About

Harshal Shah is an experienced Engineer with over 19 years of relevant experience in handling various DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure tasks under various technologies and customers. He is currently working as an Engineering Manager at HelloFresh, where he has been responsible for managing the engineering team and overseeing the development of infrastructure solutions for the company. Harshal possesses a diverse set of skills, including Configuration Management tools such as Puppet and Ansible, Infrastructure tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, Container Engine Docker, Container Orchestration and Management using Kubernetes and Rancher, Virtualization Platforms like Vagrant and VMware, Database Platforms such as Postgres and Oracle, Scripting languages like Python and Bash, Build tools like gmake, ANT, and Maven, CI tools like Jenkins, Logging frameworks such as ELK Stack, cAdvisor+InfuxDB+Grafana, and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Engine, and Digital Ocean. He is also experienced in Middleware technologies like Weblogic, Websphere, and Tomcat. In his current role at HelloFresh, Harshal has played a pivotal role in migrating from kops based Kubernetes clusters to AWS managed EKS cluster without any downtime. He has also implemented CICD for the Kubernetes infrastructure and all the surrounding components to implement a complete Infrastructure as Code solution. In his previous role as a Solutions Architect at InfraCloud Technologies, he implemented Kubernetes FlexVolume driver for a Kubernetes storage provider and automated the installation of a network monitoring product on Kubernetes. He also supported managed Openstack and Kubernetes and developed features for a Cloud migration SaaS provider. Harshal completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology from Nagpur University in 2004. His diverse tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Kubernetes, Infra, Terraform, DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Postgres, Python, Docker, Azure, and GCP. Harshal is a skilled Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality infrastructure solutions.