Prakash Khadka
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Prakash is a DevOps engineer with several years of experience in Linux server administration. Prakash has a robust knowledge base in IT security with several certificates, including cybersecurity: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP). As a DevOps engineer, Prakash also has hands-on development experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed and implemented is a CI/CD pipeline for an eCommerce website in AWS. The application was fully scalable and secure.
Work Experience
Technical Lead
NepalLink Network Pvt
- Worked as a server administrator and frequently checked server health, security, availability using monitoring tools such as Icinga 2, and patched any critical issue in the Windows/Linux servers.
- Helped clients to solve any issue through the WHMCS ticket system on their websites and fixed any problems in the server.
- Installed firewalls to prevent web application attacks and configured them to keep hackers away from the server.
- Helped, as a certified ethical hacker, clients to analyze the hack in their websites, find the root cause of the hack, suggest solutions to patch the security vulnerability, and secure the website from future hacks.
DevOps Engineer
01cloud
- Wrote a CloudFormation template to provision AWS infrastructures, developed a Dockerfile (used Docker Hub/ECR for storing docker images), set up the web application using Docker Compose, and used Elastic Beanstalk to manage WordPress websites.
- Used Helm to manage different applications, Helmfile for better management, setup Kubernetes infrastructure for web application deployment, and used different exporters for monitoring in Prometheus.
- Monitored endpoints using BlackBox exporter and EC2, RDS, ELB, and so on with CloudWatch.
- Used Logz.io and Papertrailapp.com for monitoring metrics and logs, set up alerts in Slack channels and email, and was comfortable working with HashiCorp Vault.
- Implemented CI/CD for a wide range of web applications such as Magento, WordPress, and so on; set up Jenkins and CircleCI for CI/CD; and used metric server, ConfigMap reloader, and sealed secrets.
- Used the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) for autoscaling pods according to CPU and/or memory utilization; secured all the infrastructures and monitored Kubernetes infrastructures using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, ELK, and so on.
- Followed the DevOps strategy when autoscaling and securing the full-stack web applications.
Experience
CI/CD Pipeline for an eCommerce Web Application
I was able to solve the problem by implementing a DevOps approach.
Skillset
Tools
Jenkins, Helm, GitHub, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CircleCI, Apache, Docker Compose, Ansible, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Docker Hub, Plesk, SonarQube, Fastly, Grafana
Paradigms
Penetration Testing, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Linux, cPanel, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, WordPress
Other
Ethical Hacking, Server Administration, Web Host Manager (WHM), Continuous Monitoring, CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps Engineer, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security, Security, Web Hosting, Prometheus, GitOps, Argo CD
Languages
Bash Script, PHP, Python, Java
Storage
Datadog, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Kantipur City College - Kathmandu, Nepal
Certifications
Implement DevOps in Google Cloud
Google Cloud Skills Boost
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Linux Foundation
Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Offensive Security
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
EC-Council
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Red Hat
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat
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