Harshit Mahajan

SUMMARY

Experienced professional with a demonstrated history of resolving critical problems related to infrastructure automation and DevOps. Eager to learn, plan and develop approaches to achieve the desired automated functionality. Skilled in Agile Methodologies, Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, Scripting, as well as Cloud-native technologies.

EXPERIENCE

Kyndryl – Lead, Software Engineer – Bangalore

Jun 2022 – Present

Design and implement scalable Ansible automation for recurring enterprise tasks; mentor team members on best practices to enhance global infrastructure efficiency.

• Developed specialized automation solutions, including sequential reboot scripts and an MS Teams chatbot for automated Azure VM lifecycle management, significantly reducing manual intervention.

• Mentored the development of Ansible automation that automates the patching process along with necessary pre/post-patch execution, live status notifications, and comprehensive report generation.

• Became part of the internal certification team, where I conduct rigorous code reviews of internal Ansible automations to ensure compliance with quality and security standards.

Acquia – Software Engineer – Pune

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022

As a team member, I contributed to the development of Acquia CodeStudio development

• Authored a standardised .gitlab-ci file to achieve a generic process to build, test and deploy Drupal code.

• Involved in microservice API development for various CodeStudio integrations in GoLang (got a chance to explore and learn: Gin framework, Swagger, and code test coverage).

• Contributed to setting up a CI pipeline on Jenkins that configured a customized GitLab instance in k3d and ran a couple of tests on each pull request.

• Set up monitoring dashboards and custom alerts using  SumoLogic based on kube-state metrics.

InfraCloud Technologies – DevOps Engineer – Pune

Apr 2020 – Jun 2021

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to engineer infrastructure solutions for diverse client requirements, focusing on scalability and performance.

• Enhanced the existing Kubernetes infrastructure automation code written in Go language to add multi-tenancy features, which requires re-architecting the current approach.

• Developed automation that performs Istio migration to the latest version with minimum downtime.

• Contributed during development of  BotKube.

Worldpay (now acquired by FIS Global) – Product Delivery Engineer – Indore

Jan 2018 – Apr 2020

Applied and advanced DevOps principles in Linux and Ansible environments to optimise infrastructure deployment

• Played a key role in the development of Ansible automation that generates secure, tested, ready-to-use Gold images (for Ubuntu, Oracle Linux and RHEL) with a pre-installed set of tools for a specific environment, using Ansible and Packer.

• Maintained and optimized existing automation workflows, ensuring high availability and operational stability.

Vedang Radio Technology – Intern – Mumbai

May 2017 – Jul 2017

• Contributed to the development of the backend (in Node.js) of a dashboard to manage specific IoT devices using RESTful APIs.

SKILLS

Infrastructure & Cloud: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes,  Packer, Terraform, GitLab-CI

Language: Go, JavaScript, Shell

EDUCATION

M-Tech (Integrated) in Information Technology

Devi Ahilya University

Jul 2013 – Dec 2018 (51/2 years) with an 8.9 CGPA.

CERTIFICATIONS

(Nov 24) EX-374 - Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform, CERTIFICATION ID: 200-042-216

(March 24) Terraform Certified Associate Credly link

(Aug 23) Community Engineering - Automation Maker Credly link

(Apr 22) GitLab Certified CI/CD Specialist Badgr link

(Sep 21) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), CERTIFICATION ID: LF-v0f6i6vpg8

(Feb 20) Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA - 8), CERTIFICATION ID: 200-042-216

PUBLICATION

Research paper on ‘SECURITY MODELING OF PARAMETRIC CAPTURING TOOL (PCT) IN ANALYTICAL LAYER SERVICE FOR E-LEARNING RESOURCES’ in an international cybersecurity conference 2018 (SSRN License ID: 3330009), ResearchGate link

PROJECTS

• Docker image creation using an existing Ansible playbook as input, using Docker, Packer, Ansible, and a GitHub Repo.

• Implemented a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) resolver to call Go language functions in the desired sequence based on dependency resolution, using Go language, GitHub Repo.

• An Ansible ramp-up program for those who want to take a deep dive, Markdown,  GitHub Repo

• Random music player software, to play random slices of the random song (out of selected ones) one by one, using VB.NET,   GitHub Repo

• Magic square online puzzle game using HTML, CSS, JavaScript & jQuery Mobile hosted on: github.io/magicsquare

• AR-based 3D website, using aframe.js, hosted on github.io/pepalcia

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Mentor for a winning team in the National Smart India Hackathon  2020, “Zero-bug” for innovatively solving problems related to “MGNREGA yojna” of the Indian government, certificate.

• ‘Infranaut of the Month’ award in July 2020 at InfraCloud Technologies.

• I was a contributor on the website, mpba.in, for the Madhya Pradesh Badminton Association (During my college days)