About

Rakesh Arora is a seasoned Lead DevOps Engineer with over 11 years of relevant experience in the field of cloud computing. He is currently working at Thales, a global technology leader in aerospace, defense, and security. Rakesh has a post-graduate degree in DevOps from Caltech, which has equipped him with the latest knowledge and skills required for his job. Rakesh has worked with various cloud computing companies, including AWS, and has gained expertise in making infrastructure on the go. He has worked on several projects, including building systems that require automation via bash scripting, automation of nginx deployment within complete UrbanClap AWS infra, and pre-warming of servers. Rakesh has also built tools for developers, such as checking the docker containers log, search-container-id/kill-container-id, databases-read-and-write-only-access, and production-server-access. At Urban Company, Rakesh was responsible for handling provisioning of servers, setting infra for different applications, and server access management. He has also worked on cost optimization, where he shared monthly billing of AWS infra with the team and worked on infra security. Rakesh has set up Cloudflare in front of UrbanClap.com, which is securing their infra from many attacks like DDOS, and blocking of IPs is easy using firewall tools. Rakesh has a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Punjab Technical University and a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) degree from Himachal Pradesh University. He also completed his +2 from GAV S.S. School. Rakesh has expertise in various technologies, including DevOps, AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Azure, ECS, MySQL, MongoDB, Web, Senior Software Engineer, PHP, Cassandra, Search, Ansible, Apache Airflow, test, product manager, Microservices, and GCP. In summary, Rakesh Arora is an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with a strong educational background and expertise in various cloud computing technologies. He is passionate about serving in IT with his best knowledge and experiences and has a proven track record of delivering results in his previous roles.