About

Harshal Thaware is a Cloud Engineer with over 3 years of experience in automating and optimizing mission-critical infrastructure for monolithic and Microservices applications. He is proficient in the investigation, monitoring, and documentation phases, and has experience with Ops essential tools like Git, Docker, Nomad, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Shell & Python Scripts, and AWS CLI. Harshal has architected and implemented cost-effective infrastructure solutions on AWS from on-premise and has experience in System Administration and Application support hosted on the Linux Operating system. He is an operations expert with experience in deploying and managing physical infrastructure, managing AWS and its services like AWS IAM, VPC, EC2, OpsWorks, ECS, EBS, RDS, S3, Lambda, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, Elasticache, ECR, AWS Client VPN, and monitoring the infrastructure using DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Nginx, and Check_mk. Harshal is proficient in creating terraform templates for infrastructure creation on the cloud, release and automation through Jenkins, and troubleshooting the OS and application-level issues. He is also proficient in troubleshooting entry-level database issues on ScyllaDB, Cassandra, Redis, and RDS. His strong collaboration skills allow him to work with teams made up of software developers, UI-UX, QA’s, and Product team. Currently, Harshal is working as a Site Reliability Engineer at Blueshift, maintaining efficiently 2 AWS sites deployed with 10+ microservices across the US and EU region with 99.99% SLA's. He has also worked as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Jr. Cloud Support Engineer at Cornerstone OnDemand, managing the physical and virtual infrastructure in 8 DC across the globe, managing the AWS instances spin-ups, and troubleshooting issues on the core OS level, among other responsibilities. Harshal holds a PGDM in Telecommunications Management from MIT School of Technology Management, a Master of Business Administration - MBA in Information Technology Project Management from Bharati Vidyapeeth, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the University of Pune. His tech stack includes SRE, AWS, infra, Terraform, Ansible, ECS, Jenkins, Python, Cassandra, Microservices, Docker, Elastic Search, qa, Redis, and UI.