About

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.

techish.ashish@gmail.com

+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.