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

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