Parasdeep Singh

Holding the reigns of DevOps & Infrastructure in production, while providing a nourishing and dependable atmosphere for all technical and non-technical teams. Highlights of the journey so far:

• Design and construct the future infrastructure of Aotal, in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Manage the complete lifecycle of Aotal's Helm - Kubernetes - Terraform - AWS  backend single-handedly.
• Maintain and upgrade Aotal's legacy infrastructure running on ECS
• Work fully remotely with the development and operations teams in New Zealand
• Provide 24/7 on-call support for Aotal's critical systems serving clients across New Zealand, Australia and the USA
• Mentor the Auckland based operations team with DevOps best practices and guide them through legacy migrations.

Leading operational DevOps and rapport with four contrasting teams in Stuff's Auckland office solo. Highlights of the journey are as follows:

• Ensure the highly available stuff.co.nz website serving over two million customers every day, and it's supporting infrastructure and services remain available and pristine.
• Work remotely with the wider DevOps team, while working closely with developers in the Auckland office.
• Bring the DevOps teams tarnished name into the limelight, as being reliable, trustable and friendly by enabling and building rapport with four very different teams with distinct tech stacks and working ethos.
• Mentor and support juniors in technical best practices, and operational protocols.
• Build and maintain Stuff's critical legacy infrastructure in AWS using Docker, Puppet and Concourse.
• Build and maintain Stuff's new infrastructure in GCP using Kubernetes, Jenkins and Terraform.
• Configure and maintain a highly sophisticated CDN network using Akamai and Varnish caching.
• Provide on-call support utilizing a NewRelic and ELK based monitoring stack over PagerDuty in the mission-critical world of journalism.
• Work closely with and enable the New Product Development team in their trailblazing engineering journey.

Spreading DevOps as a culture in the company and be the key drivers of automation and security in the rapidly growing enterprise. Highlights of the journey are as follows:

• Break down locally-hosted monolithic programs into cloud-hosted micro-services with deployment automation using Terraform and best security practices. 
• Build a chief  SaaS application to provision multiple CI pipelines for a product using Jenkins Job DSL, AWS Boto3 and Terraform.
• Guide and assist product teams into their journey of adopting DevOps as a culture.
• Mentor and lead interns over 3 months, in producing a proof-of-concept SaaS application. 
• Work together as part of the Operations Team and handle on-site issues.

Building an enterprise-level Billing and CRM solution as part of an Agile cross-functional team for the Australian and Singapore electricity market. Highlights of the journey are as follows:

• Successfully deliver an enterprise market-ready solution in the Australian and Singapore electricity market in due time as part of a cross-functional team.
• Briefly participate as a scrum master in Gentrack's transitioning development culture.
• Work with an In-house legacy programming language inspired by IBM's UNIBASIC and UNI-data.
• Develop an enterprise-level Java Spring Hibernate project that follows BDD for Billing and CRM in Australia.
• Implement an SFTP interface in conjunction with existing Windows Component Services written in C# for the enterprise product.
• Actively contribute to architectural decisions regarding internal development and testing tools.

Building an automated deployment and testing pipeline from scratch for a legacy enterprise-level Billing and CRM solution, and a Selenium testing framework in an Agile SCRUM focused development team. Highlights of the journey are as follows:

• Successfully build a CI pipeline using Python, AWS and Jenkins in due time, which serves as the primary benchmarking tool for all builds released into production. 
• Update major chunks of product documentation in the process.
• Create a test harness extension to the CI pipeline for customizing automated performance tests written for JMeter

Facilitator of a Peer-Assisted Study Session for the Software Engineering 1A paper.

• Successfully liaison with lecturers and students to achieve quicker knowledge sharing.
• Maintain a conducive and inspiring environment during the study sessions
• Prepare high-quality content and plan for every PASS session.
• Maintain reports of each session and communicate with the PASS coordinator on a periodic basis
• Collaborate with fellow PASS leaders to improve session quality as an ongoing task
• I was consecutively awarded the PASS facilitator of the semester award.

Charged with helping the lecturer and students in maintaining good results and understanding of the course content.

• Teach and clarify intermediate Java concepts and GoF design patterns.
• Communicate effectively in a professional manner
• Encourage and nurture passion for programming
• Share and provide useful feedback to course lecturers

Develop a web-based food order and delivery application using React JS

• Learn ReactJS development with Flux in NodeJS
• Follow brand design specifications for the app's GUI
• Consume a REST API to provide major functionality of the web app

The Level 7 program had Software Development as my major stream.

Achievements:

• Awarded The 2017 Runner-Up Dean’s Prize at the Faculty of Business and IT, MIT for my industry project with Gentrack.
• Attained grade A+ in 11 out of 27 papers and a persistent A in the rest.

Graduated with distinction in the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education. My majors were Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Minors being Computer Science and English