Sidharth Senthil

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidharthsenthil/

adyuzk@r.postjobfree.com 408-***-****

Summary

- 7 + yrs experienced engineer for cloud automation and DevOps

- Experience in handling Oncall production support and IT operations

- Experience with design and implementation of infrastructure required for microservices architecture

- Hands on experience setting up CICD pipelines, application monitoring and observability solutions

- 7+ yrs experience working on AWS platform

- Passionate about learning new tools and technologies EXPERIENCE

Aktana [LifeSciences AI], San Francisco, CA (Jan 2020 - Current) Senior DevOps Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering)

Responsible for production operations of Aktana SaaS services across multiple global locations.

Handled project for building CICD pipelines using Jfrog, Ansible, Jenkins and deployments to AWS EKS with infrastructure code.

Handled project for setting up secrets manager Vault on EKS using terraform with DR and migration of docker services running on EC2 to Kubernetes.

Handled Oncall for daily IT operations, PagerDuty and production incidents.

Familiarity with deployment and monitoring of Java based applications running Gradle on AWS EMR.

Implemented security agents deployment as part of EKS terraform code deployed to all EC2 instances.

Addressed and resolved security and compliance alerts from Sentinelone and Lacework audit.

Implemented monitoring solutions with Prometheus, Grafana and AlertManager for application services, databases and EMR for proper operation and performance.

Implemented Tagging of AWS resources in multiple accounts across the organization with Python using AWS SDK Boto3, to help respective Engg teams quantify resources being used for cost allocation.

Experience in implementing Machine learning tools like Knime and Databricks for Data Science team.

Led incident response and post-mortem analysis, identifying root causes and implementing preventive measures to minimize future occurrences.

Collaborated with software engineering teams for product upgrades and coordinate releases to production.

Collaborated with delivery engineers and sales team to setup systems backend for new customers.

Involved in projects to reduce AWS cloud hosting cost.

Establishing standard processes for diagnosing issues, tracking status and escalating issues within and outside the group. Establishing product and process improvement plans to reduce support effort and increase product availability and scalability.

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Zuora (Acquired Leeyo), [ERP Subscription], San Jose, CA (Oct 2017 - Dec 2019)

Infrastructure Engineer

DevOps (CI/CD)

● DevOps Infrastructure:

Used Terraform, Packer and Jenkins pipelines to deploy artifacts across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions.

Provide operation support.

Responsible for hardening the security of the Jenkins ecosystem.

Work with the security team to test containerized security appliances and roll out to infrastructure.

● Bridge between DevOps and TechOps

Share knowledge and support Production Operations team for cloud-native microservices, kong infrastructure.

Created ELK blueprint for log aggregation for both DevOps and TechOps accounts.

Support Sales Engineering’s Infrastructure requirements (for customer demos) and was the primary point of contact to troubleshoot and fix critical site issues.

● Manage Infrastructure Costs and Review of Usage

RevPro Control Plane (Managing the API Gateway)

● Operational responsibility to manage RevPro Edge Infrastructure.

● Contributed to the design and code of building control plane which manages tenant-specific routing, micro-service application configurations, microservice service discovery, domain names, OAuth policies, ACLS

● Helped build interface to define and manage Kong routes and plugins. Product Contributions

● Helped build API gateway (EDGE) Infrastructure used by Zuora flagship product RevPro.

● Developed and delivered a python-based Email notification service that sends key application events to users. This application reads data from Oracle tables.

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Protominds, [IT consulting], San Jose, CA (Jul 2016 - Sept 2017) DevOps Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

● Responsible for managing the customer DevOps AWS Account and Jenkins infrastructure.

● Responsible for site availability during customer demos.

● Configure tenant settings on Dev and QA environment and administer the cluster for testing.

● Install and manage the Jenkins server and nodes.

● Make documentations for cluster DR.

● Scripting for pipeline and automate deployments in Jenkins.

● Write custom configurations for Nginx including lua scripting.

● Add security layer on top of Nginx server.

● Coordinate with Business teams, Application owners, development and supporting teams like Database Administrators, Systems Engineers and Network Engineers.

● Use Ansible to automate routine tasks for server administration.

● Setup logging of services and pass it to ELK via S3 using Lambda.

● Provide technical troubleshooting to resolve infrastructure related issues.

● Help developers containerize applications using docker with Dockerfile and docker compose.

● Write terraform scripts for deployment of services on AWS Elastic Container Service along with Ingress services.

● Involvement in design, implementation, and maintenance of the development, staging, and production infrastructure.

Center for Development and Advanced Computing, [Government], New Delhi

(Feb 2014 - Aug 2014)

Application Developer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

● Implemented a web service application for analysis and reporting using open source technology.

● Designed and built a prototype web application with Oracle Application Express.

● Deployed a CMS service using Microsoft WebMatrix and SQL Server Reporting Services as a customized product solution for quick reports.

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IBM, Germany (Dec 2011 - Aug 2012)

Reference Marketing Associate

● Published 50+ case studies of IBM SAP mixed product solutions to show successful presence in the enterprise market.

● Teamed with IBM North America account leaders to track global wins and coordinated with IBM consultants and client representatives for reference partnership.

● Oversaw case study deliverables for technology events such as TechEd, CeBIT and SAPPHIRE to market success stories.

● Partnered with IBM DB2 team in publishing video case studies, including Coca Cola Bottling Co USA (How DB2 saved client $1 M) and Technical University Munich (IBM HW and SAP Cloud).

● Achieved 70-75% more hits for IBM SAP Alliance case studies in the IBM official website compared to other business partners.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms AWS

Application Monitoring AWS CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana CI/CD Technologies Jenkins, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and Spinnaker Container Technologies Docker, Kubernetes

Container Security Alert Logic, Threat Stack, LaceWork, Sentinel One API Gateways and Proxy Servers Kong, Nginx

Scripting Languages Lua Scripts, Bash, Python

Programming Languages Python

Databases Mysql, Redis, Snowflake and DynamoDB

Operating Systems Linux, Windows

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems - Sep 2014 - July 2016 Santa Clara University - Santa Clara, CA

Master of Science in International Business - Sep 2010 - Apr 2012 NEOMA (Esc Rouen) Business School - Rouen, France

Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering - Aug 2004 - Sep 2008 SRM University - Chennai, India

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