About

Sarankumar Sekar is a Senior DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field. He is currently working at Systech Solutions, Inc as a Cloud Platform Support and DevOps Engineer, where he is responsible for end-to-end ETL applications and other activities for FOX - Data Products, a client of Systech. Sarankumar has extensive experience in constructing required infrastructure on AWS cloud and deploying applications as part of the You Build; You Own initiative. He has optimized and provisioned the LCUs for ALB based on the application load and created SNS alerts at various stages of the pipeline, which he monitors using CloudWatch. He has also created Route53 record set automatic traffic flip using Cloudwaze and improved existing pipelines to create AWS ECS clusters and facilitate canary deployments. Sarankumar has experience in planning high-stake releases with live traffic using Blue Green Deployment/Canary Deployment Techniques for 1000+ of java Restful APIs and SOAP. He is skilled in capacity analysis and proactive infrastructure scales up and down for peak season traffic. He has also implemented Blue/Green and Canary deployment for the Weekly/Monthly release and performance analysis for peak session monitor and ASG configure for ECS. Sarankumar has created multiple dashboards and alert setups on Splunk and Data Dog to view various success/failure transactions, rate, and other statistics in real-time. He has worked with several ETL applications, including Fvetran, Databricks, DBT, Tableau, and Looker, and is proficient in DevOps tools such as AWS, Jenkins, Python, Jfrog Artifcatory, and GitHub. Sarankumar has worked with Wipro in the past as a Cloud DevOps Engineer and Cloud Support & DevOps Engineer. He has experience in hands-on ECS Cluster and standalone ELB-ECS stacks creation, configuring task and EC2 level autoscaling for the cluster, and automating R53 Record set for traffic flip from one region to another region. He has played a key role in Design Review Board to assess flaws, backward compatibility, and to make sure no impact to existing Infrastructure due to a new component or new version during the initial stages of deployment. Sarankumar holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai. He is proficient in AWS, DevOps, ECS, Jenkins, ETL, test, infra, Docker, Databricks