About Me
Total, Over 15 years of extensive experience working with more than 8 software MNCs for software development/maintenance and production environments involved in continuous improvement and automating entire life cycle using latest devops tools and techniques from design and architecture, through implementation, deployment, and successful operations. Also, helping more than 70 software organizations globally, providing coaching, mentoring and consulting in devops, CICD, cloud, containers and operations.
I help software organization to improve a quality of the software, reducing the software development/operational cost and immediate feedback/monitoring. Have in-depth working experience in following domains with real project implementation.
Skills
Education
Higher Education
MTech Software Systems
2014 – 2017
M.Sc in Information Technology
2006 – 2010
Bachelor of Information Technology
2001 – 2004
Higher National Diploma in Computing & Multimedia
Education is not preparation
for life, education is life itself.
EXPERIENCES
Professional ExperienceCurrently working as Principle DevOps Architect & Manager with Cotocus Ltd. I am managing the entire deveopment setup and team which consist of 15 members broadly supporting the developemet and operations of jetexe.com, eborrow.in, aiaviationacademy.com, wakilsahab.in & surgeryplanet.com in pre-prod and prod environment. The tools I am master in Jira, Git, SonarQube, Nexus, Artifactory, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Splunk, Nagios, NewRelic, AWS and Jenkins
I am also involved addressing the corporate consulting and training relating to DevOps, CICD, Cloud automation and Containers. Successfully transistions the training and consulting for following organization in the last 24 months… Verizon, Nokia, World Bank, L&T Technology Services, Sapient, Astrazenica, Cognizant, Vodafone, HCL, Mphasis, Barclays, ITC, Tata Technology, CastSoftware, BMC, WorldBank, Cognizant, Qualcomm, HCL, Citrix, 3DPLM, Namecheap, Qualcomm, EMC2, Vodafone, BMC, HSBC, Toshiba, Hexaware, Citrix, Wellsfargo, IBM, Brillio, HPE, Synechron & many more Full List - http://rajeshkumar.xyz/clients/
Role and Responsibilities: Worked as a Build and Release Engineerin Servicenow, Amsterdam, having a responsibility to manage and improve the large and complex build infrastructure which includes 300+ build slaves, 5 Jenkins Servers, CM server in the Cloud(AWS). Also involved with build IT infrastructure management and automation using Chef. Environment/Skills: Git, Gerrit, Redhat Linux, Bash Scripting, Nexus, Maven, Chef, Datadog, Docker, AWS and JenkinsRole and Responsibilities: Worked as a Build and Release Engineerin Servicenow, Amsterdam, having a responsibility to manage and improve the large and complex build infrastructure which includes 300+ build slaves, 5 Jenkins Servers, CM server in the Cloud(AWS). Also involved with build IT infrastructure management and automation using Chef. Environment/Skills: Git, Gerrit, Redhat Linux, Bash Scripting, Nexus, Maven, Chef, Datadog, Docker, AWS and Jenkins
2014 - 2015
Role and Responsibilities: Worked as an DevOps architect in JDA Software to implement continuous integration and delivery model and streamline the build/release and production deployment and monitoring for more than 40 JDA’s products. I architect and co-ordinate for more than 40 products team to onboard CICD to single platform which includes awareness program. Also worked on to standardization the different tools and processes within organization such as build process, qa process, configuration mgmt, deployment and montring and feedback. Environment/Skills: Git, Gitlab, Redhat Linux, ELK, Splunk, Nagios, NewRelic, Datadog, Bash Scripting, Artifactory, Maven, Puppet, Ansible, AWS and Jenkins
2013-2014
Role and Responsibilities: Worked as a Sr SCM engineer for a unit called “Small Business group” which has many products including QuickBooks Online(Java), Desktop(.net), Android, POS and Camps. SCM infrastructure had many tools and technologies such as Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Perforce, and Git in Linux and Windows Environment. Helped on CI/CD initiatives for Quickbooks online, also Managed the Perforce servers and gitlab servers. I was also involved in research, design, automate and deploy new systems and solutions that enhance our SCM processes (e.g. Sonar, Git, Jira, Build Pipelining, Cobertura etc.). Helping Intuit coordinate with distributed team across different geography and support SCM, Build, Deployment and Release. Environment/Skills: Git, Perforce, Bitbucket, Redhat Linux, Bash Scripting, Nexus, Maven, Chef, AWS, ELK, Splunk, Nagios, NewRelic and Jenkins
