Chitrung N. - Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Apr 2023 - Present

2 years 9 months

Owning, designing, securing, maintaining reliability of the cloud based platform environments, increasing developer productivity and growing the infrastructure team horizontally and vertically to 5 engineers
Realised infrastructure cost reduction of 50% by utilizing efficient spot instances
improved PE developer efficiency by 15% with survey led development process

Apr 2021 - Apr 2023

2 years 1 month

Halved response time of backend while requests were increasing two fold
Moving the product from on premise to native cloud on EKS
Educating engineers on development experience best practices and shaping the organization to adopt these in a formal, repeatable way
Reduce barriers for engineers to deploy and optimize systems, and actively build bridges between security, development, operations, qa, and customer technical support.
Responsible for managerial tasks such as 1:1, performance reviews, participating in interview loops, introducing engineering levels

Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

2 years

Owning and securing the cloud based content platform production environment
Leading, designing and implementing projects across multiple teams such as: secrets management synchronization component as Kubernetes operator in golang, company wide cloud SSO(Okta) roll out across 200 internal apps
Responsible for corporate security best practices, employee training and SDLC
Management of bug bounty program
Conducting job interviews of candidates
Supporting ISO27001 implementation by facilitating process and writing policies

Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

1 year

Mar 2016 - Aug 2017

1 year 6 months

Berlin, Germany

Planning and execution of VMware ESXi3 to ESXi5 migration.
Deployment of a Selenium Grid test-environment with different Hosts (Windows/Linux) and WebDrivers (PhantomJS, Firefox, InternetExplorer, WebKit)
Designing of the hosting infrastructure with Ansible, based on Docker, Nginx, PHP and MariaDB
Container Orchestration(Ansible, Docker Compose), Designing of CI/CD Pipelines with Gitlab
Designing and applying security concept for internal IT/Infrastructure/Employees

Apr 2015 - Nov 2017

2 years 8 months

adIQ: Analysis and evaluation of the existing database; optimization of queries and structures
geoberlin: Full development and design of the geoberlin blueprint download app, Rollout of the Redmine Project Management System
JallousDruckhaus: Webdesign and Front End Development for Clients with Ruby(on Rails) and Jekyll
Respatex: Update of the old static page into a mobile-responsive website
System Administration of aforementioned clients(Web and Database)

Jan 2012 - Mar 2015

3 years 3 months

Penetration testing of various Systems, Databases(including Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL), Web Applications and Servers.
Analysis and evaluation of IT-Systems, documentation of security vulnerabilites.

Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

2 years