Lalith Charan.

Scope

Kubernetes-based microservices platform supporting 6+ services, 200+ pods, and multiple namespaces across non-production and production environments.

Key Contributions

• Owned CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Deployed and operated Kubernetes resources including Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.
• Implemented GitOps-based deployments using Argo CD for version-controlled and repeatable releases.
• Centralized application logs for 200+ pods using EFK stack (Fluentd → Elasticsearch → Kibana).
• Configured Prometheus alerts and Grafana dashboards to monitor resource usage, pod health, and application metrics.
• Improved deployment stability by enforcing resource limits, readiness/liveness probes, and controlled rollout strategies.

Outcome

• Reduced manual deployment steps and configuration drift through standardized CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Improved incident response time by enabling centralized logging and actionable monitoring.
• Increased release reliability by preventing unhealthy deployments from reaching production.

Scope

Supported containerized applications and CI/CD pipelines in a shared DevOps environment under senior engineer supervision.

Key Contributions

• Built and maintained Docker images for development and testing environments.
• Used Git (GitHub/GitLab) for branching, pull requests, and release tagging.
• Supported Jenkins pipelines for build and deployment automation.
• Assisted with Kubernetes operations by troubleshooting pods, logs, and resource issues.
• Validated Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and log ingestion pipelines.

Outcome

• Reduced manual deployment effort by supporting CI automation.
• Improved environment consistency through standardized Docker images.
• Enabled faster issue identification through improved monitoring and logging visibility.