Engineer Manager

Nikhilesh

Phone: 813-***-**** Email: ******************@*****.*** In: www.linkedin.com/in/nikhileshb San Jose, CA EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, GPA: 3.3 Aug 2016– May 2018 Courses: Computer Networks, Systems &Security and Privacy in Networks, Cloud Networking Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GITAM University, Hyd India, GPA: 3.75 Aug 2012 – May 2016 TECHNICAL SKILLS

Versioning Tools: Git, Gitlab, Github

Cloud(AWS): IAM, S3, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, SNS, SQS, SES, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS Languages/Scripting: Bash, Python

CI/CD & CM Tools: Jenkins, Ansible Database: MongoDB Container: Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm Monitoring Tool: Prometheus, Grafana Network Protocols: HTTP, DHCP, DNS, TCP, UDP, IPv4, Routing & Switching protocols Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Cloud Formation templates (Basic Exposure) Operating Systems: Mac, Linux(ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS), Windows. CERTIFICATIONS

CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate Domain: Routing and Switching

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)

PROJECTS

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara, CA Nov 2018 to Present Working on a project which provides IAAS to customers to store their Firewall logs. Also the functionality extends to providing SaaS for detecting cybersecurity attacks by using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Automated Continuous Deployment of micro-services using Git, Jenkins and Helm Charts onto Kubernetes.

Managing K8 clusters across all environments (QA/Prod) having over 800 physical nodes(largest cluster having 220 nodes).

Research, strategize, propose solutions that meet requirements, reduces friction for engineering, and consolidate existing solutions.

Built Grafana Dashboards. Metrics and monitoring through Prometheus. Installed and Integrated Alert Manager to Pager Duty.

Containerization of all micro-services. Designed and Implemented Docker Image building automated pipeline using Jenkins.

Maintain production services to customer’s high demanding service level. 24*7 On-call production Support as part of team rotation.

Monitoring different Elastic Search Clusters. Migrated over 1500 customers across Elastic Search Clusters depending upon the cluster resource utilization.

Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Shell Scripting, Python.

Documented best practices, prescribed solutions, production support playbooks and so on. DEVOPS ENGINEER MacMillan Learning, Austin, TX Jan 2018 to Nov 2018 Utilize expertise in AWS Infrastructure to build one of the leading online educational platform that will help to enhance user learning experience. Support software development, QA, and production platforms.

Experience in Amazon AWS cloud which includes services like: EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, IAM, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, RouteS3, Security Groups, SQS, SNS, SES.

Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using Jenkins, Git, Docker.

Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and cloud formation template and wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.

Installed docker Registry for local upload and download of docker images and even from docker hub.

Managed Docker Swarm Clusters on AWS. Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs and configuration automation using Docker containers.

Created Ansible scripts for configuring Spark Standalone Cluster and Cassandra Multi-node Cluster. Created Ansible scripts for configuring Spark Standalone Cluster and Cassandra Multi-node Cluster. GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Aug 2017 to Dec 2017

Administered users and groups in the department, managed Active Directory, fixed LAN connection issues.

Adaptively tracked and resolved IT and Network issues using RT (Request Tracker) ticketing system.

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