Performed Infrastructure maintenance tasks such as ensuring system availability, performance,
capacity, and continuity through proper response to incidents, events and problems.

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 Automated the build and release management process with CI/CD across Dev, QA, Staging and
Production environments including monitoring changes between releases.
 Used chef and several of its components like attributes, files, recipes, resources, templates to make
configuration changes, and installed apache, nginx, php-fpm on several servers.
 Deployed and configured Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search,
application monitoring in integration with Cloud Watch and Nagios.
 Managed help-desk request tickets in fast paced environment.
 Used security tools such as Site Lock, ShieldSquare, Evident.io and Cloud Watch for monitoring and
blocking unauthorized access to several of our websites
 Hands on experience on JIRA for creating bug tickets, workflows, pulling reports from dashboard,
creating and planning sprints.
 Documented the entire installation process for various tools and provided on-call support.
 Worked in conjunction with multiple teams to make sure that the infrastructure and customer
applications work harmoniously together.
 Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management

Environment: Amazon Web Services EC2, Akamai, Evident.io, CloudWatch, Grafana, Kibana, NewRelic,
Agile, Jenkins, Chef, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Hipchat, FreshService, PagerDuty, OpenVPN,
ShieldSquare, CloudHealth, SiteLock, Windows 10, Linux, and Ubuntu.

Zenius Corporation, VA Aug. 2016 – Feb. 2017

DevOps Engineer

Project: GrantsForce
 Installed and administered various tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, Chef, Jfrog Artifactory and executed
maintenance tasks such as creating users and groups.
 Experience in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mix environment of Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
servers along with creating and implementing a cloud strategy based on Amazon Web Services.
 Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving GitLab, Jenkins, Chef, and Selenium to complete the
automation from commit to Deployment.
 Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories and performed all necessary day-to-
day GIT support for different projects.
 Created and Implemented branching & merging strategy with multiple branches.
 Participation and Contribution in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster
recovery.
 Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
 Used Maven as build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source
code.
 Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between
releases.
 Hands on experience on JIRA for creating bug tickets, workflows, pulling reports from dashboard,
creating and planning sprints.
 Documented the entire installation process for various tools and provided on-call support.
 Worked closely with developers to pinpoint and provide early warnings of common build failures.
 Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management
Environment: Amazon Web Services EC2, Cloud Watch, Agile, Jenkins, Chef, Docker, Gitlab, Jfrog
Artifactory, Jira, Hip chat, Selenium, Windows 10, Linux, Ubuntu, and RHEL.

MGB Group, India Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2014

IT Support

 Demonstrated ability to diagnose and fix problems of computer hardware and software issues and
computers operating systems.
 Track record of tickets/issues, follow-up and directly working with end-users to attempt to resolve
all issues and/or providing effective Tier 2 and Tier 3 support and escalations.
 Hands-on experience in responding, tracking, and following up to telephone, Chat, emails and end-
user requests for support.
 Deployed new Windows 7 images to laptops using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, installed required
software, cleared redundant data and user profiles through computer registry.
 Worked alongside network engineers and systems admins to Configure Cisco MDF/IDF switches with
Telnet.
 Involved in troubleshooting, updating and managing the company website, database and social
media pages.
 Participation and Contribution in troubleshooting hardware and software issues with Windows
Workstations, Macintosh and Network Printers.
 Participation and Contribution in setting up the printers with new VLAN ports and static IP
addresses.
 Deployed and configured Meraki wireless access points.

TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

 AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Validation Number #MKDM1Z62CJ1E1R30
 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Validation Number #MKDM1Z62CJ1E1R30

EDUCATION:

 Master’s in Computational Science – Texas A&M University - Commerce, Texas, USA

 Bachelor’s in Computer Science – Anna University, Chennai, INDIA