2011-2013
Role and Responsibilities: At Adobe, I worked as a Senior SCM Engineer in a team of 4 members, responsible for handling 15 Perforce servers which has more than 150 perforce instance, 150+ proxy and 5000+ users and 10 Terabytes disk space. I was also responsible to handle 30+ Continuous integration build forge servers. Project setup includes, 35+ RedHat Linux Machine for our application hosting purpose. I was supporting development teams located in Seattle, Minnesota, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Japan, and India. Environment/Skills: Perforce, Git, Redhat Linux, Shell Scripting, Perl, Jenkins and BuildForge
Role and Responsibilities: At IBM, I supported a dev, qa and operations team for automating the build, deployment and release process. Also managing the build servers,CI servers and qa servers. Also monitoring the process of code completion, code freeze, branching, tagging and release of Build etc. Environment/Skills: Perforce, Ant, Redhat Linux, Shell Scripting, Jira, Emma, Sonar, Jenkins, Nagios, AWS, VmWare
Role and responsibilities: I owned and acted as an individual contributor for activities such as setting up build and test management frameworks, managing archives in a version control system and take care of software releasing. Also acted as the DevOps expert in the development projects and maintenance activities to provide the best infrastructure and automation for continuous integration, continuous (unit) testing and releasing. I defined and implement build en test infrastructure improvements that enables the effective software development processes and high quality of software deliverables taking into account maintenance responsibility for released products. Environment/Skills: Subversion, Bamboo, Maven, Ant, Solaris, Shell Scripting, Jira, FishEye, Crucible, Clover, Crowd, Sonar
2006-2009
Role and responsibilities: At mindtree, I was involved as developer as well as managing the build process for multiple concurrent releases and design and configure continuous integration build system through collaboration with development and IT teams; Also, Participating in deployment & configuration of the application as needed; I also Set-up code-review process and tooling in the CI; I was also driving the initiative of automating the set up of test environments and other duties as assigned. I was the only engineer who was acting as a Perforce administrator and MKS Integrity Administrator for the team who was at 4 different geographical location. I also acted like a install engineer cratated/maintained a installer for all our products major, minor and hot patches. I was also involed with release management tasks such as branching, labeling, tagging, co-ordinations and release activities. Environment/Skills: Perforce, SVN, Ant, Maven, Hudson, Visual Studio 2003, Ant, AnthillPro, Gforge, Wise Studio, Wise Scripting, VB Scripting, Tomcat, VMware and Jboss
Role and responsibilities: Worked as Configuration and package Engineer in Unix Environment. Worked in Project and Configuration Management. Set up Defects and Features for DDS, create packages and Install into Servers, wrote PL/SQL and Shell scripting to run on the server and Configure Software lifecycle management for Different Releases Using Internal tools. Environment/Skills: Harvest, Unix, Shell Scripting, Oracle 9i, Defect & Feature Management
I worked as a programmer developing the SurgeryPlanet.com. I was one of the first programmer for SurgeryPlanet.com who started the coding and bring the portal into the Shape. I have working on PHP, MySQL, Joomla, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Core Java, Maven, SVN in Windows and Linux Environment.
My Contributions
- 5000+ – I have mentor/coach more than 5000 engineers till now for implementing CI/CD, DevOps, Cloud and Containers and helping organization to find their best tools for SDLC and productions needs.
- DevOpsSchool.com – A platform where I share my DevOps knowledge.
- HolidayLandmark.com – My travel blogging platform
- Bestdevops.com – I maintain/editor latest technology/practices in DevOps here
- AIUniverse.xyz - I maintain/follow/editor latest technology/practices in AI/ML here.
- Bheekho.com – I am developing a platform to connect with social revolutionaries.
