
Jigar Rathod
Devops Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I have over a decade of experience in Software Engineering. I started my career working with on-premise air-gapped servers and slowly moved into managing microservices deployed into Kubernetes. I have worked with tools like Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana to solve various issues. I am eager to contribute and learn about new upcoming tech stacks.
Work experience
DevOps Engineer
Quaker Houghton
May 2025 - Nov 2025
7 months
Conshohocken, PA 19428, USA
DevOps Engineer
Houzz
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
2 years 1 month
Devops engineer
Interactive Brokers
Nov 2017 - Feb 2023
5 years 4 months
Greenwich, CT, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
Harris Institute for Assured Information
Feb 2016 - May 2017
1 year 4 months
Melbourne, FL, USA
– Utilized OpenStack, OpenStack4j, Vagrant, REST and so on to implement functionalities for Virtual Infrastructure Network Emulator (VINE). – Hands on experience with Cloud Infrastructure and Services like OpenStack. – Integrated Sensu with VINE to gather information from different virtual machines. – Developed VM specific, testbed specific and VINE specific user data functionality. – Utilized builder design pattern to implement the code. – Migrated the codebase from Openstack 2.0.4 to Openstack 3.0. – Published thesis on "The Effects of Virtualization on Database Benchmarking”. – Designed a service network for each virtual machines created on VINE. – Implemented testbed import/export testbed feature between different VINE instances. – Used Ansible for remote installation ofdifferent services such as database, ELK stack, tomcat server. – Implemented PXE boot to install Ubuntu 14 and wrote ansible role to create PXE server. – Published thesis on "The Effects of Virtualization on Database Benchmarking”.
Elitecore Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Jan 2013 - Aug 2015
2 years 8 months
Junior Software Engineer
Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
2 years 1 month
– Implemented Direct Debit payment feature using various technologies such as EJB, JPA, and ZK. – Wrote tables, queries, procedures, schedulers and triggers to transfer data from the production database to Operational Data Store. – Created business report such as daily/monthly/yearly payment report, mode-wise payment report. – Reduced the task of managing server by writing shell scripts to perform various tasks such as fetching the latest code, compiling the code and deploying deliverable on the server and integrated them with Jenkins. – Automated the process of generating flush-scripts to remove the test data from the database. – Identified the areas of improvements by performing load testing using Apache JMeter. – Integrated JRebel with the codebase and performed live deployment on JBoss server which reduces the compilation and deployment time by 20%. – Used JIRA to test and track the Issues and Bugs and for the Project Management.
Project Trainee
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
8 months
– Integrated code analysis tools such as FindBugs and Sonar. – Utilized delegate and singleton design patterns to develop code. – Migrated code from JDBC to JPA and designed GUI in ZK OSS. – Wrote Ant build scripts to compile the java code, deploy the application on JBoss server and to perform code analysis. – Used JBoss application server to test and deploy the application. – Managed the database and server to identify and resolve inter-module problems.
Education
Florida Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Computer Science
2015 - 2017
2 years 1 month
L.D.R.P. - I.T.R.
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering
2009 - 2013
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Oracle Certified Java Programmer
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Agent Mesh Practitioner
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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator
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