Gurkamal Singh
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Gurkamal is an experienced cloud engineer and Kubernetes architect with a passion for building solutions on a global scale. With expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible, he helps build cloud-native solutions using DevOps best practices learned from experience.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Amazon EKS, GitLab
The most amazing...
...solution I've built has been an OpenShift/Kubernetes-based machine learning PaaS serving 3,000+ global data scientists at PayPal.
Work Experience
AWS PaaS Architect (Self-employed)
KubeML
- Provided an alternative to AWS SageMaker using JupyterHub on AWS-hosted Kubernetes.
- Managed the CI/CD using Jenkins in its own Kubernetes namespace with containerized build agents and EC2 Docker Daemons.
- Provided GitHub integration for data scientists leveraging the platform.
- Managed an autoscaling Kubernetes cluster on AWS with KOPS and Terraform.
- Oversaw AWS VPCs and a private topology for turnkey JupyterHub PaaS deployments.
AWS Kubernetes Engineer (Freelance)
Bolisession
- Deployed an autoscaling Kubernetes cluster on AWS to support development and production environments.
- Implemented Jenkins CI/CD on AWS using Kubernetes pods as agents and EC2 Docker Daemons as build engines.
- Strategized AWS architecture for a global scale mobile application project.
- Managed an AWS EC2 cluster for Kubernetes with KOPS and Terraform.
- Leveraged AWS ECR to manage a private container registry for Kubernetes deployment manifests.
- Managed AWS VPCs and EC2 Security Groups with public subnets and private subnets to create a private topology for Kubernetes.
Systems Engineer
Department of Defense
- Supported US Navy's migration to AWS GovCloud for data analytics and data warehousing.
- Developed microservices to wrap access to monolithic Navy databases.
- Automated reliability assessment on deployed DoD information systems.
- Consulted Navy stakeholders about financial actions to improve reliability.
Technical Writer
Arrowhead Products
- Developed all technical documentation for internal and external consumption.
- Tracked changes, reported issues, and documented solutions during the development process.
- Responded to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs during presales phases with new clients.
Experience
KubeML — Experience AWS SageMaker on Kubernetes
Skills
Frameworks
Express.js
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React
Tools
GitHub, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, SOLIDWORKS, GitLab
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, App Development
Platforms
Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Azure, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OpenShift, Apache Kafka
Other
Software Packaging, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), HAProxy, Ingress Controllers, CI/CD Pipelines, Networking, Linux Server Administration, IoT Security
Languages
Python, SQL, Java
Storage
MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside - Riverside, CA
Certifications
NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP
NetApp
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