Vishal Patel, Developer in Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Vishal Patel

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DevOps Engineer and Software Developer

Location
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Toptal Member Since
May 6, 2022

Vishal is a DevOps and Kubernetes architect with over four years of experience designing, implementing, and managing production-ready Kubernetes infrastructure and its cloud-native tools in hybrid environments. He has worked on setting up Infrastructure as code and CI/CD process baselines and helped in organization-wide adaptation.

Portfolio

Self-employed
Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Terraform, DevOps, Azure...
Priceline - GCP
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes...

Experience

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Kubernetes, Linux, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Docker, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

The most amazing...

...achievement I’ve had is learning new DevOps tools and Kubernetes-related concepts, achieving all three certifications of Kubernetes in a short period.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps | Kubernetes Architect and Engineer

2019 - PRESENT
Self-employed
  • Handled the managed cloud and Kubernetes on-prem infrastructure. Acted as a Kubernetes architect and trainer. Trained the Linux administrator team for Kubernetes and OpenShift applications and made them ready to offer Kubernetes support to their clients.
  • Worked in the government sector. Automated on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure using a Terraform and GitLab pipeline. Architected an Azure Kubernetes infrastructure using IaC practices per the enterprise’s landing zone practices.
  • Introduced DevOps practices to many developers using a knowledge base, local Docker/Kubernetes/Kind environment, and Skaffold tool and focused on software development to increase frequent software releases.
Technologies: Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Terraform, DevOps, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Linux, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Solution Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, Python, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Infrastructure, Linux Administration, Bash, New Relic, Amazon EKS, CI/CD Pipelines, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Identification, Cloud, Cloud Computing, AWS IAM, Microsoft Azure, DevSecOps, Sentinel, Scripting, Helm, Git, Cloud Infrastructure, YAML, Pipelines, Azure DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS DevOps, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), SonarQube, Technical Hiring, Task Analysis, Source Code Review, Interviewing, Security, APIs, High-availability Systems, Systemd, Back-end, VPN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS CloudFormation, Load Balancers, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Kibana, Vagrant, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure API Management, API Management, DigitalOcean, DevOps Engineer, Cloudflare, Containerization, Continuous Integration (CI), GitLab, Architecture, Markdown, OAuth 2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon API Gateway, Site Reliability, GitOps, Flux, OpenStack, Hypervisors, Continuous Delivery (CD), Networking, Grafana, Terragrunt, Apache Kafka, Apache, Ubuntu, Management, GitHub, Jira, Team Leadership, HashiCorp, Cloud Security, IT Support, Kubernetes HPA, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, Splunk, Linux Server Administration, Ansible, Microservices, Service Meshes, DNS Debugging, Istio, OpenShift, Microservices Architecture, ELK (Elastic Stack), Shell Scripting, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Blobs, Azure Key Vault, Docker Compose, Azure Network Security Groups, Confluence, Artifactory, Cost Reduction & Optimization, CircleCI, ECS, Kong, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Continuous Development (CD), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), DDoS, HSM, Elasticsearch, Orchestration, IaaS

Google Cloud Platform Engineer

2022 - 2022
Priceline - GCP
  • Wrote Python script to generate a multi-cluster manifest of Cloudability and New Relic and encrypted secrets using sops.
  • Investigated and debugged pod and node scaling, pod disruption, and budget-related issues to minimize business impact from unavailable applications when performing lifecycle management of GKE or related cloud-native tools.
  • Enabled webhook admission controller to forcefully apply and mutate limits to manifest new workloads, including renewing certificate pairs. Suggested patterns to automate this process by using a cert-manager.
Technologies: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Continuous Integration (CI), GitLab, Architecture, Markdown, OAuth 2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon API Gateway, Site Reliability, GitOps, Flux, OpenStack, Hypervisors, Continuous Delivery (CD), Networking, Grafana, Terragrunt, Apache Kafka, Apache, Ubuntu, Management, GitHub, Jira, Team Leadership, HashiCorp, Cloud Security, Splunk, Linux Server Administration, Ansible, Microservices, Service Meshes, Istio, OpenShift, Microservices Architecture, ELK (Elastic Stack), Shell Scripting, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Blobs, Azure Key Vault, Docker Compose, Azure Network Security Groups, Datadog, Confluence, Artifactory, Cost Reduction & Optimization, CircleCI

Kubernetes Infrastructure on Premises | Cloud Agnostic Bare-metal

Designed RKE. A Kubernetes-based infrastructure and cloud-native tools can run on any cloud provider, virtual machines, and Bare-metal using Terraform's IaC pipelines.

It can also be deployed in the air gap zone when the container images are imported to the registry successfully.

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Helm, Grafana, Apache, Terraform, Git, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Vagrant, GitLab, GitHub, Jira, HashiCorp, Splunk, Ansible, Istio, ELK (Elastic Stack), Azure Key Vault, Docker Compose, Azure Network Security Groups, Confluence, Artifactory, Amazon EKS, AWS IAM, Sentinel, SonarQube, Systemd, VPN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS CloudFormation, Kibana, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), CircleCI, Kong

Paradigms

DevOps, Azure DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Management, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, DevSecOps, Continuous Development (CD), DDoS

Platforms

Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Ubuntu, OpenShift, Linux, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Rancher, New Relic, Amazon EC2, OpenStack, Apache Kafka

Other

Task Analysis, High-availability Systems, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Solution Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure, Scripting, Cloud Infrastructure, Pipelines, Technical Hiring, Source Code Review, Interviewing, APIs, Back-end, Load Balancers, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), API Management, Cloudflare, Containerization, Amazon API Gateway, Site Reliability, GitOps, Cloud Security, IT Support, Kubernetes HPA, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, Service Meshes, DNS Debugging, Shell Scripting, Azure Virtual Networks, Cost Reduction & Optimization, ECS, Scalability, Orchestration, IaaS, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Virtualization, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Linux Administration, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Identification, AWS DevOps, Architecture, Hypervisors, Networking, Team Leadership, Linux Server Administration, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), HSM

Languages

Python, YAML, Markdown, Bash

Frameworks

Flux, OAuth 2

Libraries/APIs

Azure API Management, Terragrunt

Industry Expertise

Security

Storage

Azure Blobs, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Datadog, Elasticsearch

2015 - 2016

Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer

Carleton University - Ottawa, Canada

MARCH 2022 - MARCH 2024

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

The Linux Foundation

SEPTEMBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2023

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

The Linux Foundations

SEPTEMBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2023

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundations