VICKNESH RETHINAVELU
CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER

CONTACT

◉ Bangalore
◉ vicknesh22@gmail.com
◉ linkedin.com/in/vicknesh22
◉ github.com/vicknesh22

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Pondicherry University | 2015
Project on Modelling and analysis of high boost DC-DC converter - IEEE.

CERTIFICATIONS

SKILLS

Cloud
GCP, AWS, Azure
Kubernetes
Expert-level knowledge
Programming
Golang, Python, Shell
CI/CD
Jenkins, Helm, Spinnaker
Monitoring
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
Databases
MongoDB, Redis, MySQL

ABOUT ME

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with 9+ years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and platform engineering. Proven track record of optimizing infrastructure costs (₹10L+ annual savings) while improving performance. Expert in Kubernetes (CKA certified - 91% score), multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), and building self-service developer platforms. Led critical infrastructure migrations and automation projects reducing manual work by 38%. Published technical thought leadership on Medium.

WORK EXPERIENCES

CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER

MongoDB | Dec 2023 - Present
  • Built Golang service reducing 38% manual work by categorizing issues and auto-applying playbook fixes using RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Jira APIs, Kubernetes
  • Eliminated RabbitMQ dependency by building gateway endpoint with MongoDB Changestreams and Temporal framework
  • Engineered multi-source correlation system using sliding window algorithm for proactive cloud outage detection
  • Handle Atlas infrastructure issues from Go planner automations across AWS, GCP, and Azure

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

NoBroker.com | Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
  • Led Elasticsearch to ClickHouse migration achieving ₹10L+ annual savings, 10:1 compression ratio, 5,000+ logs/sec throughput
  • Awarded Star Performer for cost optimization and performance improvements
  • Promoted to Senior DevOps Engineer recognizing technical leadership and project delivery

DEVOPS ENGINEER

NoBroker.com | Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
  • Architected initial Kubernetes infrastructure for NoBrokerHood society management application
  • Built self-service staging platform using Docker Swarm eliminating bottlenecks for 100+ developers
  • Implemented Jenkins multi-branch pipelines with Perl automation scripts

DEVOPS ENGINEER

DXC Technology | Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
  • Multi-cloud infrastructure management (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Led Terraform 0.11 to 0.12.1 migration project
  • Received SPOT Award for exceptional project delivery

TECHNICAL LEAD

Cognizant Technology Solutions | Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
  • Production application server management and middleware operations
  • Awarded Client Performer for operational excellence

PROJECTS

Automated Infrastructure Issue Resolution (MongoDB)
Tech: Golang, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Prometheus
38% manual work reduction replacing 3 years of repetitive processes
ClickHouse Logging Infrastructure (NoBroker)
Tech: ClickHouse, Fluent Bit, Redash, Grafana
₹10L+ annual savings, 10:1 compression, 5,000+ logs/sec throughput
Project Blackbox (NoBroker)
Tech: Docker Swarm, Jenkins, Traefik, Prometheus
100+ developers enabled, <5min Git push to HTTPS deployment