About

Prathmesh Lad is a skilled DevOps Engineer and an AI/ML enthusiast with over 3 years of experience in the industry. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Computing, majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Dublin City University. Prathmesh is highly skilled in DevOps tools involving Azure DevOps, Microsoft Azure, AWS Cloud, Kubernetes services, Terraform, Coverity, GitHub, Octopus Deploy, and has worked extensively towards implementing and automating CI/CD pipelines for deploying code in Microsoft Azure Cloud resources like Service Fabric Cluster, Azure Kubernetes Cluster (AKS), Container WebApps, Azure Data Factories, and AWS cloud resources like EKS. Prathmesh has worked on live B2B and B2C projects, and has experience in fields such as Databases and Maintenance, Hardware-Software Interfacing of IoT devices, Android, Desktop and Web Application Development. He is a certified Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) in Software Development Fundamentals and a Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals individual. As a Lead R&D on his Undergrad Degree project, Prathmesh's project was shortlisted among the TOP 30 National Finalists in e-Yantra (a National level project competition) hosted by IIT-Bombay and sponsored by MHRD through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). He has also published a patent in the Official Journal of the Patent Office Journal No. 01/2021 page 575, Intellectual Property India, Govt. of India. Currently working as a Contractor - R&D at alvaria, inc., Prathmesh has performed investigatory POC for onboarding Kafka Stream Manager within the existing product for message queuing, and has worked with the Jenkins pipelines to tag Docker images during the build with Git commit id. In his past roles, Prathmesh has worked as a Software Engineer and an Associate Software Engineer in Cloud Platform Architecture team at gep worldwide. As a DevOps Engineer, he significantly reduced the time taken to set up CI/CD pipelines, implemented Azure Storage account key rotation as a part of DevSecOps practices, and worked on implementing CI/CD pipelines for microservice architecture deployed as self-hosted APIs and micro databases. Prathmesh holds a MSc in Computing (with major options) degree from Dublin City University, and a Bachelor of Engineering - BE degree in IT Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He also holds a 12th