Vreddhi Bhat
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since October 23, 2021
With more than ten years of experience in the software industry, Vreddhi is a proud Arctic Code Vault contributor. He is well-versed with coding, consulting, and passionate about computer technologies, helping companies implement, test, and consult on products. Vreddhi's main expertise includes content delivery, DevOps, scripting, consulting, and implementing solutions with Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud vendors, using UI, APIs, and programming and scripting for automation.
Portfolio
Experience
- Akamai - 7 years
- Python - 5 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 2 years
- Azure - 2 years
- Terraform - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Python, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Telecom Business Support Systems (BSS)
The most amazing...
...project I've developed to onboard customers to Akamai is the Akamai CLI Onboard available at http://github.com/akamai/cli-onboard.
Work Experience
AWS Developer
Stone Soulutions LLC
- Led a project to build a conversational AI using AWS Lex, Connect, Lambda, and OpenAI's Assistants API. Created a PoC website to showcase integration. Used Terraform for infrastructure and GitHub for code management.
- Built a conversational AI with AWS Lex, Connect, Lambda, and OpenAI API. Created a React PoC website for real-time interaction. Used Terraform for secure, scalable infrastructure and GitHub with CI/CD for code management.
- Integrated AWS Lex, Connect, Lambda, and OpenAI API for a scalable AI chatbot. Built a React PoC website to demo interactions. Deployed infrastructure via Terraform and managed code on GitHub with CI/CD.
Integration System Engineer
DSTLRY Media, Inc.
- Led the DevOps activities involving designing and maintaining deployment strategies.
- Used Terraform to provision and maintain AWS resources like ECS, ALBs, Route53, S3 buckets, and IAM policies and roles.
- Troubleshot issues ranging from deployment to application functionalities using Cloudwatch logs and SIEM tools like Datadog and ELK.
- Integrated the API layer with a front-end application and a blockchain-based back end developed in Java and deployed them to AWS using Terraform.
- Deployed and maintained a software stack in AWS Kubernetes.
Back-end AWS Engineer
Jennifer Dodge
- Designed and implemented architecture to process requests from an iOS mobile application using AWS resources and Adobe After Effects.
- Learned automation of Adobe After Effects automation using Templater.
- Successfully delivered a working application that involved a proxy web server implemented using AWS Lambda and an application server implemented using Node.js to convert images to a video using Adobe After Effects.
- Educated a client about infrastructure and other tools involved in the project.
GCP Developer
Urban Coolab Inc.
- Worked with a Canadian company using machine intelligence to empower decentralized creators in various industries, such as fashion, merchandising, and NFTs.
- Assisted in improving the existing GCP setup for a React application developed by the engineering team.
- Implemented GCP best practices using Terraform and documented every step using a GitHub repository. Enhanced service security and orchestration.
- Implemented Google CDN along with load balancers and Google DNS. Evaluated performance differences between global and regional Google storage buckets.
AWS Developer
Ebility LLC
- Deployed various services in the AWS environment. Used TypeScript as a language and Pulumi as a tool for managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Leveraged GitHub Actions extensively and integrated it with AWS using OpenID Connect (OIDC).
- Contributed to several serverless Lambda functions to automate operational processes.
- Managed keys using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to safeguard sensitive data and ensure data encryption.
- Documented complex AWS setups, providing comprehensive and well-organized references for future use and collaboration.
DevOps Engineer
Molar
- Developed the Pulumi infrastructure code that deploys the AWS infrastructure and deploys the image built using the Buildkite CI/CD tool into Amazon EC2 backed with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
- Moved all the environment variables into a Mozilla SOPS file, a better way to store the environment secrets encrypted using AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
- Resolved an issue with the Buildkite build that increased the speed of builds by re-using the image caches and parallel jobs.
Solution Developer
Trexity (via Toptal)
- Assisted the CTO in evaluating the options available to manage application keys.
- Studied and tried the POC using Doppler to manage application keys.
