Ashok Patidar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Developer
Ashok is an AWS and GCP Certified professional solutions architect with more than 14 years of experience in product-based companies, handling multiple projects and cloud operations. He builds, deploys, and manages large-scale infrastructure, including support to operations and end users.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Cloud, Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DevOps, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Load Balancers, Storage
The most amazing...
...thing I've architected and migrated is a large-scale on-premises data center on AWS and GCP for a large media house with a hybrid VPN network.
Work Experience
Cloud Architect
Nexval
- Envisioned, planned, and executed complex information systems transformations to cloud-based solutions.
- Migrated workloads from the on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud Infrastructure, leveraging cloud-native services, CloudEndure, and Database Migration Service.
- Created a roadmap, collaborated with infrastructure build teams to transition to an automated CI/CD pipeline, and managed consistent and coherent DevOps processes and practices to support the system and software lifecycle.
- Handled systems assessment, presales, cloud recommendation, transformation, transition, modernization, automation, cloud operation, network, and high-level target architectural design.
- Designed the landing zone multi-account architecture, with identity and access management, governance, data security, network design, and logging for applications deployment.
- Saved additional costs by migrating Windows-based native services to custom Linux box daemon services.
- Architected a highly available, scalable, and secure environment in the cloud per the client's requirements.
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
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
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
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
Languages
PHP, SQL, Python, Bash
Frameworks
.NET, Laravel
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
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