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Hi, I am Sourabh

Sourabh Deshmukh

Linux Cloud Engineer at Hobby Lobby Inc.

I am a passionate SRE/DevOps engineer with 5 years of working experience. I built OSS tools for Kubernetes using GO. My tools help people to deploy their workloads in Kubernetes.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator
AWS Solutions Architect
Introduction to GitOps
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Leadership
Team Work
Hard Working

Skills

Experiences

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Hobby Lobby Inc.

June 2023 - Present

Oklahoma City, OK.

Hobby Lobby is the largest privately owned arts-and-crafts retailer in the world with over 46,000 employees and operating in forty-eight states.

Linux Cloud Engineer

June 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Handle and manage 140+ application deployments, ensuring smooth and efficient rollouts.
  • Manage OpenShift clusters on AWS cloud and local infrastructure, optimizing performance and scalability.
  • Oversee daily GitOps operations, maintaining code integrity and deployment consistency.
Linux Cloud Engineer Intern

June 2023 - SEPT 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Streamlined Microservices deployments leveraging Openshift, comprising automated software delivery incorporating Gitops in connected and disconnected environments on-premises.
  • Alleviated 25% workload on Jenkins servers by implementing gitops operations on hybrid infrastructure.

Usage AI.

March 2024 - May 2024

Pleasanton, CA.

Usage AI helps companies of all sizes get significant savings on their cloud bills with zero code change and zero downtime, all in under 5 minutes.

DevOps Engineer Intern.

March 2024 - May 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Independently coordinated the Microservices deployments on EKS, ensuring a smooth transition of containerized workloads while improving scalability and resource utilization.
  • Architected and optimized a production observability pipeline using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, and Loki, significantly improving system reliability and performance through advanced metrics and logging solutions.
  • Transformed AWS cloud infrastructure to meet CIS benchmark standards, orchestrating security control implementation, documentation, and continuous monitoring for full compliance.
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Pune, India.

Opcito is a trusted name in the automation-driven full-stack product engineering and DevOps space.

DevOps Engineer

AUG 2021 - AUG 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Configured and set up Jenkins CI pipelines to package and test 15+ Android and IOS applications, published them on Dropbox and Atlassian Confluence page, augmenting developer efficiency by 30%.
  • Set up CircleCI pipelines with git and wrote helm charts to deploy Microservices and application components with Kubernetes and Rancher on the GKE cluster that speeds up the deployment/development process by 25%.
  • Assisted with Terraform code configuring and deploying AWS WAF rules and AWS Guard duty.

Pune, India.

KPOINT is an Indian B2B SaaS video intelligence company with an end-to-end offering built for Enterprises and their business communication with their target audience be it customers, leads, employees, or partners and agents.

Software Engineer

SEPT 2019 - AUG 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Structured CICD end-to-end pipelines harnessing Jenkins to build, test, and deploy the Microservices applications.
  • Dockerized Microservices to reduce dependency issues, optimized Docker images with multi-stage build, and cut down layers in the Docker image, resulting in a 40% improvement in deployment efficiency.
  • Formulated and implemented automation scripts taking advantage of Python & Shell that led to the development of several system components, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
  • Decreased 50% of the cost of AWS resources by converting on-demand resources to spot services using IaC.
  • Centralized system & application logging adopting ELK stack, scripted monitoring dashboards using Python on Kibana, resulting in a 20% improvement in debugging time.
Software Engineer Intern

JAN 2019 - SEPT 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Led a team of 2 interns and implemented kPoint web application staging setup and rolled out on AWS cloud.
  • Wrote an AWS cloud infrastructure for scaling applications employing Terraform coding and application configuration using Puppet and Python scripts, resulting in a 70% time reduction of resources provisioning.
  • Performed application monitoring on Production Servers operating with Nagios and Munin Monitoring, putting together monitoring scripts to maintain 24/7 application availability and mitigate downtime.
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Education

MS in Computer Science and Engineering
CGPA: 3.95 out of 4
Taken Courses:
  • Object Oriented Programming and Design
  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud Computing
  • Design analysis and algorithms
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant for Graduate Computer Networks Course.
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
CGPA: 7.51 out of 10
Taken Courses:
  • Data Structures and Algorithm
  • Computer Networks
  • Operating System
  • Database Systems