SAMEER GAJANAN KANGURI
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Site Reliability Engineer with 18+ years in SRE, Observability, Performance & DevOps across eCommerce, Retail, Banking & Airline sectors. Expert in Dynatrace, AppDynamics, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, SAP systems & incident management. Proven experience with monitoring, automation, cloud infrastructure and performance tuning. TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Observability: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP, GKE, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, VPC Networks, Firewall Rules Infrastructure as Code (IaaC): Terraform, Cloud Formation DevOps Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Helm, Cloud Run, GitHub Technical Skills: Data structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Agile Methodology, SDLC Programming / Scripting Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Bash, C EXPERIENCE
Driscoll’s, USA 03/2025 – Till Date
SRE / DevOps Lead / Engineer
• Led observability efforts using Dynatrace & AWS CloudWatch; built automated dashboards/alerts
• Improved reliability via chaos engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time monitoring
• Provided L2/L3 support, reduced MTTR by 35%, enhanced incident management protocols HCL Tech, USA 04/2016 – 04/2025
SRE Architect / Lead / Engineer
● Utilized Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to create cloud resources, including VM instances, firewalls, and subnets, resulting in a 30% reduction in manual tasks
● Designed and implemented scalable Kubernetes clusters for various environments, cutting deployment time by 50% and enhancing overall system stability
● Hands-on experience with GCP DevOps tools, including GCR, Cloud Build, GKE, and Artifact Registry
● Contributed to the containerization of applications using Docker, leading to a 20% reduction in resource utilization
● Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Kubernetes, cutting down on release times by 45% GAVS Technologies 06/2015 – 04/2016
SRE / DevOps Lead / Engineer
● Executed a comprehensive migration strategy, leveraging Migrate for Compute Engine 5.0 and Migrate for Compute Engine 4, seamlessly transitioning databases and web applications from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform
● Collaborated with the admin team to gather necessary information for migrating data to Google Cloud
● Created cloud infrastructure components such as networks and firewall rules before migrating data into GCP
● Achieved a 30% optimization when migrating workloads with maximum capacity
● Monitored the migrated VM using using cloud native logging and monitoring tools EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Mechanical Engineering in 2006 Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, INDIA CERTIFICATIONS
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) • AWS Cloud Practitioner & Solution Architect Associate • Azure Fundamentals & Administrator
• Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Professional • Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) • HP LoadRunner • IBM RPT & WebSphere • Oracle WebLogic • Accessibility (DHS) • ISTQB Certified