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Vishal Patel, DevOps Engineer and Software Developer in Ottawa, ON, Canada
Vishal Patel

DevOps Engineer and Software Developer in Ottawa, ON, Canada

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.
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Portfolio

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

Experience

Location

Ottawa, ON, Canada

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.

Employment

  • 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 ECR (Amazon Elastic Container Registry), Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), 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

  • 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

Experience

  • 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.

Skills

  • Tools

    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Helm, Grafana, Apache, Terraform, Git, Amazon ECR (Amazon Elastic Container Registry), Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), 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

  • Paradigms

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

  • Platforms

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

  • 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

Education

  • Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer
    2015 - 2016
    Carleton University - Ottawa, Canada

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
    MARCH 2022 - MARCH 2024
    The Linux Foundation
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
    SEPTEMBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2023
    The Linux Foundations
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
    SEPTEMBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2023
    The Linux Foundations

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