About

Raghu Sharma is a highly experienced and skilled DevOps Lead with over 9 years of relevant experience. He currently works at To The New, where he leads a team of 15+ DevOps members. Raghu has successfully migrated a US-based advertising management platform from DC to AWS without downtime, with traffic of approximately 2 million requests per minute. He also has experience in architecting, solutioning, and leading the migration for a customer from Datacenter to AWS, which included big data components like Kafka, Druid, Mapr, Flink, etc. Raghu is proficient in various technologies and tools, including DevOps, AWS, Python, Kafka, Big Data, Senior Software Engineer, Elastic Search, Jenkins, ECS, Microservices, and infra. He has excellent skills in performance tuning for Python Applications, bringing down the cost for customers on AWS by up to 40%, handling burst and high volume traffic during bi-annual sales for the biggest e-commerce beauty products portal in India, and developing high throughput centralized logging solution using Elasticsearch with Kafka as a buffer. Raghu has worked in various roles in the past, including Associate DevOps Lead and DevOps Engineer, where he has developed solutions for shutting down non-production environments during lean hours, setting up shared libraries for microservices deployment on AWS ECS, and setting up Spinnaker for code delivery to production. He has also written tech blogs on different tools and technologies. Raghu holds a Master of Technology - MTech degree in Computer Engineering from YMCA University of Science & Technology and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Kurukshetra University. He has also mentored and trained other team members in various knowledge sharing workshops and sessions and led the interview panel for streamlining the interview process. Raghu is a highly motivated and dedicated professional who is passionate about his work and always strives to deliver the best results.