ABOUT ME

A little about me.

“Hello there!”

My name is Vikas and I'm an IT professional. My life revolves around my family & my friends and is dominated by computers.

I am an experienced DevOps Engineer, I've been automating cloud infrastructure for more than a decade now and absolutely love it. I love to automate anything and everything which comes my way. Before juggling cloud resources, I was a Unix Administrator which helped me to dig into various opensource softwares to make my life easy. Other than Cloud and Unix, I have also exposed myself to VMWare ESXi and a little bit to Windows System Administration.

I just love fixing issues (this might sound strange to few). In college days, I never thought that one day I would enjoy my nerdy life more than anything else.

In my leisure time, I love to read technical blogs, visit forums, try out different opensource softwares, play squash, and sleep :) .

MY SKILLS

In what I'm good .

Linux System Administration

Docker

Kubernetes

Configuration Management Tools – Ansible

Technical Documentation

Cloud Computing - Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure

Programming - Bash, Python, Go

Disaster or Bare Metal Recovery Solutions

Web/Proxy Servers - Nginx, Traefik, Apache

This is not all, I have a lot more to offer, please get in touch with me to know more about my capabilities.

EDUCATION

My academic life.

Just another student !

I just loved Mathematics and Computer Science, other than these subjects I was just an average student.

Sports is worth mentioning here, I was pretty active in this arena, had represented my school in games like Volleyball and Football.

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Engineering)	2002 - 2006
Jamia Millia Islamia
Senior Secondary School (Science)	2000 - 2001
Guru Harkrishan Public School
Secondary School	1998 - 1999
Canterbury Public School

EMPLOYMENT

Work experience.

Senior Kubernetes Engineer - May 2020 - Present

Telstra

Telstra is Australia's largest mobile network that provides users with mobile phones, internet plans and packages, home phones & more.

Senior DevOps Consultant - Mar 2020 - May 2020

Rackspace

Rackspace Inc. is an American managed cloud computing company based in USA and has a comprehensive portfolio of managed services across applications, data, security and infrastructure on the world’s leading cloud platforms terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

National Australia Bank

National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers.

DevOps Engineer - Aug 2016 - Jun 2019

Telstra

Telstra is Australia's largest mobile network that provides users with mobile phones, internet plans and packages, home phones & more.

Consultant - Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Application System Engineer - July 2014 - Mar 2017

WorkForce Software

WorkForce Software founded in 1999 has been developing workforce management solutions for various organisations in North America, Australia and Europe. They have offerings for both cloud based (SaaS) and on-prem customers.

Associate Consultant - July 2010 - Feb 2014

HCL Technologies Ltd - IOMC

HCL's IOMC division provides end-to-end enterprise IT infrastructure solutions and offer remote infrastructure management to customers round the globe.

Senior Engineer – Tech. Support- June 2009 - June 2010

Comviva Technologies Limited

Comviva is a leading organization providing mobile financial and Value Added Servies (VAS) solutions in Africa and Middle East regions.

System Administrator (UNIX)- April 2008 - June 2009

Orange Business Services

Orange Business Services is a global IT and mobile communications services provider, with services in 220 countries. Its customers scale up to 231 million worldwide.

Life after college

Since beginning of my professional life (even college life too), I have been involved in system administration of Unix and few Windows servers. Within few days, I had fallen for the black screen and Unix prompt. I guess, the tendency to try out difficult things and troubleshooting systems pushed me towards Unix.

I have worked at various levels in nearly every aspect of Unix system administration, from starting out as a trainee to level three support and a team lead as well.

In 2013, I got introduced to the world of cloud and container technologies and fell in love with the ease of managing infrastructure through code. I am a proud and seasoned Cloud and Docker/Kubernetes engineer.

Please visit my LinkedIn profile or contact me to know more about my roles and responsibilities.