Sathish Sathyan Chindarankandy
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Sathish is a data-driven senior DevOps engineer with more than 15 years of experience, spanning DevOps leadership, process automation, and infrastructure. He’s a firm believer in the lifecycle—innovation, automation, optimization—of implementing solutions. Sathish has the proven ability to design, develop, and implement fully automated systems from scratch as an individual contributor and manager.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Terraform, Jenkins, Apache Maven, RPM, Linux, GitHub Actions
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was a system that deployed code for one of the largest Facebook games in history to 8,000 servers in less than 15 minutes.
Work Experience
AWS DevOps Engineer
Blu World
- Migrated the build system from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.
- Optimized build scripts and ensured that new jobs were created with the help of templates instead of writing from scratch.
- Helped reduce cloud costs by turning off unnecessary servers.
AWS DevOps Engineer
Vaya Technologies Inc
- Set up the CICD system from scratch, which deploys from GitHub code check-in to production.
- Helped secure the environment to help the company with SoC2 certification.
- Created infrastructure automation using the IaC tool, Terraform.
DevOps Architect | Consultant
Freelance
- Conducted a security audit of the entire system as the customer was getting hacked every few days where their data in the database was getting compromised. Suggested immediate actions to prevent the hacks and keep the system stable.
- Implemented a highly scalable and secure system to make sure that things ran smoothly and operators don't make critical errors. Used integrations like WAF, ALB, and CloudFront.
- Suggested and did a quick proof of concept for a CI/CD pipeline to reduce manual intervention and errors. This reduced deployment-related errors to less than 5% of the total deployments.
Cloud Architect
Freelance
- Architected several solutions for easy spin up and deployment of microservices and cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Implemented frequent automated security audits and implemented solutions to resolve the same.
- Led a team of four people including offshore and provided guidance and direction to the team including vision and roadmap.
Lead Automation and Release Engineer
Symphony Communication, LLC
- Improved efficiency and productivity by designing and introducing a self-healing infrastructure to resolve alerts and reduce team burnout automatically.
- Created a Terraform-based infrastructure that rebuilt the entire infrastructure for the building and automatically deploys artifacts such as Jenkins, EC2, ECS, and more.
- Automated the pull request workflow for development in Kubernetes (tests, sonar checks, code coverage, auto-merge, and test deployment).
- Streamlined the build and deployment processes for testing a framework with Selenium.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Trifacta
- Saved operational expenses by automating the CI/CD pipeline for the enterprise product.
- Designed and implemented a self-service license generator for internal customers and a new proof of concept.
- Created dashboards and monitoring systems to track alerts in production.
Staff DevOps Engineer
An Online Freelance Agency
- Architected and implemented an automated continuous deployment pipeline (using Docker containers) reducing time to production from days to less than 30 minutes.
- Created dashboards within different environments for build and regression pipeline as well as the availability of services.
- Designed and implemented a Docker-based image to quickly pull and set up the development environment.
Principal DevOps Engineer
Zynga
- Created a pull-deploy mechanism that scaled the deployment system to deploy code to 8,000+ servers, thus saving 80% of the time to production for each deployment.
- Designed and implemented a centralized deployment system for several games.
- Developed monitoring and logging dashboards and was an early member of SRE within Zynga.
Senior Release Engineer
Ask.com
- Designed CI/CD pipelines that built, packaged, and deployed artifacts of various products used in the application stack to production.
- Developed monitoring and logging dashboards for active incident alerts.
- Served as an administrator for Jira and Hudson and Jenkins.
- Evangelized Hudson within the company and rolled it out across the whole company thus improving the CI/CD timings by 300%.
Senior Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions
- Served as a founding team member of the research group for open-source technologies within Cognizant.
- Consulted and helped clients to migrate from a web server to Apache and WebLogic to Tomcat.
- Oversaw various internal migration projects to open source.
Experience
CI/CD and Self-healing Environments
The templated CI/CD system ensured that each microservice got onboarded within a couple of hours or less. The Docker-based and pull-deploy mechanism that ensured the service's deployment was scaled within minutes. I also created a self-healing alert system where common issues were resolved by set rules and conditions—ultimately reducing developer burnout.
Scaling and Securing Infrastructure
DNS Design for Cloud Migration
I architected the DNS design for connectivity from cloud to on-prem AD servers and vice versa. This mostly helped the company to maintain both the data centers while moving from on-premises to AWS.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub API, Amazon EC2 API, Node.js, Jenkins Job DSL
Tools
AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, Jenkins, Shell, Git, Amazon CloudWatch, Beanstalk, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), ELK (Elastic Stack), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS ELB, Amazon EBS, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Apache, Apache Maven, Gradle, Phabricator, Apache Tomcat, Grunt, Chef, Unbound, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon EKS, RPM, AWS OpsWorks, Phing, NGINX, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Paradigms
Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Azure DevOps, Agile Software Development
Platforms
Amazon EC2, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Heroku, Apache2, AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS ALB
Storage
Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Google Cloud, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL
Other
AWS DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, System Administration, SSL Certificates, Scaling, Software Packaging, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Shell Scripting, Continuous Monitoring, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Infrastructure, AWS Cloud Architecture, AWS Certificate Manager, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Open Source, Argo CD, Web Application Firewall (WAF), DNS, Amazon Marketing Services (AMS), AWS Service Catalog, Machine Learning, Amazon RDS, Scripting, Software Development, GitHub Actions
Languages
Bash Script, PHP, Ruby, Python 2, Python, Bash
Frameworks
Laravel, Ruby on Rails 3
Education
Bachelor of Technology Degree in Information Technology
Cochin University of Science and Technology - Kochi, India
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Machine Learning
Coursera
AWS Certified Developer—Associate
AWS | Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS | Amazon Web Services
CloudBees Certified Jenkins Engineer
CloudBees, Inc.
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