Hello, I'm Dheeraj Jha

DevOps Engineer | Cloud Systems | Explorer at Heart

I build scalable infrastructure, enjoy thoughtful problem-solving, and explore ideas beyond code.

Skills & Expertise

Backend

PHPPythonRuby

AWS

EC2RDSS3ELBCloudfrontESAWS CLISESSQSLightsailLambdaCloudwatchIAM

Frameworks

CodeigniterCakePHPLaravelSymfonyFlaskRuby On Rails

Frontend

ReactVueJavascriptBootstrapTailwind CSSUI/UX

Databases

MySQLMongoDB

DevOps & Automation

AnsibleJenkinsGitlab-CICI/CDTerraformCloudformationGrafanaPrometheus

Tools & OS

GitApache2NginxLinuxUbuntuRHELMacWindows


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Professional Experience

Jul 2024 - Present

Senior System Engineer

EPAM Systems

Initiating as Sr System Engineer, working on range of DevOps assignments mostly containing AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Jenkins, Kafka etc.

Mar 2024 - Jun 2024

Career Break

Professional Development

Professional development and career break.

Nov 2023 - Mar 2024

DevOps Consultant

Anant Technologies

Provided architectural solutions to small and medium infrastructure, effectively scaling costs. Identified pain points in infrastructure by understanding process flow and provided simple, use-case based solutions. Optimized different applications based on their specific use-cases. Streamlined CI/CD by setting up pipelines using Github Actions or Gitlab-ci. Diversified infrastructure by utilizing various AWS services tailored to specific use-cases. Set up logging, monitoring, and auto-recovery using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Ansible, and CloudWatch.

Jan 2021 - Oct 2023

Devops & Software Engineering Lead

Reevalo

Successfully migrated the entire operation to AWS, resulting in the establishment of a highly scalable infrastructure. Streamlined cloud and internal processes, leading to cost savings of 40-50% while effectively scaling operations. Achieved a 95% reduction in processing time by implementing a fully automated data processing system. Developed and implemented in-house central dashboards, resulting in time savings of 10-15 hours per developer and improving overall productivity by 30-40%. Enhanced API and Web Dashboard performance by 60-80%.

Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

Software Development Team Lead

GraphicsZoo

Led software development team. Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux System Administration, Team Leadership, Vue.js, Continuous Integration (CI), Git, PHP.

Aug 2017 - Aug 2020

Senior Developer Project Lead

CTE International pvt ltd

Successfully delivered the Mobi-hub platform. Planned, hired, and led a team of 15+ professionals. Increased scalability of the Magento application by optimizing traffic and speed using AWS resources. Developed an in-house inventory management system for B2B and B2C applications. Implemented a multi-tenant architecture.

Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

Fullstack Web Developer

Incisiv

Fullstack web development. Skills: Linux System Administration, JavaScript, MySQL, AJAX, Git.

Nov 2015 - Aug 2017

Full stack PHP Developer

Winculum

Took charge of the entire IT infrastructure and formulated a growth-oriented plan. Mastered various cloud platforms such as Digital Ocean, Cloudways, and AWS. Boosted sales and improved customer satisfaction by creating online analytics tools. Optimized research procedures, resulting in a 5-fold increase in customer delivery.

Jun 2015 - Nov 2015

Sr. software developer

Netmaxims Solutions

Initiated a shift in development methodology from Core PHP to a framework-based approach. Innovated in-house tools to boost productivity and established coding libraries, leading to a 30% acceleration in development processes. Contributed to several products and implemented an in-house CMS, resulting in a 60-70% reduction in project delivery time.

Featured Work

Scalable AI Agents platform for Institutional investors

Deployed full flegd highly scalable infrastructure for 50k+ Active users and scaling capacity upto 1M+

AWSCI/CDAuto-ScalingMonitoringLoggingAlertingAuto-Healing
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Scaling of growing Event management platform

With minimal change in code, used Devops and scalable system design to optimise the platform and scaled it to handle 100k+ users

AWSSystem DesignMulti-AZ scaling
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Courior processing platform for leading visa processing company

Developed highly scalable infrastructure utilising IaC to process 100k+ couriers per day

AWSCI/CDAuto-ScalingMonitoringLoggingAlerting
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Latest Writings

Thoughts and tutorials from Medium.

Get your first hands on with kubernetes with minikube
2024-02-23

Get your first hands on with kubernetes with minikube

Get your first hands-on kubernetes with minikube Photo by Growtika on UnsplashIf you are beginner, care to understand kubernetes components, and sinc...

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Understanding deployments and StatefulSet : Kubernetes for beginners
2023-09-03

Understanding deployments and StatefulSet : Kubernetes for beginners

Understanding deployments and StatefulSet: Kubernetes for beginners In this post, we will go through how replicas are managed/deployed and how the da...

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Understanding kubernetes components: Kubernetes for beginners
2023-09-03

Understanding kubernetes components: Kubernetes for beginners

We will explore various kubernetes components like pod, services, ingress, volumes etc in quick blogpost. Photo by Growtika on Unsplash🖥️ Nodes Lets...

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