About

Gurender Singh Rai is a seasoned Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in DevOps, Automation, and Release Management. He is currently working at Siemens as a Software Developer, where he is responsible for handling deployment configuration, release management, systems integrations, and automation. Gurender specializes in various tools and technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Puppet Bolt, Jenkins, Docker, Kubespray, Kubeapps, HELM charts, Chart Museum, GIT, GITLAB, Azure-Devops, JIRA, Python, Ruby, Shell Scripting, PowerShell, VBScript, Azure, Foreman, Kubernetes, ITPAM, Stackstorm, VRO, SCORCH, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Backtrack, Kali Linux, Windows Server, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows vista/XP. Apart from his expertise in DevOps, Gurender is also interested in Information Security, Network Security Pen-testing, and Vulnerability Assessments. Prior to Siemens, Gurender worked as a Systems Integration Senior Analyst at NTT Data, where he worked on Puppet, Ansible, GITLAB, Python, and Bash for automation. He was responsible for implementing integrations between CI/CD tools, automating CI/CD workflow, deploying Foreman as ENC for Puppet, developing Puppet modules, Ansible Playbooks, and Bolt Tasks/Plans for automation, and developing Python scripts for report generation. Gurender has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at GlobalLogic, where he worked on Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, HelmCharts, Kubeapps, Chart Museum, and Jenkins for Configuration Deployment and Build Execution. He was responsible for automating the deployment of Jenkins and configuration of Slave with Ansible, deploying KubeApps with Chart Museum as Helm repository on top of Kubernetes Cluster, creating Jenkins Jobs for Automation, and automating the deployment of Kubernetes Cluster with Ansible. Gurender holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Punjab Technical University and completed his Junior/High School education from Sacred Heart Convent School, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Overall, Gurender has 7.44 years of relevant experience in the industry and possesses a strong technical skill set.