Sai Geetanjali
*.*********@*****.***
SUMMARY:
Fast-paced software professionals with around 10+ years of experience in IT industry comprising of DevOps Engineering, Linux System Administration and in automating, building, releasing of code from one environment to other and deploying to servers. Extensive experience includes SCM, AWS, DevOps, Build/Release Management and Cloud Management and Containerization.
●Hands-on experience in Automation, Configuring and Deploying instances on Amazon web services (AWS) and experience with AWS components like EC2, ELB, Auto scaling, S3, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trial, Cloud Formation Templates.
●Proficient in Azure Cloud services including VMs, Virtual Networks, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Key Vault, and Azure Monitor. Experienced in application migration from on-prem to Azure Cloud. Skilled in building secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible. Strong background in Python scripting, container orchestration, and cross-functional team collaboration.
●To analyze existing applications on-premise, determine, and plan with proper recommendations for migrating and modernizing applications to Azure.
●Good working knowledge on AWS IAM service, IAM policies, Roles, Users, Groups, AWS access keys and Multi Factor Authentication. And migrated applications to the AWS Cloud.
●Experience with AWS Command line interface and PowerShell for automating administrative tasks. Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic reaching one or more AWS EC2, LAMBDA instances.
●Hand-On experience in Implementing, Build and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production). Implement CI/CD tools Upgrade, Backup, Restore, API call, DNS, LDAP and SSL setup.
●Installed and configured Grafana for metric visualization and monitoring of infrastructure and application performance.
●Automating, Configuring, and Deploying Instances on Azure environments and in Data centers and migrating on-premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
●Responsible for implementing containerized applications on Azure Kubernetes by using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes Cluster, which are responsible for cluster management, Virtual Network to deploy agent nodes, Ingress API Gateway, MySQL Databases, and Cosmo DB for stateless storage of external data, and set up reverse proxy Nginx in the cluster.
●Experience in Azure DevOps, Python, Git, ADO Repo, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins and Microservices, Docker Application Technologies, Azure Monitor, Kibana, Grafana, GRM, ELK, Nagios, ECO, Docker Central, BMC Remedy User 7.5, TOAD, Introscope, Jenkins, Splunk, Global Resource Manager (GRM), DME2
●Proficient in tracing complex build problems, release issues and Implemented Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
●Strong experience creating ANT/MAVEN with Ansible scripts for deployment. Experience with Maven (Pom.xmls) and Ant (build.xmls).
●Configuration Management and source code repository management using tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) and BitBucket.
●Worked with Docker and Vagrant for different infrastructure setup and testing of code. Written build scripts from scratch for new projects and for new modules within existing projects.
●Worked with Vagrant for local development setup. Moved Vagrant setup to Docker based environment. And also experience in writing Vagrant file and Docker file.
●Focused on containerization and immutable infrastructure. Experience on clustering and container management using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
●Working knowledge on Kubernetes, Aurora and RDS. Good experience in Middleware services like JMS, JDBC and implemented other services like JNDI, SNMP.
●Created and Maintained Chef Recipes and cookbooks to simplify and expedite deployment of applications and mitigate user error.
●Expertise in component repository management tools like Nexus, JFrog Artifactory etc.
●Installed, Configured, Managed Monitoring Tools such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, AppDynamics & ICynga.
●Hands on experience with build tools like, Team City, Sonar. Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Rally, Remedy and IBM Clear Quest.
●Experienced administrator skills on Linux/UNIX distributions (Red Hat/CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris and AIX) and Windows flavors. Installed Linux/Unix distributions and configured various services as per the requirement using Puppet.
●Worked with other internal IT teams to complete project activities (Architecture and Database teams).
●Worked with VMWARE tools like vCenter & vSphere to manage VM’s running on ESX cluster nodes and also experience working on vMotion.
●Experience in creating and managing user accounts, Security policies, Rights, Disk spaces, Disk quotas and Process monitoring in CentOS and Red Hat Linux.
●Experience in configuring NIS, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SAMBA, FTP, Remote Access Protocol, Security Management, Security trouble shoots and SOA-based applications. Expertise in installations of SQL server, MYSQL server and PostgreSQL.
●Experience in Linux/Unix System Administration, Network Administration and Application Support working on Red Hat Linux 6/7, SUSE Linux 10/11.
●In-depth knowledge of computer applications and shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python, and PowerShell for automating tasks.
