About

Dharshan V is an experienced AWS Solutions Architect with over 6 years of experience designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS and Azure. He possesses a strong understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the Cloud and has a sound knowledge of the AWS/Azure global infrastructure. Dharshan is an expert in container orchestration using Kubernetes and deployment automation via HELM. He has experience in Docker containerized environments, hosting web servers on containers, and building docker images using Docker file. He has also worked with multiple cloud providers and has created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for infra deployment using Python, Groovy, and Jenkins/Azure Devops. In addition to his technical skills, Dharshan has expertise in DevSecOps and has implemented security best-practices like secret scanning using trufflehog, SAST testing using spot-bugs/sonarqube, open-source software licenses are validated using licensefinder, software composition analysis on application dependent libraries are performed using OWASP dependency check, implemented container scanning using grype, container audit using dockle, Kubernetes configuration scanning using kubesec, DAST scanning of deployed API’s using OWASP-ZAP. Dharshan has worked with several companies, including Nissan, where he planned, designed, validated and developed highly available (HA) and highly scalable application infrastructure hosted on AWS cloud. He has also created Python-based web applications and scripts for automating/securing day-to-day operational activities for infrastructure and other application management tools. Dharshan is currently working as a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he is leading and assisting application development teams in selecting appropriate cloud solutions based on data, compute, database, or security requirements. He has a B.tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Calicut and a Senior Secondary degree in Science from Chinmaya Vidyalaya Pallavur. Overall, Dharshan has relevant experience of 7.69 years and possesses a strong technical skill set, making him an ideal candidate for any organization looking for an AWS Solutions Architect with expertise in DevSecOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.