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Kalanithi Manimaaran

East York

Summary

With 14+ years of experience in the IT industry, I am highly skilled in AWS And Google Cloud Infra Automation, Google Cloud DevOps, and Kubernetes Solutions. I have excellent experience in Cloud integration with third-party tools using Cloud Native Services. Played an active role in leading the team and was entirely responsible for managing the applications by possessing the quality of leadership and team members. Highly skilled in Python Programming Language and PowerShell. Possesses excellent soft skills, is self-motivated, and is highly interested in learning new things, bringing new ideas to the table, and sharing knowledge among team members.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Architect

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 10.2023
  • Acted as a product owner by leading a team of developers and cloud architects in developing a tool called Cloud Exponence for managing a cloud operation service in Google Cloud
  • Owned the GCP DevOps Implementation roadmap by identifying the right cloud services and created a POC for Migrating Customers' applications from on-prem to the Google Cloud Platform
  • Developed three different CI/CD orchestration environments for application life-cycle management in the Cloud Exponence tool for robust usage
  • The environment includes Spinnaker as a Cloud Deployment platform for GCP, a Self-hosted agent for Azure DevOps, and Jenkins for continuous integration across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Designed Automation Solutions for Instance Provisioning on Google Cloud VMware Environment (GCVE) using vRealize Orchestrator for Migrating instances from on-prem to GCVE
  • Inducted new team members into the project, trained them both technical and process-oriented, and worked closely with the team throughout product life-cycle management
  • Administrated the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters and created the Design and Architecture for Application migration from on-prem to GKE as a Blue-Green Deployment for Banking Customers
  • Worked on POC for Dashboard Creation using Looker Studio with minimal data

Automation Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2017 - 09.2019
  • Managed a team of 10 members in developing the Infra-Structure-As-Code (IAC)-Automated Provisioning on AWS and GCP Cloud Services using Terraform, CloudFormation Template, AWS Lambda, and GCP Cloud Function
  • Responsible for the End-to-End Cloud Infra-Structure Automation using the Service Now Platform by integrating the Service Now Service request Module with the GCP using REST API Integration to invoke the build automatically for respective Cloud Service provisioning
  • Worked on managing the Kubernetes Cluster through Istio monitoring using Grafana Dashboard, Velero for namespaces backup and restore solution, and application deployment on Kubernetes Cluster using Cloud DevOps Native Services
  • Responsible for creating APIs for all AWS Cloud Automation IAC (Infra-Structure-As-Code) using AWS API Gateway and AS Cognito for authentication
  • Involved in Cloud Exponence onboarding for Retail Customers to convert their existing manual scripts and the newly built scripts into End-to-End Automation Approach using Terraform and Azure DevOps Models within 12 weeks
  • Worked on AWS lambda, AWS Step Function, AWS CFT, Azure Function, GCP Cloud Function, and Container Image Management
  • Prepared a weekly report to keep track of every status and presented it to the respective manager weekly

Development Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2013 - 09.2017
  • Design the End-to-End Automation Solution for Virtual Machine Provisioning using Service Now for the Service catalog, VMware APIs, and Core Java
  • Implemented API integration between Service Catalog and VMware API using Core JAVA
  • Managed Virtual machine availability based on power-on and power-off services using the JAVA scheduler
  • Worked on building the VMware Monitoring Dashboard using the Grafana module by managing the data in Microsoft SQL Server
  • I worked on API integration between BMC Remedy SOAP Web services and Microsoft Scorch (System Center Orchestrator) using Core JAVA
  • Worked on 20 SOAP Web Services Integration with Microsoft Scorch for VMware Automation, which includes creating, updating, and deleting major VMware components (VM, Disk, Port groups, LUN, Cluster, Host)
  • Interacted directly with customers on integration solutions and fixed or enhanced the queries posted both technically and functionally

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2009 - 09.2013
  • Developed a JAVA Web Application called ServiceMinds for building the Service Catalog Platform for TCS IDM (Integrated Data Management Platform) using JAVA Struts Framework
  • I integrated this ServiceMinds Web Application with the TCS In-House ticketing system and published it in the TCS Ultimatix Portal for End-User Computing
  • I worked on developing the PowerShell scripts for VMware provisioning using VMware APIs
  • I used BIRT Dashboard Reporting to create reports on virtual machine availability in VMware and manage the LUN storage capacity
  • Trained in Tivoli Service Request Management

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Velammal Engineering College
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
01.2008

Skills

  • AWS Cloud Formation
  • GCP Deployment Manager
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • AWS DevOps
  • GCP DevOps
  • Azure Classic DevOps
  • VMWare vRo Orchestration
  • SOAP Web Services
  • AWS API Gateway
  • REST API Integration
  • Core JAVA
  • Python
  • Power-Shell

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Timeline

Technical Architect

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 10.2023

Automation Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2017 - 09.2019

Development Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2013 - 09.2017

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2009 - 09.2013
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Velammal Engineering College
Kalanithi Manimaaran