Cloud Engineer

Rahul Sai Ganesh Akula

Cloud Engineer

(***) *** - 2518 ***************@*****.*** LinkedIn TX, USA

TECH SKILLS

Cloud Platforms:

AWS (Primary), Azure, GCP

Compute & Storage:

EC2, EBS, S3, Azure VMs, Azure Blob

Networking:

VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Load Balancer, VPN, DNS, CDN

Infrastructure as Code:

Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates

CI/CD & DevOps Tools:

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline

Scripting & Automation:

Python, Bash, PowerShell

Containers & Orchestration:

Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm Charts

Monitoring & Logging:

CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack

Security & Compliance:

IAM, KMS, Security Groups, RBAC, CIS Benchmarks

Operating Systems:

Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), Windows Server

Version Control:

Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Pull Requests

Methodologies:

Agile, DevOps, GitOps

EXPERIENCE

Cloud Engineer IBM Cloud, TX Sept 2023 - Present

Architected a robust and scalable media streaming infrastructure on AWS using EC2, S3, and CloudFront, increasing content availability by 30% and minimizing service disruptions across global regions through resilient design and intelligent resource allocation.

Optimized streaming performance by deploying Amazon CloudFront CDN, enabling intelligent edge caching for static and dynamic content, and cutting media delivery latency by 45% across all user regions.

Programmed dynamic AWS Lambda@Edge functions at CloudFront locations, delivering personalized user experiences by modifying requests and headers, reducing page load time by 40% under variable network conditions.

Migrated critical EHR systems from on-prem to AWS by designing secure VPCs with IAM segmentation, ensuring HIPAA compliance, reducing migration risks.

Cloud Engineer Infosys, India Aug 2019 – July 2022

Developed a scalable, serverless event-driven architecture using Azure Functions and Blob Storage triggers, improving data ingestion speed by 45% and eliminating manual data handling for unstructured files.

Configured Blob Storage event triggers to invoke Azure Functions on file upload, reducing processing latency by 30% and enabling near real-time responsiveness in the automated data pipeline.

Integrated Azure Event Grid to facilitate asynchronous communication and decoupled services, enhancing system scalability and throughput across microservices, Logic Apps, and other downstream consumers.

Provisioned and tuned Azure Cosmos DB with optimized partitioning and indexing strategies, leading to a 25% improvement in read/write operations during peak concurrent workloads.

Implemented end-to-end observability using Azure Application Insights by enabling telemetry, distributed tracing, and custom alert configurations, which accelerated detection of performance issues and reduced resolution time by over 50% across production-grade cloud-native applications.

CERTIFICATIONS

AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator 2024

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science- University of Central Missouri and Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering - Saveetha School of Engineering and Tamil Nādu, India.

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