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Ashish Saxena
AWS Certified Solutions Architect with specialties in architecting, building and delivering highly
resilient, scalable and distributed technology platforms with a cloud-first and agile mentality. With
a strong emphasis on customer-centricity and business-focused solution development, I have
demonstrated expertise in solution architecture and building full lifecycle IT solutions in a diverse
set of industry verticals.

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ashishsaxena1104@gmail.com
+91-9560780036

Skillset

Cloud DevOps Databases

RDBMS - MySQL, MariaDB, Replication,
AWS - EC2, S3, LightSail, RDS, Route 53, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes(Basics),
KMS, Lambda, SES, SNS, SQS & Ansible, Terraform. Backups and Recovery, Database
Cloudwatch.  Configuration, Optimization &
Normalization.
Linux Administration, Shell Scripting.
NoSQL - MongoDB, ElasticSearch(Basics)
Data Warehouse  - Redshift

Security Version Control  Backend

Open Web Application Security
Project(OWASP), PCI-DSS Compliance,
Prevention of XSS, CSRF, DDoS, SQL
Injection.
AWS -WAF, Security Groups, NACL.
GIT(Gitlab/GitHub) - Workflows, Rebasing,
Merging Strategies etc., 
DB Migrations - Phinx(PHP), Mongoose
Migrations.
Javascript - NodeJS, ExpressJS.  
REST(API) - Apigility, OpenAPI, Swagger,
Postman.
PHP - Laravel(basics)

Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Credential ID : QF2JD1M1EN411SWX) 
Valid Till March 11, 2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Credential ID : E7WFBKV1FJFQQPW3 )

Valid Till December 23, 2022

Experience

1k Kirana Bazaar, DevOps Lead, November  2021 - Present

Design AWS infrastructure for new applications from Scratch. 
Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible.
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Containerization of the existing applications using Docker. 
Deployment of the containerized applications to AWS EC2, AWS ECS/Fargate. 
Application and Log Monitoring using New Relic and Cloudwatch. 
Migration/Setup of Production workloads on AWS RDS Aurora(MySQL).
MongoDB Cluster Setup and configuration. 
CDN Setup for Serving Images using Cloudfront, S3, Lambda and API Gateway. 
Setup and Maintenance of CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins.
Handling security of cloud using Security Groups, IAM, Cloud Trail, WAF.
VPN and Jump Server setup for secure access of Private Compute and Database Instances. 
Data Ingestion Pipeline setup using AWS Glue. 
Data Warehouse setup using Redshift. 
S3-Athena Integration for Data Analytics.  
Cost Optimization, Monitoring and Reporting on AWS. 

Nuclay Solutions, DevOps Lead, December 2018 - November 2021

Capacity planning and Architecture Design of AWS Infrastructure.
Selecting appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements. 
Containerization of the existing applications using Docker. 
Cost Optimization using Reserved Instances, AWS Savings plans.
Infrastructure monitoring using Cloudwatch.
S3 Events, SNS and SQS for triggering multiple Lambda functions(written in NodeJS).
Deployment of applications to EC2, Lambda, ECS.
Setup Serverless Applications on Lambda using Serverless Framework(CloudFormation).
Route53 configuration for DNS Management.
Handling security of cloud using Security Groups, NACL, IAM, Cloud Trail, WAF.
Migration/Setup of Production workloads on AWS RDS Aurora(MySQL).
Backups Storage on S3 and EBS Snapshots Management on AWS
Setting up of Continuous Integration(CI) & Continuous Delivery(CD) Pipelines using Jenkins.
Data Ingestion Pipeline setup using Logstash for ElasticSearch. 
Used ElasticSearch Queries and Aggregations for Diverse Analytical Reports. 
Maintenance of PCI Compliance and Web Application Security Standards.

Nuclay Solutions*, Team Lead, July 2015 - December 2018 

Managing and Handling AWS Cloud Environment. 
Managing AWS Instance Availability, Operations; Troubleshooting for Environment
Stability.
3rd Party application integration using REST API and Automated File Imports from S3.
NagiOS Server setup for Infrastructure Monitoring. 
Self-hosted GitLab Setup and Configuration. 
Mysql DB optimization. 
MySQL to MariaDB migration for improving the performance and speed of website. 
Successfully Migrated an Enterprise Application to AWS EC2 ensuring high availability and scalability. 
Master - Slave Database Replication Setup ensuring real-time backup and recovery.
Code backups using rsync. 
Managing in-house technology team working on NodeJS, REST, AWS.

Nuclay Solutions*, Web Developer, December, 2011 - June 2015

Created user friendly Reporting Dashboards using Highcharts JS, MySQL and PHP5. 
Created Single Page Responsive Donation Web Application using JQuery, CSS, MySQL and PHP5. 
Implemented the migration of givecentral.org from core PHP to Zend 2 MVC Framework creating a responsive
platform using Bootstrap CSS Framework. 
Managed VPS Server on Centos 6. 
Automated repetitive tasks using Shell Scripting and Cron Jobs.   
*MyWorkForce Technologies changed its name to Nuclay Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in December 2018. 

Projects
GiveCentral, Dec 2011 - Present
URL - www.givecentral.org

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Technologies - LAMP, Zend2, Bootstrap, AWS - (EC2, RDS, VPC, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, Lambda), GIT, REST API (Apigility). 

A Scalable Payment Processing Platform hosted on AWS that has grown from zero to 1600+ Clients, 1 Million+ Users and
currently processing an average $10 Million/Month. 

Games91, September 2019 - December 2019 

URL - www.games91.in, www.games91dealers.in

Technologies - NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB, Bootstrap 4, AWS - EC2, VP,S3, Cloudwatch. 

Games91 is a real money gaming platform that has been hosted on AWS. The Backend of the Platform is entirely based on
NodeJS. The Project has quickly grown to 100k+ users in a span of 8 Months. 

Nuclay Emailer, February 2020 - Present

URL - emailer.givecentral.org

Technologies - ExpressJS, NodeJS, AWS Lambda, SES, SQS, S3, API Gateway, EC2, RDS and DynamoDB. 

A NodeJS based Marketing Emailer Application that can send ~6000 Emails in a minute using AWS's SES, Lambda, SQS and
SNS  Services in the backend.

Education
College of Technology, GBPUAT, Pantnagar - July 2007-2011
Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech. - A.E.)

CBSE Board, 12th Grade(Intermediate), July 2004-2006

Physics, Chemistry, Maths & Computer Science with 82% Aggregate.

CBSE Board, 10th Grade(High School), July 2002-2004 

Physics, Chemistry, Maths - 82% Aggregrate.

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