Data Engineer Life Insurance
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*CENTS ABOUT ME
I am a Cloud enthusiast, leveraging DevSecOps/DataOps, AI strategies & Serverless technologies to support various public/private workloads of organizations. Passionate about AI/ML, Event based cloud architectures & Containerized ecosystems. Honing my skills by being 8x AWS certified, CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate & on course for more.
EXPERIENCE
Nov 2024
April 2023
Pacific Life Insurance Company
Sr Cloud Data Engineer
Building/operating highly available data pipelines, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion and processing of large data sets that are across Snowflake, DBT & AWS.
Designed and implemented the automated Infrastructure and Data pipelines using Azure DevOps and wrote automation scripts to create build and release pipelines to deploy AWS & Snowflake resources.
Developed best practices to perform security and compliance audits on divisional level for AWS Cloud platform & their integration with other SAAS providers.
Implemented Infrastructure by using reusable CloudFormation/Terraform modules and deployed the services and applications in AWS, Snowflake & DBT.
Experienced in writing python scripts for RAG(Retrieval Augmented Generation) implementation for GenAI(Generative AI) Models.
Build Python based streamlit applications that perform as a front-end UI for various Data/GenAI applications.
Provide Infrastructure & Data Security by deploying various managed custom Gaurdrails.
Create & deploy SQL scripts for Data-modeling & Data-engineering.
Enablement of various AI Services across, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Studio & Snowflake.
Build & Test AI Guardrails to safeguard the chatbots/LLM’s from bad-actors.
Analyze & create Visualizations of Data, to meet complex reporting and analytical business needs of Senior business stakeholders.
Design, Develop, Test & Implement analytical solutions that translate business data & non-functional requirements into working code.
April 2023
May 2022
Sr Cloud Engineer II
Design, configure and manage public/private cloud infrastructures of Web/Apps, Analytics, Security, Data Management teams utilizing various Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), Elastic Kubernetes Service, S3, Cloud Front, RDS, DynamoDB, DMS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, IAM, EMR and Elastic Search, Sagemaker, TransitGateway, WAF, AWS Config, Kinesis.
Implementing Disaster Recovery strategies to various shared storages & application areas.
Created an automated pipeline to build application specific GAMI based on Enterprise GAMIs using Ansible & HashiCorp Packer.
Designed and implemented the automated pipelines using Azure DevOps and wrote automation scripts to create build and release pipelines to deploy AWS resources.
Developed best practices to perform security and compliance audits on divisional level for AWS Cloud platform & their integration with other SAAS providers.
Implemented Infrastructure by using reusable CloudFormation/Terraform modules and deployed the services and applications.
Experienced in writing python scripts for automation of administrative & management tasks on AWS resources.
Provide User Management Security with Identity and Access management by Implementing IAM Roles and policies with least privilege access and separation of Duties for the defined Operating Model.
Provide the Infrastructure Security by deploying various managed & custom Config rules. Enabled Rules assess, audits, evaluates the configuration of various Networking, Storage, Machine Learning, Compute, Analytics resources & remediates any non-compliant configurations to match the Pacific Life Internal Security Standards & Best Practices.
Aug 2018
May 2022
Cloud Engineer
Design, configure and manage public/private cloud infrastructures of Web/Apps, Analytics, Security, Data Management teams utilizing various Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), Elastic Kubernetes Service, S3, Cloud Front, RDS, DynamoDB, DMS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, IAM, EMR and Elastic Search, Sagemaker, TransitGateway, WAF, AWS Config, Kinesis.
Implementing the serverless applications on AWS for lite transformations & streaming of data to & from multiple internal/external partners.
Designed and implemented the automated pipelines using Azure DevOps and wrote automation scripts to create build and release pipelines to deploy AWS resources.
Developed best practices to perform security and compliance audits on divisional level for AWS Cloud platform & their integration with other SAAS providers.
Implemented Infrastructure by using reusable CloudFormation/Terraform modules and deployed the services and applications.
Experienced in writing python scripts for automation of administrative & management tasks on AWS resources.
Provide User Management Security with Identity and Access management by Implementing IAM Roles and policies with least privilege access and separation of Duties for the defined Operating Model.
Enabling Baseline SCP Controls for Organization level and Account level Guardrails.
Deployed and managed global/multi-regional public applications, compute deployed over ECS, EKS and Aurora global db. Migrated multiple web app/admin tools from on premises environment and deployed them in various ECS & EKS clusters.
Provide the Infrastructure Security by deploying various managed & custom Config rules. Enabled Rules asses, audits, evaluates the configuration of various Networking, Storage, Machine Learning, Compute, Analytics resources & remediates any non-compliant configurations to match the Pacific Life Internal Security Standards & Best Practices.
Modularized the AWS Firewall implementation (SG and NACL) with dedicated pipeline with appropriate controls in place.
Implemented WAF for application for protecting against web application exploits and redirect findings to centralized accounts.
Utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy. Created Clusters using Kubernetes and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing YAML files
Build/Administrate Twistlock container security tool and install agents across all systems/containers in the organization, run vulnerability checks towards them to obtain any vulnerabilities and channel the report to the responsible parties and leadership.
