Chittiprasad Korukonda
Aldie,VA
Summary
Bringing over 15 years of technical leadership across DevOps, Cloud Operations, Platform Engineering, and Security Operations, with a focus on platform stability, containerization, PaaS, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Skilled in driving automation of build, deployment, and migration processes to cloud environments, delivering scalable, resilient, and secure platforms aligned with enterprise-grade standards.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Dev SecOps Engineer
CloudGen INC
02.2023 - Current
- Designed and managed cloud-based infrastructures to meet customer requirements for availability, scalability, security, and performance. Implemented multiple applications using Blue/Green deployment architecture to ensure seamless releases and eliminate downtime in production environments.
- Developed enterprise-wide products leveraging AWS Service Catalog and CloudFormation, enabling automated pipeline triggers through GitLab Runners for streamlined provisioning and deployment.
- Conducted proofs of concept (POCs) for cross-cloud communication and a role vending machine solution leveraging various identity providers and AWS Security Token Service (STS) for secure, temporary access management.
- Identified platform single points of failure through chaos testing using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and implemented proactive solutions to minimize risk and prevent production outages.
Platform Engineering Lead
Wells Fargo
08.2010 - 02.2023
- Led the management of the IBM BPM platform to deliver automated business workflows across Linux and AIX environments, powering critical front- and back-office applications. Improved platform reliability and efficiency by ensuring near-zero downtime and consistent SLA compliance, enhancing overall business continuity and user experience.
- Conducted POCs to containerize several monolithic web applications into microservices using Docker and native Kubernetes, improving deployment efficiency and scalability. Designed and implemented custom Grafana dashboards integrated with Prometheus and the Metrics Server, enhancing observability, performance monitoring, and proactive issue resolution across environments.
- Conducted thorough root cause analyses (RCA) for all production incidents, implemented rapid workaround solutions, and developed detailed runbook through the change control process to enhance platform reliability. Additionally, led regular Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises for all on-prem applications, ensuring system availability within defined RTO and RPO targets.
Education
Master of Science - Master of Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia, VA05-2002
Skills
- Cloud adoption & management
- Infrastructure & Platform stability
- IAC, GitHub, GitLab & Pipelines
- Docker, ECS, EKS & Containerization
- Dev Cloud & Sec Ops
- Upgrades & Migrations
- API Management
- Site Reliability Engineering
- RCAs & Change Control
- Blue/Green, DR & HA
Certification
- Terraform Associate - Hashi Corp
- CKA, Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Linux Foundation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- Sun Certified Java Programmer
Timeline
Dev SecOps Engineer
CloudGen INC
02.2023 - Current
Platform Engineering Lead
Wells Fargo
08.2010 - 02.2023
Master of Science - Master of Science
Old Dominion University