RISHABH PANDEY

working as a PSO consultant , successfully delivering multiple customer engagements, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction and meeting project objectives

Created CI-CD pipelines for OVA-based deployments using packer and vSphere clone API, integrating logging, monitoring, antivirus, and Puppet agents. Utilized YAML declarative methods and cloud-init scripts for VM bootstrapping and deployment automation

Deployed and managed over 10 Kubernetes clusters within data centers, running child clusters and VM operator services. Successfully deployed Tanzu packages, including logging, monitoring, and ingress controllers (both Contour HTTP and NGINX), ensuring secure application exposure

Established resilient vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor clusters using HAProxy and VDS networking in air-gapped environments. Orchestrated multiple Tanzu Kubernetes clusters across distinct vSphere namespace, tailored to diverse requirements

Improved latency by 60% and sped up deployment processes for a major legacy trading application in the banking sector. Migrated trading software from containers to container services using VM operator, tightly integrating with Kubernetes environments

Assisted with workload onboarding, MetalLB load balancer creation, and container network function deployments for VMware Telco Cloud. Contributed to critical design decisions, expediting project kickstart and ensuring seamless deployment processes

Facilitated workload onboarding, MetalLB load balancer creation, and container network function deployments using VMware Telco Cloud Automation (TCA), ensuring streamlined and effective deployment processes

Developed Terraform modules for AWS cloud resource provisioning

Managed AWS Kubernetes clusters across various environments

Established a centralized CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and ArgoCD

Migrated applications from AWS ECS to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGm) clusters

Deployed various Tanzu packages for enhanced cluster capabilities. Implemented centralized logging and monitoring solutions

Utilized GitLab CI/CD for application deployment and infrastructure creation, while also implementing Python automation for enhanced operational efficiency

Managed production support for a gaming and gambling application, conducted Kubernetes cluster version upgrades to enhance performance and security

Provided support for CI/CD tools, streamlining development processes .Designed and developed multiple observability dashboards tailored to Kubernetes cluster use cases

Orchestrated EKS cluster version upgrades to ensure optimal functionality ,Deployed and configured ingress controllers to efficiently manage incoming traffic

Supported CI/CD processes on the Acquia Cloud platform Administered and maintained AWS infrastructure, ensuring robustness and scalability

Created Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documents for incident resolution ,conducted troubleshooting in the production environment, resolving issues promptly and efficiently.

Managed and administered AWS infrastructure for internal proof-of-concept (POC) projects, Dockerized and deployed applications on AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) for a tour and travel company project

Utilized deployment tools such as Spinnaker and Jenkins to establish efficient CI/CD pipelines ,Maintained three separate environments (Development, User Acceptance Testing, Production) to guarantee application reliability and scalability

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support and optimize AWS resources aligned with project requirements.