Shashank Sinha
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Shashank is a cloud architect with 10+ years of experience. He designs and builds infrastructure with best practices for high availability, scalability, and security. Shashank is also proficient with IaC, automation, scripting, as well as monitoring and observability.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, Bash, Cloud Services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon EKS
The most amazing...
...product I've created is a highly scalable CI/CD library based on Groovy DSL that helped the client reduce their time to market.
Work Experience
Cloud Architect
Freelance Clients
- Migrated and managed 50+ applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Helped large-scale enterprise and eCommerce companies to take advantage of cloud, microservices, and agile migrations.
- Helped implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.
- Contributed to developing scalable, reliable, secured, and supportable products.
- Assisted clients in developing and setting up a DevOps toolchain as per requirement.
- Helped define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems.
DevOps Lead
Al Tayer Group
- Designed highly scalable AWS architecture for eCommerce websites, such as GAP and Mamas & Papas. Ensured infrastructure was PCI compliant and helped achieve and maintain other compliances.
- Implemented AWS Spot Fleet with Kubernetes to make infrastructure more resilient. Helped manage AWS infrastructure for four major eCommerce websites in the Gulf region, including GAP, Nisnass, Ounass, and Mamas & Papas.
- Helped teams find bottlenecks on websites by identifying slow third-party calls. Implemented Dynatrace, an APM solution for end-to-end user activity tracking. Wrote a shared library in Jenkins using Groovy DSL for CI/CD.
- Collaborated with a project manager on a technical project plan with timelines. Migrated live websites across Kubernetes clusters. Reduced AWS costs by using optimal resources as per usage and improved Ansible playbooks for configuration management.
DevOps Engineer
StarzPlay
- Deployed and maintained Spring Boot microservice architecture on Apache Mesos clusters. Maintained infrastructure based on AWS, enabling and helping teams to adopt CI using Jenkins.
- Automated Selenium testing using CI and log analysis using ELK. Implemented customized Grafana graphs to visualize metrics using Prometheus and InfluxDB.
- Acted as a chef for configuration management and deployment using Terraform. Used Docker containers for microservices.
Senior Development Engineer
MasterCard
- Provisioned and deployed using tools like Vagrant, Chef, Packer, and Terraform. Conducted TDD using KitchenCI and Serverspec. Created software stacks using DevOps tooling and Windows images using Packer.
- Designed and implemented CI pipelines using Jenkins. Managed the in-house private cloud as per standards. Worked in an Agile environment, collaborating across multiple teams. Tracked progress and bugs using Rally and Jira.
- Integrated microservices using Docker in the dev environment and for TDD. Created a Dockerized application and POC on Mesosphere, a cloud-native DC/OS for creating a hybrid environment within the organization.
DevOps Engineer
Talentica
- Introduced automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools using Chef.
- Participated in on-call rotations to respond to critical incidents and provide 24/7 support for production systems.
- Collaborated closely with development teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize application performance.
Technical Consultant
Fujitsu Consulting
- Collaborated with developers to optimize application performance and scalability through code and architecture improvements.
- Helped clients achieve PCI and SOC2 compliances in different projects.
- Implemented and maintained automated deployment and testing systems to ensure reliable and consistent application updates.
- Helped set up guidelines for Linux server hardening provided to multiple customers/clients.
- Participated in on-call rotations to respond to critical incidents and provide 24/7 support for production systems.
Experience
Grocery eCommerce Platform
Automotive Company
• Built and improved CI/CD tooling and helped developers with CI configurations.
• Managed CI for automated testing of all environments.
• Managed CD for automated cross-region deployment to multiple environments
Role: DevOps engineer
Skills
Tools
Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Terraform, Grafana, Ansible, Helm, Amazon EKS, CircleCI, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), NGINX, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS Fargate, Mesos, ELK (Elastic Stack), Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Rally, Jira, Ansible Tower, GitHub
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Agile, Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum
Platforms
Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Azure, New Relic, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Apache Kafka
Other
DevOps Engineer, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure, Containerization, Containers, GitHub Actions, Linux Server Administration, Prometheus, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Cloud Services, Security, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Leadership, Amazon RDS, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Migration, Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Networking, Monitoring, PCI DSS, SOC 2, VMware vCloud, AWS DevOps, Cloudflare, Spring Cloud, Advertising, Governance
Languages
Bash, Python
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Job DSL, Node.js
Storage
Datadog, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB
Frameworks
Selenium
Certifications
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
The Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Linux Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Linux Foundation
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