Information Technology Systems

Kunal Patra

linkedin.com/in/kunalpatra* Jersey City, NJ, 07305 480-***-**** *****.*******@*****.*** Education

W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University July 2024

• Master of Science in Information Systems Management GPA: 3.89/4.00 Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology June 2017

• Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology Technical Skills:

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (Lambda, NAT, ACL, EC2, S3, SNS & SQS, CloudWatch, IAM, CloudFormation, RDS, EKS/ECS, Elastic Beanstalk), GCP

(Velostrata, GKE, Stackdriver, VPC Network Firewalls, Google Cloud Firewall Rules)

• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, HELM charts, Nokia Container Service

• Programming, Data Visualization: SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI

• Monitoring, Operations, Automation and Configuration Management: Prometheus, Nagios, JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef

• Software Proficiency, Operating Systems and Scripting: MS Office, Linux, Shell Scripting, Numpy, Pandas, Airflow, Streamlit

• Testing and Methodologies: Blackbox Testing, Stress Testing, Whitebox Testing, Regression, Smoke, AGILE, Waterfall Methodology Professional Experience

Data Science Intern, Ascendion, New Jersey, USA June 2024 – August 2024

• Developed ML systems tailored to business needs, applying advanced algorithms to meet specific challenges.

• Enhanced model performance by 15% through selecting optimal datasets, rigorous testing, and refining algorithms.

• Trained and adjusted ML systems to adapt to new data, ensuring robust performance with evolving requirements.

• Extended ML libraries for innovative solutions, using deep learning and NLP for predictive model building.

• Ensured smooth deployment of ML models into production, achieving scalable and robust system performance.

• Created a web scraping solution for dynamic data extraction and display, integrating query-based functionality.

• Built GenAI-driven data mapping for automated preprocessing, cleaning, and mapping, improving efficiency by 60%.

• Engineered preprocessing code for data integrity, handling missing values, and encoding categorical variables.

• Designed a user-friendly interface with Streamlit and GenAI for interactive querying, enhancing user experience.

• Integrated AI for healthcare data mapping, ensuring interoperability among systems, improving patient care. Consultant, Infosys, Gurgaon, India April 2023 - July 2023

• Directed a cross-functional team, enhancing project delivery speed by 35% and system performance by 25% through strategic leadership and innovative solutions.

• Managed GCP migrations and infrastructure optimizations, achieving up to 40% cost savings and a 40% increase in system scalability.

• Led high-stakes DevOps projects, reducing operational costs by 40% and improving scalability by integrating best cloud practices using Terraform and AWS.

• Utilized Jenkins and Python for CI/CD pipelines, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing deployment times by streamlining DevOps processes.

• Developed proactive cloud solutions using Python and AWS tools, significantly improving system reliability and preventing recurring issues. Consultant, Capgemini, Gurgaon, India March 2021 - March 2023

• Architected microservices infrastructure using Kubernetes and Docker, achieving 99.99% uptime and reducing cloud operational costs by 40%.

• Spearheaded multi-cloud security overhauls, enhancing threat detection and reducing security incidents by over 60% using AWS IAM and Python.

• Led the strategic migration of 10+ legacy systems to AWS, utilizing Terraform and Ansible to boost client satisfaction by 20% and performance by 25%.

• Enhanced global CI/CD pipeline efficiency with Jenkins and GitLab, reducing miscommunications and improving team productivity significantly.

• Implemented Agile methodologies across DevOps teams, using Terraform to automate infrastructure management, cutting setup times by 30%.

Solution Integrator, Ericsson, Gurgaon, India April 2017 - March 2021

• Developed automation scripts in Python, saving 40% in operational time and aligning with industry security standards using AES-256 encryption.

• Led a $2M infrastructure modernization project, improving system performance and scalability by 40% using advanced cloud technologies.

• Standardized RCA processes and integrated continuous improvement, reducing incident handling time by 25% and recurrent incidents by 45%.

• Designed a CI/CD pipeline integrating AWS EKS and Docker with Harness.io, enhancing client satisfaction and operational efficiency markedly.

• Managed comprehensive infrastructure automation using Python and Ansible, decreasing manual errors by 60% and boosting software delivery timeliness.

Skills

Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, AWS Solution Architect Associate.

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