TEJAS GAIKWAD

Highly accomplished DevOps Engineer
Pune, IN.

About

Highly accomplished DevOps Engineer with 5 years of IT experience, specializing in architecting and implementing robust cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation solutions across AWS and Azure environments. Proven ability to enhance system scalability, reliability, and security through best practices and advanced tooling, driving efficient and high-performing cloud operations.

Work

Forgeahead Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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DevOps Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Summary

Led comprehensive DevOps initiatives across three major cloud projects (Azure, AWS LightSail, AWS Enterprise Infra), focusing on CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure automation, and cloud service management to enhance system scalability, reliability, and security.

Highlights

Architected and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions across Azure and AWS, automating deployments and facilitating a significant migration from Bitbucket to GitHub to enhance release efficiency.

Managed and optimized critical Azure services including VMs, ACR, ACA, Storage, Key Vault, and MySQL Flexible Server, alongside AWS infrastructure such as EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lightsail, ensuring high availability and scalability.

Automated infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and shell scripting, integrating comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions with Azure Alerts, Grafana, and custom scripts for proactive system health management.

Secured application portals by integrating Azure AD B2C for robust authentication, configured Application Load Balancers for high availability, and managed complex networking (VPC, DNS, subnets, NAT, security groups) to fortify cloud environments.

Optimized application performance through dynamic scaling policies, load balancing, and environment tuning on AWS, while conducting AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews to implement improvements in reliability and cost-effectiveness.

Altruist Technology Pvt. Ltd.
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Network Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Summary

Configured, troubleshot, and monitored complex WAN/LAN networks and security systems, ensuring robust connectivity and data integrity for diverse organizational needs.

Highlights

Configured and troubleshot a range of Cisco switches (4500, 3850, 3750G, 2960X), ensuring optimal network performance and reliability.

Implemented and managed network protocols including STP, VLAN, VTP, Routing, ACLs, NAT, and HSRP to maintain secure and efficient data flow.

Administered pfSense firewall, OpenVPN, DHCP, DNS, and Windows Server, strengthening network security and service availability.

Monitored WAN/LAN networks using PRTG, proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and outages.

Performed rigorous failover testing and system backups, ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

Education

University of Solapur
Solapur, Maharashtra, India

Bachelor of Engineering

Computer Science

Awards

'Pat on the Back' award

Awarded By

Forgeahead Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Received the 'Pat on the Back' award twice for Excellence in Customer Service, recognizing consistent top performance and significant contributions.

Languages

English
Hindi
Marathi

Certificates

AWS Well-Architected Proficient

Issued By

AWS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Issued By

AWS

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Issued By

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Issued By

Microsoft

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Issued By

AWS

Skills

DevOps & CI/CD

CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Container Orchestration, Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Ingress, Kubernetes Manifests.

Monitoring & Alerting

Grafana, Kibana, Nagios, Azure Alerts, PRTG.

Scripting & Operating Systems

Shell Scripting, Bash, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Windows Server.

Networking & Databases

VPC, Load Balancers, DNS, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cisco Switches (4500, 3850, 3750G, 2960X), STP, VLAN, VTP, Routing, ACLs, NAT, HSRP, pfSense Firewall, OpenVPN, DHCP.

Web Technologies

WordPress.

Cloud Platforms

AWS, Azure, AWS Lightsail, AWS S3, AWS EC2, AWS RDS, AWS CloudFront, AWS Route 53, AWS ALB, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS IAM, AWS ElastiCache, AWS VPC, Azure VMs, Azure ACR, Azure ACA, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure AD B2C.

Interests

Traveling
Trekking
Music