Ajit Rajdeosingh
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Toptal member since January 5, 2022
Ajit has over 13 years of experience in the IT industry with expertise in cloud architecture, DevOps, system testing, and designing and building large-scale enterprise and service provider IP/MPLS networks. He has in-depth knowledge of building and operating complex IT systems with distributed architecture. His roles have included network security architect, network architect, software developer, and solutions architect.
Portfolio
Experience
- Architecture - 7 years
- Cloud - 7 years
- AWS ALB - 7 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 7 years
- API Architecture - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Linux - 5 years
- Python 3 - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Python 3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Slack, MacOS, Linux, Cisco, AWS DevOps, API Architecture
The most amazing...
...tool I've created is a distributed configuration management system for network policy configuration reducing initial build time from three days to eight hours.
Work Experience
Senior Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Developed a cloud-native architecture for a large automobile manufacturer based on Kubernetes. Created application and migration workflows to migrate clients' on-premises monolith application to a microservices-based application built on AWS.
- Built an end-to-end data pipeline for geospatial data leveraging that managed services such as Amazon Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, and S3. The data pipeline allowed ingestion of data from 0-5TB per day using a purely pay-as-go model.
- Delivered several cost optimization sessions and built a cost optimization center of excellence for four medium-sized companies resulting in cloud cost savings of up to 30% on average.
CI/CD DevOps Engineer
BH2 Innovations Inc
- Developed an app to stream live video from colonoscope to a remote web application.
- Deployed the ML model for detection to Amazon SageMaker. This allowed the application to become faster and simultaneously scale to 10s of devices.
- Set up Kinesis real-time video streams to ingest video from colonoscopy directly to the AWS cloud in a secure and scalable manner.
DevOps Consultant
nnSoftware GmbH
- Developed an extensive workshop for a Kubernetes curriculum that a customer was delivering. The workshop involved setting up a Kubernetes cluster and running microservices applications in production.
- Set up continuous deployment using Argo CD on EKS. Monitored deployment of services to the EKS cluster.
- Provisioned role-based access control using external IDP to the EKS cluster. Secured application secrets with AWS secrets manager and vault, etc.
Lead Cloud Engineer
Cryptosat, Inc.
- Architected the entire back end natively on AWS using serverless architecture required to send commands to and receive responses from the cryptographic satellites.
- Built infrastructure as code (IaC) and application development pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Oversaw the launch of tweets from space that involved signing tweets using cryptographic keys generated on satellites.
- Implemented the Velas blockchain integration to ensure immutability in storing cryptographic keys.
DevOps Engineer
Food Interactive Inc
- Built the end-to-end infrastructure deployment pipeline using AWS Amplify.
- Developed public APIs using GraphQL with AWS AppSync.
- Oversaw the public launch of the web app with over 1,000 requests per minute on the APIs.
Lead Network Consulting Engineer
Cisco
- Designed and implemented core MPLS network for one of the largest greenfield 4G deployments in India.
- Built a large-scale multicast network for one of the largest TV broadcasting companies in Portugal.
- Built a virtualized network functions stack using OpenStack.
Experience
Data Processing Pipeline for Geospatial Data
Ground Segment Infrastructure for Cryptographic Satellites
https://docs.cryptosat.io/cryptosat/api-documentationNetwork Configuration Management System
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering
North Maharashtra University - India
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Advanced Networking Speciality
Amazon Web Services
Principles of Computing
Coursera
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert - CCIE
Cisco
Skills
Libraries/APIs
AWS Amplify, React, Node.js, PySpark, Flask-RESTful
Tools
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), VPN, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, GitHub, Amazon AppStream, Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudFront CDN, NGINX, Splunk, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), AWS Deployment, Cron, Amazon CloudFront, GitLab, Amazon Firewall, Terraform, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Vault, OpenTofu, MongoDB Atlas, Slack, Kong, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS AppSync, Grafana
Languages
Python 3, Python, Bash, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Swift
Frameworks
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
Paradigms
API Architecture, DevOps, Microservices, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching, Automation, DevSecOps, Continuous Development (CD), HIPAA Compliance, Serverless Architecture, Microservices Architecture
Platforms
MacOS, AWS ALB, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, Linux, AWS IoT, Vertex AI, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Blockchain, Azure
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon SDB, Data Lakes, AWS Elastic File System, SQL Performance, PostgreSQL, Database Management, MySQL, Database Security, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Other
Cisco, IP Networks, Engineering, Cloud, AWS DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Architecture, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Firewalls, Networking, Direct Connect (DC), AWS Cloud Architecture, Amazon RDS, Software Architecture, Amazon Machine Images (AMI), Load Balancers, Artificial Intelligence (AI), System Administration, Cisco Networking, Cloud Architecture, Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Control Tower, Amazon API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancers, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Clustering, Networks, SNAT, AWS CodePipeline, AWS VPN, AWS Cloud Security, AWS FinOps, AWS Auto Scaling, SOC 2, AI Automation, Agentic AI, AWS ECS Fargate, Amazon Route 53, Cloud Infrastructure, Software Engineering, Software, Amazon Machine Learning, IOPS, Database Optimization, GitHub Actions, Amazon MSK, Service Mesh, Policy as code (PaC), Compliance as Code (CaC), Security, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, SOC Compliance, HIPAA, FastAPI, LoRa, Large Language Models (LLMs), Analytics, Machine Learning, RESTful Microservices, Pinpoint, NETCONF, Pulumi
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