Soham Patel

I am a Devops enthusiast with experience in DevOps & Systems Administration. I hold below certificates and same can be verified on credly: https://www.credly.com/users/soham-patel.bfa06ae6/badges

● Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) ● AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate ● HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate ● FinOps Certified Practitioner

My work experience at a glance:

● Improved system stability and performance by working on disjoining applications with Kafka as message queue and introducing redis as a caching layer, for legacy applications. ● Reduced time and manual efforts spent in legacy application deployment and system maintenance by building automations / playbooks. ● Managed 200+ production servers in hybrid cloud, configured and maintained Kafka, Redis and Cassandra Clusters. ● Enhanced proactive monitoring for application performance and failure identification. Experienced in both SAAS and open source monitoring tools. ● Experience creating automations/ playbooks and training for initial response to incidents / common recurring issues. Ability to automate by leveraging languages /shells including Python, Bash, Powershell. ● Brought FinOps practices into the company and handled cost optimization, capacity planning, cloud spends budget and forecasting. ● Working to Align Cloud and Infrastructure Spends with Organization Budget, bridging gap between Engineering, Finance and Management Departments. ● Optimized company’s computing architecture, fine-tuned cost optimization of existing setup. ● Setup pipeline for deployments to edge POS (point of sale) devices using tools and tech: AWS IoT Greengrass, Docker, Jenkins, Bash, Ubuntu.