Vishnu KS
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Vishnu is an open-source contributor and researcher with substantial experience in public cloud and DevOps. He helps companies in their digital transformation journey by moving workloads to the cloud, adopting DevOps culture by implementing the right DevOps tools, and educating developers through workshops. Vishnu developed the world's first and only open-source tool for cloud migration.
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Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Python 3, DevOps, Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Oracle Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is xmigrate.cloud, the only open-source cross-cloud migration tool.
Work Experience
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Trade Arcade, Inc
- Helped in migrating apps from serverless to microservices.
- Set up monitoring and alerting with Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, and Robusta for all the services and critical components.
- Implemented GitOps using Argo CD and set up backstage as a developer self-service portal.
Senior DevOps Engineer
AsianLogic
- Built an internal developer platform for automated provisioning of application infrastructure per request following GitOps principles with GitLab pipeline and Terraform.
- Designed and built an auto-remediation system to protect login endpoints behind F5 Load Balancer from malicious network traffic.
- Supported development teams in designing and building CI/CD pipelines for applications.
- Defined guidelines for application teams to standardize the development workflows.
- Designed, built, and maintained the observability infrastructure for monitoring the platform resources such as ELK cluster, Kafka, PowerDNS, and Vault Consul and the application and system metrics.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Rakuten
- Built a reliable and self-healing logging infrastructure with ELK.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines and participated in application release operations.
- Troubleshot network and application delays and failures and automated time-taking manual processes.
Team Lead | Cloud Consultant | DevOps Specialist
Adfolks
- Led a team of 10 engineers, which included front-end developers, back-end developers, DevOps engineers, and QA, to build and win awards and recognition from Microsoft for a product called Opsbrew.
- Designed and built platforms on a cloud for various business needs. Worked closely with the sales team to finalize techno commercial proposals.
- Performed cloud assessment and migration for various customers.
- Contributed to security use cases on various logs with ELK stack.
DevOps Engineer | Cloud Platform Engineer | Trainer and Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
- Helped develop a robot that draws the image on the floor when a user clicks an image on the app.
- Wrote an open-source framework called Audionet for audio classification using image classification techniques.
- Trained over 1,000+ freshers in Python, AI, ML, cloud, and DevOps.
- Implemented monitoring processes and CI/CD pipelines for various projects.
Experience
Cloud Migration Platform Xmigrate.cloud
https://xmigrate.cloud/Xforecast.cloud
https://docs.xforecast.cloud/en/latest/Opsbrew
https://opsbrew.com/I managed a team of 10 front-end, back-end, and QA engineers. I defined the product roadmap and sprint tasks for all of them. Also, I led the team to deliver the product and win a hackathon by Microsoft for the same in six months. Read more here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/announcing-the-azure-sentinel-hackathon-winners/ba-p/1548240#:~:text=Ops%20Brew%20from%20Vishnu%20KS.
Skills
Languages
Python 3, Python, SQL, Bash Script, Go
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Telegraf, ELK (Elastic Stack), NGINX, Grafana, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitHub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), GoLand, Amazon CloudWatch, Jenkins, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Fluentd, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Git, Amazon EKS, Boto 3, Docker Compose, Ansible Tower, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), F5 Load Balancer
Paradigms
DevOps, DevSecOps, Azure DevOps, Microservices
Platforms
Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Apache Kafka, OpenStack, Linux CentOS 7, Harbor, Rancher, Sysdig, AWS Lambda
Storage
Oracle Cloud, InfluxDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, Data Lake Design, Amazon Aurora
Other
Cloud, Web Scraping, SecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Programming, AWS Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Linux Kernel, Prometheus, ML Kit, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AIOps, MinIO, Argo CD, AWS CodePipeline, Container Orchestration, Containerization, Load Balancers, Elastic Load Balancers, AWS DevOps, Networking, Web Applications, IRC, Lambda Functions, Cloudflare, Robusta
Libraries/APIs
OpenCV, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Apigee, Amazon EC2 API, TensorFlow
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Application
Mahatma Gandhi University - Kottayam, India
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Developer
Linux Foundation
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
Red Hat
AWS Certified Developer
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation
Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
Red Hat
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