Balaji's Portfolio

    I am B A L A J I ( Somasale ), A Graduate Student from Dalhousie University, currently working as a Technical Cloud support Analyst in the Cloud/DevOps space for Royal Bank of Canada(RBC). I have 4+ years of IT experience with a keen interest in exploring new things and everything around in possible ways. This website compiles my diverse experiences and ideas.

Masters in Internetworking

Dalhousie University

  • Recently graduated
  • Distinction in courses like Programming, TCP and other
  • Worked as a Data Specialist for Office of Advancement

    • Education
    Education

    Bachelors in Electronics and Communication(ECE)

    @ Amrita University

  • Worked on Automated Projects
  • Organised Events
  • Volunteered in Social Responsibility Events
  • Participated in Workshops and Sports

    • Batch: June,2015 - May,2019

    Technical Cloud Support Infra/SRE/DevOps Engineer @ Royal Bank of Canada | Halifax, Canada

    Tech stack: Cloud, Linux, Ansible, Pager Duty, P2V, Load Balancing, SSL Certificates & other internal tools

    SRE/DevOps

    Software Engineer(DevOps) @ Cognizant | Hyd, India

  • Worked with US-based banking clients - Real-Time Payments (Fiserv) and Loan IQ (Finastra)
  • Have worked on technologies like Python, Java, Linux, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and Docker

    • Period: June,2019 - July,2021

    Software Engineer DevOps Intern @RK Info Systems | Hyderabad, India

    Developed a Responsive Web Application END to END with Java, Javascript,HTML-CSS & MySQL Database.

    Period: Jan,2019 - May,2019

    SDE Intern
    Summer Intern

    Summer Intern @ N T P C | Vizag, India

    An Internship on Programmable Logic Controllers ( PLC )

    Projects

    I have worked on projects in the Domains of Multiple cloud Enviornments, DevOps, Machine Learning, Web Development & Data Science

    Cloud Native Resource Monitoring Python App on Kubernetes!

    Creating Monitoring application in python using flask and psutil packages. Create ECR repository using Python Boto3 and pushing Docker Image to ECR. Create EKS cluster and Nodegroups. Create Kubernetes Deployments and Services using Python! Please Tap the link to know more:

    Reddit-Clone-App-on-Kubernetes-with-Ingress

    This project demonstrates how to deploy a Reddit clone app on Kubernetes with Ingress and expose it to the world using Minikube as the cluster. The project flow is cloning the reddit app, Building the Docker image and Deploy the app to Kubernetes. Please Tap the link to know more:

    Create Amazon Web Services (AWS)-EC2-instance-using-Terraform

    Create an AWS EC2 instance using Terraform. Project flow starts with authentication, setting up Terraform configuration files, and how to run through the Terraform lifecycle to initialize, plan, apply, and verify the deployment. Easily invoke any shell script to install any Jenkins, docker or kubernetes into instances at a time. Please Tap the link to know more:

    Deploying Multiple applications with Maven Builds & Jenkins

    Whenever there is a code change in github, automatically Trigger Jenkins Jobs Using Github WebHook. Jenkins pipelines are setup to deploy the changes. Building, testing and deploying the application. Please Tap the link to know more:

    Machine Learning (Intrusion Detection & Prevention in Computer Networks)

    Getting the Raw Data from KDD Dataset repository and analyzing the DATA using Machine Learning Algorithms. Connecting to the Manual network using the Wireshark tool & fetching the details of Protocols obtaining the results by code and blocking the IP address by using Cisco Packet Tracer.

    Bill Payment System (Monolithic & Microservices)

    Application for handling the bills with proper portals and functionalities of CRUD Operations as User Stories and Storing the Data in the Database This project is developed and implemented with the following Technologies and Frameworks

    Movie Cruiser Booking website

    Developing Application on Movie Booking Website which consists of Admin Portal and Customer portal in order to add/delete the Items into/from his Favorites for the customer and Edit the Menu Items in his portal and Storing Entire data into Database.

    Food Ordering Responsive Application

    Developing Application on Food Ordering Website which consists of an Admin Portal and Customer portal in order to add/delete the Items into/from his Cart for the customer and Edit the Menu Items in his portal and Storing Entire data into Database.

    Skills

    I have worked on various projects in the Domains of DevOps , Web Development, Machine Learning & Data Science

    DevOps:

    AWS Git Linux Docker Kubernetes Ansible terraform Jenkins

    Front End web Frameworks:

    Html CSS bootstrap JS JS JS

    Back-End Programming Languages and it's Frameworks:

    Html CSS Python Node MySQL

    Other Tools:

    Postman Vmware Vscode

    Certifications

    Achievements

    Explorer Bot ( War Field Spying Robot )

      BEST INTERNATIONAL R E S E A R C H AWARD

    • Attended at Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications(RAHA), International Conference in year 2016
    • My Team won Best Research Award in National level Category for Innovative Design & Idea of Implementing the GSM (Sms Alert) and XBEE (upgraded Bluetooth)
    • Objectives : Building Communication (Message Alert) & motion Navigation as Primary Objective & Night-vision Wireless camera with Ultrasonic sensors as secondary objectives.
    • This Conference was held from December 2016 to 20 December 2016

    Research paper Publications

    Machine Learning | Integrated System for Intrusion Detection & Prevention in Computer Networks

  • Published on Date : 30th April,2019.
  • International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies [ICICCT 2019]
  • [ICICCT 2019. Springer approved conference] held in Namakkal, India, 29-30 April 2019.

    • Get in touch

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