●Experience in Build/Release/Deployment/Operations (Devops) engineer with a strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and best practices of SDLC methodologies like Agile, Scrum, waterfall and Devops/Cloud processes.
●Ability to quickly understand, learn and implement the new system design, new technologies, data models and functional components of software system in a professional work environment.
●Able to build solid relationships within as well as consensus across multiple teams on environment strategies of build and release process.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Category
Technologies/Tools
Certifications
AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400
Cloud Platforms
AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Glacier, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, SWF, Direct Connect);
Azure (VMs, AKS, VNet, Key Vault, AAD, ARM, Azure Monitor, App Insights, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, API Management, Blob Storage, ExpressRoute, Activity Log, Policy)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Terraform, ARM Templates, AWS CloudFormation
Configuration Management Tools
Ansible, Ansible Tower, Chef, Puppet
Containerization & Orchestration
Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, ECR, EKS, AKS, ACR
CI/CD & Build Tools
Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI, Maven, Gradle, Apache ANT, MAKE, Cruise Control, Hudson
Version Control Tools
Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SVN
Scripting & Programming Languages
Python, Shell, Bash, PowerShell
Databases
Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL
Artifact Repository Tools
Nexus, JFrog
Monitoring & Logging
Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Dynatrace, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk, Zabbix, Grafana, Nagios, CloudWatch
Bug & Incident Tracking Tools
JIRA, Kanban Board, ServiceNow, Rally
Operating Systems / Virtualization
Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Windows Server, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V
Middleware / App Servers
Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, IIS
Message Brokers
Kafka, RabbitMQ
Development & Application Frameworks
.NET (if applicable)
PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
Client: Black Rock Inc, Atlanta GA Nov 2019 - Present
Role: Associate / Devops Engineer
Responsibilities:
●Maintain and troubleshoot all systems, applications, security, and network configurations.
●Be responsible for the daily administration of a cloud environment, related servers, security and network devices.
●Designed and provisioned Azure cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible for platform provisioning.
●Managed Azure VMs, VNets, NSGs, and AKS for hosting containerized applications.
●Used Azure Monitor and Application Insights to track performance metrics and troubleshoot distributed systems.
●Implemented secure secret management using Azure Key Vault and enforced RBAC policies for access control.
●Led migration efforts for applications from on-premises to Azure cloud platforms with zero downtime.
●Developed Python automation scripts to streamline CI/CD workflows and environment setup.
●Gather new requirements for different modules, drawing out a plan for releases of the enhancements for the application requested by the Business and application teams for Azure migration of an application from on-premise and planning work for subsequent releases.
●Migrating multiple legacy applications to Azure Cloud using IAC Terraform and Kubernetes by following organization DevOps practices.
●Implementation of Continuous Improvement of monitoring/alerting tools and process
●Planning of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans including providing High availability for all applications
●Creating, validating, and reviewing solutions and effort estimates of converting existing workloads from classic to ARM-based Azure Cloud Environment.
●To analyze existing applications on-premises, determine, and plan with proper recommendations for migration and modernization of applications to Azure.
●Utilize Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible etc. to provision, manage and scale Vault Infrastructure and services On-Prem and Cloud. Setup and maintain CI/CD Pipelines by applying DevOps principles to automate lifecycle management of Vault clusters.
● Provide operational support by monitoring and troubleshooting various components of BlackRock’s Aladdin Enterprise Investment System and various components of Aladdin, to ensure availability and performance.
● Participate in projects to enhance resiliency and ensure availability and stability of BlackRock’s Aladdin systems.
● Utilize programming and scripting languages, like Python, Perl or Bash to automate operational tasks and processes.
● Create, Deploy and Manage Vault Mutating Webhook via GitOps Continuous Deployment framework. Participate in the weekly on-call schedule, which includes responsibility for monitoring health of Vault Clusters, Nodes, Application Servers, File transfers, Batch Jobs, troubleshooting Node failures, troubleshooting any ongoing incidents, coordinate and resolve production issues and providing hourly updates to the command center.
● Conduct analyses on Vault infrastructure and cluster performance, root cause diagnostics to understand the operating quality of production environments to achieve a stable and smooth platform at all times.
●Support batch workloads, real-time / interactive processing, data transfer services, application on-boarding and upgrades and recovery procedures.
●Define and manage roles and permissions for secure access to Azure resources.
