Aparna (Senior Software Engineer-DevOps)

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnajha
GitHub - https://github.com/Aparna31
Email Id aparna.jha404@gmail.com Contact Address
Contact No +91-821-788-6274 , +91-991-699-8811 215-C Pocket 1 , Mayur Vihar Phase 1,
Passport No M0817222 valid up to 2024 Delhi - 110091
Date of Birth 31-Dec-1989

Objective
Certified Scrum master (CSM), ITIL Professional seeking a position in DevOps/IT Operations where I can apply my
experience and expertise within IT Infrastructure Management and utilize DevOps practices to ensure effective
communication and collaboration between departments. I strive to ensure my team is always working on
automating manual tasks. Strive to identify “Waits” and look for ways to speed up teams through DevOps
Principals. I am looking to build an effective team of professionals utilizing my extensive knowledge of best
practices, troubleshooting skills, Automation and work ethics and help fill communication and knowledge gaps
between Development and IT departments. I have a high desire to apply my extensive knowledge across
Development, QA and IT areas including Management.
Summary
Obtain a challenging leadership position seeking managerial/semi managerial role applying creative problem
solving and fine management skills with a growing company to achieve optimum utilization of its resources and
maximum profits. Adding to it ,having worked as a specialist in DevOps space with latest platforms and tools and
having about 5 year’s experience. Experience across large organisations and complex scenarios of enterprise cloud
use cases covering Continuous Deliveries, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud Management. Worked extensively
on Chef and “Infrastructure as a Code” concepts. Plays major role in managing the delivery along with people
management contributor keeping the Agile and scrum intact.
Technical Qualifications
 Completed Bachelor of Engineering in (C.S.) from V.T.U., Bangalore in 2012
Academic Qualifications
 AISSCE from NIOS.
 AISSE from Indian Public School, Madhubani affiliated to CBSE.

 Professional Summary Years of Total Industry Experience: 5 Years

Previous Organization: Envestnet Yodlee - Since Jan 2016 to March 2017

Current Location: Bangalore
Designation: Senior Software Engineer - DevOps
Responsibility:  Supported SaaS projects and automated project workflow services.
 Analyzed and resolved issues in application deployment activities.
 Suggested and implemented workflows for operational efficiency.
 Formulated and executed monitoring strategies for application services.
 Participated in understanding of business requirements and release schedules.
 Created procedures for verification and merging of application code.
 Generated and reported project status and updated to seniors.
 Maintained application releases and reviewed all software modifications.
 AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.
 Lead the design and implementation of Secure Cloud applications and features.
 Proactively participate in every aspect of the entire software development
lifecycle of feature development, including input on specifications, designs,
implementation, test design, test implementation, optimization, and delivery.
 Research the latest in Amazon and Automation technologies, ensuring best
 practices are continuously brought into the company for continuous
improvement.
 Participate in peer code reviews, knowledge sharing, and SCRUM meetings.
 Provide Reports for program review with Senior Management and status
updates of the projects and resources for assigned Program portfolio.
 Ensure program forecasts are maintained on a monthly basis. Provide quarterly
benefit comparisons of current outlooks to original plans.
 Identify and effectively resolve issues and conflicts within and among project
team(s).
 Continuously monitor and report Program KPI’s on process and create visibility
on gaps and opportunities
 Participate in the Project Review meetings to understand the Project decisions
towards next steps. Identify Risks and Create a Mitigation Plan
 Collaborate with internal stakeholders for service delivery and commercial
teams to support process improvement
 Mentor project practitioners and new joiners by leading complex work break
down sessions that help them identify project deliverables, milestones, task
dependencies and the critical path
 Data Collection/Analysis, Report generation, Quality/Project Policy Check and
deliver to the client

Last Organization: Altisource Business Solutions Lab - Oct 2014 to Dec 2015.
Location: Bangalore
Designation: DevOps/AppOps Engineer
Responsibility:  Prepared and implemented Cloud based infrastructure opportunities.
 Suggested new service level improvements and designed new application
features.
 Provided technical assistance for development and integration of DevOps tools.
 Executed monitoring tools and improved automated infrastructure
components.
 Primarily responsible for Chef based Cloud Automation & deployment Model.
 Handling Chef based deployment to pick up the Build from Jenkins repository
and deploy in target environments (Integration, QA, Production)
 Write and design cookbooks for infrastructure creation.
 Handle complete ownership of Five products across all environments.
 Integrating various monitoring modules into a single platform.
 Handle on-call responsibilities.
 Configuring virtual development environments using Vagrant.
 Installing and configuring application servers (JBoss, Tomcat etc)
 Working on Mysql and Mongo DB to take back ups and push the queries
change across all environments.

