Rajesh kumar

Principle Architect Email : [email protected]

DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE & Microservices Mobile : +91 8105843520
Linkedin - https://in.linkedin.com/in/rajeshkumarin Clients - http://rajeshkumar.xyz/clients/
Career Summary
Web CV - http://rajeshkumar.xyz/
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, mentoringDOB and
- 04 consulting
Sept 1984 in devops, CICD,
cloud, containers, sre, DevSecOps, microservices 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.

I am expert in following domains..

• DevOps Implementations • DevSecOps, Sercurity & SIEM

• Continuous Integration • Docker & Containers & Kubernetes
• Continuous Delivery • Cloud AWS, Azure & Google Cloud
• Continuous Deployment • Microservices
• Continuous Inspection • Monitoring & Observability
• Site Reliability Engineering(SRE) • AiOps, MLOps, DataOps

Experience Summary
1. Principle DevOps Architect & Manager, Cotocus (May 2016 and ……)
2. Sr. Build and Release Engineer at ServiceNow, Netherlands (June 2015 and May 2016)
3. Sr. DevOps Architect at JDA Software, India (Sept 2014 and May 2015)
4. Sr. SCM Engineer at Intuit, India (July 2013 and Sept 2014)
5. Sr. SCM Engineer at Adobe Systems, India (April 2011 and July 2013)
6. Sr. Build & Release Engineer at Emptoris (IBM) Technologies (May 2010 to April 2011)
7. Sr. Build & Release Engineer at Ness Technologies, India (September 2009 to May 2010)
8. Sr. Engineer at MindTree Ltd., India (August 2006 to September 2009)
9. Jr. Software Engineer at Accenture, India (September 2005 - July 2006)
10. Sotware Developer at SurgeryPlanet, India (July 2004 - August 2005)

Education Summary
✓ M. Tech in Software Systems, BITS, Pilani, India
✓ Master in Science (Information Technology), Annamalai University, India
✓ Bachelor of Information Technology, IGNOU, India
✓ Higher National Diploma in Computing & Multimedia, Edexcel Foundation (UK)
✓ XII (12th), JIEC, India
✓ X (10th), BSEB, India
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Skills Set
Area of Expertise
Languages Python, PHP, Java, Goland, HTML, JavaScript
Process & Practices Agile, DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, DataOps, MLOps, AiOps, GitOps
Version Tools Git, Gerrit, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, Perforce, SVN and TFS, GitOps
CI Tools Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo & UBuild, ArgoCI, Azure DevOps, Gitlab
Packaging Tools Packer, Wise Studio, InstallAnywhere and Linux RPM
OS Windows, Linux, Ubantu, Centos, Solaris, RHEL, Mac OS X
Build Tools Maven, Gradle, PyBuilder and MSBuild, Jenkins Pipeline, Azure
DevOps
Test & Quality Tools Selenium, Jmeter, Azure DevOps
Infra Scripting Terraform, CloudFormation, Bash Scripting, Yaml, JSON
Config Management Ansible, Puppet and Chef
Delivery & Deployment UDeploy, Octopus Deploy, XL Deploy, XL Release, Spinnaker, Argo CD,
Argo Events, Argo Workflows, Azure DevOps
Cloud Platforms AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare, OpenStake
Containers Platforms Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, RedHat OpenShift, VMware
Tanzu, Rancher
Networking,DNS,Service Linkerd, NGINX, HAProxy, Envoy, Traefik, istio,consul, Ambassador
mesh
Package & Repository Packer, Nexus, Artifactory & Nuget
Infrastructure Monitoring Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Nagios, Zaabix, NewRelic
Log Montoring ElasticSearch(ELK) and Splunk, Datadog, NewRelic
Performance Monitoring NewRelic APM, Datadog APM, Splunk APM, Elastic APM
Dashboarding Kibana, Grafana
Databases & Data Store MySql, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Loki, Elasticsearch, Graphite,
ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka
Coverage - Analysis SonarQube, Jacoco, Fortify
DevSecOps / Security HashiCorp Vault, Notary, Chef InSpec, OWASP SonarQube, Fortify,
SIEM
Project Management Jira, Wordpres, Atlassso Wiki, Trello, Zendesk
Current Project

