Sagar R Ravkhande

Tadeusza Kosciuszki 66/4 · Wrocław, Poland, 50-009 · +48 739521860/+91 9028266052 · sagar.ravkhande@gmail.com

Customer-focused Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer offering 11+ years of background setting up CI and CD pipelines and scripting deployment activities. Well-rounded and conscientious professional committed to proactively managing change and quickly deploying critical applications. Expertise in designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems with a passion to transform industries through cloud adoption, and bringing technology to businesses.

Experience

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Luxoft, Wroclaw, Poland

Client: Goldman Sachs, UBS

Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.

Collaborated closely with product development teams and other stakeholders, using effective communication and active listening skills.

Leading SRE-DevOps to formulate cloud strategy to provide the supporting infra & delivery pipeline.

Experience in using ARM templates (JSON) to create Azure services, while ensuring no changes were made to the existing infrastructure.

Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test, and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes, a Hashicorp Vault, and Docker.

Implemented Helm charts into our CI pipeline so that deploying new services is easier than ever before!

Migrated 100+ repositories from legacy SVN to GitLab using automated scripts.

Ensure 100% of all project documentation was created and updated, including design, development, and deployment documentation.

Participated in the recruitment and onboarding of new recruits for varying junior and senior roles.

November 2021 - Present

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

TomTom, Pune

Working experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy, update, and delete multiple Azure resources, as well as migrating on-premises resources to Azure with Azure site recovery (ASR), and Azure backups.

Led and executed architecture design, development, and delivery of 5 projects each with a team size of 2-3.

Used Shared Image Gallery to store the created images and built Azure pipelines in Azure DevOps to implement all these services in Azure.

Implemented automated alerting around infrastructure issues which resulted in quicker and more efficient fixes leading to an improvement in the response time to critical errors by 85%.

Develop automation processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications using tooling or scripting reducing the time to get features in production by 90%.

Structured cluster Auto Scaler for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using Terraform and worked with scheduling, deploying, and managing pods and replicas in AKS.

Worked with Azure Monitoring tools such as Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, and Azure Service Health to diagnose and minimize service degradation.

Worked on Microservices for Continuous Delivery environment using Azure, Docker & Packer. Involved in setting up a Microservice architecture for application development and implemented high availability with Azure Resource Manager deployment models.

Worked on Terraform templates also for provisioning virtual networks, subnets, VM Scale sets, load balancers, and NAT rules and used terraform graph to visualize execution plan using the graph command.

Developed GIT hooks for the local repository, code commit, and remote repository, code push functionality, and on GitHub.

Design and implementation of a Puppet-based configuration management system for all new Linux machines.

October 2018 - September 2021

DevOps Engineer

Pitney Bowes

Deployed static web applications using S3, CloudFront, ACM and Route53 for low latency performance improvement using Terraform configurations.

Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, Code Pipeline and GitHub Actions to automate and accelerate the building, testing and deployment of multiple applications which increased our deployment frequency from twice a week to 3 times a day.

Integrated static code analysis to CI pipelines to ensure security compliance of all applications and reduce bugs by 50%.

Wrote custom bash scripts for automating tasks and processes to develop self-healing solutions.

Reduced monthly AWS spend by ~$5,000 by leveraging AWS Cost Explorer and Billing console to identify and eliminate unnecessary costs.

January 2018 - October 2018

Technical Support Engineer

Sears Holding India

Built and maintained tools for deployment, monitoring and operations which led to an improvement in application speed of 9%.

Acted as a subject-matter expert in infrastructure automation and owned all technical aspects of platform configuration and its automation.

Reduced processing time for failed order processing for seller management from ~1 month to 2 days.

Troubleshooted critical production issues faced in Seller Application resulting in a quick resolution of errors.

September 2015 - January 2018

Freelancer

One Chits Private Ltd

Work together with the client to understand requirements and build browser-based offline PHP applications from scratch that interact with a MySQL database as backend.

Successfully completed 5+ projects on freelancer.

July 2014 - August 2015

UI Developer

Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd

Developed an in-house web interface using PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery that allowed for employees to manage and send email offers books to customers to streamline monthly marketing mail.

Worked on building new PHP Interfaces for the customer-facing application which improved the time on page for the average user by 2 minutes.

Improved database performance with 20% by using materialized views and stored procedures.

Improved code efficiency by 30% by implementing efficient data structures.

May 2012 - June 2014

Education

University of Pune

Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Engineering

First Class

July 2007 - August 2011

Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune

Science
HSC

First Class

June 2005 - June 2007

Hindustan Antibiotics School, Pune

Science
SSC

First Class

June 1995 - May 2005

Skills

  • CI/CD in AWS, Azure, Linux, Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, AWS Code Pipeline
  • Jenkins, Shell/Bash Scripting, Python, Agile, Scrum , SQL/MySQL, GIT, Docker, NoSQL, MongoDB
  • DevSecOps, Prometheus, GitLab/GitHub Actions, Grafana. Apache/Nginx/Tomcat, DevOps, REDIS, Packer
  • Ansible, Puppet, Docker-Compose, Cloud Architecture, Helm, OpenStack

Certifications

Awards

  • Star Performer and Team Player Award - Sears Holding India (2017)
  • Star Performer Award - Inbox Masters Systems Private Ltd.(2013)

Blogs

Interests

Apart from being a Cloud and DevOps Professional, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I enjoy trekking, long rides, and kayaking.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the Cloud, DevOps, AI and CyberSecurity world.