Rahul Sahotay DevOps Engineer

About Me Experience
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Who's this guy?

I'm a DevOps Engineer at Lands' End in Madison, WI. I have serious passion for Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and system automation

I have a solid experience with open source, high throughput, and highly-available environments. Gained extensive cloud and infrastructure experience, with multiple certifications from AWS

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:

 

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azures
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Helm
  • Atlassian suite
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Jenkins
  • ELK
  • Splunk

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

Company: Lands' End                            September 2018 - Present

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Microservices

Lands' End is an amazing place to work. Being a DevOps person I am responsible for co-designing applications before migrating to Amazon Web Services and manage them as infrastructure as code (using Terraform). I develop software or tools to handle system level configuration for linux and manage Route53 with Dynamo DB.

Achievements/Tasks:

  • Redesigned and migrated LandsEnd.com to Amazon Web Services
  • Redesigned CICD environment from on-prem to AWS CodeDeploy. Technologies utilized are Jenkins, Terraform, Lambda, Bash, and Code Deploy
  • Specialized in levers and automation for development and deployment of the site
  • Designed Landsend.com and LE.biz deployments using AWS CodeDeploy and Ansible Tower

CICD Engineer

Company: TCS Client: Motorola Solutions                   July 2016 - September 2018

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Docker Notary & Content Trust
  • Twistlock

At Motorola, I was give new responsibilities for advocating and providing SAAS (Software as a service) for CICD next generation and it tuned out great! I could do so much more than i was doing before.

Achievements/Tasks:

  • Implement Docker image Scanner and runtime environment protection (Twistlock)
  • Co-Design and implement docker container security and image provenance solution (docker content trust and docket notary) for Motorola’s next generation CI pipeline
  • Develop Concourse CI resource type (nodejs based)
  • Create CICD pipeline for deploying to AWS and Azure containers services
  • Change Scripted pipeline to Declarative in Jenkins

System Engineer

Company: TCS Client: Motorola Solutions                   Decenmber 2012 - July 2016

  • IBM Stack
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Atlassian Stack
  • Amazon Web Services

This journey started as support engineer at TCS India. Started from supporting IBM tool stack to AWS cloud migration. Working with TCS, I got a change to learn and grow both personally and professionally.

Achievements/Tasks:

  • Migrate applications from in-premises to AWS by utilizing AWS services (like AutoScaling, RDS, Route53, ELB, ElasticSearch)
  • Migrate NAS and CIFS shares to AWS (EFS and self-created NFS)
  • Lifecycle IBM ClearCase VOB data/old builds to S3
  • Created Python and Shell scripts to configure system level configuration during execution