Kushal Kothari
DevOps Consultant | Kubernetes | Docker | Terraform | CI/CD | Agile
- Role
- Senior Consultant at IBM
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kushal Kothari
Result-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with 14 years of experience designing, implementing,…
Experience
Senior Consultant
Jul 2016 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Designed and maintained scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Jenkins.Automated deployment tasks with Shell scripting, cutting release times by 40%.Optimized GitLab token usage for 50+ repositories to enhance security and performance.Integrated vulnerability scans and security compliance checks in CI/CD flows.Led pipeline standardization and conducted proof-of-concept (PoC) efforts for cloud optimization.Received client accolades for consistent delivery excellence.Performing pipeline rewrites to make the application standardized.Removing orphaned config maps as part of a cleanup activity.Built TeamCity-based CI/CD pipelines integrated with Docker for containerized deployments.Automated XML upload scripts, saving 500+ annual hours of manual effort.Managed release management cycles across Dev, QA, and Prod environments.Collaborated in Agile SCRUM sprints ensuring timely, quality deliverables.Delivered end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for Java applications on JBoss.Integrated Grafana & Prometheus monitoring for real-time system visibility.Managed artifact repositories (JFrog, Nexus) and release readiness for major deployments.Mentored junior engineers and authored DevOps best practice playbooks.Environment readiness of non-production environments for new release activity.
Education
Shri Shankaracharya College Of Engineering and Technology
Bachelor Of Engineering, Information Technology
2007 — 2011
Krishna Public School
12, Physics,Chemistry,Maths,English,Computer
2006 — 2007
St. Xaviers High School
10, English,Hindi,Math,Science,Social,Computer
2004 — 2005
Skills
- Unix
- Tomcat
- Confluence
- Jboss Application Server
- Application Support
- Maven
- Svn
- Subversion
- Ssl Certificates
- Sql
- Agile Methodologies
- Shell Scripting
- Git
- Debugging
- Devops
- Ci
- Web Services
- Autosys
- Jira
- Jenkins
- Gradle
- Testing
- Apache
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