I am a DevOps and Data Engineering specialist with over 17 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade IT infrastructure and data platforms across AWS, Azure, and Linux on-premise environments. I excel at leading engineering teams, implementing infrastructure-as-code, managing large Kubernetes clusters, and ensuring high availability for mission-critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, performance tuning, and DevOps best practices. In recent roles, I designed and run production ETL pipelines in Azure using Data Factory and Airflow integration runtime, migrated cloud data warehouses to Astro Airflow, built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and managed production Kafka clusters. I also built and maintained data platforms with Docker Swarm, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, and mentored high-performance teams across multiple cloud environments.

RAMESH Babu

I am a DevOps and Data Engineering specialist with over 17 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade IT infrastructure and data platforms across AWS, Azure, and Linux on-premise environments. I excel at leading engineering teams, implementing infrastructure-as-code, managing large Kubernetes clusters, and ensuring high availability for mission-critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, performance tuning, and DevOps best practices. In recent roles, I designed and run production ETL pipelines in Azure using Data Factory and Airflow integration runtime, migrated cloud data warehouses to Astro Airflow, built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and managed production Kafka clusters. I also built and maintained data platforms with Docker Swarm, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, and mentored high-performance teams across multiple cloud environments.

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I am a DevOps and Data Engineering specialist with over 17 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade IT infrastructure and data platforms across AWS, Azure, and Linux on-premise environments. I excel at leading engineering teams, implementing infrastructure-as-code, managing large Kubernetes clusters, and ensuring high availability for mission-critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, performance tuning, and DevOps best practices.

In recent roles, I designed and run production ETL pipelines in Azure using Data Factory and Airflow integration runtime, migrated cloud data warehouses to Astro Airflow, built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and managed production Kafka clusters. I also built and maintained data platforms with Docker Swarm, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, and mentored high-performance teams across multiple cloud environments.

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Language

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Work Experience

IT Technical Lead at Underwriters Laboratories
January 10, 2023 - Present
Designed and implemented highly critical production ETL pipelines in Azure cloud with tools such as Azure Data Factory and Airflow integration runtime. Architected and implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps that build Data Factory infrastructure in UAT and Production based on environment changes in DEV. Built and managed production DataHub infrastructure in a Docker Swarm cluster with services: Airflow, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, MemSQL, Jupyter. Successfully migrated cloud data warehouse project to Astro Airflow cloud infrastructure to run production DAGs. Led CI/CD using GitHub Actions; managed data pipelines via Informatica Cloud and Azure Data Factory. Mentored a high-performance consultant engineering team to ensure daily operational success. Built and managed a production Docker Swarm Kafka cluster. Owned and executed a set of high-priority Kafka remediation topics through Airflow DAGs in DataHub production.
Principal Software Engineer – DevOps at Noodle.ai
November 1, 2019 - June 1, 2022
Led DevOps efforts for AI product deployments across customers such as Estee Lauder and Kellogg’s. Designed, implemented and managed end-to-end CI/CD using Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, Airflow, Kubernetes, Vault, and PostgreSQL in AWS cloud. Created and maintained a multi-tenant Tableau cluster; automated AWS infrastructure via Terraform. Collaborated closely with a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full-stack systems.
Lead DevOps Engineer at Target Corporation
July 1, 2017 - October 1, 2019
Ensured 24/7 uptime for target.com during India hours, collaborating with development and operations teams on performance, release management, and monitoring. Owned and enhanced internal customer support application “Axion” used by CSR teams. Engaged in capacity planning, incident response, and cross-team coordination for high-traffic systems.
Senior CloudOps Engineer at Citrix R&D Pvt Ltd
September 1, 2014 - June 1, 2017
Managed 2000+ VMs/physical nodes running Citrix product environments; maintained Citrix CloudStack. Provided DNS, IP allocation, and troubleshooting for global infrastructure. Represented India team during onsite knowledge-sharing visit to Citrix LA office.
Senior Systems Engineer at Sabre India Pvt Ltd
May 1, 2009 - August 1, 2014
Supported Travelocity.com and lastminute.com infrastructure, ensuring uptime and resolving critical incidents. Developed Jenkins pipelines, built alerting with Nagios, and authored runbooks for L1 support teams. Automated recovery scripts for service resiliency.

Education

B.E. in Information Technology at Visvesvaraya Technological University
August 1, 2001 - June 30, 2005

Qualifications

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2009
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 1, 2017 - January 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet

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