About

Nitesh Vaidyanath is an experienced DevOps engineer with a strong background in Big Data, Hadoop, Cloudera stack, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Golang, Linux, AWS, Networking, Load Balancer (F5, Haproxy, Nginx), Firewall (Vyatta, Meraki), Database (Maria, Mongo, Redis, InfluxDB), Jenkins, Istio, Cortex, Loki, Promtail, Kubernetes, Tempo, Strimzi Kafka, Envoy, Grafana Cloud Agent, VMagent, Prometheus, Grafana, GCP, Locust, Cloud Architecture, Gitlab, and Git. He has a Master of Technology (M Tech) in System Engineering from BITS, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Telecommunications Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. Currently working as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, Nitesh has extensive experience in automation of AWS infrastructure, EKS and GKE cluster using Terraform, architecture design replacing ELB with HTTP API Gateway and VPC link between Istio ingress LB and API Gateway, Istio mesh setup using operator, adding virtual service, destination rules and ingress gateway, setting up entire Kubernetes infrastructure services, and setting up Cortex, Loki, and Tempo for observability. In his previous role as a Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer at Webex, he worked on big data analysis on client events, using Apache Spark streaming for batch data processing (Pyspark), storing it on HDFS as a parquet file, and Impala as a query engine to query data from the parquet file. He also used Qlik Sense for visualization and worked with Cloudera stack (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Impala, Parquet, Hue, Hbase), Qlik Sense, and Hortonworks. As a DevOps engineer at Netskope, Nitesh set up stacks (environments), complete with the full Netskope end-to-end components for Engineering (setup components like MySQL, Mongo, Redis, Kafka, service components, etc.), automated complete AWS stack using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash, and managed Vyatta and Meraki firewall configuration. He was also involved in machine provisioning from hardware procurement, racking, base OS installation, networking config (DHCP, DNS, IP), and ansible install of service. Nitesh has a relevant experience of 9.28 years and