Akash Mendhe

About Akash Mendhe

More than 3.5 years of experience in creating, optimizing, and delivering solutions on cloud platforms for global clients. As a DevOps and cloud Engineer, I am proficient in GCP and AWS services and Terraform as an laC tool. I can set up effective CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GCP and AWS DevOps Pipelines. I also have experience in using Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and Grafana for monitoring.If you catch me outside of work, I actively participate in social and technical activities. I was a organizer of various technical and social events in pi out at m••••••••@gmail.com.

Experience

1. Senior Process Executive

   Cognizant

   Mar 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Deployed and managed cloud services on GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run. VPC). • Migrated infrastructure provisioning from GCP Deployment Manager to Terraform for better scalability and cost efficiency. • Automated infrastructure deployment using Terraform and Shell scripts across GCP environments. • Managed and orchestrated containerized applications with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), ensuring efficient scaling and high availability of microservices. • Implemented secure networking with VPC, firewall rules, and VPC Peering to protect cloud resources. • Configured IAM policies for role-based access control (RBAC), ensuring proper access permissions and enhancing security. • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions using Google Stackdriver and Prometheus, enabling proactive issue detection and performance optimization for cloud applications

Education

• Government College of Engineering Aurangabad

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  2016 — 2019