Parth Wadhwa
SRE/SDE Manager
Analytical accomplished professional Engineering Manager with 5+ years of experience in multifaceted roles requiring project management, business development, and solutions architecture. Skilled in the areas of agile development, programming, automation, DevOps delivery, and maintaining security and known for being organized and a strong team player.
Gurugram, Haryana, India. ☎ +91 9900624228 Email: [email protected]
Work Experience
SDE 3 - Engineering Lead/Manager
Blinkit (formerly grofers)
Jan 2023 - Present
- Currently managing a team of 6 members.
- Working on inventory management applications, fixing issues of offers, picker fraud, improving store fulfillment ratio, audit etc
- Created new application in golang with grpc, grpc-gateway and protobuf to perform inventory processing.
- Created a new application in golang to easily figure out inventory issues that reduced the everyday analytics task from 6 hours to 2 mins.
- Reviewing architectures of multiple applications in the consumer and the supply chain.
- Reviewing architects of SRE automation pipelines.
SDE 2 / SRE 2
Blinkit (formerly grofers)
August 2021 - Jan 2023
- Revamped the streamer app and created its HA. Added Distributed Locking using consul and gossip protocol for failure detection in Golang.
- Setup and created github actions in kubernetes for ci/cd pipelines.
- Setup debezium for data teams in kubernetes.
- Created local dev environments for all devs with vscode Docker containers.
- Created Golang wrappers of sql, kafka, http, config, logging etc to have same standards of coding patterns.
- Revamped the inventory app of blinkit to fix delays in inventory processing of legacy system in Golang
- Implemented github-actions using action-runner controller and created multiple pipelines for efficient development.
- Lead Rebranding from gofers.com to blinkit.com using Cloudflare.
- Written python scripts/controllers to automatically generate grafana dashboards and alerts whenever a new RDS instance is launched.
- Revamped the terraform projects, and upgraded the terraform version from 0.12 to 1.13.
- Setup Atlantis, migrated from Jenkins terraform Jenkins pipelines to Atlantis deployments.
- Created multiple ansible playbooks to set up Atlantis, promtail, ssh configs etc on EC2 instances.
Senior DevOps
Licious
April 2021 - August 2021
- Managing the DevOps team, and implementing Sprint and on-call processes.
- Worked on Debezium to send the changes from MySQL to Kafka.
- AWS WAF rules for security.
- Leading monitoring stack setup - filebeat, logstash, and AWS Elasticsearch service.
- Leading CI/CD project with Jenkins, Ansible, EC2 servers, and AWS EKS.
- Lead ITGC audit.
Junior Architect Cloud Infrastructure
Evive
August 2020 - April 2021
- Lead Rackspace to AWS migration with Logicworks.
- Assisted developers and data-science team in AWS applications architectures.
- Lead AWS EKS(Kubernetes Service) project.
- Worked on Golang and gRPC.
- Managing HAProxy Web-server and fixing security vulnerabilities.
- Assisted in SOC2 and HiTRUST audits.
- Created serverless applications using AWS SAM, Lambda, Cloudformation, Dynamodb, and API-Gateway.
May 2017 - August 2020
Systems Engineer
Evive
- Managed the on-premise Servers and Administration in Production (Rackspace).
- Design pipelines with ALB as ingress controllers, sidecar(fluent-bit) to transport logs to AWS Cloudwatch, and JSON data to Elasticsearch.
- CI/CD Workflows with tools like — Kubernetes, Docker, Saltstack, Jenkins, and Github.
- Introduced and managed HAProxy as a web server to support 50K users.
- Lead clean-room project with thin clients, Linux jail setup, and Netgear switch setup to allow restricted access of Evive employees to production servers.
- Created backup and recovery processes for Redmine, LDAP, and Jenkins.
- Developed the Systems and Infrastructure tools with PYTHON / JAVASCRIPT.
- Assisted in database management of Cassandra, PostgreSQL, consul, and Redis.
- Initial implementation of System Security and Benchmarking toolkit with OSSEC, CIS Benchmarks, NMAP, OpenVAS, Tenable.io, and lynis.
Education
Chitkara University
Bachelor's of Engineering
Apr 2014 - May 2018
- Lead Speech Recognition project in the 2nd year and presented it at Panjab University.
- Published Hindi Dialect (Bangro) Spoken Recognition (HD-SLR) System using Sphinx3 research paper in Springer.
