About

Ankit Arora is a seasoned technocrat with 7.45 years of relevant experience in the field of DevOps. He is a curious learner who loves to explore and experiment with different systems to find better solutions. Currently, Ankit works as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Zeta, where he is responsible for configuring, automating, and maintaining the health and reliability of over 500 servers. He is also part of the migration process from Bare Metal machines to Google Cloud Platform, ensuring zero or minimum downtime. Ankit has extensive experience working with AWS services like EC2, IAM, S3, Cloudwatch, CodeDeploy, Elasticache, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, ELB, AutoScaling, Lambda, EFS, Security Groups, SNS, SES, etc. He has automated deployment using Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy and created WAF rules and page rules on Cloudflare to increase the security of the destination. Ankit has also configured VPN and ACLs on AWS cloud infra to make servers more secure. He has written Shell and Python scripts to automate creation of incremental snapshots and backups, alerts, application monitoring, etc. In his previous roles, Ankit worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at VWO and Wingify. At VWO, he was responsible for automating the deployment process using Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy. He created, deployed, configured, automated, maintained, and troubleshooted all servers and infrastructure on-premises and on cloud. At Wingify, Ankit was part of the migration of infrastructure of over 500 servers (Bare-Metal and VMs) to GCP GKE from Softlayer and DO. He wrote shell scripts, yamls, and ansible playbooks to execute multiple tasks on the servers and k8s clusters and applied the security patches on all environments to maintain the security policies for compliances. Ankit has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Maharshi Dayanand University and completed his Non-Medical with Computer Science from Aravali International School. He is proficient in DevOps, AWS, Python, Ansible, infra, Kubernetes, MySQL, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, GCP, SQL, Software Engineer, NoSQL, Microservices, Postgres, and more.