●Used(Role Based Access Control)RBAC to Manage and store unstructured data, such as text or binary data
●Used and developed ARM templates to define and deploy Azure resources consistently.
●Resource Management: Manage and organize resources using ARM, including deployments, updates, and deletions.
●Created and configured Azure VMs(Azure Virtual Machines) to meet application requirements
●Azure Blob Storage, Managed and stored unstructured data, such as text or binary data
●Used Azure Active Directory to Implement and manage access controls using AAD, including single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA).
● Conduct root cause analysis to address routine to moderately complex issues with accuracy or performance, monitoring Container logs using Splunk and visualizing using Grafana dashboards for troubleshooting Issues.
●Created and configured Azure VMs(Azure Virtual Machines) to meet application requirements
●Azure Blob Storage, Managed and stored unstructured data, such as text or binary data
●Used Azure Active Directory to Implement and manage access controls using AAD, including single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA).
● Contribution to Microsoft Open source docs for Azure Devops goCache function.
● Help Build and deploy Aladdin Studio application servers in GitLab CI
●Using Azure Terraform to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for a software development project.
●Analyzed log data and metric trends using Kibana and Grafana to identify anomalies, performance bottlenecks, and potential security threats.
●Utilized advanced querying and filtering capabilities of Kibana and Grafana to extract actionable insights from large datasets.
● Helped set up bazel artifactory for improving golang execution efficiency through the organization.
● Migrated the initial aladdin application ci/cd pipelines from gitlab ci to azure devops establishing service connections for the same.
● Created docker base images from scratch with required image libraries for docker containerized builds and deployments used across Aladdin project source codes for deployments.
Environment: Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Grafana, Chef, Ansible, Git, Dynatrace, Kibana, Linux/Unix (Red Hat)and Windows.
Client: Cricket Wireless, Atlanta GA March 2019 – Nov 2019
Role: Sr DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
●Maintain and troubleshoot all systems, applications, security, and network configurations.
●Be responsible for the daily administration of a cloud environment, related servers, security and network devices.
●Troubleshoot network performance issues and help to create and maintain disaster recovery plans.
●Install, test and administer enhancements to new and existing cloud servers.
●Maintain servers to ensure trouble free operation and to ensure security.
●Monitor and respond to System alerts and alarms.
●Automated .NET and IIS application deployments using Azure DevOps pipelines.
●Utilized ServiceNow for incident/change management and integrated with CI/CD workflows.
● coordinate with Client Developers and managers and offshore team to streamline releases.
●Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 Problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems
●Coordinate change management activities
●Troubleshoot and repair cloud systems and applications.
●Involved in Data Centre virtualization, storage, security, and server load balancing.
●Worked closely with developers and managers to resolve the issues that were raised during the deployments in different environments.
●Automate server configuration management & deployment process using Ansible.
●Implement infrastructure as code using tools such as ARM templates and Terraform.
●Deploy and manage Azure cloud services (App Services, AKS, VMs, Functions, etc.).
●We used Ansible-Galaxy for Templates and modified as per our requirement. Installed and Implemented Ansible configuration management system. Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages.
●Experience designing and implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
●Maintained high availability clustered and standalone server environments and refined automation components with scripting and configuration management (Ansible) and experienced in writing Ansible scripts.
●Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized
●Providing deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns and programming
●Perform analysis of legacy application, developed cloud migration plan, and performed refactoring and migration of application to the AWS cloud.
●Refactored Java enterprise application to run on PaaS environments such as AWS Beanstalk
●Advising and implementing AWS best practices.
●Enhancement of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in the scalable environment which provides advanced security features such as security groups and network access control lists to enable inbound and outbound filtering at the instance level and subnet level.
●Worked with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing which automatically distributes traffic across multiple Amazon EC2instances which enables to achieve fault tolerance in the applications.
●Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment
●Extensively involved in infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph and change automation using Terraform. Managed AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform.
●Created Terraform scripts for EC2 instances, Elastic Load balancers and S3 buckets.
Client: DXC Technologies, Plano TX July 2018 – March 2019
Role: Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
●Design, build, configure, test, install software, manage and support all aspects and components of the application development environments in AWS.
●Utilized AWS Cloud formation to create new AWS environments (e.g. Test) following best practices in VPC / Subnet design.
●Analyze the business, technical, functional, performance and infrastructure requirements needed to access and process large amounts of data.
