Nishant Nasa
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Avalon, Victoria, Australia
Toptal member since August 3, 2023
Nishant is a principal engineer with 13+ years of experience working on the design, build, and maintenance of web and big data applications utilizing hybrid cloud environments. He has a keen interest in machine learning and data technologies and has helped AI teams simplify their workflows. In previous projects, Nishant has contributed as a lead engineer, solutions architect, DevOps engineer, full-stack developer, and data engineer.
Portfolio
Experience
- Databases - 13 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 9 years
- Python - 8 years
- DevOps - 7 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- Azure - 3 years
- Full-stack Development - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Machine Learning, Full-stack Development, Python, CI/CD Pipelines
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed, built, and maintained from scratch is a highly secure multitenant global cloud SaaS platform.
Work Experience
Principal Engineer
Nuix
- Designed and built an infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD framework for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
- Ensured cloud security and conducted well-architected reviews to make the platform more resilient and secure.
- Planned a long-term strategy for the design and architecture of the cloud platform.
- Saved thousands of dollars in cost by reducing operational overhead and simplifying developer workflows.
- Led a team of engineers and managed multiple stakeholders across different regions.
Lead DevOps and MLOps Engineer
Woolworths
- Enforced security best practices compliant with the principle of least privilege.
- Built a self-service infrastructure-as-code framework.
- Implemented a cost optimization framework for proper cost attribution and reporting of cloud infrastructure.
- Supported planning and optimization of service delivery and business-as-usual (BAU) operations.
- Redesigned cloud architectures and put together a long-term operations strategy.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Qantas
- Deployed robust, horizontally scalable front- and back-end microservices and monolithic applications on the cloud.
- Implemented end-to-end automation using infrastructure as code, configuration management, and CI/CD tools.
- Implemented continuous feedback solutions for multiple applications and infrastructures using monitoring tools.
- Enforced security best practices compliant with AWS Shared Responsibility Model.
- Implemented a cost optimization platform to review, budget, report, and attribute costs.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Airtasker
- Automated application deployment to minimize downtime and ensure platform stability.
- Created AWS CloudFormation templates and Ansible Playbooks to integrate CD with an existing CI process.
- Developed new features for a web application on airtasker.com.
- Implemented a monitoring and logging solution for applications using multiple monitoring tools.
- Utilized AWS serverless technologies to break a monolithic back-end API.
Cloud Platform Architect
ABEJA
- Designed, implemented, and maintained cloud infrastructure operations.
- Created a serverless data pipeline to reduce cost footprint and ease operational overhead.
- Implemented microservices for a web API and data-stream analytics pipelines.
- Made significant contributions to data modeling and database design.
Experience
Multitenant Global Cloud SaaS Platform | Nuix Ltd
The platform has gone through rigorous compliance checks and penetration testing iterations. It is highly scalable and fault resilient so that each customer can have different usage requirements. It enables the company to provision and set up an isolated environment for a new client easily, reducing the operational overhead, improving user workflow, and saving thousands of dollars. The release lifecycle is also automated using DevOps best practices, thus enabling better logging, auditing, security information and event management (SIEM) capabilities, streamlined compliance reporting, etc.
I was onboarded as a principal engineer from the start. I was involved in design, architecture, and tactical decisions in choosing the best tools. Also, I led a team of consulting and in-house engineers and worked hands-on with them to build the platform. Finally, I made and managed most engineering decisions, including the ones regarding stakeholder management with IT, TechOps, and security teams.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University - Delhi, India
Certifications
Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React, Terragrunt, Node.js
Tools
Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon EKS, GitHub, Apache Aurora, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon CloudWatch, NGINX, Cluster, AWS IAM, AWS Fargate, Ansible, Makefile, AWS CodeBuild, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), BigQuery, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Bitbucket, GitLab CI/CD, Keycloak, Logging, Splunk, Helm, Jupyter, SonarQube, Artifactory, Apache Airflow, Sumo Logic
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevSecOps, HIPAA Compliance, Microservices, Azure DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Testing
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, Docker, Amazon EC2, Unix, New Relic, AWS Lambda
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redshift, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, SQL Performance, Redis, MySQL, Azure Cloud Services, Datadog
Languages
Python 3, TypeScript, Bash Script, Python, HTML5, CSS3, Go, JavaScript, Bash, SQL, Groovy, Ruby
Frameworks
Flux, Spark
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Monorepos, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Architecture, Linux Kernel, GitOps, Argo CD, ECS, Software Engineering, Failover Clusters, DevOps Engineer, SFTP, SSH, Load Balancers, Software Development, Data Analytics, Cloud Security, AWS CodePipeline, Data Engineering, Amazon Kinesis, Prometheus, IOPS, Database Optimization, Web Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Full-stack Development, SSL Certificates, Software Troubleshooting, Pub/Sub, Google BigQuery, API Gateways, Cloud Architecture, Cloudflare
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