CURRICULUM VITAE
BALVINDER SINGH
DevOps Engineer
20/01/1991
Phone : -
Skype ID : im_balvinder
Email :-Web : balvinder.linuxtweaks.in
SUMMARY
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Having 6+ years of Experience in Linux System Administration and DevOps Engineer.
Having 1 Year of Teaching Experience in GECB, Bikaner as Teaching Assistantship.
Remote Support in Linux Server Administration.
Ability to quickly learn and understand from self-study or analysis.
Team player - listens, share, cooperate and learn together as a team.
Designed an Image Steganography Technique for Information Security.
Designed own blog website www.linuxtweaks.in including my whole work.
Worked on MATLAB Simulator.
Qualified Gate 2012.
EDUCATION-
Govt. Engineering College Bikaner, Bikaner, Rajasthan
Yagyavalkya Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Khalsa Se. Sec. School, Sadul Shahar, Rajasthan
G. N. Public Sec. School, Sadul Shahar, Rajasthan
68%
70.43%
61.38%
71.17%
M.Tech.(SE)
B.Tech (CSE)
Class XII
Class X
RESEARCH PAPER & PUBLICATION
q A paper titled “A Steganography Algorithm for Hiding Secret Message inside Image using Random
Key” is Presented and Published in “International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology
(IJERT), Vol. 3 Issue 12, December - 2014” ( http://bit.ly/2X6F10M )
q A paper titled “A Hybrid Approach for Characters Recognition in License plate Recognition System”
is Presented and Published in Elsevier in “Fourth International Conference on Advances in
Computer Science - AETACS2013”. ( http://bit.ly/2HD2rWb )
q A paper titled “PDAC (Parallel Encryption with Digit Arithmetic of Cover Text) Based Text
Steganography” is Presented and Published in Elsevier in “Fourth International Conference on
Advances in Computer Science-AETACS2013”. ( http://bit.ly/3cvoj3q )
q A paper titled “An Efficient Text Steganography using Digit Arithmetic” is Presented and Published
in Elsevier in “Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computer Science-AETACS2013.
( http://bit.ly/2QnBvwx )
DISSERTATION
q Designed a Technique named “A Steganography Algorithm for Hiding Secret Message inside
Image using Random Key” for Final Thesis Report.
WORKSHOPS
q Participated in Sort Term Course on “Future Trends and new Inventions in Computer Science
and Engineering” Organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Govt.
Engineering College, Bikaner during 23 September to 27 September 2103.
q Participated in Sort Term Course on “Pattern Recognition Techniques” Organized by Department
of Computer Science, MNIT Jaipur during 13 May to 17 May 2013.
SEMINAR
q Presented a Seminar on “Hiding Secret Message in Digital Media using Steganography for Enhancing
Data Security” during M.Tech.
q Presented a Seminar on “Nokia Morph (Nanotechnology)” during B.Tech.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
q 45 days Project Training in ASP.Net, ADO.Net & C# during 13th june to 30th july 2011 at Orbit
Technologies, Jaipur
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY & EXPERTISE
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Red Hat Linux, Centos, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse etc.
DevOps tasks for Automation Build & Deployment
Mysql, Percona Mysql , Postgres Database
Apache,Nginx Web Server, PHP Configuration, Virtual Hosting
Bash Scripting for automation and Monitoring
Operation like Performance Tuning, ,Security, Monitoring Tools
AWS , Google Cloud , Microsoft Azure and others Hosting platform
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelancer
★ Remote System & DevOps Engineer : Jun, 2016 - Present
Xicom Technologies Ltd, New Delhi ( www.xicom.biz )
★ Sr. System Administrator : Oct, 2015 – June 2016
q Handling, Managing, Maintaining local and client’s server both Linux, Windows
q 50+ physical and virtual servers in a mixed Linux and Windows environment.
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Worked on IIS, FileZilla server, SQL server installation etc.