●Coordinated with the Dev, DBA, QA, and IT Operations environments to ensure there are no resource conflicts.
●Work within and across agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies, and tracking all stories on JIRA.
●Responsible for the development and maintenance of processes and associated scripts/tools for automated build, testing and deployment of the products to various developments.
●Manage Production Server infrastructure environment, collaborated with development team to troubleshoot and resolve issues, deliver product release with frequent deployment with zero downtime deployment.
●Configuring, automation and maintaining build and deployment CI/CD tools git/ git-hub, Jenkins/Hudson, ANT, Docker-registry/daemon, Nexus and JIRA for Multi-Environment with high degrees of standardization for both infrastructure and application stack automation in AWS cloud platform.
●Written Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in JSON and YAML format to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
●Extensively involved in infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph and change automation using Terraform. Managed AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform.
●Established and maintained development infrastructure for a Java development team including IDEs, Maven repository, and Linux servers for running web portals and databases.
●Provided subject matter specialist support to a program office in the areas of Java, web applications/portals, web services, and web application security.
●Created Terraform scripts for EC2 instances, Elastic Load balancers and S3 buckets.
●Managed different infrastructure resources, like physical machines, VMs and even Docker containers using Terraform It supports different Cloud service providers like AWS.
●Built Jenkins jobs to create AWS infrastructure from GitHub repos containing Terraform code.
●Configure ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and using LogStash to output data to AWS S3.
●Established the Java build process and supporting infrastructure for the team’s development environment using Maven and Archiva.
●Worked on Jenkins, Git Hub, Puppet, Artifactory and all internal build systems for the core development team on an enterprise-level Java-based cloud orchestration/automation tool.
●Involved in AWS EC2/VPC/S3/SQS/SNS based automation through Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash Scripts. Adopted new features as they were released by Amazon, including ELB & EBS.
●DevOps role converting existing AWS infrastructure to Server-less architecture (AWS Lambda, Kinesis) deployed via terraform.
●Experience in Virtualization technologies like VMWare, Vagrant and worked with containerizing applications like Docker, Kubernetes.
●Automated deployment of application using deployment tool (Ansible). Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios.
●Continuous integration with Jenkins. Continuously evaluate and recommend improvement to CI/CD processes.
●Automate server configuration management & deployment process using Ansible.
●Wrote Puppet models for installing and managing java versions.
●Deployed and configured applications using UCD.
●Support a suite of DevOps tools including IBM Urba nCode Build for automated builds, IBM Urban Code Deploy for automated Deploys, and IBM Urban Code Release for release management coordination and orchestration.
●We had used Ansible-Galaxy for Templates and modified as per our requirement. Installed and Implemented Ansible configuration management system. Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages.
●Maintained high availability clustered and standalone server environments and refined automation components with scripting and configuration management (Ansible) and experienced in writing Ansible scripts.
●Implemented and maintained Ansible Configuration management spanning several environments in Vrealize and the AWS cloud.
●Worked on container based technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Kubernetes is being used to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
●Automating cloud infrastructure setup via cloud formation, Terraform, IBM Urban Code Deploy Ansible Playbook -AWS Code Deploy.
●Developed microservice on boarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.
●Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker. Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
●Used Kubernetes for creating new Projects, Services for load balancing and adding them to Routes by accessing from outside, created Pods through new application and controlling, scaling and troubleshooting pods through SSH.
● Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, config Maps and deployments.
●Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
●Developed RESTful API's, which takes in an HTTP request and produces the HTTP response in JSON Format using microservices. Server monitoring using Splunk, created custom Splunk, dashboards, and reports to reduce user requests.
Environment: Ansible, Jenkins, AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, VPC, Redshift, Cloud formation, Cloud watch, ELK Stack), python (BOTO API), Shell scripting, Ruby, Linux Administration, Terraform, Ant, Cassandra, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, JIRA, GIT, Splunk.
Client: Queen City Software, Mason, OH May 2017 – Apr 2018
Role: AWS/Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
● Supervised the Devops team for infrastructure support on AWS cloud and designed a highly available secure
multi zone AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing Chef with AWS Cloud Formation.
● Responsible for managing Ubuntu, Linux and windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 instance by creating Chef Nodes through Open Source Chef Server.
● Utilized Amazon Elastic Block Storage which provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2
instances in the AWS cloud.
