Working as a freelance DevOps consultant.

DevOps Trainer/Consultant

- Mentored a team of 3 members. - Helped 2 of the members get CKA and CKS certified. - Completed three books on Linux, Kubernetes, and Security. - Planned and successfully executed the move to a cloud-agnostic setup as required by business requirements. - Enforced a better CI/CD process with SAST, DAST, license checks, container scanning, and dependency scanning. - Helped in attaining and maintaining ISO 27001 certification. - Reduced cloud infrastructure cost by more than 50%. - Created a healthy team environment so members could raise suggestions and concerns.

DevOps Lead

- Consulted an Indian client on setting up CI/CD on AWS. - Created a Slack bot for a client in Canada. - Helped a German client fix infrastructure issues in Hyperledger Fabric Cluster. - Conducted training on Saltstack, Zimbra, Linux, Kubernetes

- Had the opportunity to create and grow a 20-member L2 support team from scratch. - Mentored another 10-member Infrastructure team. - Helped in planning the AWS migration of the on-premise infrastructure. - Provided training to the team members on Linux and SaltStack via various book clubs. - Planned team outings to keep the team morale. - Trained the team to implement Infra-as-Code. - Helped in attaining and maintaining SOC2 and HIPPA certifications. - Overlooked the security stack using OpenVAS, SNORT, Antivirus, OSSEC, EPP, and other security software policies. - Led a team to evaluate the transition to Docker and Kubernetes. - Did code reviews.

DevOps Manager

- Set up and managed the in-office Dev environment from scratch, including - DNS, DHCP, CCTV, Gateway Server, and Firewall. - Communicated with various server hardware, internet, and CCTV vendors. Did price negotiations and other non-tech communication.

Research System Administrator

- Grew from Individual contributor to Team Leader role - Monitoring 250+ remote servers and managing a team of system admins. - Moved enterprise SMTP/mail/jabber to Zimbra / Openfire - Moving to SaltStack and Docker setups - Centralized logging using Rsyslog and then Elasticsearch, Fluentd - Pluggable multi-purpose log parsing script in Python - Managed LVS, HAProxy, and BigIP load balancers - Managed a cluster of Apache/Nginx web servers, MySQL-based DB servers, and Memcached for caching cluster. - Automated tasks in BASH, Perl, and Python.

Systems Team Lead

System Administration has been my passion for more than 12 years.
I have worked on BASH, Perl, Python, LVS, HAProxy, BigIP, Apache, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Redis,
Memcache, Munin, Monit, Nagios, Cacti, Observium, Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat,
Bacula, Squid, Gateway, IPTables, SaltStack, Docker, GIT, SVN, GitLab,
Confluence, MediaWiki, Wordpress, OpenVPN, OpenWRT, DRBD, KeepaliveD,
Zimbra, Openfire, BIND, Mantis, GLPI, Rsyslog, Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana,
Cloudera, Hadoop, ELK, SaltStack, Redmine, Rackspace Cloud, AWS.

I am a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) with passion for DevOps and Linux.

I am a Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator (CHFA) with a 14+ years of Linux and DevOps experience.

17+ years exp on DevOps Linux. CHFA, CKA, CISSP certified.

Ashish Disawal

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

I am/was so passionate about Linux that I dropped out of college and learned Linux, then started teaching it and then working on it professionally.

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