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Farida Pathan

Staff DevOps Engineer
Pune

Summary

Passionate DevOps Professional with 11+ years of experience working in R&D Departments and handling CI/CD for enterprise customers. Skilled in Deployment and Release Management, Microservices Architecture, Jenkins, MySQL, Source Control, Docker, Shell scripting and AWS services. An experienced team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can work independently under pressure can lead, motivate and influence others and can train and mentor subordinates.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Staff DevOps Engineer

Deskera Pvt.Ltd.
05.2023 - Current

Responsibilities:

Deskera is a product company providing cloud-based business software solutions including ERP, CRM, and HRMS for SMEs across Asia.

  • Worked on migration of AWS to Digital Ocean cloud for dev and staging environments.
  • Managed end-to-end migration services setup and deployment including MongoDB replica, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Debezium, and K8s services with Helm chart
  • Set up and implemented SoftEther VPN for staging and production environments
  • Participated in daily production release tasks and resolved CI/CD build issues for Jenkins jobs
  • Maintained versioning of GitLab branches and commits to get easier daily based production release.
  • Developed automation tasks to synchronize and copy MongoDB to PostgreSQL database
  • Maintained security and rules using AWS WAF for production environment
  • Maintained k8s deployement using helm charts and CI/CD using Jenkins.
  • Created scripts for descheduling K8s nodes to check CPU and memory resources and schedule them on new nodes
  • Set up Kafka cluster for production with high availability and migrated all topics with Debezium connector and Mirror Maker utilities
  • Developed Jenkins pipelines to reduce manual task efforts
  • Created Debezium connector JSON for Kafka topics with consumers and producers
  • Created scanning tools using AWS lambda function using ClamAV which helps to secure file upload in application.
  • Played a significant role in cost optimization across dev, staging, and production environments
  • Established positive relationships with customers and other staff members.
  • Developed strong relationships with clients through consistent communication and attentive customer service, resulting in increased overall satisfaction.
  • Collaborated with colleagues on various projects, sharing knowledge and expertise while working together towards common objectives.
  • Established and maintained strong relationships with colleagues through regular meetings and communication.

Lead Technology

Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
08.2021 - 05.2023
  • Uno is primarily designed for Markets Supervisors to review and dispose of supervision events, in fulfillment of their supervisory responsibilities will be achieved with the help of my prominent used skills of DevOps automation using CI/CD includes with Lightspeed pipeline, Teamcity, Udploy, migration on ECS, Blackduck, Artifactory, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Helm, Openshift.
  • Worked with development, architectural teams in designing and setting up the infrastructure to ensure CI/CD work flow of the project. Enabling customers to better manage software development, deployments and infrastructure.
  • Containerizing the applications, using docker and deploying on the RedHat ECS.
  • RBAC, binary authorization of the images to be deployed on the Openshift.
  • Monitoring using AppDynamics, cloud watch, Kibana. Analysis of logs using Splunk dashboards and Kubernetes dashboards.
  • Managing/creating the documents. Upgrading the Applications.
  • Participate in all the release meetings to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the Releases.
  • Managing and creating Change request, Incident for UAT and Prod environment.
  • Created Udeploy components for deploy application on different environment, requested for logs, clearing logs, restart services.

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
09.2020 - 09.2021
  • Managing AWS cloud Infrastructure, Writing Infrastructure as code scripts using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Deploy microservices on Kubernetes cluster for HA for CI/CD using Kops.
  • Owning the monitoring dashboard using Grafana.
  • Also worked on a centralized logging system using Kibana, Elasticsearch, FluentD.
  • Run Dockerfile for deploy services.
  • Manage instance start-stop by lambda function using python script.

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
04.2020 - 08.2021
  • Managing AWS cloud Infrastructure, Writing Infrastructure as code scripts using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Run Dockerfile and Docker compose for deploy services.
  • Setup CI using Gitlab-Pipeline.
  • Setup CI/CD for Android and iOS using Android SDK and XCode integrated with Jenkins.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Excellerate Pvt. Ltd.
10.2013 - 08.2021
  • Managing AWS cloud Infrastructure, Writing Infrastructure as code scripts using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Run Dockerfile and Docker compose for deploy services.
  • Setup CI using Gitlab-Pipeline.
  • Setup CI/CD for Android and iOS using Android SDK and XCode integrated with Jenkins.

