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Giriraj Agarwal

Glen Allen

Summary

Dynamic DevOps Engineer and Data Architect with a proven track record at Capital One, specializing in AWS Cloud and CI/CD pipeline enhancements. Expert in architecting scalable solutions and fostering team collaboration, I successfully led cloud migrations that improved operational efficiency by 30%, while mentoring junior engineers to elevate their skills.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer and Data Architect

Capital One
Richmond
09.2021 - Current
  • Project Title - Enhanced Enterprise CICD Pipeline for Multi-ASV/Multi-Account Deployment
  • Project Overview: This project focused on enhancing the existing Enterprise Managed CICD pipeline to support Multi-ASV and Multi-account deployments for Docker, container, and serverless applications within Capital One. The goal was to build a more flexible and scalable pipeline capable of efficiently distributing applications across multiple AWS accounts, thereby increasing the reusability and efficiency of common application software platforms.
  • My Contributions: In my multifaceted role, I was responsible for overall delivery while serving as a people leader, guiding the technical team through effective leadership and mentorship. I oversaw performance management, ensuring that team members met their goals and aligned with project objectives. I also conducted thorough code reviews to maintain high-quality standards and resolve any technical issues encountered during development. My leadership played a crucial role in mentoring team members, helping them grow professionally, and ensuring the success of production rollouts, delivering smooth and efficient results.
  • As the project lead, I was instrumental in both the planning and execution phases of this initiative. My key contributions included: Architecting the Multi-ASV and Multi-Account Framework: I designed and implemented a robust framework that allowed for seamless deployments across multiple ASVs and AWS accounts. This enhanced capability ensured smoother management of application versions and configurations, reducing operational complexity and manual oversight.
  • Integration of Docker, Container, and Serverless Technologies: I led the integration of modern deployment technologies, such as Docker, containerized services, and serverless platforms, ensuring the new CICD pipeline was fully equipped for modern cloud-native architectures. This required a strategic overhaul of the existing infrastructure to future-proof the pipeline.
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: I coordinated efforts across various technical and non-technical teams, facilitating the transition from custom pipelines to the enhanced Enterprise Managed pipeline. This included providing guidance, conducting training sessions, and ensuring the teams were well-versed in the new system capabilities.
  • Optimization and Troubleshooting: I led efforts to troubleshoot deployment issues, refine the pipeline's performance, and optimize workflows. This helped reduce deployment times and improve the reliability of critical systems.
  • Strategic Alignment: I worked closely with senior leadership to align the technical aspects of this enhancement with broader business goals, ensuring that the pipeline supported the organization’s long-term strategy for operational efficiency and innovation.
  • Team Empowerment: Fostered a collaborative environment by encouraging team members to take ownership of their tasks, empowering them to contribute ideas for enhancing the CICD pipeline.
  • Mentorship: Provided guidance and support to junior team members, helping them develop their skills in pipeline management and best practices for continuous integration and deployment.
  • Conflict Resolution: Effectively addressed conflicts within the team by facilitating open discussions and promoting a culture of respect and understanding, leading to a more cohesive working environment.
  • Recognition of Achievements: Implemented a recognition system to celebrate team accomplishments, motivating team members and reinforcing a positive team culture.
  • Training and Development: Identified skill gaps within the team and organized training sessions on the latest CICD tools and methodologies, enhancing the team’s overall capability and confidence.
  • Feedback Culture: Established a regular feedback loop to ensure continuous improvement, encouraging team members to share insights on pipeline performance and areas for enhancement.
  • Vision and Strategy: Communicated a clear vision for the enhanced CICD pipeline, aligning team efforts with organizational goals and fostering a sense of purpose among team members.
  • Change Management: Led the team through the transition to the enhanced pipeline by managing change effectively, addressing concerns, and providing support to ensure a smooth adoption process.

