Ravish Gavekar, Developer in Toronto, Canada
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Ravish Gavekar

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Software Developer

Toronto, Canada

Toptal member since February 14, 2023

Expertise
AWS DevOpsLinuxAWSCloud EngineeringKubernetesDevOpsTerraformGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)DockerAnsibleMySQLPythonSystem AdministrationDashboard
Bio

Ravish is a senior DevOps and DevSecOps engineer with expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS public clouds. He specializes in designing and building end-to-end solutions on the cloud using infrastructure as code and Terraform. Ravish's previous experiences span setting up CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and data analytics pipelines; microservice containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes, Docker, and Istio; and building industry-standard cloud security and best practices.

Portfolio

VistaJet
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Bash, GitLab CI/CD, AWS ELB...
InfiniteWorld
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Packer...
Zebra Technologies Corporation
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, Ansible...

Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
  • Amazon EKS - 5 years
  • Kubernetes - 5 years
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 5 years
  • Terraform - 4 years
  • CI/CD Pipelines - 4 years
  • GitLab CI/CD - 2 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, ELK (Elastic Stack), Prometheus, Ansible, Linux, Shell Scripting, DevOps

The most amazing...

...project I've implemented is a zero-trust security model and security best practices on the cloud.

Work Experience

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

2023 - PRESENT
VistaJet
  • Worked on microservices modernization and migration to Amazon EKS.
  • Set up the serverless infrastructure with Amazon ECS-Fargate infrastructure.
  • Led the project setting up cloud infrastructure with IaC and GitOps CI/CD pipelines.
Technologies: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Bash, GitLab CI/CD, AWS ELB, Cloud Security, GitOps, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Bash Script, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Cloud Computing, Amazon Route 53, Amazon EKS, DevSecOps

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

2021 - 2023
InfiniteWorld
  • Applied site reliability principles and DevOps practices across the company.
  • Implemented zero-trust security model and security best practices on the cloud.
  • Designed and implemented the organization's entire architecture on cloud infrastructure.
Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Packer, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ELK (Elastic Stack), Linux, Shell Scripting, MySQL, GitOps, Cloud Computing, Amazon Route 53, Amazon EKS, DevSecOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Senior DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2021
Zebra Technologies Corporation
  • Performed cloud migration and re-architecting of on-prem applications to Google Cloud.
  • Implemented customized packer images, Docker containerization, cloud builds, image repositories, and Kubernetes clusters, including container orchestration and management. Implemented CI/CD development and production pipelines.
  • Set up 3-tier enterprise cloud-native applications.
Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, Ansible, GitHub, Jira Administrator, Jira REST API, CI/CD Pipelines, Prometheus, Grafana, Bash, Linux, Shell Scripting, MySQL, HAProxy, Cloud Computing, Amazon Route 53, Amazon EKS, GitHub Actions, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Senior Technology Infrastructure Engineer

2008 - 2019
Amdocs
  • Conducted application and infrastructure modernization over the cloud.
  • Developed infrastructure automation with IaC (Terraform), configuration management, and design. Set up high-availability production deployment.
  • Set up observability and monitoring pipelines on production workloads and 24/7 support. I also set up load balancers, networks, web servers, and application clusters.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, Bash Script, Grafana, Prometheus, Linux, Shell Scripting, MySQL, Python, HAProxy, Cloud Computing

Experience

Infrastructure Modernization and Automation on Cloud

Designed and developed a highly secure zero-trust security-based cloud infrastructure for the organization using infrastructure as code (IaC). Deployed IaC, observability, and CI/CD pipelines. I also implemented site reliability and DevOps practices.

Distributed Multi-region Cloud Native Application with Anthos Service Mesh

Implemented a multi-regional distributed application on GCP over the Kubernetes multi-regional clusters (GKE) using Anthos Service Mesh. This project was deployed using Terraform as infrastructure as code pipeline.

Security Practices Implementation on Kubernetes

Implemented a highly secure cloud native microservice application on the cloud using a zero-trust security model. It was implemented with CIS security benchmarks on Kubernetes cluster, following all industry best security practices for applications inside clusters.

Infrastructure and Production Systems Administrator for On-premise and Public Clouds

Acted as administrator for production systems to design and implement auto-scaled high-capacity compute workloads, operating system management, virtualization, microservices, and containerization architecture over GCP and AWS. Also, I built and managed infrastructure with IaC (Terraform) and GitHub-IaC Pipelines. Further, I designed and implemented active-passive and blue-green high-availability production systems. Then, I implemented and managed globally scaled Kubernetes clusters for distributed microservices and setup CI/CD pipelines. Finally, I implemented monitoring and observability pipelines with Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, and ELK stack.

Education

2003 - 2006

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering in Computer Science

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere-Raigad, MH. India. - Maharashtra, India

Certifications

MARCH 2023 - PRESENT

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Linux Foundation

JULY 2022 - JULY 2024

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)

HashiCorp

MARCH 2021 - MARCH 2024

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

The Linux Foundation

FEBRUARY 2021 - FEBRUARY 2024

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation

SEPTEMBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2023

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud

MARCH 2019 - MARCH 2022

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Jira REST API

Tools

Terraform, ELK (Elastic Stack), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Packer, Amazon EKS, Ansible, GitHub, Grafana, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Git, Istio, GitLab CI/CD, AWS ELB, Helm

Paradigms

DevOps, Role-based Access Control (RBAC), DevSecOps

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Linux, Docker

Languages

Bash Script, Bash, Python

Storage

MySQL

Other

GitHub Actions, AWS DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Prometheus, Shell Scripting, Amazon Route 53, Jira Administrator, GitOps, Cloud Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), HAProxy, Cloud Computing, System Administration, Autoscaling, Dashboards, Argo CD

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