About

Sameer Jethvani is a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with almost 10 years of experience in various fields such as QA, SDET, and DevOps. He is a jovial and gregarious person who is always eager to learn and implement new things. Sameer is currently working at Alation India as a Sr DevOps Engineer, where he handles various DevOps aspects like branching activities for sprint, immutable deployment using Terraform AWS modules, and supporting QA stacks running on AWS using different services like EC2, Elasticache, ALB-ELB, Route53, IAM roles, session manager, and managing networks through VPC, Subnets, securing infra using security groups, NACLs. Sameer has extensive experience in configuration infrastructure automation using Chef Infra, Chef Server, and testing recipes through Chef inspect. He is proficient in handling Windows GPO for managing Windows instances within Microsoft AD and provisioning, configuring, and maintaining different utility applications like MongoDB, ActiveMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch, required by the application to support various functionalities. Sameer is also an expert in maintaining Jenkins and its slaves, configuring them, administering Jenkins by installing build tools, provisioning users, giving them required permissions through security realms, writing declarative pipelines using groovy DSL, and provisioning new builds using jobDSL. In his past roles at Infor and Birst India, Sameer handled various DevOps aspects such as infrastructure automation, managing overall health of automation, and improvising automation. He was responsible for improvising and managing the overall health of automation at Birst, and he added new features like tagging automated tests with TestRail tests through custom Java annotation, attaching Splunk log links to failing Selenium tests for debugging purposes, attaching node details to failing tests, taking screenshots when tests fail, stabilizing tests by using fluent/explicit waits, and rerunning tests automatically during sprint end days to get stabilized results. Sameer has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and completed his Higher Secondary Education from Alpha High School. He is proficient in various technologies such as DevOps, AWS, Terraform, Redis, MongoDB, Jenkins, SDET, Selenium, Java, Javascript, Elastic Search, UI, Mobile, and Web. Sameer has relevant experience of 11.27 years and is always eager to explore more and more.