Vysakh Venugopal

As a DevOps Architect consultant for real estate organization, designed the CICD processes and pipelines using

AWS DevOps tools.

Re-architected the existing infrastructure on GCP for a fintech based startup to enhance scalability, security, while

creating isolated lower-level environments to establish DevOps best practices including setting up CI/CD pipelines.

Segregated & re-architected the product environments into development, staging & production.

Analyzed GCP services, their utilization and the cost, prepared measures to reduce the monthly billing effectively by around 20%.

Implemented backup & DR for critical infra components.

Re-architected the backend services to start making use of serverless services from GCP & Azure to increase system efficiency.

Re-designed & implemented the CI/CD process and pipelines for a better DevOps approach increasing the productivity of the dev team.

Implemented Azure Resource Manager & Traffic Manager for routing the user requests based on the geo-location to different origins.

Incorporated security best practices in GCP, enhancing the overall security posture with IAM, SCC, VPN, WAF, Armor, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Implemented MongoDB with sharding at on-premises and did migration from Atlas cloud.

Working closely with the pre-sales team in helping customers leverage public cloud infrastructure and services by understanding business, product, and technical challenges

Lead an efficient team of engineers to build highly available & resilient systems with CI/CD.

Fostered the team to incorporate security enhancements at all levels of the infrastructure.

Migrating on-premise servers to Azure using Azure Migrate & setup DR using Azure Site Recovery for a Core Banking Systems client.

Completed the migration of 80 TB of data from on-premises NAS storage to AWS S3 storage.

Assessed the application and its dependencies, current deployment on AWS & re-architected the environments from scratch as the Managed Services Provider team lead.

Managed and mentored multiple team members, fostering their professional development and ensuring adherence to best practices.

Orchestrated cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project execution, efficient implementation by reviewing and optimizing cost & security of cloud solutions.

AWS Certified Architect with MRA certification, worked on RFPs, architected migration, designed target infrastructure, security enhancements.

Experienced in preparing BOM for customers along with the TCO calculations. Worked on multiple RFPs as the requirements are released by clients.

Skilled in understanding customer pain points, architecting migration, designing target infrastructure, and explaining solutions to clients.

Designed Azure infrastructure with services including VNet, VM, AKS, Traffic Manager, CDN, DBaaS, Azure Blob Storage, User, group privileges & RBAC setup etc.

Worked closely with the security team to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with industry standards & security enhancements.

Designed and managed AWS infrastructure for high-traffic and high-availability applications enabling 98% uptime.

Collaborate closely with pre-sales team and customer to tailor solutions to their requirements by performing proof of concepts when necessary.

Developed effective security solutions leveraging AWS services such as IAM, WAF, KMS, CloudTrail, etc., and actively participated in resolving security incidents.

Skilled in maintaining infrastructure with Terraform, crafting modular structures for EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC resources, managing state files in S3, and utilizing GitHub for version control.

Worked on AWS IAAS Cloud.

Conducted research, POC & production implementation of solutions for issues within Windows Server and AWS services.

Suggested and implemented cost/performance/security updates on AWS, including DR and backup/restore mechanisms.

Implementation & management of Azure infrastructure services like VM, Database, Active Directory, Network, S2S VPN, IAM etc.

Managed multiple projects with client-facing roles and led teams with multiple members.

Completed on-site project 'Tightening Database Security', conducted POC & production implementation, cost/performance/security updates on AWS.