priyashankar

Senior Dev Ops Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Velotio Technologies, my focus was on delivering end-to-end product migrations for major brands like Discovery+, which resulted in significant cost savings while managing complex EKS clusters and developing automation for infrastructure deployments. My educational foundation in Computer Applications and Mathematics has been integral to mastering technologies such as Docker & Kubernetes.

My recent achievements include creating cost-optimization tooling and streamlining deployment processes, reflecting my commitment to efficiency and excellence. With proficiency in multiple languages and a deep understanding of cloud services and blockchain infrastructure, I aim to leverage my skills in a forward-thinking environment that values innovative solutions.


Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $40,000

Hourly rate: $20

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇮🇳 India


Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer
Velotio
2021 - 2024
Delivered end-to-end product migration for major brands - Discovery+, Eurosport, GCN, TVE translating ECS workloads into Kubernetes. Includes setting up CDNs and CICD workflows on both Jenkins and GitHub Actions. Led to >50K USD/month in cost savings. Managed health and operational needs of 15+ EKS clusters. Created automated triggers in Golang for Terragrunt applied infrastructure deployments for 1000+ clients. Created tooling around cost-optimization measures in Kubernetes. Helped identify biggest spenders and dormant workloads leading to >10K USD/month in cost-savings. Implemented sequential execution of Terragrunt applied infrastructure deployments in GitHub Actions reducing functional impact by >50% in production environments. Key contributor on Nexus to JFrog migration for 100+ clients. Designed an analytics pipeline to monitor day-to-day usage. Additionally created a Slack Bot for self-service operations. Co-authored preview environments for Discovery+ reducing pull request cycle time by >50%. Brought down critical security vulnerabilities by >90%. Includes changes around Web Application Firewall and several other optimisations at edge. Created automated tests in Golang for maximum code coverage adhering to SonarCloud standards.
Software Engineer
Dhiway
2020 - 2021
Led Terraform managed infrastructure engineering efforts for a Private Permissioned Blockchain built using Parity Substrate on Amazon EKS. Handled GlusterFS storage administration for synchronous file replication on PVCs in Kubernetes. Built tooling around logging and monitoring in Kubernetes - Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, FluentBit, Amazon CloudWatch. Created Terraform managed tooling for infrastructure replication on Azure including Azure AKS. Hands-on experience with Linkerd service mesh in Kubernetes. Created multi-stage Dockerfiles for Rust & Node.js workflows to standardize non-privileged build processes. Automated code releases and build tests via GitHub Actions.
Software Engineer
Klizos
2019 - 2020
Shared infrastructure maintenance responsibilities on AWS for a 4-replica staging network built using the Hyperledger Indy toolkit. Handled EC2 instance initialization using Ansible roles. Includes setting up Network Interfaces, Block Devices, Security Groups, Instance Profiles. Actively developed services in Python - Django, Redis, Postgres for an Identity Platform. All workloads were containerized using Docker. Configured Load Balancer using HaProxy. Utilized stick tables to collect HTTP metrics and ACLs to filter connections. Set up NGINX reverse proxy for Python backends. Created Bash scripts to automate TLS certificate installation and renewal with Certbot. Automated regular disk snapshots for EBS volumes using AWS Backup Service. Created Bitbucket Pipelines across multiple release cycles.

Skills

ansible
aws
docker
kubernetes
python
terraform
devops
english
bengali
hindi