Shahan Shaik
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Shanan is a lead DevOps engineer. He offers nearly 11 years of specialization in digital cloud transformation roadmaps. He has expertise in cloud and DevOps along automation in spheres like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms, including Linux, VMware, AWS, Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Python , Shell scripting, Git, Terraform, ELK, Appdynamics, automation engineering, architecture in on-prem, and hybrid and cloud deployment following Agile best practices.
Portfolio
Experience
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Preferred Environment
Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure DevOps, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Jenkins
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is the migration, digital transformation, multi-cloud, and E2E automation of app deployments. It saved around 1 million dirhams for the company.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Digital14
- Performed one-click deployment strategies, which helped developers seamlessly deploy code to any environment at any time.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD for microservices, including end-to-end automation and service deployment to the production environment, which saved 1 million dirhams for the project.
- Supported and converted a manual deployment strategy to a fully functional automated deployment that drastically reduced deployment time from three hours to five mins.
- Provided training and guided developers towards best practices for using a DevOps automation culture.
- Created custom Docker images with fewer sizes using multistage build strategies, which increased containers' performance in OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms.
- Implemented and provided on-demand production deployments for different development platforms like Node.js, Java, and Spring Boot applications.
- Participated in code and design reviews applying modern tools and techniques for developing clean, efficient, and reusable scripts.
- Developed the CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy the applications using Jenkins. It includes other build tools like Terraform and Packer.
- Designed the automation processes for aiding the teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor applications using tooling or scripting, reducing the time to attain production features.
- Built the CI/CD pipeline for the development teams for the automated build and deployment in environments like development, SIT, UAT, and production.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Emirates Group
- Performed as the owner of forecasting and infrastructure needs resulting in application uptime.
- Drove the deployment and guided the scalable infrastructure on on-prem and Amazon Web Services (AWS) using automation like scripting and configuration.
- Participated in the architecture, design, and enhancement of DevOps operations. Developed automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, cloud, container platforms and data centers.
- Created and aided the customer and business requirements in SRE and DevOps area through configuring, maintaining, and maximizing the cloud containers and clusters.
- Coordinated with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions.
- Assessed the IT infrastructure and operations organization, including people, process, and technology, to determine the best course of the journey towards cloud, specifically AWS.
- Acquired strong knowledge in automation of OpenShift activities using CI/CD pipelines, templates, and scripting.
- Evaluated the current deployment process to identify bottlenecks and implement solutions for continuous deployment and integration, evangelizing, implementing, and managing a robust DevOps function.
- Supported the conduct of cloud assessment, cloud suitability, and cloud feasibility studies and establish digital strategy and architecture roadmap to facilitate migration to AWS Cloud Platform.
- Reduced Total Cost Ownership (TCO) by migrating data in real-time to the cloud, streamlining operational efficiencies, and lowering capital expenditures.
Experience
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Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Job DSL
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, Helm
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Linux, Docker
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps Engineer, Containerization, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Azure Administrator, G42 Cloud
Languages
Python
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada - Ongole, India
Certifications
Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
CNCF
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
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