Vishnu KS, Developer in Kochi, Kerala, India
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Vishnu KS

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Bio

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.

Portfolio

Trade Arcade, Inc
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch...
AsianLogic
Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD...
Rakuten
ELK (Elastic Stack), Python 3, Linux, Linux CentOS 7, Kubernetes, Prometheus...

Experience

Python 3 - 7 yearsDevOps - 6 yearsAnsible - 6 yearsKubernetes - 4 yearsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) - 4 yearsTerraform - 3 yearsAzure - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

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

2022 - 2023
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Web Applications, IRC, Redis, PostgreSQL, Load Balancers, Elastic Load Balancers, Container Orchestration, Data Lake Design, DevOps, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Lambda Functions, Amazon Aurora, Grafana, Amazon EKS, Argo CD, Terraform, Microservices, Cloudflare, Robusta, Prometheus, Amazon EC2, GitHub, SQL, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon RDS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Senior DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, SecOps, DevOps, Python 3, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Apache Kafka, ELK (Elastic Stack), Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Rancher, Grafana, Bash Script, Container Orchestration, Docker, Containerization, Load Balancers, Elastic Load Balancers, Networking, GitHub, NGINX, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, Linux Kernel, F5 Load Balancer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: ELK (Elastic Stack), Python 3, Linux, Linux CentOS 7, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure, Jenkins, Argo CD, Fluentd, MySQL, Apache Kafka, Harbor, Load Balancers, Container Orchestration, Docker, Containerization, Docker Compose, Sysdig, Networking, GitHub, SQL, NGINX, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Team Lead | Cloud Consultant | DevOps Specialist

2018 - 2020
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.
Technologies: Azure, Linux, Kubernetes, DevOps, Azure DevOps, ELK (Elastic Stack), Python 3, Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Harbor, MinIO, Apigee, Fluentd, Go, Ansible, Terraform, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Git, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Load Balancers, Containerization, Container Orchestration, Docker, Docker Compose, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS DevOps, Networking, Amazon EC2, GitHub, NGINX, DevSecOps

DevOps Engineer | Cloud Platform Engineer | Trainer and Developer

2016 - 2018
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.
Technologies: DevOps, Python 3, Azure, Ansible, Terraform, ML Kit, Computer Vision, OpenCV, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Amazon EC2 API, Boto 3, TensorFlow, Docker, Docker Compose, MySQL, MongoDB, Load Balancers, Containerization, Container Orchestration, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS DevOps, Amazon EC2, GitHub, SQL

Cloud Migration Platform Xmigrate.cloud

https://xmigrate.cloud/
Xmigrate.cloud, pronounced cross-migrate.cloud, is an open-source project for migrating clients' infrastructure. The migration can be conducted from one data center to another, from a data center to a cloud, from a cloud to a data center, and from one cloud to another. This project is fully open-source and actively maintained.

Xforecast.cloud

Xforecast is an open-source tool for forecasting real-time data built for system and application metrics on a time-series database. It can fit right into customers' current observability infrastructure if they are using Grafana, Prometheus, or InfluxDB stack. I founded this project, and now I am actively maintaining it with some of my close friends in the open-source community.

Opsbrew

https://opsbrew.com/
Opsbrew is a log pipeline management application built on top of Kubernetes. I started this project as an MVP and got a chance to work on this as the team lead.

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.
2013 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Application

Mahatma Gandhi University - Kottayam, India

APRIL 2019 - PRESENT

Certified Kubernetes Developer

Linux Foundation

APRIL 2018 - PRESENT

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation

Red Hat

MARCH 2018 - PRESENT

AWS Certified Developer

Amazon Web Services

MARCH 2018 - PRESENT

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Linux Foundation

JUNE 2016 - JUNE 2019

Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack

Red Hat

Libraries/APIs

OpenCV, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Apigee, Amazon EC2 API, TensorFlow

Tools

Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Telegraf, ELK (Elastic Stack), NGINX, Grafana, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitHub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (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

Languages

Python 3, Python, SQL, Bash Script, Go

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

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