About Me

Hi There!

My name is Akhil Sharma. I’m a DevOps Engineer by profession, a traveler by passion and writer by love.

Awards

• Microsoft Azure Content Hero
• Azure Kudos

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
• Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Professional
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Associate
• Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Specialist
• Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
• Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate – SFPC™
• Cyber Security Foundation Professional Certificate – CSFPC™
• Aviatrix Certified Engineer – Multi-Cloud Network Associate
• Lean Six Sigma White Belt
• Flosum Certified Professional
• Copado Certified Administrator
• Copado Certified Developer

I have 8+ years of experience in the field of information technology. I initially started as a Software Developer and gradually ended up being a DevOps Engineer. I’ve experience working on the following:
Scripting: Bash, PowerShell
Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Teamcity, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines
Continuous Deployment: OctopusDeploy, AzureDevOps
Version Control System: Git, BitBucket, Gitlab
Build Tools: MSBuild, Maven, Make
Artifact Management: JFrog, NuGet
Static Code Analysis: SonarQube, Fortify
Log Analytics: Microsoft Insights (Azure), Splunk, CloudWatch
Containerisation Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
BugTracker/Task Management: Trello, JIRA
Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services(VPC, EC2, CloudWatch, ELB, IAM, AutoScaling, S3, Route 53, SES, RDS)
– Experience in setting up CI/CD Processes from scratch!
– Experience in setting up a Disaster Recovery System for Azure Platform

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