SAMUEL PUPPALA
Cloud Architect
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SUMMARY
• Over a decade of well-rounded experience in the distributed web applications with recent focus on architecting for cloud migration, security, networking, cloud automation, and hybrid clouds
• Current experience deploying secure landing zones,cloud migration and DR design, GitOps/FinOps strategy, security architecture and cost optimization for GCP
• Recent experience with IaC using Terraform, Cloud Formation, incorporate into GitOps design and integration with CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions, Cloud Build, Helm Charts
• Experience with data model design, query optimization, performance tuning for RDBMS, No SQL and cloud data warehouses like Big Query
• Experience working in a highly collaborative agile environment, leading architecture/design workshops, managing multiple stakeholders and deliveries with remote teams, handling short release cycles.
SKILL SET
Programming: Java, Scala, Terraform, Python, Go
Cloud: GCP, AWS
Big Data: BigQuery, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Hadoop Containerization: Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, GKE, EKS OS: Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Windows, OS X
Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, Cassandra, Firebase Web: Angular, React, Javascript
CI/CD: Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Cloud Build, Ansible, Helm Charts CERTIFICATIONS
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Engineer EXPERIENCE
66 Degrees, Remote - Cloud Architect February 2022 – October 2023
• Successfully designed and deployed secure landing zones for green field and brown field customers, led architecture and security workshops for multiple large cloud migration efforts.
• Experience in designing and implementing solutions for integration with SEIM products like Security Command Center, Chronicle. and Rapid 7 on GCP using SecDevOps best practices.
• Designed and implemented IAM policies, Cloud Logging, Audit Control, Billing and Cost Control, Cloud monitoring services.
• Implemented Terraform scripts, Ansible playbooks and integrated with CI/CD for provisioning infrastructure.
• Built Helm Charts, CRDs and integrated with GitOps pipeline for managing resources on Kubernetes clusters.
CVS/Aetna, Remote - Cloud Solutions Architect March 2021 – January 2022
• Architected and designed solutions to securely migrate applications, big data workloads and developed ELT pipelines
• Responsible for implementing CI/CD pipelines using DevOps best practices for deploying to Kubernetes clusters and Terraform for provisioning infrastructure.
• Collaborated with DevOps, Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects, Data Governance and Compliance to develop POCs and design corporate compliant solutions. BNSF, FortWorth, TX – Lead Backend Engineer October 2018 – January 2021
• Led a team of developers for delivery of data analytics applications using Java8, Angular, Kafka, Spark, Scala, Springboot on AWS.
• Responsible for table design and data modeling for 8 node Cassandra cluster.
• Responsible for design and implementation of REST micro services using spring boot, Java 8, Scala
• Migrated and deployed Spark jobs to AWS EMR cluster
• Responsible for security, permissions and role-based access of APIs using spring security and OAuth
• Developed bash/shell scripts for building and deploying docker containers BCGDV, El Segundo, CA – Senior Backend Engineer January 2017 – October 2018
• Design and implementation of REST micro services using spring boot, Java 8, Hibernate, and Oracle 11g on AWS EC2/ECS
• Responsible for implementing caching using Redis for AWS.
• Responsible for design and implementation of asynchronous processing of financial transactions using AWS SQS and lambda functions.
• Responsible for CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for deployment on AWS EC2 instances. NBC Universal, Los Angeles – Senior Java Developer October 2015 – January 2017
• Supported and enhanced Digital Asset Management System built on JSF and Java.
• Improved search efficiency by building indexes for content in ElasticSearch
• Built REST web services for some of the core functionality for consumption by stand-alone applications.
• Implemented Test Driven Development using JUnit for unit testing Core Digital Media, Los Angeles - Senior Java Engineer January 2012 - December 2014
• Supported and enhanced web applications that handle large traffic and data volume with high availability.
• Supported, Implemented and designed solutions to enhance the performance of the application in data/middle/web tier.
• Created Hive queries that helped the marketing team to compare fresh data with EDW reference tables and historical metrics.
• Supported and enhanced complex filter based matching engine for lead generation Technicolor, Los Angeles – Senior Java Developer September 2009 - June 2011
• Implemented distributed cache using Ehcache for efficiently storing and retrieving data.
• Responsible for test-driven development using JUnit for unit testing.
• Configured File processing jobs using Spring Integration File adapters.
• Developed data processing jobs in Java for metadata files running on AWS EC2 and S3. EDUCATION
• MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham - AL- May 2004
• BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Andhra University, India - April 2001