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Selva Kumar Arumugapandian
Strategic Azure Cloud Architect & DevOps Leader | Empowering Organizations with DevOps & Automation
I am an accomplished DevOps Engineer and Architect currently at Accenture, boasting over 12 years of hands-on experience. My expertise lies in orchestrating and spearheading intricate DevOps implementations within the Azure ecosystem, catering to a diverse array of industries and domains. I'm not just well-versed; I hold numerous Azure certifications, underscoring my proficiency in Azure, DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Throughout my career, I've been the driving force behind a multitude of automation initiatives, both in the cloud and on-premises environments. My passion resides in crafting cloud solutions that are not only of the utmost quality but also scalable, thereby facilitating business transformation and innovation.
One aspect of my professional identity that I hold dear is my unwavering commitment to lifelong learning and self-improvement. I eagerly share my wealth of knowledge and best practices with my colleagues and peers. Collaboration is a cornerstone of my work ethic, and I place immense value on diversity and ensuring customer satisfaction.
In all my endeavors, I aim to bring forth a positive impact and tangible value to the organizations and communities I engage with. My journey is driven by a genuine desire to foster growth and innovation, and I continuously strive to leave a lasting mark on the world of DevOps and cloud solutions.
Profile
Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer
Summary
Selva Kumar Arumugapandian
I am an Azure DevOps Engineer & Architect with immense knowledge on DevOps process & widely used DevOps tools. I can apply my knowledge in doing continuous development, continuous integration and continuous delivery for any given product that will drive the product and self to success.
- selvasecret@gmail.com
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Tagore Engineering College, Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai
2006 - 2010
- Secured First Class with 76%.
Higher Secondary Education & School
Revoor Padmanabha Chetty's MHHS
1992 - 2006
- 14 years (From junior KG to HSC) of schoool education from the same school.
- Secured 84% in SSLC and 87% in HSC.
Professional Experience
Cloud Migration & Implementation Associate Manager
Accenture, Chennai - India
Jaunary 2022 - Present
- Architect the design and deployment of azure resources, Kubernetes resources and application for creating Orchestration Platform using Apache Airflow.
- Orchestration Platform deployment was designed using Azure Biceps (Iac), Helm Charts, ADO Pipelines, Pester Test Suites, PowerShell Scripts.
- Strategised the optimization model for cost of Azure Resources without impacting the performance of the applications.
- Take part in internal audit process for access management in Azure Cloud, ADO, Snowflake; Vulnerability management in Azure Cloud.
- Idealized, designed and implemented a new framework to extract various levels of metrics in Azure Cloud for resources, using PowerShell.
Manager - Architect DevOps
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai - India
April 2021 - Jaunary 2022
- Create and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Azure, using ARM & bicep templates.
- Support Testing Environment hosted in Kubernetes cluster of AliCloud & AWS.
- Implementation and support for Jenkins CI/CD using declarative Jenkins pipelines.
- Support for bitbucket and SonarQube.
DevOps Engineer
Edgeverve Technologies Limited, Chennai - India
August 2015 - April 2021
- Anchor for orchestration of Build and deployment pipeline through JENKINS for Finacle CORE.
- Manage and improve CI/CD pipeline of Finacle CORE by doing PoC on FOSS tools required to improve the environment.
- End-end implementation of “coverity” (Security analysis tool) in Finacle CORE.
- End-end implementation of "Build & Deployment Dashboard" using MySQL, PrestoDB and metabase.
- Created a new tool from scratch in java for database migration (DCL, DDL), which handles ORACLE, EDB, MSSQLSERVER.
- Individual Contributor in doing PoC for FOSS related to DevOps/CI/CD.
- Trained 600+ developers to adapt and understand DevOps with ease.
Technology Lead
Infosys Limited, Chennai - India
February 2011 - August 2015
- Fork out Deposit as a standalone module from Finacle CORE UBS functionally.
- Identified the flow from Finacle CORE Menus to Service/function calls for each Menus. Based on the functionalities, moved sources/functions that are part of Deposits to a new module.
- Written several Python and Bash scripts for automating build & installation/deployment of Finacle CORE in legacy model.
- End-end PoC for Finale CORE Build.
Certifications
The following certifications add values to my experience.
Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
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Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate.
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Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals.
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Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals.
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Databricks Accreditation - Azure Platform Architect.
Accredible
Databricks Accreditation - Lakehouse Fundamentals.
Accredible
Astronomer Certified - Apache Airflow DAG Authoring.
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Astronomer Certified - Apache Airflow Fundamentals.
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
CredlyAwards & Recognitions
The following are the awards/recognition that I have recieved all through my journey.
| # | Name of the Award | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inspiring Innovator Award - ACE Award | Accenture | Q2 - 2023 |
| 2 | Client Value Creation | Accenture | July 2023 |
| 3 | Townhall Superstars Recognition | Accenture | November 2022 |
| 4 | The Ultimate Contributor | Accenture | July 2022 |
| 5 | Always Striving, Never Settling | Cognizant Technologies Solutions | August 2021 |
| 6 | Dream Team | Edgeverve Systems Limited | June 2020 |
| 7 | Disruptive Innovator | Edgeverve Systems Limited | FY 2019-2020 |