Parag Kale (SRE/DevSecOps)
Toronto,ON
Summary
Seasoned software engineer with 12+ years' experience adept in cloud and platform engineering, software development and technical leadership. Skilled in strategic thinking, I approach tasks with professionalism and a positive attitude, fostering teamwork and collaboration.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Walmart
Toronto
02.2023 - Current
- I strategize to minimize service disruption in Walmart's Cloud tech platforms through Operational Excellence, Incident, Change Management. Driving RCAs & outcomes.
- Building GEN AI capabilities catering to SRE by curating data to train models.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Coupa
Toronto
03.2019 - 01.2023
- Tech Lead for implementing SSO (Ping Federate, Keycloack), CI/CD & Platform Operations
- Program Lead for Cloud Cost Management
- Built Frameworks for cloud cost analysis & automation using Ruby & AWS to save $1.5 million
- Built Performance & Capacity planning frameworks for optimized resource utilization of SQL & Ruby on Rails applications on AWS EC2
- Implemented Cross Region Disaster Recovery for container based micro-services on AWS ECS
- Led chaos engineering resulting in On Call playbooks & building trust in platform resiliency & reliability
- Automated tech-debt using Python, Bash, Ruby
- Executed Platform Migration & Adoption for SSO systems
- Implemented SLO/SLI in Grafana/Prometheus/AWS Cloud-Watch for delivering 99.99% SLO
- Tuned Platform Scalability for AWS ECS based services for 99.99% monthly availability.
- Automated a zero downtime release using Rundeck, Ruby, Python, AWS ECS
- Executed Zero downtime blue green releases for SSO systems with a zero incident record.
- Resolved application security threats achieving the committed SLA of zero security vulnerability
- Architected Jenkins infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerant and system deployments
- 24*7 On Call. Performed Incident RCA
- Lead a team of 2 Engineers for 3 years.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
TomTom
Pune
07.2015 - 03.2019
- Adoption and Migration from Datacenter to AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, ALB etc.)
- Implemented Infra as code using Terraform, Packer, Puppet, Python, Shell for AWS
- Architected Network and Load Balancing for performance and high availability (HAProxy, API Gateway, Kong, AWS LB, VPN, VPC)
- Architected Network Security (AWS WAF, Security Groups, AWS Shield,AWS Guard Duty, Security Monkey)
- Contributed to System and Application Monitoring (Kibana, Cloudwatch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Developed Configuration management using Puppet
- Built Pipelines for CI/CD using Jenkins, Spinnaker
- Executed Chaos Testing for system reliability (Bash and Python)
- Operations for ELK platform, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Java Apps
- Automation using Python, Bash
- Built automation for cloud cost management
- 24*7 On call. Contributor to RCA.
- Performed production release for Java based Applications
Software Engineer
Symantec
Pune, India
06.2014 - 06.2015
- Contributed as a python/django backend developer for web applications that dealt with MDM for carriers like IOS, Android, MS.
Software Engineer
Blue Jeans Networks
Banglore
07.2010 - 05.2014
- Created and managed Microsoft Outlook scheduling Addin in C# and .Net, overseeing end-to-end development, testing, packaging, and release for 50+ customers.
- Contributor for developing highly available, fault tolerant hybrid cloud for hosting Audio/Video conferencing solutions using C/C++/Python
- Built and Developed Puppet/Chef platform and scripts
- Hands On Linux System Administration work
- On Call and Incident Management
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Pune Institue of Computer Technology
India05-2010
Skills
- AWS (Expert), Azure (Intermediate)
- Terraform, Cloud Formation (Infra as Code)
- Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes
- Grafana, ELK, Prometheus (Observability)
- Python, Bash, GO (beginner)
- Chef, Puppet
- Jenkins, Rundeck (CI/CD)
- SRE principles (Resiliency, High availability, Stability)
- Cloud Architecture, Design, Operations
- Performance and Chaos Engineering
- Networking and Security
- Incident, Change, Release & Cost Management
- Team Leadership, Mentorship
- Project Management
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Timeline
Senior Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Walmart
02.2023 - Current
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Coupa
03.2019 - 01.2023
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
TomTom
07.2015 - 03.2019
Software Engineer
Symantec
06.2014 - 06.2015
Software Engineer
Blue Jeans Networks
07.2010 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Pune Institue of Computer Technology
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