Pranay Kumar Balne
About Pranay Kumar Balne
Pranay Kumar Balne is a DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in managing Linux servers and setting up cloud infrastructure. He currently works at HCL Enterprise, specializing in Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and various monitoring tools.
Work at HCL Enterprise
Pranay Kumar Balne has been employed at HCL Enterprise since 2022, serving as a DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer. His role is based in the London Area, United Kingdom, and he works remotely. In this position, he manages various aspects of DevOps and site reliability, contributing to the efficiency and reliability of the company's services.
Expertise in Cloud and Kubernetes
Pranay possesses expertise in setting up Kubernetes clusters on managed cloud platforms, including Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE. He applies Infrastructure as Code principles to ensure efficient and repeatable deployments. This skill set is essential for modern cloud-native application development and management.
Continuous Integration and Deployment Skills
He has extensive experience in establishing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Pranay utilizes various tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins X, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Rancher, and Flux to streamline development processes and enhance deployment efficiency.
Monitoring Tools Proficiency
Pranay is proficient in a variety of monitoring tools that are critical for maintaining system performance and reliability. His expertise includes using DataDog, Spinnaker, Grafana, Dynatrace, Elastic Kibana, Azure Monitoring, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix, New Relic, and Splunk to monitor and analyze system metrics.
Scripting and Automation Skills
He has strong skills in scripting and automation, particularly with Python and Bash. Pranay has developed Maven and Ant scripts to automate the compilation, deployment, and testing of Web and J2EE applications. His experience also includes automating deployments on application servers like JBoss and Tomcat.