Chhitiz Anand

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Oct 2020 - Dec 2023

  ● Resolved critical production incidents promptly, ensuring high system availability and minimizing business impact.● Automated routine server maintenance tasks, liberating valuable team resources for strategic initiatives.● Engineered and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment errors and automating end-to-end processes.● Established Kubernetes Ingress and controllers from scratch, optimizing application routing and resource allocation.● Fostered collaboration among cross-functional teams to seamlessly deliver projects in an Agile environment.● Conducted training on CI/CD best practices, fostering team autonomy in workflow management.● Configured comprehensive application monitoring setups using Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring detailed performance metrics.● Supported disaster recovery planning and execution to ensure business continuity.● Showcased impressive success in planning, building, configuring, releasing, anddeploying applications across multiple environments.● Constructed a continuous integration & deployment pipeline using Jenkins, enhancingdelivery mechanisms.● Authored Docker files for creating Docker images to be used in applicationdeployment.● Managed a source code repository using GIT, ensuring version control and dataintegrity.● Executed deployments using ArgoCD, optimizing continuous delivery processes.● Oversaw POD management in the EKS Cluster, enhancing container orchestration.● Integrated code quality tools like Sonarqube, ensuring high standards of code health.● Implemented security analysis tools like WASP Dependency checks, strengtheningapplication security.● Developed high-level documentation detailing installation & configuration processes.● Provided support during P1 issue resolutions during critical deliveries/releases,ensuring operational stability.●Utilized Terraform to provision resources on AWS, optimizing infrastructuredeployment. Show less ● Implemented AWS Lambda functions to manage EBS snapshots, slashing storage costs by 25% and reducing application downtime by 15%, significantly enhancing performance.● Mentored junior DevOps engineers and spearheaded code reviews to promote continuous learning and boost team performance.● Directed scrum and sprint planning using JIRA, ensuring projects were completed on schedule and streamlined delivery processes.● Dramatically reduced new feature deployment time from 4 hours to 10 minutes through advanced end-to-end CI/CD implementations.● Deployed and managed microservices across ECS and Kubernetes on AWS, significantly boosting system responsiveness and user satisfaction.● Integrated SNS, S3, and Lambda to elevate application notifications and workflow efficiency.● Administered and optimized source code management and deployments using Jenkins in EC2, ECS, and Kubernetes environments.● Orchestrated a robust microservice architecture with load balancing and auto-scaling, achieving up to 95% resource utilization.● Enhanced system scalability and availability by migrating applications to Kubernetes and implementing advanced load-balancing techniques.● Streamlined CI/CD operations through effective containerization and orchestration, significantly improving delivery speed and reliability.● Managed Linux EC2 instance configurations, including user creation and access control, to secure system integrity.● Earned commendation for resolving critical AWS VPC and network peering issues, thus improving network stability.● Conducted in-depth resource allocation and utilization analysis, achieving a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs while maintaining optimal performance.● Optimized Java-based CI/CD pipelines using Maven, reducing build times by 20%.● Provisioned and configured AWS infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring robust andhigh-performance setups. Show less ● AWS Cloud & DevOps Proficiency: As a fresher, I was introduced to AWS cloud services, microservices, CI/CD, Jenkins, and Linux.● Gained insights into the Banking and Financial Sector Domain through collaboration with Deutsche Bank.● SDLC Proficiency: Learned the SDLC process from design to production.● Managed Change Management and Incident Management tickets effectively raised by users on the service desk portal.● Efficient Weekend Maintenance & Automation: Performed weekend maintenance, reducing security update deployment time by 25%.● Automated system deployments by 40%, optimizing manual labor.● Streamlined Deployment & Monitoring Solutions: Improved Enterprise Archives deployment process and implemented RMG monitoring system.● Architected Build, Deploy, Test, and Report Management pipelines for efficiency.● Promoted Leadership & Enhanced Performance: Promoted to DevOps and Cloud Engineer, representing the team in Gurgaon.● Enhanced app performance with HP ALM testing tools and developed effective test cases and plans aligned with requirements.● Innovative System Design & Successful Project Deliveries: Designed a secure VPC internal network for a real-time server health monitoring application across multiple environments within private subnets with IAM policies to grant read permissions to users based on their access needs, considering environment and roles.● Led educational sessions on CI/CD and automation, empowering team members to enhance their workflows.● Added a Linux VM as an agent for running pipelines, and enhancing build and deployment processes.● Utilized the JIRA tool for effective ticket tracking and project management.● Led multiple successful releases for the Deutsche Bank CRD application. 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  • DevOps and Cloud Engineer.

    Sept 2022 - Dec 2023

  • DevOps Engineer.

    Jan 2022 - Sept 2022

  • System Engineer

    Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
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  Upwork

  Dec 2023 - Jun 2024

  AWS DevOps Consultant/Mentor

  ● Architected and deployed robust AWS infrastructure using services like EC2, ECS, EKS etc, achieving 20% cost savings and 15% performance enhancement.● Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible, increasing deployment speed by 30% and reducing errors by 40%.● Led training sessions on DevOps and Cloud architecture and DevOps best practices,boosting team efficiency by 25% and earning positive client feedback for timelydelivery.● Consulted on cloud infrastructure setup, security, and cost optimization, reducing cloud expenses by 20% and increasing organizational profit by 10%.● Optimized and monitored cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ensuring 99.99% uptime.● Collaborated with development teams to implement CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes, accelerating release cycles by 50%.● Mentored over 20 students and professionals, successfully guiding freshers and experienced individuals transitioning into DevOps and Cloud roles, significantlyenhancing their career prospects and receiving positive feedback for impactful mentorship. Show less

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  LogiQuad Solutions

  Jul 2024 - now

  Senior DevOps | AWS Infrastructure Architect