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Saravanan Krishnamoorthy

Livermore

Summary

Results-oriented DevOps professional with 15+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, cloud operations, Developer Productivity, and Release Engineering. Successfully implements and manages end-to-end solutions, leads cross-functional teams, and drives process improvements. Expertise in working in a big data ecosystem for over 7 years, specializing in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead DevOps Engineer

General Motors
10.2023 - Current


  • Transformed CI/CD pipeline reliability by strategically managing infrastructure code for enhanced efficiency by 30%
  • Enhanced Databricks infrastructure security through proactive monitoring and rapid response measures
  • Streamlined infrastructure management with a strategic approach to Databricks and terraform refactoring
  • Implement and maintain monitoring and logging systems to ensure the reliability and performance of our Data platform
  • Designed and Managed infrastructure and application releases, reducing microservice change release duration from 3 weeks to 3 hours

Staff software engineer – DevOps

Rakuten Americas
08.2021 - 08.2023
  • Designed and implemented a Python based framework driven by configuration, improving the release process by 83%, from 3 hours to 30 mins
  • Improved software delivery speed, quality and reliability by defining and implementing DevOps strategies, practices, and processes
  • Established and maintained robust monitoring and logging solution, utilizing ELK Stack, Prometheus, GCP monitoring, Sensu
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, enabling automated deployment of microservices to Google kubernetes clusters

Lead DevOps Engineer

Cloudera
04.2016 - 08.2021
  • Worked with the team designing and implementing a robust Python based build framework, which was a shell-based script, improved the overall build performance by 68% which is from 8 hours to 2.5 hours
  • Utilized configuration management tools like Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and streamline configuration management
  • Migrated and setup Infrastructure as code for Jenkins server, also implemented a CICD process to deploy the changes
  • Containerizing legacy python-based applications and deploying it on a Kubernetes cluster

Senior DevOps Engineer

IAC Publishing Labs (Ask.com)
02.2014 - 04.2016
  • Setting up the maven repository management tool Nexus, to provide teams with records of every software version in use
  • Configured Jenkins to automatically build and deploy applications to staging machines, which eliminated the need for manual intervention
  • Set up Hudson jobs to automatically build applications for every check-in, which eliminated the need for engineers to kick off manual builds
  • Migrated source code from Subversion to GIT
  • Worked with the Site Infrastructure team and designed a framework to deploy applications to production using Chef
  • Wrote recipes and cookbooks to build and deploy applications using Chef
  • Wrote a framework to build RPM packages for various OS platforms

Configuration Mgmt. Engineer

Symantec Corporation
05.2012 - 01.2014
  • Maintained and Automated the builds usind tools like Jenkins, Perl and SVN
  • Coordinated with development teams to resolve merge conflicts
  • Responsible for software release cycles.

Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2007 - 04.2012

Education

B.E. - Mechatronics Engineering

Bharathiar University
01.2003

Skills

  • DevOps Methodologies
  • Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
  • AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Dataproc, Dataflow, Databricks
  • Pub/Sub, EventHub, Kafka
  • JFrog, Nexus
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Ansible, Chef, Terraform
  • Maven, Make, Gradle, Ant
  • RPM, DEB, YUM
  • Helm
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • ELK Stack, DataDog, Sensu, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Python, Perl, Shell, Ruby, C, C
  • GitLab, GitHub, SVN
  • Fortify, Sonar, Aqua, Black Duck

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Timeline

Lead DevOps Engineer

General Motors
10.2023 - Current

Staff software engineer – DevOps

Rakuten Americas
08.2021 - 08.2023

Lead DevOps Engineer

Cloudera
04.2016 - 08.2021

Senior DevOps Engineer

IAC Publishing Labs (Ask.com)
02.2014 - 04.2016

Configuration Mgmt. Engineer

Symantec Corporation
05.2012 - 01.2014

Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2007 - 04.2012

B.E. - Mechatronics Engineering

Bharathiar University
Saravanan Krishnamoorthy