About

Ramachandra (Ram) Joshi is a results-driven professional with 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He specializes in DevOps areas such as automating configuration management using CHEF, ensuring server compliance (Inspec), build and release automation (CI/CD), infrastructure solutioning and management, and project management. Currently, he serves as the Manager Product Specialists/Sr Customer Architect at Chef Software. At Chef, Ram has led several successful projects, including migrating a financial customer to CHEF from Puppet, providing solutions to customers to implement Azure DevOps pipeline to build and deploy cookbooks and InSpec profiles, and helping customers migrate from chef-client 12.x, 13.x to 14.x. He has also provided solutions to customers in implementing infrastructure automation with best practices and worked with several Fortune 500 customers in implementing Chef pipeline using tools like Foodcritic, Cookstyle, Test Kitchen, and CI tools. Additionally, he has worked with customers to check their infrastructure for CIS compliance and has written cookbooks to make servers compliant. Ram has expertise in software configuration, build and release management, including coming up with layout branching strategies, coordinating with project management, testing and development teams for creating branches, and deploying the code onto production environment. He is proficient in automating deployment onto QA, performance, and production servers, setting up continuous integration servers Jenkins/Hudson, maintaining the build and deployment servers, and generating release notes. His key skills include proficiency in tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, Chef, InSpec, Terraform, Artifactory & Vault and operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and AIX. He is also skilled in scripting languages like Shell, PowerShell, and PERL scripting and has experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and CMMI methodologies. Ram is knowledgeable in languages like Ruby, C, C++, and Java. Ram holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University. He has worked in various roles in his career, including Senior Customer Architect and Architect, Services at Progress Chef. With relevant experience of 19.20 years, Ram is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a skilled DevOps professional.