HARSHAD VELAPURE
SRE/DevOps
Pune
Summary
SRE enthusiastic eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and
excellent organizational skills. Skilled at providing beneficial support to clients/product,
creating monitoring and testing solutions, developing automations tools and services. Effective
communicator with a deep passion for technology
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Graas.ai
11.2022 - Current
- Implemented spinnaker pipeline/s for k8s services
- Improved observability space and stabilized working for same
- Designed and implemented OTEL stack
- Worked on automations to help ease processes for developers
- Worked with cross teams for SOC2 and GDPR compliance
- Empowered cross teams to use and extract right info from telemetry to debug and solve critical issues faster
- Research and Development in prometheus exporters
Site Reliability Engineer
Symbl.ai
07.2021 - 11.2022
- Working as SRE/DevOps to deliver automation of various app stack
- ML OPS CI/CD setup Dockerization of app stack and CD automation for same
- Working with GCP GPU resources for ML
- Automation with ansible for ELK, PROM, NRM stack
Site Reliability Engineer
Qualys
03.2020 - 07.2021
- Worked as 'DSRE (DevOps & SRE)' Job requires understanding of tools such as vault, consul, k8s, jenkins, terraform
- Work area relates to deployment and release of upcoming builds in production environment
- Job area falls under security domain this in turn helped to understand security aspects of technology
- Suggested process and technical design changes to improve performance and efficiency
Senior Reliability Engineer
Vuclip Private Limited
09.2017 - 03.2020
- Worked as 'SRE/DevOps' job requires knowledge of tools like Nginx, Chef, Jenkins, CI‑CD, networking
- Worked on NPDs, in this process adapted to new skill set such as Kubernetes, CI‑CD pipeline, nginx, consul, istio, service‑mesh
Reliability Engineer
Vuclip Private Limited
01.2017 - 09.2017
- Worked as 'L1 SRE' Job requires 24/7 monitoring and response to production issues
- Challenging environment with 1k+ servers to monitor and provide automation ideas/implementation to ease manual intervention
Trainee Software Engineer
Xoriant
09.2015 - 01.2017
- Worked as 'database support engineer'
- Job required knowledge to adapt four different databases and provide support for same
- Experience with US‑based clients and night shift timings
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
D. Y. Patil College of Engineering - Akurdi
Pune 08.2010 - 03.2015
Higher Secondary Education - Computer Science
Hutatma Rajguru Mahavidyalaya - Rajgurunagar
Pune 08.2008 - 03.2010
Skills
GCP
AWS
Ansible
Terraform
Shell Script
Networking
Jenkins
Github Workflows
Docker
Kubernetes
ELK
Prometheus
Grafana
HELM
OTEL
Spinnaker Tool
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Graas.ai
11.2022 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
Symbl.ai
07.2021 - 11.2022
Site Reliability Engineer
Qualys
03.2020 - 07.2021
Senior Reliability Engineer
Vuclip Private Limited
09.2017 - 03.2020
Reliability Engineer
Vuclip Private Limited
01.2017 - 09.2017
Trainee Software Engineer
Xoriant
09.2015 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
D. Y. Patil College of Engineering - Akurdi
08.2010 - 03.2015
Higher Secondary Education - Computer Science
Hutatma Rajguru Mahavidyalaya - Rajgurunagar
08.2008 - 03.2010
Guitar, Chess, Cricket, TT
Love playing guitar and listening to old hindi songs in free time, Penhold TT player
Guitar, Chess, Cricket, TT
Love playing guitar and listening to old hindi songs in free time, Penhold TT player