DevOps Engineer and Data Architect

Capital One
Richmond
11.2015 - 09.2021
  • Project Title - AWS Cloud Migration and Adoption
  • Project Overview: The Capital One Customer Resiliency Team plays a vital role in assisting customers facing financial difficulties by offering personalized, empathetic, and transparent solutions. As part of a broader initiative to enhance the team’s ability to support customers, the department migrated from legacy on premise systems to a cloud-based infrastructure on AWS. This move was aimed at improving the overall scalability, efficiency, and speed of Capital One’s financial services while ensuring seamless, real-time customer support.
  • My Contribution: Migration from Legacy Systems: I led the transformation of our data processing pipeline from an on-premises, legacy system utilizing ETL jobs and Teradata to a modern, cloud-native architecture. This included migrating mainframe data processes to AWS services, particularly Amazon S3 and PostgreSQL. By redesigning the workflow, I enabled direct uploads of mainframe files to AWS S3, allowing the Quantum Framework to process and load data into PostgreSQL. This overhaul significantly reduced dependency on outdated systems and improved both scalability and performance.
  • Cloud Architecture Design: I architected a scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using AWS, optimizing for high-performance data processing and storage flexibility. This architecture allowed us to manage large volumes of customer data in real time, enabling rapid decision-making. The shift to AWS services such as S3 and PostgreSQL enabled our systems to be more adaptive, robust, and able to handle varying workloads with greater efficiency, ultimately enhancing the overall customer experience.
  • Shared Infrastructure Management: I played a critical role in creating and maintaining shared infrastructure for all teams under the Customer Resiliency umbrella. This included the design and management of a shared ECS (Elastic Container Service) cluster, which supported multiple environments such as Development, QA, and Production. By centralizing this infrastructure, we were able to optimize resource utilization across different teams, enhance scalability, and reduce infrastructure duplication, leading to cost savings and operational efficiencies.
  • Automation & Optimization: I automated data ingestion and processing workflows, minimizing manual intervention and increasing the speed at which customer data was processed. This allowed support teams to respond to customer needs with greater accuracy and efficiency. The automation not only streamlined operations but also improved the accuracy and timeliness of customer data, contributing to better service delivery.
  • Cybersecurity and Compliance: In addition to infrastructure management, I took responsibility for maintaining the cybersecurity posture and compliance of our shared environments. This included managing regular system rehydration, patching vulnerabilities, and ensuring that all systems aligned with the latest cybersecurity standards. By implementing robust security controls and automated monitoring, I ensured that our infrastructure was both secure and compliant with regulatory standards, minimizing risks and safeguarding customer data.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Throughout the transformation, I worked closely with multiple teams, including data engineering, development, operations, and the Customer Resiliency team, to ensure a seamless migration and system alignment with operational goals. By fostering collaboration and open communication, we ensured that the new cloud-based infrastructure met both technical and business objectives without disrupting critical customer service processes.

Ab initio Tech Lead and Designer

CITIGROUP
Tampa
07.2015 - 10.2015
  • Project Title – Transaction and Name Screening
  • Project Overview: The Citi Group Transaction and Name Screening Program is designed to enhance the bank’s compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) efforts by automatically screening financial transactions and customer names against various watchlists and sanction databases. The goal of the program is to identify and produce alerts for suspicious transactions and individuals, ensuring that Citi remains compliant with global regulatory requirements and mitigates financial crime risks.
  • My Contribution: Work with the business analysts to understand the business requirements. High Level Design Documentation and presentation using tools like Visio to translate requirements from business to Ab Initio Graphs. Created graph to convert incoming IAT messages into Firco Unique Format. Enhancement of Batch processing solution for Transaction and Name Screening Project. Development of schedules for high availability of the system across various data centers. Created Technical Design document.

Ab initio Tech Lead and Designer

Express Scripts Inc.
Franklin Lakes
02.2014 - 05.2015
  • Project Title - Express Scripts Inc. (ESI) Integration
  • Project Overview: Express Scripts Inc. (ESI), one of the largest pharmacy benefit managements (PBM) organizations in the United States, initiated a major integration project following its acquisition of Medco Health Solutions. This project aimed to unify and streamline ESI and Medco’s IT systems to create a more efficient infrastructure capable of supporting millions of customers. Integration involved consolidating reporting platforms, point-of-sale systems, and enhancing existing applications to ensure a seamless transition and continued operational excellence.
  • My Contributions: Leadership in Key Applications: Played a critical role in the development and support of two key applications—Retail Network Management (RNM) and Information Warehouse (IW). Retail Network Management (RNM): Ensured seamless integration and functionality of the system that manages contracts and interactions with pharmacies, allowing the system to process millions of prescriptions accurately. Information Warehouse (IW): Led efforts to integrate Medco’s vast data into ESI’s Information Warehouse, enabling advanced reporting and analytics that improved business decision-making. Onsite-Offshore Model: Effectively led and coordinated the onsite-offshore delivery model, balancing teams across multiple geographies to handle client enhancement requests, system updates, and service requests from business users. This model enhanced productivity, reduced response times for client requests, and optimized development costs. Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintained strong communication with both technical and business stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, addressing concerns and requirements from multiple business units within ESI and Medco. Mentorship and Team Development: Mentored junior team members and guided them through technical challenges, fostering a culture of learning and innovation within the team.

