About

Ronald Benjamin is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a proficiency in DevOps/SRE, actively looking for new job opportunities. He has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Christ University and a Bachelor's degree in the same field from the same institution. Ronald has a relevant experience of 1.37 years in the industry and has worked with companies like IBM and TCS in the past. Ronald has a strong technical background and is well-versed in various technologies such as Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Microservices, and Android. He has a good understanding of code organization with packages and MVC patterns, and his proficiency in containers with Docker and container orchestration tool with Kubernetes is commendable. Ronald has also worked on infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus and Sysdig to scrape metric, and has hands-on experience with promQL, Recording Rule, Alerting, Creating routing tree for alerts, Pushgateway, and Service Discovery. Ronald's technical expertise extends to web development and he has a proficient understanding of templates, routing, net/http package, serving files, creating state and session. He has a good understanding of passing values through URL/FORM with enctype, also with form-file, form-get, and form-post and redirects. Ronald is also well-versed with Web Dev toolkit such as base64, hmac, https, json, cookies, and context. Ronald has a good understanding of gRPC framework and protocol buffers, and his knowledge of different APIs such as unary, server streaming, client streaming, and Bi-directional streaming is noteworthy. He has also worked on integrating databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL database (MongoDB) with Go. In his current role at IBM, Ronald is working under IBM cloud storage development and monitoring the health of Kubernetes cluster. He is also scraping metrics using Prometheus and creating Dashboard using Grafana. Ronald is responsible for creating alert and routing tree for alerts (Slack, PagerDuty, and Gmail) and writing static and file-based service discovery. Ronald has excellent communication skills and has conducted sessions to teach colleagues on GoLang and Kubernetes during his tenure at TCS. His passion for learning and adapting to new technologies is evident from his LinkedIn summary, where he has listed his proficiency in various technologies and his willingness to learn more.