Ashish Saxena
AWS Certified Solutions Architect with specialties in architecting, building and delivering highly resilient, scalable and distributed technology platforms with a cloud-first and agile mentality. With a strong emphasis on customer-centricity and business-focused solution development, I have demonstrated expertise in solution architecture and building full lifecycle IT solutions in a diverse set of industry verticals.
Gurugram, India.
+91-9560780036
Skills
Cloud
AWS - EC2, S3, LightSail, RDS, Route 53, KMS, Lambda, SES, SNS, SQS & Cloudwatch.
Linux Administration, Shell Scripting.
DevOps
CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS CodeCommit-CodeDeploy.
Containers/Orchestration - Docker, Kubernetes(Basics).
Databases
RDBMS - MySQL, MariaDB, Replication, Backups and Recovery, Database Configuration, Optimization & Normalization.
NoSQL - MongoDB, ElasticSearch(Basics)
Security
Open Web Application Security Project(OWASP), PCI-DSS Compliance, Prevention of XSS, CSRF, DDoS, SQL Injection.
AWS -WAF, Security Groups, NACL.
Version Control
GIT(Gitlab/GitHub) - Workflows, Rebasing, Merging Strategies etc.,
DB Migrations - Phinx(PHP), Mongoose Migrations.
3rd-Party Applications Integration
Donor Management - Portfolio, Raiser's Edge, Salesforce NPSP.
Email - Jango(SOAP), Constant Contact(REST), Active Campaign, Sendgrid.
Payment Gateway - GoeMerchant, USAG, Razor Pay, Instamojo etc.
Agile/Scrum
JIRA,Trello, Youtrack, Basecamp,
Zoho CRM, Mantis.
Story development, Milestone Identification, Resource Scheduling.
Backend
Javascript - NodeJS, ExpressJS.
REST(API) - Apigility, OpenAPI, Swagger, Postman.
PHP - Laravel, Zend2.
Frontend
Frameworks - Bootstrap 3 & 4
Templating - Twig, Pug & EJ.
Javascript - jQuery, VueJS(Basics).
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Credential ID : QF2JD1M1EN411SWX)
Valid Till March 11, 2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Credential ID : E7WFBKV1FJFQQPW3 )
Valid Till December 23, 2022
Certified Scrum Master(CSM), Scrum Alliance (Credential ID -739723)
Valid till July 23, 2021.
Experience
Nuclay Solutions, Technical Architect, December 2018 - Present
- Capacity planning and Architecture Design of AWS Infrastructure.
- Selecting appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.
- Design, implement and maintain AWS infrastructure and services within AWS environment.
- Cost Optimization Solutions based on Reserved Instance Model, AWS Cost Saving plans and more.
- Configured and managed various AWS Services including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CDN, CloudWatch.
- S3 Events, SNS and SQS for triggering multiple Lambda functions(written in NodeJS).
- CI/CD Pipelines using Serverless Framework(CloudFormation).
- Route53 configuration for DNS Management.
- Handling security of cloud using Security Groups, NACL, IAM, Cloud Trail, WAF.
- Migration/Setup of Production workloads on AWS RDS Aurora(MySQL).
- Backups Storage on S3 and EBS Snapshots Management on AWS
- Setting up of Continuous Integration(CI) & Continuous Delivery(CD) Pipelines using Jenkins.
- Data Ingestion Pipeline setup using Logstash for ElasticSearch.
- Used ElasticSearch Queries and Aggregations for Diverse Analytical Reports.
- Salesforce NPSP Integration - Bi-directional Sync between two Applications using Rest APIs.
- Maintenance of PCI Compliance and Web Application Security Standards.
Nuclay Solutions*, Scrum Master & Development Team Lead, July 2017 - December 2018
- Managing and Handling AWS Cloud Environment.
- Managing AWS Instance Availability, Operations; Troubleshooting for Environment
Stability.
- 3rd Party application integration using REST API and Automated File Imports from S3.
- Identification and Resolution of CSRF, XSS and Clickjacking vulnerabilities.
- Managing in-house technology team working on PHP, NodeJS, REST, AWS.
- End-to-End handing of PCI Compliance Audit.
- Facilitation of Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
- Product backlog refinement.
- Maintenance of PCI Compliance and Web Application Security Standards.
Nuclay Solutions*, Development Team Lead, July 2015 - June 2017
- NagiOS Server setup for Resource Monitoring.
- GitLab Setup and Configuration.
- Database optimization.
- MySQL to MariaDB migration for improving the performance and speed of website.
- Implemented a mix of normalized and de-normalized database structures to enhance the performance of stored procedures and queries.
- REST API Migration.
- 3rd Party Payment Processor integration
- Jango Mail's SOAP API integration.
- Successfully Migrated an Enterprise Application to AWS EC2 ensuring high availability and scalability.
- Master - Slave Database Replication Setup ensuring real-time backup and recovery using AWS snapshots, mysqldump.
- Code backup system using rsync.
Nuclay Solutions*, Web Developer, December, 2011 - June 2015
- Created user friendly Reporting Dashboards using Highcharts JS, MySQL and PHP5.
- Created Single Page Responsive Donation Web Application using JQuery, CSS, MySQL and PHP5.
- Implemented the migration of givecentral.org from core PHP to Zend 2 MVC Framework creating a responsive platform using Bootstrap CSS Framework.
- Managed VPS Server on Centos 6.
- Automated repetitive tasks using Shell Scripting and Cron Jobs.
*MyWorkForce Technologies changed its name to Nuclay Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in December 2018.
Projects
GiveCentral, Dec 2011 - Present
URL - www.givecentral.org
Technologies - LAMP, Zend2, Bootstrap, AWS - (EC2, RDS, VPC, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, Lambda), GIT, REST API (Apigility).
A Scalable Payment Processing Platform hosted on AWS that has grown from zero to 1600+ Clients, 1 Million+ Users and currently processing an average $10 Million/Month.
Games91, September 2019 - December 2019
URL - www.games91.in, www.games91dealers.in
Technologies - NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB, Bootstrap 4, AWS - EC2, VP,S3, Cloudwatch.
Games91 is a real money gaming platform that has been hosted on AWS. The Backend of the Platform is entirely based on NodeJS. The Project has quickly grown to 100k+ users in a span of 8 Months.
Nuclay Emailer, February 2020 - Present
URL - emailer.givecentral.org
Technologies - ExpressJS, NodeJS, AWS Lambda, SES, SQS, S3, API Gateway, EC2, RDS and DynamoDB.
A NodeJS based Marketing Emailer Application that can send ~6000 Emails in a minute using AWS's SES, Lambda, SQS and SNS Services in the backend.
Education
College of Technology, GBPUAT, Pantnagar - July 2007-2011
Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech. - A.E.)
CBSE Board, 12th Grade(Intermediate), July 2004-2006
Physics, Chemistry, Maths & Computer Science with 82% Aggregate.
CBSE Board, 10th Grade(High School), July 2002-2004
Physics, Chemistry, Maths - 82% Aggregrate.