● Enhancement of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in the scalable environment which provides advanced security
features such as security groups and network access control lists to enable inbound and outbound filtering at the
instance level and subnet level.
● Worked with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing which automatically distributes traffic across multiple Amazon
EC2instances which enables to achieve fault tolerance in the applications.
● Incorporated Amazon Opsworks which is a configuration management tool that uses Chef to automate the
servers that are configured and deployed across Amazon EC2 instances.
● Well versed with Amazon Route53 which effectively connects user requests to the infrastructure running on
AmazonEC2 instances and AmazonS3 buckets.
● Responsible for providing an end to end solution for hosting the java and web application on AWS cloud with
integration to S3 buckets.
● Enabled the Amazon Cloud watch to monitor major metrics like Network packets, CPU utilization and load
balancer.
● Implemented CI/CD for all the Microservices of the OEM application using Jenkins.
● Experienced in use of Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift to manage micro services for development of
continuous integration and continuous delivery.
● Launched and configured the Amazon EC2 Cloud servers using Linux AMI and Ubuntu AMI and configuring the servers for specified applications using Jenkins.
● Analyzed the ANT build projects for conversion and established ANT and scripts for build activities in QA, Staging and Production environments.
● Maintained the interfaces and secure connections between Jenkins and CI/CD tools.
● Executed the automation from commit to deployment by implementing a CD pipeline with the help of Jenkins and Chef.
● Formulated in connecting continuous integration with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in’s come from the developer.
● Initiated planning sessions for development and testing teams to simplify deployment activities.
● Developed various test cases to ensure proper testing is performed across all corners of application post
deployment.
● Improved the virtualization for the servers using the Docker for the test environments and the dev environment needs.
● Wrote the Vagrant scripts to spin up servers on the developer work stations and created Vagrant windows and
Linux boxes using Packer.
● Implemented the automated Nagios in Ops environment for alerts and email notifications using Python script and executed them through Chef.
● Initiated the process of deployment for automation to Web Sphere servers by developing Python scripts.
● Working with JIRA to track project defects and tasks. Created Crontab scripts for scheduled jobs.
Environment: GIT, Jenkins, Chef, AWS EC2, S3, Route 53, Opsworks, VPC, Elastic Block Storage RDS, Python, Cloud watch, Docker, Linux AMI, AWS Elastic Load Balancer, Vagrant, Nagios, Auto scaling groups, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, JIRA, Ubuntu, Windows server NT, Oracle server.
Client:V9Carinae, Hyderabad, India April 2014 - June 2016
Role: Software Engineer:
Responsibilities:
●Developed Bash and python scripts for day-to-day administration.
●Involved in design, configuration, installation, implementation, management, maintain and support for the Corporate Linux servers, RHEL 4x, 5.x, CENTOS 5.x.
●Maintained proper documentation of all the activities carried out during the project.
●Worked with DBA team for database performance issues, network related issues on Linux Servers.
●Maintained proper documentation of all the activities carried out during the project
●Configuring and Administering NFS and auto mount in networks.
●Upgrading the kernel in Red Hat Linux servers and creating init rd image to boot from the Upgraded kernel
●Installed SAMBA for transferring files between windows and the LINUX environment
●developed and designed ui for a database of customer’s health and created secure login for blue access for members.
●developed code for shadowboxes, slider carousals, tickers, rotating headers, validation and js animations.
●used html, css, javascript, jquery, dojo, parallels and 508 compliance.
●tested front-end code in multiple browsers to ensure cross-browser compatibility. maintained brand standards under company guidelines.
●consulted and documented ui best practices and code standards.
●participated in projects in all stages of the product life cycle. Installed and support multiple databases and applications including Oracle, MySQL with WebLogic, JBOSS,Oracle and Apache Tomcat.
●Experience in writing and organizing Shell and Perl scripting for building complex software systems.
●Created branches, labels and performed merges in SVN and GIT.
●Used Jenkins innovatively to automate most of the build related tasks. Improved throughput and efficiency of build system by providing.
●Work with managers to trigger required build.
●Specialized in working closely with system engineers to resolve the issues and handled release process for over twenty-five.
●Monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security events utilizing security event management and reporting tools.
●System performance monitoring, tuning and log management.
EDUCATION:
●Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science from Osmania University, 2016
●Master of Engineering, Computer Science from University of Cincinnati, 2018