Ashok Patidar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Developer
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Toptal member since February 13, 2023
Ashok is a certified AWS and GCP professional solutions architect with over 15 years of experience in product-based companies. He specializes in building, deploying, and managing large-scale infrastructure, implementing DevSecOps practices, and providing comprehensive support to both operations and end users. Ashok's expertise spans multiple projects and cloud operations, ensuring robust and efficient solutions for modern enterprise environments.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux Servers - 12 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 6 years
- Cloud - 6 years
- Desktop - 5 years
- Jenkins - 5 years
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - 4 years
- DevOps - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon WorkSpaces, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
The most amazing...
...thing I did was migrate a large on-premises data center to AWS and GCP for a major Indian media house, implementing a hybrid cloud and secure VPN network.
Work Experience
Cloud and DevOps Architect
Nexval
- Envisioned, planned, and executed complex cloud transformations for enterprise information systems.
- Migrated workloads to AWS using CloudEndure and DMS, enhancing scalability and resilience.
- Collaborated with teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and consistent DevOps practices across the lifecycle.
- Led cloud assessments, presales, transformations, and architectural design for high-level solutions.
- Designed multi-account architectures with IAM, network, and security best practices for deployments.
- Reduced costs by migrating Windows services to custom Linux daemons.
- Architected secure, scalable, highly available cloud environments tailored to client needs.
Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Comfisoft
- Reviewed, analyzed, and evaluated business requirements to determine and implement the most appropriate GCP solution for supporting new web and deploying DevOps applications.
- Developed Helm scripts for continuous integration, implementation of parallel builds, and code deployment in Google Kubernetes cluster using Git and Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline.
- Configured self-hosted Git and branching structures from scratch and applied best DevOps practices during development.
- Collaborated with application and infrastructure teams, network groups, and vendors to resolve complex issues.
- Implemented alarms in StackDriver, Nagios, and Grafana to monitor resource and service performance, disk usage, and CPU utility to take recommended actions for better performance and high availability.
Cloud Engineer
DainikBhaskar.com
- Monitored AutoSys jobs periodically, reviewed problems, identified failures, and worked to resolve them.
- Performed change control, maintenance, patching activity, turnovers, and production deployments.
- Collaborated with the network team for IPsec VPN connectivity from Google Cloud to 72 on-premises hub locations.
- Configured and managed VMware ESXi and Cisco Unified Computing System. Hosted on-premises data center.
- Provided technical support and problem resolution using the ticketing tool.
- Developed and set up the organization structure, users, groups, and access rights with Documentum.
Experience
Data Center Setup
Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
IBM Cloud Migration
Migrate Cloud to Cloud (AWS to GCP)
Certifications
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
AWS ELB, Jenkins, Amazon WorkSpaces, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Compute Engine (GCE), GitHub, AWS IAM, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, OpenVPN, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Git, Let's Encrypt, NGINX, Squid Proxy Server, VMware, Citrix XenApp, Apache, Squid, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon CloudFront CDN, ELK (Elastic Stack), Kibana, Grafana, Nagios
Paradigms
DevOps, Agile, Samba, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Desktop, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Server, Docker, Google App Engine, Windows Server 2008, Citrix, CentOS, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Run
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Object Storage, Google Cloud SQL, MySQL, Databases, Database Migration
Languages
PHP, SQL, Python, Bash
Frameworks
.NET, Laravel
Other
Cloud, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Linux Servers, Cloud Migration, SSL Certificates, IT Support, Remote Support, IPsec, Data Migration, Amazon RDS, Relational Database Services (RDS), AWS DevOps, GitOps, SSL, Freshdesk, IBM SoftLayer, Internet Key Exchange Version 1 (IKEv1), Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2), Interconnected Networks, Cisco UCS, FSRM, RAID, Networking, Cloud Bridge, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Google Duo, VAPT, Filebeat, CI/CD Pipelines, Load Balancers, Storage, Shell Scripting, Firewalls, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Leadership, CloudEndure, Migration, Google Cloud Functions
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