Kaustubh Mali

Four years of experience in Software development industry with primary focus on Build, Release, and software configuration management.

Hands-on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments on cloud, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Possess comprehensive knowledge in container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes. Good understanding of SDLC with expertise on software Build/Release, Configuration management.

Skills

Programming Languages, Frameworks and Tools

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Languages: Python, Java, Bash
Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Vault, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, AWS, Jenkins
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, ELK
Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle
Cloud Providers AWS, GCP, Azure
Source Control: Git, AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, CVS
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

Work Experience

Container Solutions Inc. | Remote | Cloud Native Engineer

Skills: Python 路 Docker 路 Terraform 路 Ansible 路 Kubernetes 路 GCP 路 IAM 路 GKE 路 EKS

  • Teamed with 4 developers to manage the migration of a microservices to GKE, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% and improving application performance by 30%.
  • Developed and maintained terraform and ansible scripts and tools to manage GCP resources, resulting in a 25% reduction in manual effort and a 20% increase in resource utilization.
  • Implemented log aggregation and monitoring solutions using Datadog, enabling proactive identification and resolution of performance issues.
  • Developed Helm charts for the containerized version of the application running on-premise, deployed it to GKE cluster.
  • Integrated chat-bots like chat-terraform, chat-kubernetes, chat-policies using chatthing.ai in slack for company鈥檚 internal use. Trained the chat-bots by using different data sources like file, RSS, website.

December 2022 - September 2023
Intact Insurance | Mississauga, Ontario | Production Support | Project: CLPSS

Skills: Java 路 SQL 路 Tomcat 路 Maven 路 Docker 路 Jenkins 路 GitHub 路 RTC 路 Kubernetes

  • Responsible for 100% managing the utility tool for CLPSS used by business analyst team for gathering/updating required insurance forms for all the regions from the database.
  • Approx. 6x reduction in man hours needed to update multi regional insurance forms by adjusted existing design parameters to incorporate new 3 new features.
  • Eliminated 70% percent of manual work by creating/maintaining automated CICD pipelines for creating/updating docker images using Jenkins and deployed them into Kubernetes clusters.
  • Controlled source using GitHub and RTC Using Eclipse, RAD development environments. Developed server applications using WebSphere and Tomcat.

April 2021 - January 2022
Citi Bank | Toronto, Ontario | Application Programmer | Project: Balances Dashboard for Loans and Cash

Skills: REST APIs 路 Spring Boot 路 TeamCity 路 IBM UrbanCode Deploy (uDeploy) 路 Selenium 路 Java 路 Tomcat 路 MongoDB

  • Development of cloud hosted web applications and REST APIs using Spring Boot with embedded Tomcat. Extensively used core java concepts like Multithreading,
    Collections Framework, File I/o and concurrency.
  • Reduced session time by 33% by enabling API monitoring using Log4j to replace failing APIs due to CICS session timeout.
  • Enhanced authentication for Oracle and Mongo DB by introducing 24hr key-rotation using CyberArk.
  • Reduced manual effort in building and deploying microservice by introducing automated CICD pipelines using TeamCity and Udeploy.
  • Improved performance by 33% by identifying performance degradation using ELK stack.
  • Achieved 94% code coverage using Mocha and Selenium

April 2020 - April 2021
Cirtru | Mumbai, Maharashtra India | Linux System Administrator

Skills: Linux 路 Computer Hardware Installation/Troubleshooting 路 Kickstart 路 Shell Scripting 路 Nagios 路 LDAP 路 NFS 路 Samba

  • Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
  • Mass building of 48 Linux/Solaris servers using Kickstart and Jumpstart Automation Process.
  • Created Bash/Kron Shell scripts to monitor system resources and system maintenance, automatic user creation and file system monitoring
  • Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS, NIS in Linux and implemented Samba for sharing resources between Windows and Linux environments.
  • Managed operating systems using Nagios Monitoring Tool.
June 2015 - October 2016

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Terraform Associate
Vault Certified Operations Professional
Container & Kubernetes Essentials
Docker Essentials
Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift V2

Education

New York Institute of Technology | Vancouver, BC | Master of Science: Information, Networks and Cybersecurity July 2018
Mumbai University | Mumbai, India | Bachelor of Computer Engineering May 2015