About me

As a seasoned DevOps/SRE and SDET professional with around a decade of experience, I am passionate about leveraging technology to drive continuous improvement, I have a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time and within budget. A few of my recent Achievements to showcase are: I • Designed and authored a pre-built Jenkins shared library that streamlined the implementation of CI/CD The library was used by around 100 projects, facilitating reusability, process improvement, and maturity. • Led a team of 10 DevOps engineers to design and implement scalable and reliable infrastructure and achieved a 50% reduction in infrastructure deployment time using Terraform to provision infrastructure from zero to end on AWS. • Built and maintained production-ready Kubernetes cluster set-up, hosting 50+ containers, and managing different environments on the same Kubernetes set-up. • Introduced a modular and hybrid automation framework from scratch that increased efficiency by 30%, enabled continuous integration and overnight execution of automated test cases, and mentored manual testers to develop automation scripts independently. • Super headed Teams to deploy projects based on multiple tech stacks, including Java, NPM, Maven, .Net, and test automation based on Java/Python or any application that can be containerized. Received awards such as the 'Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ v1.0,' 'Best Innovative Solution in APAC region by Credit Suisse,' and 'Quarterly Star Award by Credit Suisse by APAC Head.' Skills: • DevOps Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift, Helm, Salt Stack, YAML Templates • UI Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Intro to Cypress • API Automation: Rest Assured, Postman, Swagger • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, CloudFront, Beanstalk, CloudFormation, EKS, IAM, S3, VPC, Dynamo DB, SQS etc.), Intro to Azure/GCP • Provisioning Tools: Terraform, Ansible, AgroCD • Monitoring & Log Management: Splunk, CloudFront, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch • Release Management: Git, Bitbucket, Deployment Strategies like Blue/Green, Canary, etc. • Database: Oracle SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis • Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, Shell • Domain: BFSI, HRMS, Supply Chain • Roles: DevOps Lead, SDET Lead, JIRA Administrator, Agile Expert • Others: Tableau, Power BI, Control M, Informatica, UNIX / Linux Let's connect and collaborate to deliver efficient and reliable software solutions! Medium: https://shikhar-sri2.medium.com/ TopMate: https://topmate.io/shikhar_srivastava