Yogesh Girikumar

Tools

• Linux / BSD
• Python / Bash
• Podman / Kubernetes / Docker
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Terraform / OpenTofu
• Ansible / Chef

Experience

Senior DevOps Consultant

Independent
March 2020–Present

Consulting with organizations of various sizes to solve their problems with AWS, Azure, GCP and large fleet administration.

• Kubernetes continuous deployment, GitOps, Helm, Argo CD
• Database migration, PostgreSQL, MySQL

DevOps Architect

hotosm.org
September 2022– July 2024

Addressed deployment, build pipelines, workload migrations, architecture, cost reduction and security.

• Overhauled CI/CD pipelines to improve build-times and reduce management overhead.
• Setup event-driven scaling with Redis and KEDA on Azure
• Automated deployment of backend API on AWS ECS Fargate using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Secured SSH access using SSSD, PAM and LDAP.

DevOps Engineer

hotosm.org
July 2019– September 2022

Cloud Architect

tivonaglobal.com
June 2018– September 2020

Site Reliability Engineer

kayako.com
May 2016– June 2018

Operations Engineer

Qruize Tech
May 2013– May 2016

Built AWS infrastructure to support a media streaming application

Application Specialist

CSS Corp.
October 2009– May 2013

Part of a small research team studying challenges with open source software.

• Built and managed OpenStack instances for large institutions
• Built hardened, security-compliant Linux images and deployed over network to thousands of thin clients.
• Co-authored the OpenStack Beginner's Guide