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Tushar Raichand

Senior DevOps Engineer
Copenhagen, Denmark

Summary

A highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with 9 years of expertise in designing, implementing, and managing complex cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Strong problem-solving skills, a passion for continuous improvement, and a commitment to maintaining high availability and resilience in production environments. Proven track record in leading DevOps initiatives, mentoring junior engineers, and driving operational excellence to support business goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tactile Games
4 2023 - Current
  • Improved CD process by introducing a CD tool i.e Octopus Deploy, which also added a much needed quick rollback functionality
  • Managed CI pipelines for Node.js and React.js based applications
  • Lead migration of on-prem hosted servers to datacenter, with minimum downtime
  • Designed and implemented solution for centralized password management with 1password tool
  • Reviewed cloud spend on GCP and cut down cost by approx $70k annually
  • Automated setup of the on-prem MacOS machines using Ansible, which earlier took 2 days to setup cutting down time to 1 hour
  • Collaborating with developers and coaching them on code security and deployment best practices
  • Collaborated with testers to integrate automated testing with CI/CD pipelines
  • Migrated applications running on on-prem infrastructure to Kubernetes
  • Improved monitoring and alerting on Datadog to catch issues and errors as quickly as possible
  • Hosted and managed tools like Airflow, Octopus, Fleet etc on GCP cloud
  • Deployed self hosted Circle CI runners to reduce pipeline runtime by 80% on bare metal self hosted machines
  • Deploying and managing databases like Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Senior Devops Engineer

Dunnhumby
06.2020 - 03.2023
  • Coached and mentored other teammates and lead many projects with a team of 3-4 members.
  • Maintained/Enhanced Gitlab CI pipeline for deployment of base infra and tools.
  • Upgraded GKE clusters regularly.
  • Developed and managed terraform code responsible for deploying base infrastructure on GCP.
  • Management of tools responsible for ingestion of data.
  • Migrated Google DNS to Cloudflare.
  • Implemented DevSecOps by using Trivy tool.
  • Fixing vulnerabilities detected by Cloudgaurd(dome9).
  • Making CI pipelines run quicker by 30%.
  • Wrote multiple scripts on Shell, Python, Powershell languages.
  • Creating and Managing helm code for Kubernetes resource deployment.
  • Created an automation which destroy and provisions all resources with product deployments on GCP on demand/on schedule.
  • Centralized whitelisting of security domains with squid.

Cloud Automation Engineer

HCL Technologies
01.2019 - 05.2020
  • Wrote many scripts in python to automate various reports in AWS using boto3 module and Jenkins.
  • Used selenium package in python to download trusted advisor reports in all AWS accounts.
  • Created python script to fetch and create report of all IAM users on all the client’s AWS accounts.
  • Wrote many scripts in powershell to automate various reports in Azure using Azure Runbooks.
  • Created a powershell script to fetch and create a report which lists all the users on all VM’s of a given subscription on Azure.
  • Create a powershell script to fetch and create a report which list all the users of a Subscription.

Devops Engineer

DXC Technology
09.2015 - 09.2018
  • Developed CI/CD pipeline which creates, manages AWS resources and deployed the application on Production.
  • Developed python scripts for REST API calls.
  • Used terraform for provisioning AWS resources and for configuration management.
  • Integrated Jenkins with GIT and used to create a pipeline which deployed the code continuously on Production. Seamless deployments on production without any downtime to application.
  • Deployed an application on docker container on Elastic Container service on AWS.
  • Tasks being assigned and working on them in a organised way.
  • Various scripts written in shell for deployments.
  • Worked on AWS cloud for provisioning the infra for the Jaspersoft Application using ECS and many other resources.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

JIMS, Guru Gobind Singh University
01.2012 - 04.2015

Skills

Terraform

GCP

Kubernetes

Helm

Python

Bash

Gitlab CI

Jenkins

Octopus CD

Cloudflare

Docker

AWS

CI/CD

GIT

JIRA

Agile

Ansible

Circle CI

Networking

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate(2020)

Timeline

Senior Devops Engineer

Dunnhumby
06.2020 - 03.2023

Cloud Automation Engineer

HCL Technologies
01.2019 - 05.2020

Devops Engineer

DXC Technology
09.2015 - 09.2018

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

JIMS, Guru Gobind Singh University
01.2012 - 04.2015

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tactile Games
4 2023 - Current
Tushar RaichandSenior DevOps Engineer