Previous Organization: Relevance Lab - Nov 2013 to Oct 2014

Location: Bangalore
Designation: DevOps Engineer
 Responsibility:
 Primarily responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud
Automation.
 Integration of Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline. Currently installed
Chef Server and clients to pick up the Build from Jenkins repository and deploy
in target environments (Integration, QA, Production)
 Implemented Chef Recipes for Deployment on build on internal Data Centre
Servers. Also re-used and modified same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment
directly into Amazon EC2 instances. Chef recipes provide a very good platform
for creating deployments in Hybrid Cloud Scenario
 The Deployment Recipes created are predominantly for LAMP Stack
 Evaluating testing of Chef Recipes using Test-Kitchen, Food Critic, ChefSpec –
Concept of Test Driven Development for Infrastructure as a Code.
 Integrating various provisioning and monitoring modules into a single platform.
 Automating Deployment on Amazon EC2 instances.
 Configuring virtual development environments using Vagrant.
 Configuration management of servers using Chef cookbooks.
 Writing cookbooks for installing application servers (JBoss, Tomcat etc)
 Writing cookbooks that manage configuration of Databases (MySQL), Client
software at environment, role and node levels.

Previous Organization: STARS INFOCOM – June 2012 to Nov 2013

Location: Bangalore
Designation: Training/Internship
Responsibility:  File system in Linux environment, Open source paradigm. Installing Linux
operating system, like Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora. Well versed with commands
and environments of different UNIX based Operating Systems.
 Knowledge on managing applications on Linux platform.
 Managing User /Group Administration and Knowledge in installing /
uninstalling / upgrading packages.
 Good knowledge of RDBMS and practical exposure to MySQL.
 Sound Knowledge of IT infrastructure environment and how it works. Good
exposure on IT Infrastructure like Networks, Servers etc.
 Good Knowledge of LAN, WAN environment, Network Devices and various
network topologies.
 Setting up firewall, firewall configurations and filtering using open source tool.
End to end setup of open source tool for filtering and firewalling. Defining the
user policies and granting the permissions.
 Knowledge of ITIL framework. Knowledge of Service Delivery Catalogues,
Incident Management, and Change Management.
 Knowledge of trouble ticketing in ITIL/ITSM environment. Severity of tickets and
assigning the tickets. Knowledge of Incident Request and Service Request.
 Configuration of network from minimal operating systems like Centos, Ubuntu,
Fedora.
 Open Source based Network Monitoring Tool knowledge. Installation and
Configuring of NMS tools.
 Configuring the Networking tools based on SNMP agents on the client side.
Setting up and configuring the SNMP based monitoring tool.

Technical Skills
Area Skills
Programming Language: C, Ruby
 Technologies: Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technologies
Scripting Language: Shell Scripting, Ruby
Tools/IDE: Eclipse, Crowd, Chef (complete stack), Jenkins, Jira, Rabbit MQ, Git, Ansible
Cloud Management Platform Amazon EC2, Openstack, Chef
Databases / RDBMS: Oracle 10, MS-SQL Server 2000, MySQL, Mongo DB
Application/ Web Servers: JBOSS-AS-5.0/6.0/7.0, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 6/7
Monitoring Tools: Cacti, Nagios, NewRelic, AppDynamics
Operating Systems/ Platform: Unix, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP.
Technical Concepts: DBMS
Software Methodologies: Agile(SCRUM)

Project Details
Project: Software Delivery Platform
Client: Envestnet Yodlee
Period: Jan 2016 – Mar 2017
Tools: Chef, AWS, OpenStack
Team Size: 6
Role: DevOps
Description:
Worked as DevOps specialist responsible for Private Cloud (openstack) Infra Automation through Chef. The company
has a number of products and they required infrastructure as robust and self-healing so as to minimize the
downtime. The technologies used span across Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Hadoop and Informatica complex products.
Current Activities include:
 Server Provisioning Automation on EC2.
 Implemented Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep EC2 server’s template minimal.
 Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product
configuration.
 Implemented Role based Product configuration for various Product deployment line to reduce
configuration error.
 Evaluating testing of Chef Recipes using Food Critic and Test-kitchen.
 Creating report on daily work progress.
Responsibilities: Managing the delivery and key role in people management

