About

Nitish Singh Chauhan is a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer II at Rakuten with over 6 years of experience in DevOps (CI/CD) technologies as well as on GCP, AWS, and Openstack Cloud services. He is proficient in several technologies, including Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Loki, EFK, Gitlab, Vault, GitOps, and more. Nitish has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Babu Banarasi Das University and a High School degree in Science from Army Public School, Lucknow. In his current role at Rakuten, Nitish is responsible for several key areas, including DevOps, Infrastructure, CI/CD, and Security. He has deployed the stack to monitor and log the various services of applications deployed on Kubernetes, used Thanos with Prometheus for multitenancy, and deployed Loki with Promtail for logging. Nitish has also worked with the team to build the infrastructure for application from scratch using Terraform on GCP, deployed and managed multiple clusters on GKE and EKS using Terraform, and is currently working along with the team in developing a platform that automates the creation of Kubernetes Platform on GCP and AWS. Nitish migrated from self-managed Gitlab to Gitlab SAAS and used multiple strategies to improve the build time by 50%. He deployed and configured on GKE such a way that it scales up and scaled down based upon the workload and used Kaniko to build Docker images. Nitish also worked with the team to deploy Hashicorp Vault to store sensitive data and deployed external secrets to fetch secrets from Vault to Kubernetes clusters. In his previous role at Jio, Nitish worked as a Cloud DevOps Engineer and was responsible for several areas, including DevOps, Jio Cloud Platform, Kubernetes as a Service, and Cloud Monitoring. He developed various scripts to enhance the monitoring and auto-healing scripts for Ceph and Openstack that helped reduce the downtime and business impact. Nitish also worked on Saltstack that is being used for configuration management and developed a single pane glass view POC which gives an overview of all the alerts that are there in the environment. Overall, Nitish is an experienced DevOps engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is highly skilled in several technologies and has a proven track record of delivering successful projects.