Pankaj Motwani

• Collaborated with Data Platform and Data Engineering teams to design and enhance CI/CD system.
• Spearheaded Terraform standardization and upgrade initiative, enhancing infrastructure deployment efficiency.
• Led CI/CD Standardization project, defining and implementing workflow details for static checks, testing, and deployment.
• Implemented comprehensive testing strategies, covering unit tests, integration tests, and Terraform plan checks.
• Orchestrated centralization of CI/CD workflows, creating centralized repository with defined templates and configuration files.

Project Highlights

• CI/CD Centralization - Workflow deployment standards for Data Platform's GitHub repositories, ensuring consistency and adherence to best practices.
  Established static checks, including linting, security scanning, and PR labeling, to maintain code quality.
  Implemented comprehensive testing strategies, covering unit tests, integration tests, and Terraform plan checks.
  
• CI/CD Centralization - Implementation Created central repository for CI/CD workflow configuration.
  Developed workflow templates and configuration files, enabling standardized and reusable workflows.
  Ensured versioning and collaboration by using Git to control changes to workflow files in dedicated repository.
• Impact - Any new Data Platform Project hosted on Github can go live with entire CICD pipeline in few hours rather then one week . So Deployment or Onboarding time of new projects decreased by 70-80 percent.
  

Skills Used

• CI/CD Systems Design
• Terraform Standardization
• Workflow Standardization
• Static Checks and Testing
• Infrastructure as Code
• Version Control (Git)
• Project Centralization
• Team Collaboration

• Was working as a minimal resource (part time) and was helping and guiding their Junior Engineers in building AWS Automation/ Account Factory or Control Tower for faster deployment of AWS Accounts, building overall AWS Cloud Security and making sure best practices are followed
• Guiding Engineering Teams and help teams in managing their application or Services in AWS infrastructure.

• SRE Practices: Experience of managing large containerization platforms hosted on Amazon ECS and EKS( Kubernetes Cluster)
• Installing upgrading and troubleshooting Kubernetes native Control Plane updates/upgrades
• Setting up K8s Control Plane HA, deploying pods, Deploying services and other K8s objects
• Managing Manifests and templating using K8s Helm
• Configuring monitoring tools like Datadog, setting up Datadog and AWS Integration
• Cloud Architect Practices AWS COSTING Management
• IAC Expert in Terraform and CFN
• VMware and Datacenter Expert
• Projects: Design and create three tier Architecture on AWS
• AWS Costing Measures
• Centralized Logging of AWS Events
• AWS Automation and Networking Implementation/Automation
• Microservices Deployments and Automation over various Computing Platforms.

• Automation and quicker deployments of AWS Services and Accounts
• Using CDK, CFN and Terraform
• Python Boto 3 Automation and using Step Functions in automation workflows
• Developing Self Service Solution by using services like AWS Service Catalog etc.

• Involved designing and deploying servers and application by utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (including EC2, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, IAM) focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling
• Implemented three tier architecture solution
• Experience of building AWS Environment from scratch which Involves Account Automation, with MCITP Windows.

• Planned, designed and implemented enterprise solutions involving VMware, EMC, and Microsoft Technologies
• Experience with the design, architecture and implementation of Virtual Infrastructure environments using VMware VI, Virtual Center, Lab Manager, DRS and HA
• Designed and Implemented Microsoft Active Directory Environments
• Experienced in Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL
• Hands on experience with iSCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel protocols on NetApp storage
• Implemented VMware Disaster recovery solutions, VMware Update manager for Patching ESXi hosts, Implemented VMware Horizon View for virtual desktops, VMware VRO for Automation and Orchestration.

• Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components
• Handling DNS Issues, Managing Active Directory Services, Replication issues
• Handling Exchange servers and databases
• Implemented networking and server changes to meet client budgets and needs
• Analyzed security logs to determine and alleviate network threats
• Suggested system updates or changes after conduct in-depth technical reviews.