Project: Realtrans next-generation/ Realdoc next-generation / Hubzu next-generation

Client: Altisource™ Business Solutions
Period: Oct 2014 – Dec 2015
Tools: Chef, AWS, Verizon Cloud
Team Size: 5
Role: DevOps / AppOps Engineer
Description:
Worked as DevOps specialist responsible for Cloud Infra Automation through Chef. The company has wide range of
products which required huge infrastructure for its deployment. The technologies used span across Oracle, DB2,
Rabbit MQ, Postgres, Jboss and Tomcat. Activities included:
 Server Provisioning Automation on EC2/Verizon.
 End to end Deployment of applications using Chef cookbooks.
 Written Chef Cookbooks for Applications by modularize and optimize end product configuration.
 Implemented Role based Product configuration for various Product deployment line to reduce
configuration error.
 Evaluating testing of Chef Recipes using Food Critic and Test-kitchen.
 Creating report on daily work progress.

Responsibilities: DevOps / TechOps /Production Support.

Project: Click To Compute

Client: Informatica
Period: April’2014 – Oct’2014
Tools: Chef, Test-Kitchen, ChefSpec
Team Size: 4
Role: DevOps Engineer
Description:
Worked as DevOps specialist responsible for Cloud Infra Automation through Chef. The company Has wide range of
products and they required infrastructure as an escalation come in for any bug in the product. The technologies
used span across Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Hadoop and Informatica complex products. Activities included:
 Server Provisioning Automation on EC2.
 Implemented Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep EC2 server’s template minimal.
 Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product
configuration.
 Implemented Role based Product configuration for various Product deployment line to reduce configuration
error.
 Evaluating testing of Chef Recipes using Food Critic and Test-kitchen.
 Creating report on daily work progress.
Responsibilities: Designing, Development and Testing.

Project: Content Canopy

Client: Aleph Cloud
Period: Dec’2013 - April’ 2014
Tools: Chef, Vagrant
Team Size: 3
Role: Developer
Description:
Worked with ALEPH CLOUD as DevOps specialist responsible for Cloud Automation through chef and Scripting. The
Activities included:
  Wrote cookbooks for infra automation which was required to standardize the cloud server from standard
image (UNIX/WINDOWS). E.g. NIS, DHCP, YUM, ULIMIT, DNSUPDATE, HOSTNAME
 Wrote Cookbooks for Middleware automation which was required to maintain sanity across all app servers
for identical behavior of application on different machines. E.g. JBOSS, TOMCAT
 Wrote Cookbook application deployment as a part of various releases cycles on different application
servers. E.g. CANOPY_JBOSS_DEPLOY, TCLOUD_TOMCAT_DEPLOY
 Wrote some Cookbooks for DB update. E.g. MONGO_DB_UPDATE. Currently installed Chef Server and
clients to pick up the Build from S3 bucket and deploy in target environments (Dev, QA, Production)S
 Evaluating testing of Chef Recipes using Foodcritic and Vagrant.
Achievements :  Got Appreciations by Manager and Client.

Project: Infra Check

Client: Learning Company
Period: 10 Week
Tools: Nagios, Cacti
Role: Research, Designing, configuration and implementing
Description:
 Working with the infrastructure design and management team. Responsible for Installing, maintaining,
upgrading Linux servers.
 Helped in automating the IT infrastructure by writing scripts and help build interfaces.
 Participated in network management activities.
 Worked with the senior members of the team in designing and implementing campus interconnect
programs using open-source tools.
 Participated in configuring SNMP based Network Monitoring tools
 Helped the team in formulizing the process as per ITIL/ITSM framework.

Personal Information
Gender: Female.
Hobbies: Listening to Music, surfing, Exploring New things.
Strengths :  Open to learn new technologies
 Good Team Player and mentor.
Permanent Add: D/o Sri P. Jha, Madhubani, Bihar- 847211.