DevOps Engineer with Automation and Cloud Expertise

Purnachandra Reddy

DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL ************.*******@*****.*** 847-***-****

SUMMARY

DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and automating scalable, cloud-native infrastructure in both enterprise and high- availability tech environments. Proficient in developing CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton, and ArgoCD, and automating infrastructure using Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible. Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and managing Linux-based systems, with deep knowledge of scripting in Python for automation, monitoring, and system optimization. Strong background in AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda), observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry), and GitOps methodologies for self-healing and policy-compliant environments. Proven success in reducing cloud costs, enhancing system reliability, and collaborating cross-functionally with AI/ML, SRE, and security teams to deliver secure and high-performance DevOps solutions. TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps & SRE Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Microservices Architecture AWS Cloud & Services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Savings Plans, Spot Instances Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Karpenter, NVIDIA vGPU, KubeRay Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management: Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Sentinel, OPA CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton, Rundeck, Maven, Gradle Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Loki, ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog, CloudWatch Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence Databases & Caching: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Oracle DB Operating Systems & Virtualization: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), Windows Server, VMware vSphere, VirtualBox, Hyper-V Web & App Servers: Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, IIS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Netflix CA DevOps Engineer July 2024 – Present

• Implemented modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Tekton, enabling multi-region canary deployments with automated rollback, resulting in 50% fewer deployment failures.

• Optimized content delivery by redesigning the pipeline with AWS Global Accelerator and Envoy Proxy, reducing latency by 35% and enhancing regional failover resilience.

• Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 25% by leveraging AWS Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and Karpenter for intelligent auto-scaling, while maintaining system availability.

• Engineered scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins, integrating Helm and Argo CD for GitOps workflows, leading to 50% faster deployments with enhanced auditability.

• Championed Observability-as-Code by integrating OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana Loki, reducing MTTR by 30% with real- time observability tools.

• Automated Linux system administration with Python, optimizing log analysis, cron job scheduling, and kernel tuning, boosting server efficiency and reducing manual interventions by 40%.

• Collaborated with AI/ML teams to optimize GPU allocation on Kubernetes (K8s) using NVIDIA vGPU and KubeRay, accelerating model training by 20%.

Capgemini India Limited India DevOps Engineer June 2020 – July 2023

• Designed, deployed, and managed containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring 99.9% uptime and enabling seamless horizontal scaling for microservices architecture.

• Developed Python automation frameworks for log parsing via ELK Stack and auto-remediation using Ansible and Rundeck, automating recurring tasks like service restarts and disk cleanup, reducing manual effort by 80% and MTTR by over 60%.

• Built scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins, integrating Helm and Argo CD for GitOps workflows, leading to 50% faster deployments with enhanced auditability.

• Architected hybrid-cloud solutions leveraging AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch)—implemented automated backups, lifecycle policies, and cut storage costs by 25%.

• Implemented monitoring and observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack, enabling proactive alerting and reducing incident response time by 40%.

• Led infrastructure-as-code initiatives with Terraform, including policy enforcement using Sentinel and OPA, ensuring consistent and compliant cloud provisioning.

EDUCATION

Master’s in Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA Bachelor’s in Electronics and Computer Engineering SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India

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