Nikhilesh A.

• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather project requirements, prepared presentations and drafted Statements of Work (SOW) to outline project scope, timelines, and deliverables for approval. • Designed, Implemented and managed CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions to automate build, test, and deployment processes for web applications hosted on Azure Web Apps. • Spearheaded the full-cycle delivery of multiple DevOps projects, ensuring they met business needs and were executed according to requirements. • Integrated Optimizely’s Digital Experience Platform to handle content management and testing during the pipeline stages, ensuring smooth integration between Optimizely features and Azure infrastructure. • Created a robust automation pipeline for Databricks notebook deployment via GitHub Actions, improved version control and managing ETL Pipelines leading to a 50% decrease in onboarding time for new data engineers. • Set up and managed Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) for secure user and service authentication across applications. • Created App Registrations for OAuth2.0-based applications, including assigning appropriate API permissions and configuring redirect URIs. • Configured and managed Enterprise Applications for seamless integration of external apps within Azure AD. • Deployed applications on AKS and EKS for containerized workloads using Gihub-Actions CI/CD pipelines. • Integrated Cognito for secure user authentication and authorization. • Worked with AWS services like ec2, S3, Cloud front, API Gateway, WAF, ALB, EKS, IAM Roles and Cognito. • Developed GitHub Actions workflows to automate the deployment and publishing of Power BI reports, datasets, and dataflows. • Monitored the applications using Application Insights and Log analytics workspace. • Configuring the App Settings and managing the applications using Optimizely Portal. • Configured multi-environment deployment strategies with manual approval steps for production deployments in GitHub Actions.