Gaurav Sharma
About Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma is the Lead DevOps Engineer at Thomson Reuters, with extensive experience in AWS infrastructure, CI/CD techniques, and containerization technology.
Work at Thomson Reuters
Gaurav Sharma currently holds the position of Lead DevOps Engineer at Thomson Reuters, a role he has occupied since 2021 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer from 2018 to 2021 and as a Senior Operations Engineer from 2017 to 2018, both in Bengaluru Area, India. His career at Thomson Reuters began as a Senior Build and Release Engineer from 2014 to 2017 in Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India. Throughout his tenure, he has contributed to various projects and initiatives that enhance operational efficiency.
Education and Expertise
Gaurav Sharma earned a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the University of Rajasthan, completing his studies from 2003 to 2007. His educational background provides a strong foundation for his expertise in DevOps practices. He has hands-on experience in setting up AWS infrastructure and is skilled in various technologies, including ELK stack, Datadog, and containerization with Docker and AWS ECS.
Mentorship and Team Leadership
In his current role, Gaurav Sharma mentors a team of five DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) members. He engages his team in various tasks and projects, guiding them through the DevOps transformation of the product lifecycle, from requirements definition to operations. His leadership fosters collaboration and skill development within the team.
Technical Skills and Tools
Gaurav Sharma possesses extensive technical skills in several areas relevant to DevOps. He has experience with AWS services such as IAM, EC2, ELB, ASG, and VPC. He is proficient in writing Ant, Maven, and Gradle build scripts, and has integrated these into GitHub action workflows. Additionally, he has developed automation solutions and streamlined build and deployment processes using CI/CD techniques with tools like GitHub actions, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy.
Process Improvement Initiatives
Gaurav Sharma has implemented several process improvement initiatives during his career. He integrated Service-Now with PagerDuty to enhance incident and change management processes. His work with CloudFormation scripts in YAML format has automated AWS services functionality, contributing to operational efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery.