Cloud plotfirm engineer Devops

POORNACHANDER JUVVADI

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Senior software engineer and Cloud solutions architect with expertise in designing, building, and operating large scale software applications and cloud infrastructure.

Expert in developing cloud native architectures (Azure, AWS, Terraform & Kubernetes), API based internal-developer-platforms (Python/FastAPI). Led platform engineering initiatives spanning Cloud IaC, CI/CD, and SRE observability, driving developer experience and operational excellence.

Strong background in backend development and distributed systems, modernizing and migrating enterprise applications (Java/Spring) from on-premise data centers to public cloud.

Proficient in leveraging modern AI coding assistance tools(GitHub Copilot, Claude code) for application development, DevOps/CloudOps automation and Systems Configuration management. Fluent with Generative AI, LLMs, MCP servers and AI driven software delivery concepts.

Extensive experience in highly regulated financial services and fintech environments, operating under stringent compliance, risk, and security standards. I bring a breadth of knowledge spanning full stack software development and cloud solutions and infrastructure operations.

CORE EXPERTISE

●Platform Engineering: Internal developer platforms, Identity & Access management, self service tooling, cloud enablement, shared services and developer portal (Python/FastAPI).

●Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, multi tenant architectures and Cloud Networking/Security.

●Observability: Prometheus, Grafana Cloud (Metrics, Logs, Traces, Alerting, Dashboards), monitoring (Datadog, Newrelic, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor & Log Analytics).

●DevOps: Infrastructure-As-Code(Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), Git/GitOps, SlackOps, Azure DevOps.

●Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS, ACR), Istio/Envoy.

●Automation: Python Scripting, Azure SDK for Python, AWS(Boto3), PowerShell, Shell Scripting.

●Enterprise Applications: Heavily Backend (Java, JVM, J2EE, Spring, Gradle, Apache Maven, JUnit, Rest APIs, JDBC, Hibernate, JPA, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Nginx, Linux).

●Web development: Working Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (React), Dotnet Blazor.

●Distributed Systems: Message Queues, event driven architectures, service meshes.

●Database & Cache: SQL, Oracle, Redis, CosmosDB, MongoDB, Postgres SQL and Cassandra.

●Site Reliability Engineering: SLIs/SLOs, Incident management & RCA, Chaos testing (Gremlin).

●Security & Compliance: Secrets management, encryption, IAM, RBAC and disaster recovery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Cloud Engineer (Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Platform)

Starbucks — DFW Metro/Remote June 2026 – Present

●Built infrastructure-as-code solutions and reusable Terraform modules for the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Platform, provisioning and managing core Azure and AWS services with RBAC, lifecycle policies, and secure CI/CD access controls. This enabled product teams to provision infrastructure consistently without relying on manual platform support.

●Onboarded high-compliance tenants, including Swift and Payments applications, onto the Cloud Platform. Worked across cloud architecture, CI/CD pipeline setup, migration activities, and observability to move workloads into the platform.

●Improved the platform’s overall security posture by implementing recommendations from the enterprise security team through Terraform modules, Azure Policy, and RBAC controls. Applied these controls across multi-region AKS, Cosmos DB, and Service Bus environments to improve security, compliance, and governance.

Senior Cloud Development Engineer (Cloud / Platform / DevOps / SRE)

Cloud Software Group (Citrix Systems) — DFW Metro/Remote June 2020 – May 2026

●Developed cloud services and infrastructure for Citrix Cloud Platform supporting ‘Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops’ and ‘Citrix-Workspace’ product lines, operating at global, multi-tenant scale.

●Built and operated large-scale Azure, AWS cloud environments to support enterprise .NET application development, designing secure, highly available, multi-environment (dev/test/prod) infrastructure aligned with platform engineering best practices.

●Built a unified observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Azure Monitor, PagerDuty) and established SLIs/SLOs and operational readiness practices across multiple product lines.

●Implemented Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM Templates) to provision and standardize compute (VM Scale Sets, AKS, Service Fabric), storage (Blob Storage, Managed Disks), networking (VNet, Application Gateway, Load Balancer), databases (CosmosDB), monitoring, and alerting across environments, enabling repeatable, scalable infrastructure delivery.

●Built an internal developer platform using Python and FastAPI, consolidating Cloud Operations, release management, secrets management, and incident response workflows into a unified self-service API layer, reducing operational toil across engineering teams.

●Built and deployed Python-based AWS Lambda functions to drive a continuous synthetic monitoring solution, simulating end-user flows and navigation paths with secrets managed via AWS Secrets Manager, artifacts in S3, and execution isolated in Docker containers.

●Designed and optimized CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) integrating automated builds, testing, security scanning, and deployments into Azure cloud, improving operational efficiency.

●Acted as a hands-on technical expert in defining cloud architecture standards, DevOps workflows, security controls (Entra ID/Azure RBAC, network segmentation), monitoring (Azure Monitor/Application Insights), and reliability patterns, shaping platform direction and improving developer productivity at scale.

●Led cross-regional reliability initiatives including automated GEO Failover, Release failover, disaster recovery, chaos engineering, and incident response frameworks.

●Standardized global traffic management and failover architectures using Azure Traffic Manager, App Gateway, WAF, and DNS strategies.

●Designed and deployed enterprise Azure Landing Zones incorporating management groups, subscription strategy, RBAC, Azure Policy, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Zero Trust network segmentation for FEDRAMP environments.

●Defined compute governance, right-sizing, VM image lifecycle, and release standards across .NET-based services hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service & Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

●Tools/Platforms : LaunchDarkly, HashiCorp Vault, VSCode, Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, Gremlin, Dotnet, Entra ID, PowerShell, Azure Services( FrontDoor, Application Gateway, LoadBalancer, Traffic Manager, Key Vault, Virtual Network, NAT Gateway, Azure redis cache, CosmosDB, Storage Account, Service Bus, VMSS, Service Fabric Clusters, AKS, Azure DNS, Azure Bastian, Azure WAF, Network Security Groups, Azure RBAC, VNet, Log Analytics Workspace, Cloud Shell, Azure functions, Azure Resource Manager).

Senior Application Software Developer (Java / Cloud Enablement)

Fidelity Investments — Merrimack, NH Feb 2020 – Jun 2020

●Key contributor to Fidelity Asset Management’s cloud enablement efforts, migrating mission critical trading notification workloads from on premise infrastructure to AWS.

●Modernized Java/Spring applications and CI/CD pipelines for AWS cloud readiness, scalability, and operational resilience to align applications with enterprise cloud standards. Worked closely with platform and security teams to align applications with enterprise cloud standards.

Senior Software Engineer (Java / Spring / Platform & Tools)

Intuit Inc. — San Diego, CA Jun 2018 – Dec 2019

●Developer for Intuit Developer Services Platform, building shared services used by thousands of internal and external developers. Designed and implemented Java services and libraries for messaging (ActiveMQ) and API platforms (GraphQL). Deployed and operated services on Intuit-managed Kubernetes using ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, and Istio service mesh.

●Built self-service tooling for automated messaging infrastructure provisioning, capacity management, and performance optimization. Led migration of multiple teams from on-prem messaging infrastructure to AWS-hosted messaging platform.

●Implemented support for HTTP/2 in API GW (Intuit’s edge API gateway) to accelerate adoption of gRPC and HTTP/2 by native, browser and backend services.

Senior Software Engineer

Capital One Services, LLC — Plano, TX Dec 2013 – Jun 2018

●Senior engineer on Capital One’s Auto Multi-Lender Platform, delivering scalable digital communication solutions for dealer groups and financing partners.

●Owned end-to-end delivery of 20+ Java microservices processing loan applications across multiple web channels. Designed and built Spring Boot microservices integrated with Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, and Apache Camel.

●Led CI/CD automation and AWS cloud deployments using Jenkins, Docker, ECS, and CloudFormation; automated infrastructure provisioning with Chef.

●Implemented PCI/NPI data protection (encryption, tokenization) across distributed systems.

●Modernized legacy ASP.NET/VB.NET systems to Java/J2EE microservices, enabling containerization, blue-green deployments, and improved observability.

●Tomcat, WebLogic 12c, Gradle, Oracle 11g, PLSQL, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ and Selenium.

Software Engineer — Wells Fargo Bank San Francisco, CA Sep 2012 – Dec 2013

●Involved in web development and production operations of Wells Fargo Bank's Online-Bill-Pay Platform. Coding and testing for electronic bill generation and payment scheduling modules (Java, web-logic, Spring, XML, PLSQL).

●Integration of the application with reporting and business intelligence systems.

Software Engineer — FedEx Corporation Monroeville, PA Feb 2012 – Jun 2012

●Developed backend Java application for FedEx Ground's Station-Reporting-Project (Package Tracking software for the employees and Managers).

●Contributed in migrating the business logic from Oracle PLSQL to Java application layer.

●Database design, shell scripting, optimize Oracle stored procedures and production support.

Software Engineer — Mahindra Satyam Hyderabad, India Full time Dec 2006 – Mar 2010

●Developer for GE Aviation 'Electronic Interface Control Drawing' web application.

●Developed technical specifications, design documents and UI prototypes.

●Coding and testing applications built on HTML, JavaScript, Java, Servlets/JSP and Struts.

EDUCATION

●Master of Science, Computer Science — University of Texas at Arlington

●Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology — JNTU, Hyderabad

PATENTS & RECOGNITION

●US Patent #10467076 — https://patents.justia.com/patent/10467076

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