Worked in Agile team methodology following the agile ceremonies on weekly basis.
Build/Administrate Twistlock container security tool and install agents across all systems/containers in the organization, run vulnerability checks towards them to obtain any vulnerabilities and channel the report to the responsible parties and leadership.
Work in Agile team methodology following the agile ceremonies on weekly basis.
Designing & building high available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS environment using computing, networking, storage, and database services provided by AWS.
Identify which AWS services meet the given application workflow and recommended best practices & services to build it in the AWS cloud. Work with AWS deployment and management services to leverage the user experience.
Also guiding the team to learn the usage & the necessity of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to current on-premises workloads.
Aug 2018
May 2022
Cloud Engineer
Designed data pipelines for loading network data in Elastic search for consumption with Kibana dashboard and graphs.
Identify & defining technical requirements for an on-premises application and then migrate it to the AWS cloud. Also, this process involves in re-platforming & re-architecting so that a secured and reliable applications can be built on the AWS platform.
Allow evolutionary architectures & design to reduce the risk of architecture change.
Provisions Cloud Infrastructure and services & implement DevOps development, deployment & Operational practices with the use of scripts, configuration code & tools thus enabling automation & reproducible Cloud Infrastructure and Services.
Designs the application disposition based on the workload characteristics, application patterns, Quality of service, Security & operational- maintenance & SLA requirements.
Based on application’s migration approach – carries out detailed application assessment & requirements gathering: Functional, Technical, Network, Infrastructural, Security & Compliance. Validates & formalizes the assessment with the team.
Provision cloud resources and build the implementation of automation. Automate everything which results in INFRASTRUCTURE as CODE.
Continuous Architectural changes to move software system offerings to a distributed service-based architecture utilizing Docker. Written new Docker file and containerized a whole environment. Minimized the memory of previous containers up to 50% less usage.
Staged all the packages on shared server for SIT, pre-production, and production environments.
When required applied patches as per the release process. Implement / Trained group of teams on software quality monitoring tools like Find bugs, Selenium, SonarQube, other dependencies.
Ensured all deployment steps were completed and documented their completion times and Monitor application logs and corn jobs to ensure they are running without errors.
Managed requirement traceability matrix for work packages between transitioning SDLC phases and map it to code repository.
Maintained repository's health; integrate work packages, optimize & baseline releases, patches and hotfixes, access control and provisioning for development. Maintained artifacts, software configuration numbers, impacted items, interface dependencies, environment, and configurations at release level Trained offshore team members and responsible for knowledge transfer.
Performed weekly and on-call deployments of application codes to production environments.
Coordinated application release with developer, DBA, QA, and project management teams. Communicate with shared services and project teams for timely deployments.
Aug 2017
July 2018
Veridic Solutions LLC
DevOps Cloud Engineer
Automated Creation of snapshots on Amazon machine images (AMI) of the instances for backup and created access Management (IAM) policies for delegated administration within AWS.
Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management on Linux machines using Amazon EC2, Chef and by custom Ruby/Bash scripts.
Created Python scripts to fully automate AWS services which includes ELB, Cloud Front distribution, EC2, Security Groups, and S3. This script creates stacks, single servers and joins web servers to stacks.
Experienced with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes.
Proficient in writing AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB's and Security groups.
Managed AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef.
Used EC2 as virtual servers to host Git, Jenkins, and configuration management tool like Ansible. Converted slow and manual procedures to dynamic API generated procedures.
Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups and polices and developed critical modules like generating amazon resource numbers and integration points with Dynamo DB, RDS.
Created Cloud Watch dashboards for monitoring CPU utilization, Network In-Out, Packet In-Out, and other parameters of the instances.
Designed a patch process and wrote ansible playbooks for patching OpenShift-RHEL, and bug fixes for OpenShift. Developed and implemented a continuous back up process using Ansible to back up ETCD data directory of OpenShift using ansible playbooks.
Worked on Deployment and configuration of ELK stack for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring.
Feb 2017
July 2017
Collaborative Systems INC
UI Developer
Maintain & improve website and web applications. Write functional requirement documents & guides.
Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages.
Design mobile-based features. Create quality mockups & prototypes.
Build solutions for users & costumers, also get feedback from them to improve & stabilize the app workflow.
Code & troubleshoot with back-end developers.
Optimize applications for maximum speed.
EDUCATION
Oct 2017
Stratford University
Falls Church, VA
Master’s in information science information systems
Relevant Coursework:
a. Cloud Computing,
b. Information Systems Security,
c. Software Engineering.
CERTIFICATIONS
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AWS certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS certified AI Practitioner
AWS certified Security Specialty
AWS certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS certified Developer Associate
AWS certified SysOps Administrator
AWS certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Knowledge: File Storage
AWS Knowledge: Architecting
AWS Knowledge: Data Migration
Azure AI Fundamentals
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
KCNA: Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate
LFD259: Kubernetes for Developers
LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Manaswi Mandadapu
Irvine, CA, 92618
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