Abhinab Sarkar, Developer in Toronto, Canada
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Abhinab Sarkar

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Cloud Architect and Developer

Toronto, Canada

Toptal member since February 16, 2023

Expertise
DockerMicroservices DevelopmentKubernetesC#AzureCloud ArchitectureJenkins
Bio

Abhinab is a cloud solution architect who works closely with key customer IT decision-makers to build technical capabilities and innovative solutions to their business challenges. He specializes in AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and AWS Well-architected Framework. Abhinab's work has focused on modernizing workloads to Azure using technologies like Azure PaaS, Serverless, API Management, and Kubernetes.

Portfolio

Microsoft
Azure, Azure PaaS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), .NET, Azure App Service...
Scotiabank
Azure, Docker, Microservices, Load Balancers
Loblaws Supermarkets
Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, Load Balancers

Experience

  • Azure - 8 years
  • Azure PaaS - 7 years
  • Red Hat OpenShift - 5 years
  • Azure App Service - 5 years
  • .NET - 5 years
  • C# - 5 years
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - 3 years
  • IBM API Connect - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Azure PaaS, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, C#

The most amazing...

...project I've been involved in is building the framework for IBM's API management platform used by many customers.

Work Experience

Cloud Solution Architect

2022 - 2023
Microsoft
  • Handled architecting next-generation cloud-native products and applications using Azure PaaS, Serverless, API Management, and Kubernetes.
  • Led technical discussions with customers using AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and AWS Well-architected Framework.
  • Created technical demos and supporting material for customers using POCs, landing zone accelerators, and DevSecOps tools like GitHub Actions.
Technologies: Azure, Azure PaaS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), .NET, Azure App Service, Docker, Microservices, Load Balancers

Staff Cloud Engineer

2021 - 2022
Scotiabank
  • Led design discussions focused on security, scalability, and best practices implementation for the cloud-native platform running on Azure.
  • Closed threats identified during the risk assessment of specific platform components, making the platform compliant with required standards.
  • Provided solutions using a valet key pattern to offload data transfers from the application securely.
Technologies: Azure, Docker, Microservices, Load Balancers

Senior Architect

2020 - 2021
Loblaws Supermarkets
  • Delivered highly reliable, scalable, and secure best practices for a Kubernetes infrastructure running Red Hat OpenShift on GCP and Azure's cloud platform.
  • Architected the OpenShift platform and integrated it with different on-premise and cloud components, building the solution delivery process, including the design, build, and run for day-2 operations.
  • Optimized the Kubernetes platform running on Azure to reduce costs by 80%.
Technologies: Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, Load Balancers

Cloud Architect

2016 - 2020
Cognizant
  • Handled the digital transformation for a logistics customer across various initiatives, reducing major incidents by 44%.
  • Designed a chatbot for automating internal users' tasks.
  • Built the governance model for an API management platform and provided a solution to reduce the utilization cost of the platform by 40%.
Technologies: Azure, IBM API Connect, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker

Experience

DevOps for API Management using Jenkins and Containers

https://github.com/abhinabsarkar/apiconnect-pipeline-jenkins
IBM API Connect for IBM Cloud is an integrated API management offering where all the steps in the API lifecycle and the actions surrounding it are performed within the offering. I built the framework to automate the lifecycle, a solution which was used by multiple customers of IBM.

Certifications

JULY 2021 - JULY 2023

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft

Skills

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), IBM API Connect, Azure App Service, Jenkins

Paradigms

Microservices

Platforms

Azure PaaS, Azure, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes

Languages

C#

Frameworks

.NET

Other

Load Balancers, Containers, Cloud Architecture

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