Management of Amazon Web Services architecture like EC2, Route53, S3 etc.
Network Services: DNS/Bind, Samba, FTP, SSH, DHCP, HTTP etc.
Configuration and management of Subversion and Git.
Configuration and management of DHCP, DNS server, Backup server
Accountable for rendering support for the Linux Systems & maintaining uptime for all the
systems as per the Customer Defined SLA’s.
Planning and managing hardware infrastructure of servers, desktops, and networking
equipment based on growth plans.
Analyze, log, track complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to
networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
Ensuring fault free System Performance (Process, Load & Disk Space).
Scripting and automation & auto deployment.
Responsible for upgrading system, capacity planning and system management.
Designing and building servers as per project requirement.
Responsible for providing disaster recovery planning and execution for the Linux
environment.
Documentation management if required by client.
Setup Vimbadmin mail server and Samba share for internal IT documentation.
Build and maintain the Linux based monitoring infrastructure (NAGIOS).
Health checkup of all the production servers, monitoring what’s up alerts on a routine basis.
Backup management via self-written Bash scripts & via Penel provided Backup tools.
Installation, up-gradation and configuration of control panels like cPanel, Website Panel etc.
Migrated servers including cPanel/Plesk/Website Panel from outsourced hosting provider to
internal servers.
Installation and configuration of Windows/Linux servers to host websites, Databases, Emails
etc.
Working with Malware removal, server login restriction, Web security, Security auditing.
AWS EC2 server setup, S3 Storage Step, RDB, Cloudfront, CDN installation and
configuration (Cloudflare, Max-CDN etc).
MySQL/MariaDB server (MyISAM/InnoDB :- optimization according to server's
configuration)
Mail Server building for sending and recieving mails (Exim, Postfix, Sendmail) setup mail
client Roundcube, Squirelmail, Horde. Troubleshoot mail issues, configure mail for delivery
in inbox.
Virtualization technology :- VMware VSphere Esxi
EmizenTech Pvt. Ltd, Jaipur ( www.emizentech.com )
★ Linux Server Administrator : Feb, 2014 – Sep, 2015
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Server administration of 50+ servers (Red Hat, Centos, Ubuntu).
Installation of different types of linux Distro.
Worked with WHM/Cpanel, Parallel Plesk,Nexcess,Godaddy etc.
Worked with Rackspace,Linode,Amazon EC2,Godaddy etc.
Configuring Apache/Nginx web servers, SSLs,Php.
Package installation Using “Yum” ,”rpms” and “Source”.
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Worked with Git,Svn also on Bitbucket, Assembla version control system.
Varnish,Redis,Memcache,Pagespeed installation and configuration.
Server Optimization with different application.
Performance Tuning for Wordpress,Magento based websites.
Created bash script for Automated backup of servers and monitoring servers.
Server Security with iptables,firewall,Clamscan,CSF,Fail2ban.
Worked with Sendmail,iRedMail,Exim,Postfix mail server.
Worked on VMware vSphere Hypervisor Virtualization.
Worked on Nagios Monitoring & Cacti Monitering.
Muliple PHP version Controlling with phpbrew.
Git Server Setup with GitLab.
Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket auto deployment.
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITES
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Qualified Gate 2012 and Achieved 84.46%ile in Computer Science.
Participating at District level game of “Badminton” in 10th Std.
Participated at School level in “Quiz Competition” in 10th Std.
Designed own blog website www.linuxtweaks.in including my whole work.
OTHER INFORMATION
q I am conversant with English, Hindi and Punjabi.
q My Hobbies includes
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Believe in Teamwork
Cooking
Net Surfing
Accounting
Sharing knowledge with friends
PERMANENT ADDRESS
Balvinder Singh s/o Satnam Singh
Near Bhagat Singh Chowk, Ward No. 13, Sadul Shahar, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India.
Pin Code - 335062
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the
responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
BALVINDER SINGH
