Nishant Desai

DevOps Engineer

Currently

Cloud Engineer at Uncharted Software pioneering the Kubernetes transition from Docker Swarm, improving application lifecycle, evolving software systems to increase their reliability, monitoring application performance, and ensuring overall system health.

Tools and Technologies

API Gateway, Ansible, Auto-Scaling Groups, Apache, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Kinesis, AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS KMS, ChatOps (Slack), Cloud cost optimization, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail,Disaster recovery planning, Docker, DynamoDB, EC2, ElasticSearch, Elastic Block Store (EBS), ElastiCache, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Elastic File System (EFS), Git, HIPAA, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Jenkins, Kibana, Kubernetes, Lambda, Nagios, NewRelic, Pagerduty, Python, QRadar, RDS, Route 53, Rundeck, S3, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Terraform, TravisCI

Certifications and Accolades

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Occupation

2020-Current Uncharted Software, Toronto, ON

• Designed and implemented well-architected blueprints through Infrastructure as Code (Ansible & Terrarform) in AWS cloud environments for various Uncharted Software research projects including Terarium® (knowledge-modeling-simulation ecosystem built for researchers) and PanTera® (AI and visual analytics platform), handled outages through incident management processes, performed root cause analysis, maintained required SLAs (99.99%) through constantly evolving the infrastructure as needed, as well as provided support to cross-functional teams as needed during client support issues.

• Seamlessly integrated AWS Chatbot into Uncharted Software’s intricate workflow, elevating communication efficiency and imbuing our team with real-time intelligence at their fingertips.

• Orchestrated the integration of Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki into Uncharted Software’s sophisticated application environments, elevating our monitoring and logging capabilities to unparalleled heights, empowering us to navigate the digital landscape with insight and precision.

• Led initiatives to transition the organization from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, engaged the appropriate leadership, helped overcome challenges of local development through training and one-on-one sessions with developers.

2018-2020 IBM, Markham, ON

• Implemented, tested and monitored microservices in the datacenter cloud environments for Planning Analytics on Cloud platform. Performing continuous integration and delivery of new microservices, on-demand trouble shooting of large-scale deployment issues on Linux systems. Started and maintained How-To series of knowledge items, sharing acquired information about installation, integration and deployment for services on privately hosted and public clouds.

• Designed and implemented adaptive chatops framework for installation and customization of multitenant cloud environments and their integration with distributed data sources.

• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions at the server and application level in order to increase visibility into day-to-day operations and issues, utilizing NewRelic and Nagios.

• Led initiatives to transition critical software services into the Cloud and provided training for other employees on the Cloud transition process for other portions of the product/organization.

Projects

Truck Tracker, An open source Java Spring application that tracks random trucks through a particular area built on top of AWS using Kubernetes.

Simple Kubernetes, An open source React application that calculates the fibonacci sequence built using a kubernetes workflow on Google Cloud Platform.

Splink, An open source slackbot written in Node.js that helps manage infrastructure resources.