Dileep Pothanchery, Developer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Dileep Pothanchery

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DevOps Engineer and Developer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Toptal member since November 15, 2021

Bio

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

Self-employed
DevOps, Kubernetes, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Prometheus...
Intigral
Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Jenkins, Grafana, DevOps, GitHub, Linux...
Property Finder
Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, Docker...

Experience

  • Linux - 10 years
  • DevOps - 9 years
  • Scripting - 8 years
  • Jenkins - 7 years
  • Ansible - 6 years
  • Kubernetes - 4 years
  • Prometheus - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

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

2018 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: DevOps, Kubernetes, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Prometheus, ELK (Elastic Stack), LokiJS, Helm, Microservices Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Lead DevOps

2016 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Jenkins, Grafana, DevOps, GitHub, Linux, Microservices Architecture, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Load Balancers, Autoscaling, APIs, AWS CloudFormation, Sensu, Load Testing, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Senior DevOps

2014 - 2016
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.
Technologies: Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Microservices Architecture, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Load Balancers, Autoscaling, Opsview Monitor, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Technical Lead

2013 - 2014
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.
Technologies: Ansible, DevOps, IT Project Management, Automated Deployment Scripts, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Rearchitecting a Major Platform

Built monitoring, logging, CI/CD pipelines, and Helm Charts from scratch for a project with more than five million active users that handles more than 300,000 requests per minute. The traffic was switched from the legacy environment to the rearchitected environment with zero downtime.
MARCH 2021 - SEPTEMBER 2023

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

Red Hat

OCTOBER 2019 - OCTOBER 2022

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

OCTOBER 2019 - OCTOBER 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

NOVEMBER 2017 - NOVEMBER 2020

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS

NOVEMBER 2017 - NOVEMBER 2020

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

AWS

Libraries/APIs

Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins Job DSL

Tools

Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Git, ELK (Elastic Stack), Puppet, Helm, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Languages

Bash, Go

Paradigms

DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Load Testing

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Kubernetes, Red Hat Linux, OpenShift, Sensu, Docker, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Storage

Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, LokiJS

Other

Scripting, Prometheus, GitOps, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Load Balancers, Autoscaling, APIs, Opsview Monitor, IT Project Management, Automated Deployment Scripts

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