Utkal Gourab Dash
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Developer
Utkal is a software engineer with experience in various domains such as marketing, advertising, banking, travel, transportation, and logistics. He is skilled in cloud architecture, Linux, DevOps methodology, and Java and understands ITIL and ETL processes well. A fluent communicator with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills that include a hands-on approach and sound business acumen, Utkal strives to work as a value-added resource and serve companies to the best of his ability.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Linux, Architecture, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM, AWS CLI, Kubernetes, Google+
The most amazing...
...thing I've modernized is a 25-year-old app by implementing cloud and DevOps capabilities, resulting in a significant profit increase.
Work Experience
DevOps and Cloud Consultant
IBM
- Designed solutions according to the budget and needed infrastructure. Handled system and deployment automation using Bash scripting, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Integrated HashiCorp Vault to store plain text credentials from log and INI files in encrypted form to keep the system security compliant. Enabled automatic password rotation.
- Participated in client meetings to plan and determine phases and cutover dates for all environments. Met multiple stakeholders from Tata Consultancy Services and Kyndryl to mentor them to minimize last-minute issues.
- Won IBM Champion Learner Gold Medal and multiple badges and certifications.
DevOps
CodeComplete, Inc
- Set up the complete IAC automation using Terraform for managing multiple environments. Integrated Gitlab and Jenkins as part of the CICD Process.
- Re-architected security best practices using strategies for data encryption at rest and transit and storing secrets in KMS.
- Used Lambda, ECS where applicable, to reduce fixed costs by the EC2s.
Senior Software Engineer
Epsilon
- Troubleshot the Matillion ETL tool, Redshift, EMR, Hadoop clusters, Kafka Queues, ELK, JupyterHub, containers, and CI/CD pipelines and helped the team triage issues more efficiently.
- Ideated product functionalities and data flow and trained team members to quickly adapt to the environment. Took the lead during the calls and in maintaining project-related documents and participated in the upgrade and delivery of the product.
- Troubleshot real-time data feeds—including forward and backward sync between HBase and Redshift via S3 as a data lake—Lambda and API Gateway-related errors, external table, and bulk load or snapshot creation functions.
- Learned about AD FS groups and their trust relationship with AWS IAM roles, Okta admin, JupyterHub access, and other SaaS-level access to various applications and client teams, including AWS WorkSpaces.
Senior Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
- Promoted to the L2 team within a short period after having a good understanding of the trade lifecycle and business flow.
- Took the lead on certain critical activities, such as setting up different accounts and charges in production and handling a few major clients.
- Oversaw releases and learned about an end-to-end deployment process and Udeploy deployment tool. Used different scheduling and monitoring tools and ITIL guidelines, ensuring all the processes were SLA compliant.
- Maintained data, kept track of minutes, and improved documentation as part of release activities. Attended outage calls, prepared root cause analysis documents, and updated standard operating procedure (SOP) and known error database (KEDB).
- Attended QA and handover calls, contacted different stakeholders for deployment approvals, sent out notifications, and helped develop communication for support roles.
- Played a key role in writing shell scripts and participated actively in team-building activities, for which I was recognized as a star performer for four years in a row.
Experience
Cloud Modernization Project
A travel, transportation, and logistics company needed to modernize a critical application that has been in use for almost 28 years. Along with my team, I designed and implemented infrastructure solutions. We did the following sub-designs:
• moved secrets in plain text from log and INI files to secure vaults and integrated them with the current set of tools, which was necessary to comply with security requirements;
• migrated old MQ and application servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL) and made configuration changes accordingly;
• moved most of the CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and AWS DevOps pipelines;
• containerized apps using Docker and created some POCs.
The results were significant as the application became more stable, highly scalable, and secure, and the client reported a return on investment (ROI) of over 17% in the first quarter.
DevOps for an AI Startup
https://codecomplete.ai/Used Lambda, Amazon ECS where applicable, to reduce fixed costs by the Amazon EC2s.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications
Biju Patnaik University of Technology - Odisha, India
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Amazon EKS, GitHub, AWS IAM, AWS CLI, AWS Fargate, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Vault, Jenkins, Matillion ETL for Redshift, ELK (Elastic Stack), Jira, Confluence, AWS Glue, Helm
Paradigms
DevOps, DevSecOps, Microservices, Microservices Architecture
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), RDBMS, Redshift, Datadog, HBase, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Unix, Docker, OpenShift, AWS IoT, Apache Kafka
Languages
SQL, Python, GraphQL
Other
Architecture, Computer Science, AWS Cloud Architecture, Production Support, Troubleshooting, Cloud Architecture, System Administration, IT Support, Leadership, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, GitHub Actions, Unix Shell Scripting, Amazon RDS, Containers, AWS DevOps, Pulumi, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Monitoring, ECS, Distributed Team Management, ServiceNow, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Google+, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Freshdesk, Amazon MSK, GitOps, Argo CD
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