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
06.2020 - 09.2020
  • Analysis of the whole infrastructure for security inbound and outbound traffic.
  • Set up AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and observability service.
  • Implement whole AWS WAF service using OWASP for advance security.
  • Implement CI/CD using bitbucket pipeline.

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
01.2020 - 06.2020
  • Used Private Cloud for CI/CD.
  • Manage K8s cluster for CI/CD using helm chart on private storage.
  • Create scripts for automatic creating Jenkins job while developer merges the code.
  • Successfully released on production.
  • Designing detailed documentation and Knowledge Base articles.

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
01.2017 - 06.2020
  • Managing AWS cloud Infrastructure, Writing Infrastructure as code scripts using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform (Having more than 50 EC2 instances).
  • Integrated tools like Jenkins, Gitlab and Jira for continuous Integration and update build status on slack.
  • Handled QA, Staging and Production Environments and Releases.
  • Centralized Logging System for developer team convent.
  • Manage daily DB backup using AWS RDS.
  • Hands-on EKS cluster.

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
09.2019 - 03.2020
  • Deployed all microservices using Docker-Compose.
  • Setup AWS EKS cluster for HA for Dev and QA environment.
  • For security, purpose handle all docker images as a private using secret.
  • Setup monitoring and logging using Grafana, Prometheus and Loki.

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology - Engineering

Zeal College of Engineering
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2010 - 01.2013

Diploma in CS - undefined

Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic College

Skills

  • Cloud Technologies - AWS

  • GCP

  • Azure

  • Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tools - Cloud Formation

  • Terraform

  • Scripting - Shell

  • Build Automation Tools - Jenkins

  • Bitbucket

  • Gitlab

  • Teamcity

  • Udeploy

  • Containerization - Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker-Compose

  • EKS

  • MongoDB

  • Defect Tracking Tools - JIRA

  • QC

  • Monitoring Tools - CloudWatch

  • Grafana

  • Familiar with other Tools - Kibana

  • Helm

  • Grafana

  • WAF

  • Advance security tools

  • Loki

  • Android SDK

  • XCode

  • Cloud migration

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Kubernetes management

  • Database management

  • Docker containerization

  • Network security

  • Monitoring and observability

  • MongoDB

  • Defect Tracking Tools - JIRA

  • QC

  • Monitoring Tools - CloudWatch

  • Grafana

  • Familiar with other Tools - Kibana

  • Helm

  • Grafana

  • WAF

  • Advance security tools

  • Loki

  • Android SDK

  • XCode

  • Kafka

  • Debezium

  • Mongodb

  • Postgress

  • ClamAV

  • MySQL

  • SoftEther

  • CI/CD implementation

Accomplishments

  • Published blogs
  • Https://medium.com/@Synerzip/web-application-security-using-aws-waf-and-aws-shield
  • Https://www.synerzip.com/blog/amazon-kinesis-data-firehose-for-detail-logging-in-aws-waf/
  • Got Appreciation bonus and Stock options from the client for exceptional performance

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/14/91
  • Visa Status: US Business Visa

Timeline

Staff DevOps Engineer

Deskera Pvt.Ltd.
05.2023 - Current

Lead Technology

Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
08.2021 - 05.2023

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
09.2020 - 09.2021

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
06.2020 - 09.2020

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
04.2020 - 08.2021

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
01.2020 - 06.2020

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
09.2019 - 03.2020

DevOps Engineer

Synerzip
01.2017 - 06.2020

Senior DevOps Engineer

Excellerate Pvt. Ltd.
10.2013 - 08.2021

Bachelor of Information Technology - Engineering

Zeal College of Engineering
01.2010 - 01.2013

Diploma in CS - undefined

Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic College
Farida PathanStaff DevOps Engineer