Ab initio Tech Lead and Designer

Capital One
Richmond
04.2013 - 01.2014
  • Project Title - Basel II Retail Credit Teradata Repository
  • Project Overview: The Basel II Retail Credit Teradata Repository project is focused on the implementation of a Teradata-based repository to store all data elements required for the development and execution of Basel II compliance. The repository will house data for each Retail Credit Line of Business (LOB), modeled in the Teradata container, utilizing core data deliverables from Historical Data Collection Projects. These data elements, combined with the Risk-Weighted Asset (RWA) required data, will support Basel II regulatory reporting and compliance for retail credit operations.
  • My Contribution: Data Transformation & ETL Processes: Worked on transforming the accumulated daily files into the NRCH file by applying the necessary business rules and data cleansing techniques. This included ensuring that the clean file was correctly formatted and ready for the end-of-month publishing to the DDE. Teradata Implementation: Developed and optimized SQL queries to load the clean, transformed data into the PBASEL table in Teradata. This involved ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the Basel II-related data and addressing any data discrepancies found during the loading process. File Handling: Managed the end-to-end file processing pipeline, including handling the initial files from FD, accumulating the daily clean files, and preparing them for month-end processing. System Testing & Validation: Performed thorough unit and system testing of the ETL processes, ensuring the data transformations met business requirements and were fully compliant with Basel II reporting standards. Collaboration: Worked closely with stakeholders from different LOBs and other technical teams to ensure the successful modeling of data elements and integration into the Teradata repository.

Ab initio Tech Lead

CITIBANK ACCOUNT
Jersey City
10.2010 - 03.2013
  • Project Title - Client Cube CSSI Data Platform Development

Education

Master’s in computer application -

Jiwaji University
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

Skills

  • AWS Cloud
  • Ab Initio - GDE 304
  • Ab Initio Co>Op 214134
  • Ab Initio Co>Op 302
  • Oracle 9i/10g
  • Sybase
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS VPC
  • AWS EBS
  • AWS SNS
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Config
  • AWS S3
  • AWS Autoscaling
  • AWS Cloud Trail
  • AWS Lambda
  • Docker
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • Zabbix
  • Jira
  • GDE V114138
  • GDE V1156
  • GDE V302
  • Ab Initio Co>Op 305
  • Conduct>It
  • Continuous Flow
  • PYTHON
  • Golang
  • C/C
  • Korn-shell
  • SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • HTML
  • Git
  • Ab Initio EME
  • MS-VSS
  • CVS
  • SVN
  • Clear Case
  • Postgres
  • Teradata
  • Toad
  • SQL Developer
  • Plus
  • SQL Loader
  • Autosys
  • Cron
  • Control-M

Certification

  • AWS Certified Developer Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Accomplishments

CAPITAL ONE TECH TRANSFORMERS, Received an award for exceptional contributions to Enterprise CICD Pipeline for Multi-ASV/Multi-Account Deployment. The reuse of common application platforms and efficient multi-account deployment reduced resource duplication and operational costs by millions annually.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer and Data Architect

Capital One
09.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer and Data Architect

Capital One
11.2015 - 09.2021

Ab initio Tech Lead and Designer

CITIGROUP
07.2015 - 10.2015

Ab initio Tech Lead and Designer

Express Scripts Inc.
02.2014 - 05.2015

Ab initio Tech Lead and Designer

Capital One
04.2013 - 01.2014

Ab initio Tech Lead

CITIBANK ACCOUNT
10.2010 - 03.2013

Master’s in computer application -

Jiwaji University

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