BALAJI DAMA
**** ********* ****** *** #* Cincinnati, OH 45220
adg8bx@r.postjobfree.com 513-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/balajidama4523/ EDUCATION
Masters - Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Ohio Aug 2020 (3.80 GPA) Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India May 2019 (3.85 GPA) CERTIFICATIONS AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
Certifications:
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer professional (ID- Y6WE1W1LKF1Q1WW3)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (ID -376288EKHBR4QJ3Z)
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate (ID- M55VT80C3FRQQR3D)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (ID - YFKVRH02FMR41W9H)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Associate (ID - 272587522OCSIAAS2019-F)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate (ID - 272587522OCIBF2020 - F)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (ID - H404-2294) Technical Skills:
• Programming/Scripting: Java, Python, C, JS, ReactJS, Bash Scripting, JSON, PowerShell, Groovy Script, Golang
• Cloud Services/Tools: AWS, Azure, GCP, Packer, Nagios, Splunk, Signal Sciences, Confluence, Okta, Artifactory, Auth0
• DevOps Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform, Jira, New Relic, Datadog, logz.io, X-ray
• Databases/Big Data Tools: MySQL, MongoDB, RDS, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Oracle, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Kafka PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cloud/DevOps Engineer May 2020 - Present
Foundation Medicine, Boston, MA
• Developed application programming interfaces (APIs) and webhooks for multi-directional integration of cloud orchestration platform with system management systems, DevOps tools, and cloud platforms
• Built and maintained large scale automated based cloud environments using Terraform & AWS CloudFormation Templates
• Implemented automation to improve consistency, quality, and development efficiency of LIMS and other various products
• Worked closely with Engineers, QA, project managers throughout the software life cycle in optimally delivering large scale Systems
• Integrated authentication services, automated tests, quality metrics, and conditional deployments into the software build process
• Designed, build and maintained Serverless Architecture in cloud using services like lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, API Gateways, AWS SAM Graduate Teaching Assistant Aug 2019 - May 2020
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• Assisted with classroom instruction and provide support and guidance for students for the course Cloud Computing
• Managed course content, Proctoring, and grading. Provided students with one-on-one tutoring in several university projects. DevOps Engineer Jan 2016 - Jul 2019
Snovasys Software Solutions, India
• Planned and executed cluster maintenance, upgrades, and migrations in Dev, Stage, and Prod in a way that avoids downtime
• Developed scripts for automation of the build &release process. Administered Linux and Window Servers along with updated and patches, also managed webservers, app servers, data bases, proxies, VPC ‘s, networking as well as open source solutions
• Maintained deployment automation from code check-in to production in AWS cloud Environment along with Documentation
• Designed and planed enterprise-scale cloud environments, with Failure-resistant architecture including recovery strategies
• Implemented monitoring and log aggregation approaches to alert for issues, Automated and Orchestrated workloads across hybrid cloud platforms also maintained and administered source control systems, including branching and merging strategies
• Designed, build and maintained Container solutions using various container tools like, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate
• Provided Cloud user management, security, capacity, monitoring and configuring application development tools
• Created Ansible roles and playbooks to configure, deploy to various environments and to maintain existing/new infrastructure Software Engineer Intern Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India
• Worked on Module development, testing, and support of BSNL online Communication platform
• Gathered product/ Business requirement, Designed and developed the user interfaces with adaptable services for BSNL users
• Scripted and coded test cases and wrote optimized queries and stored procedures which saved 1000 hours
• Applied Agile methodologies to deliver the product through Unit testing resulting in a 17% contribution to the development PROJECTS
• Book My Event - a SaaS Application (AWS Lambda API Gateway MongoDB Amazon RDS Golang Docker Kubernetes)
• Property Rental Application (Apache Kafka MERN Stack Graph QL MySQL l AWS Apache JMeter)
• Ride Share Application (API Gateway EMR SQS SNS DynamoDB Lex)