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Work Experience

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Simcorp

  Aug, 2024 - Present

  • Integrate Snowflake data marketplace to product offering

  • Help launch Qlik offering to production

  • Modernize python scripts for managing vm images

  • Manage and maintain the Azure infrastructure

  • Automate deployments using ADO

  • Help in setting up monitoring and alerting

  • Update and streamline group workflows

  • Update outdated tools and libraries used in automation

• Freelance - SRE, Recruitics / Doxa

  Feb, 2024 - Aug, 20246 months

  • Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure either via Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, and/or ArgoCD

  • Maintain software quality and security by ensuring all releases are checked by sonar and/or trivy

  • Assist in application deployments and production issues

  • Help in setting up monitoring and alerting

  • Configure and setup automation and pipelines

  • Help DevSecOps in the maintenance of secret rotation as well as vault cluster management

  • Help migrate github actions to bitbucket pipelines

  • Audit alerts to ensure only critical and necessary notification are sent to correct slack channels

  • Assist development teams in upgrading tools, packages, systems, and/or programming languages from sunsetted versions

  • Support applications: Terraform, Python, Serverless Framework, AWS EKS, AWS EC2, AWS RDS, Hadoop, ELK Stack, PromStack, OpsGenie

• Senior Platform Engineer, Manulife

  Feb, 2022 - Jan, 20241 year 11 months

  • Manage, maintain, and deploy services to Azure kubernetes via Jenkins

  • Ensure code is checked by security and code quality tools: Snyk and SonarQube

  • Identify, investigate, and resolve potential issues for releasing applications to production

  • Help identify, investigate, and resolve security problems

  • Migrate stack from on-premise cloud foundry to Azure

  • Plan and document procedure for performing disaster recovery, operational resiliency audit, and incident management

  • Ensure integration to monitoring systems are working: Prometheus, Kiali, Jaeger, Grafana, Devo, New Relic

  • Coordinate with relevant business partners and raise service request when needed

  • On call support for incidents and perform documentation, remediation, and coordination

  • Create audits of system states and manuals for operations tasks

  • Provide training and knowledge sharing for rest of team

  • Programming languages used by backend developers: typescript

  • Supporting applications: Terraform, Azure Synapse, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Functions, Istio, FluxCD, Prisma/Twistlock, Cert Manager

• Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer, ING Business Shared Services

  Nov, 2019 - Feb, 20222 years 3 months

  • Manage, maintain, and deploy services to openshift/kubernetes via Azure DevOps Pipelines

  • Identify, investigate, and resolve potential issues and performance bottlenecks

  • Help identify, investigate, and resolve security problems

  • Migrate stack from on-premise to public cloud: Azure / AKS / ARM

  • Perform disaster recovery, operational resiliency audits, and incidents management

  • Maintain monitoring systems: ELK / Grafana / Prometheus / Kafka / PagerDuty

  • Coordinate with relevant business partners and raise service request when needed

  • On call support for incidents and perform documentation, remediation, and coordination

  • Create audits of system states and manuals for operations tasks

  • Provide training and knowledge sharing for rest of team

  • Develop applications/scripts for operations efficiency: python, bash, powershell

  • Programming languages used by backend developers: python, go, java

  • Additional applications: FIS Profile, MSSQL, SSRS, VMWare, F5, RHEL7, Prisma/Twistlock

  • Supporting applications: Terraform, Ansible, Consul, Vault, Nginx, Squid, Cassandra, eBPF

• Freelance - DevOps, mClinica

  Mar, 2019 - May, 20192 months

  • Migrate services from azure to gcp

  • Provide guidance/advice on database deisign/architecture as well as dockerizing applications

• Freelance - BackEnd Development / DevOps, DigitalTolk

  Dec, 2017 - Nov, 201811 months

  • Develop a realtime application with NLP capabilities involving audio and language analysis

  • Application development involved python with asyncio, grpc, gunicorn, 0mq, nats, asgi, pydub, textblob, polyglot, and spacy

  • Application development approach was to use actor model design

  • Also includes tasks in upgrading current azure infrastructure implementing containerization, high availability, and security

  • Setup the base docker images for applications using packer with ansible

  • Security integrations involved placing a bastion gateway, implementing fail2ban, and adding rate limiting

  • Implement a clustered/fault tolerant setup for redis, elasticsearch, nomad, consul, traefik, and mariadb

  • Use terraform and ansible to automate azure infrastructure upgrade and deployment

• Senior BackEnd Developer / Senior DevOps Engineer, CBO (Complete Business Online)

  Nov, 2016 - Dec, 20171 year 1 month

  • Develop, support, and optimize on a general level across all products and applications

  • Manage and maintain the AWS cloud stack: ELB, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Opsworks, SNS, Cloudwatch

  • Provide training and knowledge sharing for rest of team

  • Additional technologies handled: Google Analytics

• Freelance - BackEnd Development, Juwai

  Jun, 2016 - Nov, 20165 months

  • Develop and maintain backend applications and services

  • Identify, investigate and resolve potential

  • Additional technologies involved are AWS SQS, MySQL, and ZeroMQ

• Freelance - BackEnd Development, Glyphstudios

  Jun, 2016 - Nov, 20165 months

  • Develop voice/sms applications integrated with Asterisk and to telecommunications partners

  • Troubleshoot and make recommendations for any problems and issues

  • Aid in optimizing performance of existing voice/sms applications with high load and traffic

• Freelance - BackEnd Development, APPone

  Jun, 2016 - Nov, 20165 months

  • Manage and maintain database as well as create relevant scripts and schemas

  • Develop backend applications

  • Troubleshoot and make recommendations for any problems and issues with frontend integration

• Freelance - Database Development, Harte Hanks

  Oct, 2013 - Aug, 201410 months

  • Manage and maintain multiple databases as well as help in merging them to a single database

  • Coordinate with relevant parties and develop scripts for transforming data from database

• OSS and Database Engineer, Aircom / Nokia

  May, 2008 - Aug, 20135 years 3 months

  • Develop applications/scripts for telecommunications data processing and reporting

  • Setup and maintain a data warehouse for telecommunications data

  • Perform OSS network modification, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting

  • Extract and process data from OSS network for analysis

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