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Akhil Kumar Rajendra

Redmond,Washington

Summary

Results-driven Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and scaling large systems. Expertise in managing and optimizing production environments, with a strong focus on Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams to implement infrastructure-as-code, reduce manual processes, and improve reliability and scalability. Passionate about mentoring engineers, driving automation, and building robust, efficient systems that ensure seamless user experiences.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Site Reliability Developer

Oracle
Seattle, Washington
02.2020 - Current
  • Led infrastructure efforts for OCI Dedicated Region support within the VCN team, collaborating with architects to define requirements, and building a prototype/test environment to validate designs. Automated provisioning using Terraform improves reliability and enables faster customer deployments. Streamlined infra workflows, boosting team efficiency, and production readiness.
  • Migrated compute hosts to the updated Linux version across multiple regions.
    Developed an automated migration mechanism using Terraform, minimizing human intervention.
    Increased efficiency and reliability, improving security posture, and deployment speed.
    Estimated cost savings of around $22 million for the organization.
  • Spearheaded automation initiatives for building and bootstrapping virtual cloud network control-plane services in new cloud regions, reducing build time from 2 months of manual effort to under 120 minutes through full automation.
  • Designed and built pre-production testing environments to validate infrastructure and deployment patterns, ensuring stability and performance before production rollout.

DevOps IT Intern

Toradex Inc
Seattle, Washington
05.2019 - 12.2019
  • Assisted with maintaining and deploying applications using Kubernetes, working alongside engineers to manage containerized workloads, and troubleshoot cluster issues.
  • Supported CI/CD workflows in GitLab, contributing to pipeline optimizations, and automating routine deployment tasks using Python and Bash scripting.
  • Gained hands-on experience in Linux system administration, cloud infrastructure basics, and internal tool development to improve team productivity.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
12-2019

Skills

  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Bash scripting
  • Linux administration
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes management
  • Git
  • Jira
  • Networking protocols
  • Grafana

Timeline

Senior Site Reliability Developer

Oracle
02.2020 - Current

DevOps IT Intern

Toradex Inc
05.2019 - 12.2019

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California

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