Navin Prasad Kumar
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
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
Experience
Availability
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
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.
Senior DevOps Engineer
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.
Experience
Jenkins Migration
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Anna University | K.S.R College of Engineering - Tiruchengode, India
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Training and Certification
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Linux Foundation
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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