Navin is available for hire

Navin Prasad Kumar

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Toptal member since May 1, 2023

Expertise

Docker Ansible Jenkins Azure Kubernetes AWS Nginx Agile Development Terraform Python

Bio

Navin Prasad is a DevOps and cloud engineer with five years of IT experience. His impressive track record spans four years of delivering top-tier DevOps solutions. He possesses extensive knowledge in Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform and has experience deploying to Azure and AWS. Navin Prasad has a successful track record of implementing CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and cost optimization expertise.

Portfolio

Amadeus

Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure...

Wipro Digital

Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Experience

Azure - 5 years
Docker - 4 years
Ansible - 4 years
Jenkins - 4 years
Continuous Integration (CI) - 3 years
Kubernetes - 2 years
Terraform - 1 year
Azure DevOps - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Azure, Kubernetes

The most amazing...

...thing I've implemented is a rate-limiting feature for an Artifactory service using NGINX to help protect against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2022

Amadeus

Migrated Jenkins service from an on-premise virtual machine (VM) to Azure Kubernetes cluster.
Implemented a rate limit feature using NGINX for a JFrog Artifactory service. It prevents DDoS attacks.
Built an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins to facilitate the deployment of a Node.js web application while leveraging Terraform to assist with infrastructure provisioning.

Technologies: Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Terraform

Senior DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2021

Wipro Digital

Wrote an Ansible playbook to automate software installation, reducing lead time by 70%.
Set up and managed 30+ Debian and CentOS-based VMs in AWS and Azure.
Cut AWS cloud costs by around $400, i.e., 20%, by selecting appropriate infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) workloads and eliminating unnecessary and underutilized VMs.
Slimmed down Jenkins Docker image size by 20%, reducing build time.

Technologies: Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Experience

Jenkins Migration

Migrated Jenkins job configuration and built data from an on-premise server to a Kubernetes-based environment using OpenShift and Azure Kubernetes cluster. I containerized the Jenkins service by creating a Dockerfile and deployed it to the Kubernetes environment by creating a Kubernetes manifest file.

Education

2012 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Anna University | K.S.R College of Engineering - Tiruchengode, India

Certifications

FEBRUARY 2023 - FEBRUARY 2026

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Training and Certification

SEPTEMBER 2022 - SEPTEMBER 2024

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

The Linux Foundation

JANUARY 2022 - JANUARY 2024

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Microsoft

Skills

Tools

Ansible, Jenkins, Helm, NGINX, Terraform, Artifactory, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Platforms

Docker, Azure IaaS, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, OpenShift

Paradigms

Continuous Integration (CI), Azure DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD)

Languages

Python

Other

Electronics, Electricity

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