Currently working as Principle DevOps Architect & Manager with Cotocus Ltd. I am
managing the entire deveopment setup and team which consist of 20 members
broadly supporting the developemet and operations of jetexe.com, eborrow.in,
aiaviationacademy.com, wakilsahab.in, SeoDaily & surgeryplanet.com in pre-prod
and prod environment.
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I am also involved addressing the corporate consulting and training relating to DevOps, DevSecOPs,
SRE, CICD, Cloud automation and Migration, Microservices and Containers. Successfully transistions
the training and consulting for following organization in the last 4 years.
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

My Training and Consulting Projects

Full List - http://rajeshkumar.xyz/clients/

My Contributions
✓ 20000+ – I have mentor/coach more than 20000 engineers till now for implementing
CI/CD, DevOps, DevSecOps, Security, Cloud, SRE and Containers and helping
organization to find their best tools for SDLC and productions needs.
✓ My Tech Video - https://www.youtube.com/TheDevOpsSchool
✓ My Tech Blog – www.devopsschool.com/blog
✓ My Tutorials - https://www.gyan.school/

Roles & Responsibilities in details

• Managing and mentoring a team of 0 people of Cotocus's development, qa and prod

environment.
• Cloud Migration from Private Cloud to Public Cloud on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
• Setting up productions end to end services on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
• Implemented continuous planning with agile/scrum to have better integrations with
continuous development for various projects.
• Setup a systems from scratch for continuous inspection to reduce a technical debt and
improving software quality.
• Implemented continuous integration and delivery practices for the project in order to
improve the software quality, reduce the cost and immediate software delivery.
• Maintain, managed, enhanced builds and releases to various environments, such as
development, QA, pre-production and production.
• Helping organization to reduce the technical debt using Continous Inspection and
Monitoring.
• Worked and being part of dev, qa and operations team to architecture, design, and
implementations of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, performance,
efficiency, and scalability.
• From last 15 years, I was extensively involved in migration from phycials servers to vms,
vms to aws and most recently Vms to containerization.
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• Most of the projects, i acted as a individual contributor, managing entire project

infrastructure from pre prod to prod which includes version control, build servers,
deployment servers, staging servers, qa servers, monitoring & prod servers.
• Developed and maintain an efficient and flexible automated deployment/qa framework that
ensured repeatable and reliable deployment of releases into multiple environments and
immediate feedback to concern team.
• Helped organization and setup a process of branching and merging strategies for major,
minor, maintenance and patch releases.
• Sharing a knoweldge is a key in DevOps and I setup a process & platform in which team
should be motivated/enabled for project documentation, such as code docs, build
procedures, build release notes, and installation/configuration notes, todo, devenv setup
etc.
• Setup a monitoring, and alerting systems for pre prod CI servers as well productions
servers, Also proving a lead response, quick troubleshooting, postmortem analysis, and
resolution as well as coordinate between a dev-qa-operations team.
• During my work tenure, i have earned a proven track record of success and excellence in
working with enterprise class large scale applications in development and production
environments.
Projects in Past

I. ServiceNow – Senior Build & Release Engineer

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 Jenkins

II. JDA Software – Senior CM/DevOps Architect

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

III. Intuit Technology – Senior SCM Engineer

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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

IV. Adobe Systems – Sr SCM Administrator

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

V. Emptoris Technologies (IBM) – Services Procurement

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

VI. Ness Technologies - Chordiant CFS

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
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VII. MindTree Ltd. - Symantec LiveState Delivery

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

VIII. Accenture India Ltd - BellSouth, US

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