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SASHIDHAR M

SASHIDHAR M

The Hague

Summary

  • 15+ years experience in Platform Engineering and Data Engineering, specializing in Architectural Design for the development of robust, scalable, and high-performance systems.
  • Experience of working at client site with multi-cultural teams in Australia, Europe, Middle East & USA.
  • Expertise in analyzing and understanding stakeholder's requirements and translating them into tailormade technical solutions.
  • FinOps and DevSecOps expert and advocate for GitOps adoption.
  • Generative AI on Azure Open AI services certified and Salesforce certified AI associate certified and Azure AI 900 Trained.
  • AWS expertise with Automation in IAC with Terraform, AWS CDK and AWS native CICD services and containerization of artifacts and their orchestration using Kubernetes.
  • Demonstrated aptitude to learn and implement new tools and technologies quickly.
  • Ability to deliver exceptional results independently and as part of a team.
  • Recognized for reliability, exceptional planning, and communication skills, consistently taking ownership and exceeding expectations to ensure successful task completion.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Platform Engineer

Wipro
The Hague
02.2021 - 01.2024
  • Migration of on-premises Teradata platform to AWS redshift based with AWS DMS and SCT
  • Redshift Expert: optimizing performance of redshift and cost reduction by implementing mutiple best practices Alarms and Alerts, Auto Encode, Alembic best practices, educating on SQL query best practices
  • As a member Core team contributed to updation of core infra repository, created stack sets to deploy CloudFormation stacks across multiple accounts within T-Mobile to ensure consistency
  • Expertise in Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning, implementing AWS Operational best practices, Security hardening, Deployment through CICD pipeline and Cost Optimization
  • Built Cloud intelligence dashboards - CUDOS dashboards to show monthly comparative view of account wise and service wise spend and utilize its optics explorer feature to find the exact target to focus to plan and take actions to reduce costs
  • Designed and developed the data pipelines for ingesting data from MySQL server, batch file sources, salesforce using DMS, Data Sync, AWS Appflow services respectively AWS native CICD services, Glue jobs and Lambda, target being Redshift increasing data processing efficiency by 40%
  • Designed and implemented Tess mirror - application which copies data tables from on prem Teradata servers to AWS redshift making use of the S3 event trigger, Lambda, dynamo dB, step function and event bridge services
  • Successfully completed POC multiple use cases using snowflake like migrating Data from S3 to snowflake, tactical dashboards to be directly generated using snowflake dashboard feature, CDC to Snowflake using snow pipe
  • Started working on Gen AI based POC aimed at increasing engagement through proactive notifications and personalized offerings better suited to their usage patterns
  • Developed data pipeline for ThoughtSpot dashboard using AWS CICD services, redshift, glue jobs to generate end to end commercial Fiber rollout visibility dashboard for T mobile: all commercial KPI's: commercial sales, customer base, churn etc
  • Worked on optimizing calculation methodology of quarterly IFRS payment report T-Mobile Fiber infrastructure partners
  • Implemented CIDs trusted advisor and Compute optimizer's recommendations and taking action on the idle resources identified by it and also downsized Ec2 instance of RDS from M5.Xlarge to M5 large
  • Cloud intelligence dashboards to gain insights into project spending patterns and designed project specific custom reports to plan targeted cost optimization
  • Lake formation admin handling permissions for qualified and sensitive qualified tables enabling role-based Athena querying
  • Hands on AWS Cloud Architecture with expertise in deriving and showcasing analytical and business insights from data through market leading tools like Power BI and ThoughtSpot.

AWS Senior Cloud Engineer

Accenture
Hyderabad
05.2017 - 01.2021
  • Offshore tower lead in Kellogg managing multipe SAP modules delivery ensuring successfull execution of $1.3 Billion divesture of Keebler cookie division to Ferrero Rocher
  • Have setup SonarQube in NextGenAnalytics platform to handle security vulnerabilities, improve code quality and execute other SAST use cases
  • Worked on permission boundaries, service control policies ensuring least privilege principles are followed
  • FastK Application developed for internal usage in Kellogg using AWS microservices platform with Amplify, Cognito, Route 53, Node js and API Gateway
  • Worked on data security using resource-based policies ensuring Buckets, lambda's and EBS are encrypted with KMS
  • Implemented multiple config rules both aws managed and custom rules on services like encryption on EBS, S3 restriction of SSH access on security groups
  • Configuring and managing Datadog agents along with collecting, and acting upon metrics, logs, and traces
  • Installation of Argo CD on cluster to enable EKS cluster deployments completely from Argo CD in Gitops way
  • Was part of Kellogg Cloud migration CCOE, migrated the SAP applications to AWS and SAS applications to Azure Cloud
  • Received multiple appreciation from Kellogg IT directors on delivery excellence.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Wipro
Hyderabad
03.2014 - 05.2017
  • Provisioning AWS services and enabling application change testing by deploying cloud services provisioned through Terraform
  • Migrated existing AWS infrastructure components to terraform through planned import
  • Worked on Docker along with designing and maintaining Kubernetes manifests
  • Helping developers build, containerize their applications, scaling, maintaining, and deploying the application containers on OpenShift hosted on AWS Cloud
  • Utilized Helm charts for efficient and reproducible application deployments, streamlining the release process and ensuring consistency
  • Handled the RBAC tasks including creating roles, role bindings, and service accounts to control access to Kubernetes resources
  • Updated network security policies within kubenetes cluster
  • Adhoc Metrics addition to Premethius and tracking and monitoring metrics them through Grafana.

Education

PGBLP - Business Management

School Of Inspired Leadership
Gurgaon India
05-2011

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Nalanda Institute of Engineering And Technology
Guntur, India
05-2007

Skills

  • Programming Languages : Base SAS, Advance SAS, Python, PySpark, SQL
    Databases : My SQL , AWS and Azure database services, Snowflake
    AWS services : AWS Control tower, Landing Zone, Step Function, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, DMS, SCT, Event Bridge, API Gateway, AWS native CICD services, Route 53, AWS Cost Explorer, AwsTrustedadvisor, Lakeformation,Lambda, Athena, Azure Migrate, AWS CICD services, AWS CDK, AWS cost and usage report
    Other Technologies/Tools : Alembic, ThoughtSpot, Collibra, Databricks, Terraform, Ansible Docker, Openshift container platform (kubernetes) , Gitlab , Helm, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Datadog, Power BI, SAS BI end to end stack, SAS platform and Grid Admin

Certification

  • SAS Certified Specialist -Base Programming using SAS 9.4
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
  • MS Azure fundamentals AZ-900
  • Wipro Int Generative AI certified
  • Salesforce certified AI associate

Visa Status

US Business Visa valid till June 2029 | Netherlands long-term work permit till March 2025

Previous experiece

Project: IDW Decommissioning, Sydney, Australia | Client: Suncorp |Role: AWS Consultant

Project: Schlumberger Master Data Management, Dubai, UAE |Client: Schlumberger|Role: Team Lead

Project: Arogyasrhree, RSBY, New Delhi, India | Client: SAS India | Role : Consultant

Timeline

Senior Platform Engineer

Wipro
02.2021 - 01.2024

AWS Senior Cloud Engineer

Accenture
05.2017 - 01.2021

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Wipro
03.2014 - 05.2017

PGBLP - Business Management

School Of Inspired Leadership

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Nalanda Institute of Engineering And Technology
SASHIDHAR M