Harman Birdi

About Harman Birdi

I am a Staff Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer at Rivian, an Electric Vehicle manufacturer that aims to keep the world adventurous forever. With over 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and virtualization, DevOps, site reliability engineering, automation, and scripting, I have the skills and knowledge to design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable cloud solutions for Rivian\'s applications and services.In my current role, I enable all teams to be more proactive in monitoring the health of their applications and troubleshoot effectively in case of an incident by enabling application integration between DataDog, PagerDuty and Rootly. I also work on Rancher set up for factory Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts. As a DevOps Engineer, I helped migrate hundreds of DynamoDB tables to standardize it with terraform guidelines. I also worked as a liaison with core services team on how to use terragrunt and terraform module most effectively for setting up network and code deployments using gitlab pipelines. I am passionate about delivering high-quality solutions that support Rivian\'s mission and vision.

Experience

1. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Rivian

   Apr 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Rivian is an Electric Vehicle manufacturer that aims to keep the world adventurous forever.Responsibilities & Key Accomplishments:• Enable all teams to be more proactive in monitoring the health of their applications and troubleshoot effectively in case of an incident by enabling application integration between DataDog, PagerDuty and Rootly.• Work of Rancher set up for factory Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts.• As DevOps Engineer – I helped migrate hundreds of DynamoDB databases to standardize it with terraform guidelines.• Worked as a liaison with core services team on how to use terragrunt and terraform module most effectively for setting up network and code deployments using gitlab pipelines.• Provide feedback of gitlab merge request for the entire organization – whether it is for Core Services, Vehicle Technology, Payments, Order Management System, Audit or any other squad.

Education

• Sharjah Indian School

  High School, Engineering

  1981 — 1987

• Michigan Technological University

  Bachelors of Science, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

  1987 — 1995

Skills

• Sql
• Linux
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Xml
• Web Applications
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization
• Jira
• Test Automation
• Software Development
• Python
• Deployment
• Architecture
• Unix
• Program Management
• Testing
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Apache
• Mobile Devices
• Git
• Software Quality Assurance
• Java
• Ruby
• Networking
• Soap
• Open Source
• Databases
• Windows
• Bash
• Operating Systems
• E-Commerce
• Javascript
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Php
• Tomcat
• Subversion
• Security