- Assisted the team in integrating and replacing the existing key management code with Doppler CLI by editing a few lines of code in the shell script of GitHub Actions.
Solutions Architect
Hotelguides (via Toptal)
- Migrated eight of their websites from Rackspace to AWS cloud.
- Ensured to use the best practices by leveraging automation, scripting, and other industry-standard practices.
- Educated the customer about the latest trends in the industry, like using code repositories using Terraform to automate provisioning resources in AWS.
- Migrated data from the on-premise MySQL database to Amazon RDS.
System Architect
Jsgenesis (via Toptal)
- Reviewed the sub-systems of the entire architecture to evaluate low-hanging fruits and ensure no basic flaws existed in the system.
- Suggested a few changes and improvements that could be incorporated in the system for it to be scalable and fault-tolerant.
- Reviewed and suggested a trivial feature request that improves the system's reliability.
Principal Solutions Architect
Akamai Technologies
- Drove automation efforts and helped clients automate the functioning of Akamai products in their CI/CD and DevOps workflow using Jenkins, CLIs, Terraform, and APIs.
- Acted as a key contributor to Akamai's CLI, namely on tools to interact with the visitor prioritization cloudlet, the Akamai certificate provisioning system (CPS), and firewall rules and site shield-related information.
- Partnered in the development of product strategy by liaising between product managers and customers to improve products. I also delivered solutions at an enterprise scale to integrate web and security applications into the Akamai platform.
Solutions Architect
Bigger Brains (via Toptal)
- Successfully migrated the on-premise application to Azure Cloud.
- Systematically handled the project by evaluating and presenting multiple options like Azure AppService vs. dedicated servers and storage.
- Documented the entire process and methodologies for ease of client's future use.
Senior Solutions Architect
Akamai Technologies
- Designed and implemented features to leverage the Akamai platform's capability to the maximum.
- Worked closely with pre-sales professionals, the account management, engineering, and customer support teams to resolve technical issues during customer trials or integrations.
- Contributed to Akamai's CLI module to access and manage products via the command line.
Professional Services Engineer
Evolving Systems
- Analyzed the service providers' business needs, designing and implementing the solution. Implemented business logic as per customer needs and deployed them. Worked closely with remote teams to ensure the delivery of the highest quality products.
- Provided consultancy to customers as and when the provisioning system needed updates. I also owned service and business logic development and customer deployments of the product.
- Programmed and configured the product to interact with network elements like HLR, VLR, Nokia MMSC, and more.
Software Engineer
Nokia
- Owned the development of network management systems and machine-to-machine applications in Java, JavaScript, and C.
- Spearheaded certain functionalities of element management systems (EMS), like dynamic adaptation and software management on network elements using extensive analysis of SNMP packets with well-known tools like Wireshark and tcpdump.
- Designed and developed various simulators, the replica of a real network element. Complex logic was implemented using Core Java concepts and scripting techniques using Tcl.
Experience
CLI to Manage Akamai Cloudlets
https://github.com/akamai/cli-cloudletsThe CLI performs the CRUD operation like a standard plugin of the software component of any software.
CLI for Firewalls
https://github.com/akamai/cli-firewallThe CLI performs the CRUD operation like a standard plugin of the software component of any software.
