Vaibhav Jain
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since May 4, 2020
Vaibhav is a seasoned DevOps engineer with extensive expertise. Holding AWS and Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD/CKS), he excels in building infrastructures from the ground up for diverse businesses, from startups to industry giants. Proficient in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, and Linux, Vaibhav is adept at managing large-scale operations across sectors like media, fintech, travel, eCommerce, and digital marketing.
Portfolio
Experience
- DevOps - 10 years
- Amazon EKS - 10 years
- Continuous Delivery (CD) - 10 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 10 years
- Linux - 10 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 10 years
- Kubernetes - 10 years
- Prometheus - 6 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Prometheus, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MongoDB, Monitoring, CI/CD Pipelines, GitOps, Service Meshes, NGINX
The most amazing...
...thing I've accomplished is an exceptional feat: crafting a scalable eCommerce infrastructure for seamless high-traffic operations and zero-downtime deployments.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer and Kubernetes Developer (via Toptal)
Self-employed
- Designed and developed cloud-based SaaS solutions.
- Architected a hosting platform on top of DigitalOcean and Kubernetes.
- Developed and provided support for the existing MVP.
- Wrote the Terraform modules for a number of AWS services, including AWS AppSync, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon VPC.
- Created multiple identical environments in a short period using Terraform and tore them down after use to save cost.
- Imported the existing AWS infrastructure to Terraform to remove any manual management overhead.
- Set up dynamic environments for developers. Used Helm and Shell to provide developers with the flexibility to create their own development environments on the fly and tear them up to save on costs.
- Implemented infrastructure and application monitoring and alerts using Datadog.
- Created a cost-saving plan and handled the execution on Google Compute Engine.
- Migrated the staging and development environment from a production Kubernetes environment to separate AWS accounts.
GCP Security Consultant (via Toptal)
INNERWORKS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
- Scaled Kubernetes application pods using custom scaling parameters using Keda.
- Set up custom metrics for a Node.js application using the Prometheus library.
- Did load testing using Gatling and tuned the application based on the testing result.
DevOps Engineer
Paytm E-Commerce
- Deployed and managed applications on self-hosted Kubernetes clusters on AWS EC2 instances.
- Formulated SaltStack formulas for infrastructure automation.
- Wrote Terraform modules for AWS services automation.
- Implemented the EFK logs pipeline for log aggregation of around 1TB of logs daily without any lag.
- Developed a Jenkins global library for unified build and release across hundreds of microservices.
- Reduced service onboarding time to minutes using Jenkins, Groovy, and Salt automation.
- Designed and implemented flash-optimized in-memory open source NoSQL DB Aerospike for caching.
- Maintained daily operational activity on AWS infrastructure and continuous debugging. The highest traffic handled around 1 million RPM during the sales season.
- Led most of the infrastructure integration projects across teams.
DevOps Consultant
HCL Technologies
- Implemented dynamic CI and CD using GitHub Enterprises, Jenkins multibranch jobs, XL-Release, XL-Deploy, and Nexus for Java and Microsoft Technologies.
- Built and deployed Microsoft libraries using open-source build tools on Linux machines (candle and light).
- Migrated manual deployments to automated pipelines with workflows.
- Introduced and implemented log aggregation using ELK stack.
- Participated in server patching activities and network monitoring.
Software Engineer
Cybage Software
- Migrated infrastructure from legacy management to infrastructure as code that will enable developers to understand and modify infrastructure according to their application needs.
- Scheduled infrastructure and apps for early morning hours to save infrastructure costs; costs were reduced by around 40%.
- Set up SonarQube across the organization for hundreds of projects to improve code quality and provide developers with better visibility of potential issues in the code.
- Set up Jenkins automated deployments to hybrid infrastructure consisting of virtual machines and Docker containers.
Experience
Dynamic Environments
Migration to Kubernetes
Environment Segregation | AWS
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Computing
C-DAC: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing - India
Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
BM Institute of Engineering and Technology - India
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Certified Solution Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, REST APIs, Back-end APIs, Node.js, XL Release REST API, React, Terragrunt, Google APIs, Redis Queue
Tools
GitHub, CircleCI, AWS IAM, NGINX, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), AWS CloudTrail, Docker Hub, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Grafana, ELK (Elastic Stack), Packer, SonarQube, Apache Maven, Helm, Istio, Jenkins, Kubernetes HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA), Docker Compose, AWS CLI, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Git, Vault, RabbitMQ, AWS CloudFormation, Kafka Streams, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS SDK, Ansible, Kibana, GitLab CI/CD, SaltStack, Fluentd, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Artifactory, Traefik, AWS Fargate, VPN, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), ChatGPT, Keycloak, Docker Swarm, Apache Airflow, Elastic, EFK Stack, Shell, AWS AppSync, Amazon Cognito, Beanstalk, Gradle, GCP Security
Languages
SQL, TypeScript, Bash, Bash Script, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, Go, Python 3, GraphQL
Frameworks
AWS HA, Flux, Angular, Crossplane, Express.js
Paradigms
Continuous Development (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Serverless Architecture, DevSecOps, Automation, Event-driven Architecture, Load Testing, Microservices, Real-time Systems, HIPAA Compliance
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS ALB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Apache Kafka, Amazon EC2, Windows Server, Imperva Incapsula, Windows, Google App Engine, DigitalOcean, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Kubeflow, AWS Lambda, LAMP, Rancher, Heroku
Storage
PostgreSQL, Datadog, Google Cloud, SQL Performance, Data Centers, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, NoSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, Aerospike, MySQL, Redis, Databases, Amazon Aurora, On-premise, JSON, Cloudways, Data Pipelines, ClickHouse, OVH, Microsoft SQL Server
Industry Expertise
Insurance
Other
Cloudflare, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Ingress Controllers, Scaling, Autoscaling, Website Performance, AWS DevOps, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Migration, Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), CI/CD Pipelines, eCommerce, Cloud Services, AWS Certified Developer, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Container Orchestration, GitHub Actions, Cloud, Amazon RDS, Cloud Security, Containerization, Cloud Computing, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloud Architecture, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure, Architecture, Scalability, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Monitoring, GitOps, IT Operations Management (ITOM), AWS Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, Amazon Route 53, IT Systems Engineering, Containers, IOPS, Database Optimization, Network Automation, Server Administration, Virtual Machines, AWS Certified Solution Architect, SSL Certificates, SSL, Security, Argo CD, Chatbots, Service Mesh, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Migration, Google Cloud Functions, SecOps, Load Balancers, Orchestration, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Network Security, SIEM, IT Security, Serverless, Scalable Web Services, Cloud Monitoring, Kubernetes Security, Platform Engineering, Performance, Troubleshooting, Networking, Clustering, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Canary Deployment, Scalable Architecture, System Architecture, CTO, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Language Models, AI Automation, Redis Streams, System Administration, Linux Administration, Linux Server Administration, Scripting, Prometheus, Consul, Groovy Scripting, Web Security, SaaS, Service Meshes, DNS, API Gateways, Storage, Monorepos, Amazon MSK, Configuration Management, Policy as code (PaC), Compliance as Code (CaC), SysOps, ECS, SOC 2, Single Sign-on (SSO), Firewalls, APIs, Dependabot, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Shell Scripting, Cost Modeling, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Software Development, Operating Systems, Data Structures, VPS/VDS, Large Language Models (LLMs)
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