Dileep Pothanchery
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Dileep is a DevOps engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Developer with nearly a decade of experience. Specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, and Linux-based environments, Dileep has set up infrastructures from scratch for companies, from startups to giant corporates. He has delivered solutions in large-scale environments, including media and entertainment, real estate, OTT, travel and hospitality, and eCommerce.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Grafana, DevOps, Scripting, Jenkins Pipeline, GitOps, Prometheus, Git
The most amazing...
...platforms I've architected, implemented, and managed can be scaled for any amount of traffic with zero-downtime deployments.
Work Experience
DevOps and Cloud Architect
Self-employed
- Led, designed, and implemented cloud architectures, CI/CD, Kubernetes, monitoring, and logging, which are deployed on multiple AWS accounts.
- Implemented infrastructure and application monitoring using Prometheus, ELK, and Loki.
- Designed a Helm Chart that deployed 300+ microservices with extensive customizability.
Lead DevOps
Intigral
- Set up microservices on AWS using ECS and deployed load-balanced and autoscaled APIs on AWS.
- Provisioned infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and Ansible.
- Configured monitoring and alerts using Sensu, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
- Built many dynamic environments for load testing using AWS CloudFormation, reducing costs and tuning the infrastructure to handle any loads.
- Played a crucial role in expanding this greenfield project, which is now highly scalable and one of the biggest OTTs in the Middle East.
Senior DevOps
Property Finder
- Configured Docker to run microservices using AWS ECS, ran applications using Elastic Beanstalk, deployed load-balanced and autoscaled applications on AWS, provisioned servers using Puppet and Ansible, and configured monitoring on Opsview.
- Migrated the platform from another cloud to accommodate bigger databases without almost no downtime.
- Launched the product on AWS, serving customers across multiple countries.
Technical Lead
Minjar Cloud Solutions
- Managed multiple projects on AWS with high availability and scalability.
- Delivered several projects that have scaled perfectly well to serve four million active users per month.
- Automated many deployments that were previously manual.
Experience
Rearchitecting a Major Platform
Skills
Languages
Bash, Go
Tools
Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Git, ELK (Elastic Stack), Puppet, Helm, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Load Testing
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Kubernetes, Red Hat Linux, OpenShift, Sensu, Docker, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Other
Scripting, Prometheus, GitOps, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Load Balancers, Autoscaling, APIs, Opsview Monitor, IT Project Management, Automated Deployment Scripts
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins Job DSL
Storage
Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, LokiJS
Certifications
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Red Hat
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
AWS
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