AASISH SUDARSANAN

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (7 years)

Key Achievements/Projects

  • KCC (Kubernetes Context Changer) Open Source: Developed a Go-based CLI to help SREs and cluster administrators switch between multiple K8s contexts, effectively solving the problem of executing multiple kubectl commands to manage contexts.
  • Single Pitstop DevOps Dashboard (Infosys, Liberty Global): Built a Python Flask application with modules like NumPy and Plotly to develop a unified dashboard that displays comprehensive DevOps metrics, such as build success rates, releases, and deployments, for a shared DevOps environment utilized by 20 internal applications.
  • Kubernetes Cluster Migration to EKS (VMware, Tanzu): Led the migration of Kubernetes workloads to AWS EKS clusters, without any downtime or business impact.
  • Blue-Green Deployment for Multi-Cloud Distribution (VMware, Tanzu): Utilized Blue-Green Deployment on a Multi-Cloud Distribution Platform to improve application resilience to changes, resulting in reduced business disruption.
  • Personal Hybrid Cloud Environment: Built a micro hybrid cloud environment for exploring new technologies and self-hosting services.

Work Experience

Senior Platform and Infrastructure Engineer | Arctic Wolf India

Bangalore, India Nov 2024 – Present

  • Building and maintaining Backstage platform for enhanced developer experience across engineering teams.
  • Designing and implementing CI/CD frameworks and tooling to streamline development workflows.
  • Developing infrastructure systems and automation to improve Engineering Developer Experience.

Research & Development Software Engineer | Broadcom Inc.

Bangalore, India Nov 2023 – Oct 2024

  • Engineered solutions to streamline the migration of Tanzu releases to the Broadcom RMT platform, reducing migration efforts by 30%.
  • Managed on-call rotations, swiftly resolving system incidents and performance issues, contributing to a 99.9% uptime SLA.
  • Developed an internal dashboard application using the Flask framework, improving visibility and tracking of qualification statuses for a SaaS platform, which accelerated decision-making by 20%.

Member of Technical Staff 2 | VMware India Ltd.

Bangalore, India Jan 2022 - Nov 2023

  • Led a zero-downtime migration of production Kubernetes workloads from on-premises to EKS clusters, enhancing scalability to support peak traffic of 40,000 download sessions per hour.
  • Improved the CI/CD process by integrating advanced alerting and monitoring tools and migrating Helm deployments to a GitOps model, reducing deployment errors by 25%.
  • Designed and implemented secure database backup and restore pipelines for production environments, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and achieving a 100% recovery success rate.

Senior Systems Engineer | Infosys Ltd.

Bangalore, India Mar 2020 – Dec 2021

  • Streamlined the transition of legacy applications to DevOps standards, reducing deployment time by 40% through a centralized DevOps platform for lifecycle management.
  • Led the containerization and deployment efforts, successfully migrating over 10 applications to Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, enhancing scalability and resilience.

Systems Engineer | Infosys Ltd.

Bangalore, India Dec 2018– Mar 2020

  • Enhanced the CI/CD pipeline for a CRM web application by contributing to the Jenkins Groovy framework, reducing deployment time by 20%.
  • Designed and implemented Ansible playbook-based templates for disaster recovery of an Oracle LDAP server cluster, improving recovery time by 50% and ensuring high availability.

Core Skills

  • Frameworks: Flask, Cobra, Spring Boot
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MongoDB
  • Observability: New Relic APM, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Programming Languages: Python, Go, Java, Shell
  • Infrastructure/Networking: AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware
  • Platform Engineering: Linux VMs, Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, OpenShift, CloudFoundry
  • DevOps: Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Jfrog, Harbor, Concourse, GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines
  • Site Reliability Engineering: Incident Management, RCA, Automation & Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Capacity Planning & Scaling

Education

  • MS in Computer Science
    IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
    (In Progress) 2023 - 2025

  • Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    Kerala University, India
    2014-2018

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals
    Microsoft Cloud Certification, 2019

  • UX Design Fundamentals
    California Institute of Arts