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Lav Khanna

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Singapore, Singapore

Toptal Member Since

January 14, 2020

Lav is one of those developers who are eager to get out of his comfort zone and thrives on delivering projects on time. With two years of experience in software development, he has a clear understanding of the software development life cycle and uses that knowledge to implement best practices as a DevOps engineer.

Python Amazon Web Services (AWS)DevOps Linux AWS CloudFormation Docker Kubernetes Agile Software Development NoSQL Continuous Deployment Terraform Jenkins Java React System Administration

Portfolio

Firemark Labs, IAG

Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Terraform, Python

Works Applications

Java, Ansible, Jenkins, React

Experience

DevOps - 3 years Linux - 3 years AWS CloudFormation - 2 years Python - 2 years Terraform - 2 years Jenkins - 2 years Java - 1 year React - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

IntelliJ IDEA, Cloud9, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Ubuntu

The most amazing...

...project I've contributed to was a platform to manage 20+ isolated development environments using the same UI.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2019 - PRESENT

Firemark Labs, IAG

Created CI/CD pipelines for products using Gitlab and Jenkins.
Managed the Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Kops running tools like GitLab and Jenkins.
Wrote API service in python to automate the running of JupyterLab on Kubernetes for Data Scientists.
Managed for cost reduction, logging, monitoring, efficient resource usage, security, and identity of the AWS account.
Provided consultancy for system architecture efficiently making use of cloud services.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Terraform, Python

Site Reliability Engineer

2016 - 2018

Works Applications

Led the development of the web interface to manage multiple isolated development environments so as to increase the developer's productivity.
Improved the existing Jenkins scripts to manage multiple licenses of products from one single job.
Provided on-call support for stability of the staging environment.
Wrote Ansible scripts automatic infrastructure provisioning on OpenStack.
Acted as the front-end developer for a journal application.

Technologies: Java, Ansible, Jenkins, React

Experience

Development Platform

Developed a web interface to provision infrastructure on a private cloud. It increased the developer's productivity by automating manual operational tasks.

Skills

Languages

Python, Java

Tools

AWS CloudFormation, IntelliJ IDEA, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins

Paradigms

DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Ubuntu, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS Lambda

Libraries/APIs

React

Storage

NoSQL

Other

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), System Administration, Cloud9

Education

2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Techonology, BHU - Varanasi, India

Certifications

OCTOBER 2018 - OCTOBER 2020

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

AWS

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