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Manoj Vardhineni Venkata is a skilled Senior Lead DevOps Engineer with over 6.5 years of industry experience. He is currently working at SHADOWFAX, where he leads the site reliability engineering, DevOps, and security teams. Manoj is passionate about the DevOps discipline and has worked with multiple clients in the start-up space. He has extensive technical knowledge and hands-on experience in implementing container-based orchestration solutions. He is diligent in learning new tools and updating his knowledge about known toolsets. Manoj's expertise lies in setting up high infrastructure at scale. Manoj has a strong technical skillset, including scripting using Shell and Python, GNU/Linux operating systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Redhat, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm for orchestration, AWS and Azure for cloud, Jenkins and Travis for CI, Ansible, Terraform, and Chef for infrastructure as code, EFK, ELK for logging, Github, Gitlab, and Bitbucket for version control, Maven for build tools, Nexus and Artifactory for artifact repository, Nagios, Monit, Sensu, and Prometheus for monitoring, and Nginx and Haproxy for web servers. In his current role at SHADOWFAX, Manoj provides technical leadership to the site reliability engineering, DevOps, and security teams. He researches, architects, and drives complex technical solutions consisting of multiple technologies and multi-tier systems. He writes detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, and operating procedures. Manoj has built the Kubernetes platform from scratch, migrated all monolithic applications to Kubernetes, and built a strong logging and monitoring system. He has also built the entire CI/CD pipeline from scratch. Previously, Manoj worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at mfine, where he configured an openvpn setup that allowed any number of users to connect parallel with MFA. He built a logging system for the entire mfine platform using ELK and EFK and implemented a highly available, fault-tolerant Kubernetes setup by leveraging technologies like Helm and ISTIO. Manoj also played a major role in Stackroute's infra, version control, app build, deployment, and release pipelines. He has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from VIT. Manoj's relevant experience is 7.86 years, and his tech stack includes DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform,