About

Akshay Lavhale is a Senior DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of experience in strategic and technology roles. He is currently working at Palo Alto Networks and is skilled in cloud technologies such as Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, as well as Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline setup, and various tools involved in the process. Akshay has extensive experience in strategizing infrastructure design and implementation on Google Cloud for multiple applications, disaster recovery strategy and implementation, and conceiving release management strategy for Microservice architecture and guiding its implementation. He has also mentored new people and developer communities to improve DevOps maturity in teams, developed applications for release monitoring, and automated end-to-end build and release processes using CI/CD tools like VSTS, Jenkins. Akshay is proficient in various tools such as Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipeline), Jenkins, GitLab, and has expertise in containerization, container orchestration, advanced Kubernetes, cloud technologies, infrastructure-as-code, databases, message brokers, application/API, monitoring, agile, scripting, and virtualization. In his previous roles at EPAM Systems and Wipro, Akshay worked in a team of DevOps professionals with a focus on infrastructure solution, automated AWS Lambda logs into Datadog, bootstrap script, automated infrastructure provisioning (IaaC), CI/CD pipeline setup, Security Scans, Release Management, disaster recovery plan, and operations. He successfully implemented automation of AWS Lambda logs into Datadog, created a disaster recovery strategy for an application by means of data backup and restore, and implemented this strategy for Cassandra, OrientDB, and ElasticSearch. Akshay holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from St. Vincent Palloti College of Engineering and Technology and has completed his schooling from N.T.R High School, Warud. He has a relevant experience of 9.53 years and is proficient in DevOps, AWS, infra, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, GCP, Jenkins, Python, Terraform, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Kafka, Microservices, Data Engineering, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and Golang.