About

Prasanna Desai is a versatile Senior DevOps/SRE professional with over 10 years of experience in the field. He is currently working as a Senior Build and Release Engineer at Medlife, where he is responsible for testing, building, and deploying software releases. Prasanna has a proven track record of developing and implementing effective software release management strategies for various applications. He has also automated the build and deployment process using tools such as Jenkins, Maven, and Shell Script, eliminating the need for manual work. Additionally, he has set up a Jenkins cluster in AWS using Spot Instance for Jenkins node machines, reducing the cost of running the infrastructure. Prasanna is proficient in microservices setup with Docker and Amazon Web Services ECS and ECR. He has also automated the QA workload infrastructure setup on AWS Spot Instances using Python BOTO, with persistent volume. Furthermore, he has automated the production workload on AWS Spot Instances fleet to reduce costs on OnDemand EC2 instances. Prasanna's expertise also includes setting up Prometheus and Grafana for application monitoring and automating canary daytime deployment. He has set up and managed Postgres database clusters and migrated On-Prem Build and release systems to AWS cloud. Prasanna has worked on overall AWS cost optimization, EC2 right-sizing, and resource optimization. He has also handled spot termination for better utilization of Spot instance, helping in AWS cost optimization. Prasanna has worked as a Senior QA Engineer at Medlife and QA Engineer at Cloodon in the past. He has a diverse tech stack that includes AWS, SRE, DevOps, QA, Jenkins, ECS, test, Python, Docker, Microservices, Postgres, Web, and infra. Overall, Prasanna is a highly skilled DevOps/SRE professional with a wealth of experience in software release management, automation, and infrastructure setup.