Pratik Surani
About Pratik Surani
Pratik Surani is a Software Specialist (DevOps Engineer) at Mastek Ltd in Leeds, United Kingdom, with over 12 years of experience in the Software Development Lifecycle and extensive expertise in DevOps tools and practices.
Professional Title
Pratik Surani currently holds the position of Software Specialist (DevOps Engineer) at Mastek Ltd, based in Leeds, United Kingdom.
Company
At Mastek Ltd, Pratik Surani is responsible for various aspects of DevOps engineering. This involves managing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines for applications developed using .Net Core and Xamarin Android frameworks. He also integrates application containerization within the build pipeline, maintaining Docker images and executing deployments in both AWS and on-premise environments.
Education and Expertise
Pratik Surani obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Sanjay Education Society College of Engineering, completing his studies from 2002 to 2005. He also achieved high school certification in Science from D S P Mandals K V Pendharkar College of Arts Science and Commerce between 1997 and 1999. In addition to his formal education, Pratik has amassed over 12 years of experience in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, with a particular proficiency in DevOps tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps (TFS), Octopus deployment automation, AWS services, GIT, JIRA, and Confluence.
Industry Experience
Pratik has significant experience working with highly reputed clients in the UK, including BT and IPF, during his over 7 years of onsite experience. He has more than 5 years of experience with the SCRUM software delivery methodology and has served as a Senior Software Engineer at Mastek Ltd from 2008 to 2013 and a Software Engineer at Maersk Global Service Centres between 2007 and 2008.
DevOps Skills and Responsibilities
In his current role, Pratik Surani manages CI and CD pipelines, handles both on-premise and AWS cloud-based infrastructures, writes automation scripts using PowerShell, and maintains code quality via SonarQube. He also acts as the single point of contact for deployment processes, ensuring teams are up-to-date on deployment plans and maintains a deployment roadmap. Pratik is continuously improving DevOps processes and tooling, extending CI and CD processes as required, and creating and delivering status reports on CI and CD operations.