Website for a Retail Store
The site uses WordPress and Cloudflare for CDN and integrates the PayUmoney payment gateway. The overall website was implemented and delivered within three days.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
Vishveshwaraya Technological University - India
Certifications
Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
AWS Machine Learning Foundations Course
Udacity
Introduction to Observability: Logging
Elastic
PeopleCert DevOps Fundamentals
PeopleCert
Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts
Lynda
Planning an AWS Solution
Lynda
Up and Running with Python and Django
Lynda
Up and Running with Python
Lynda
Becoming a Web Developer: Full Stack vs Front End
Lynda
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Amazon API, AWS Amplify, OpenAPI, Python API, Jenkins Pipeline, Node.js
Tools
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Shell, Splunk, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS ELB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, AWS IAM, Jira, AWS CloudFormation, Apache, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon CloudWatch, Apache HTTP Server, Amazon EKS, Helm, CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Lex, Notion, Google Workspace, Amazon CloudFront, Docker Compose, Logging, Provisioning Tools, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Terraform, GitLab, NGINX, Traefik, Azure Active Directory B2C (ADB2C), Apache Maven, Azure DevOps Services, Azure App Service, Amazon Connect, Elastic, Ansible, Kibana, Radar, AWS Fargate, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Adobe After Effects
Languages
Python, HTML, SAML, Tcl/Tk, SQL, Bash Script, Bash, GraphQL, JavaScript, C, PHP, TypeScript, Python 3, Java
Frameworks
OAuth 2, Django
Paradigms
DevOps, Hosting, DevSecOps, Azure DevOps, Stress Testing, Automation, Agile, Testing, Test Automation, Microservices, Event-driven Architecture, API/Services Architecture, HIPAA Compliance, Load Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, E2E Testing, Serverless Architecture
Platforms
Web, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Amazon EC2, Windows, AWS Lambda, DigitalOcean, LAMP, Heroku, Cloud Run, Dropbox, Celigo, Docker, Unix, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Apache2, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 16.04, Kubernetes, OpenCart, Blockchain, WordPress, Rackspace, Buildkite, Google App Engine, iOS, Shopify
Storage
Datadog, PostgreSQL, Azure Active Directory, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Redis Cache, JSON, Google Cloud Storage, Databases, Microsoft Entra ID, Redis, Google Cloud, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, MySQLi
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Other
Software, Akamai, Web Security, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), DNS, IT Consulting, Consulting, Cloud, Cloudflare, APIs, CI/CD Pipelines, Scripting, Amazon RDS, Cloud Architecture, Solution Architecture, SSL Certificates, CORS, Amazon Route 53, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Proxies, Networking, SSH, Technical Hiring, Source Code Review, Task Analysis, Interviewing, Security, Team Management, IT Security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Agile DevOps, Gmail, Email Systems, Email, IT Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Cloud Server, Proxy Servers, AWS DevOps, Load Balancers, Deployment, Integration Testing, API Testing, Integration, Virtual Machines, Enterprise Software, Software Project Management, API Integration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, AWS Cloud Architecture, Containerization, Servers, Okta, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Identity & Access Management (IAM), System Administration, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Networks, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, GitHub Actions, Active Directory Programming, Quality Assurance (QA), Scalability, Web Scalability, TCP/IP, Web Servers, Build & Release Engineering, SecOps, SAML-auth, Google Cloud Functions, Cloud Migration, Dependency Analysis, Dependabot, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Auto Scaling, Performance, Troubleshooting, DNS Configuration, Domain Management, Reverse Proxy, SSL Configurations, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Server Infrastructure, Active Directory (AD), GitHub Workflows, Network Security, SOC Compliance, Google Cloud Build, Microsoft 365, Video Streaming, Low Latency, Video Encoding, AWS Cloud Security, Project Management Infrastructure, Google, IT Administration, Communication, Cloud Monitoring, AWS WAF, SSL, Fintech, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Software as a Service (SaaS), IT Infrastructure Management (ITIM), GCP DevOps, Documentation, AWS Secrets Manager, Backup & Recovery, GitOps, Azure Cloud Security, NetSuite, iPaaS, Bots, Telecom Business Support Systems (BSS), Web Development, Telecom Equipment & Solutions, Simulators, Back-end, Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Delivery Management, Architecture, Design Reviews, Reviews, Autoscaling, Firewalls, Groovy Scripting, System Integration Testing (SIT), Full-stack, Shell Scripting, Single Sign-on (SSO), SOC 2, Prometheus, Programming, Machine Learning, HTTPS, Website Setup, Secret Management, Pulumi, IoT Protocols, HAProxy, Serverless, Amazon API Gateway, Lambda Functions, Jira Administrator, Java KeyStore
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