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DHIKSHA Pusapati

Summary

Certified Cloud/DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of IT experience in cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, under the Unix/Linux/Windows platforms. Proficient in Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Build and Release, Linux, and System Administration. Used various DevOps essential tools like Azure DevOps, GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and several scripting languages with strong knowledge on the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Devops Engineer

Crash Champions
11.2024 - Current
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML) for .NET and Java applications, managing repositories, branching strategies, and deployments to Azure Functions, Web Apps, Docker, AKS, Helm, and Tomcat.
  • Provisioned and automated Azure infrastructure using Terraform IaC; ensured consistent, scalable environments across Dev, QA, and Prod.
  • Partnered with ML teams on a short-term MLOps initiative: set up repos, CI/CD pipelines, and automated retraining workflows for model training, validation, and deployment in Azure Machine Learning.
  • Installed and configured ML libraries (TensorFlow, scikit-learn), automated data ingestion/feature engineering with Azure Data Factory, and enabled model registry, monitoring, and drift detection via Azure Monitor.
  • Integrated SonarCloud scans and Azure policies into pipelines for governance, compliance, and secure model lifecycle management.
  • Facilitated collaboration between DevOps and ML teams by documenting best practices and aligning CI/CD with MLOps principles like continuous training and evaluation.
  • Environments: Azure DevOps, Terraform, Git, SonarCloud, Azure Data Factory, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Machine Learning, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, Apache Tomcat, Python (TensorFlow, scikit-learn)

Sr Devops Engineer

MUFG Bank Ltd (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group)
04.2024 - 07.2024
  • Built and deployed microservices on .NET Core 8.0 with Azure Function Apps and API Management (APIM), implementing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
  • Integrated SonarCloud into Azure DevOps workflows for SAST, ensuring secure coding practices and maintaining high-quality standards across microservices.
  • Automated provisioning and deployments of Azure Data Factory (ADF) and other resources using ARM templates, release pipelines, and Bicep IaC templates for consistent multi-environment setups.
  • Managed Azure DevOps repos with branching strategies, code reviews, and Git Flow; optimized pipelines for APIM deployments including policies, API versioning, and secrets integration with Key Vault.
  • Monitored and troubleshot applications using Azure Monitor and Application Insights, analyzing logs/metrics to optimize performance and resolve issues in function apps and ADF pipelines.
  • Environments: Azure DevOps, .NET Core 8.0, SonarCloud, Bicep, Git, Azure Data Factory, Function Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor

Devops Engineer

University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC)
12.2022 - 04.2024
  • Provisioned and managed Azure infrastructure resources including VNets, Subnets, VMs, Key Vault, Azure SQL DB, Data Factory, Application Insights, Managed Identity, Azure Monitor, and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Automated deployments with ARM templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Git/GitHub for version control, ensuring standardized, repeatable provisioning and configuration management.
  • Built solutions using Azure Cognitive Services (NLP, vision, and APIs) and AutoML frameworks (Azure and Google Cloud AutoML) for scalable model training, distributed computing, and text data insights.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, integrated infrastructure-as-code workflows, and enabled seamless data integration using Azure SQL DB, Data Factory, and Integration Runtime.
  • Automated identity and access processes with Azure Active Directory and on-prem AD, streamlining user and group management.
  • Environments: Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub, ARM Templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure/Google AutoML, Azure AD, Data Factory, Kubernetes

Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Freddie Mac
12.2020 - 11.2022
  • Automated Azure infrastructure provisioning and deployments using ARM templates, Terraform (with Sentinel policies), and PowerShell/Graphical runbooks.
  • Configured and managed core Azure resources — Compute, Networking, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, App Services, Active Directory, Storage (Blobs/Queues), Redis Cache, CDN, Cognitive Services, Azure Search, and SQL databases.
  • Built highly available, multi-region environments; developed Data Lakes and migrated workloads to Azure Data Lake, Data Factory, SQL Database, and SQL Data Warehouse.
  • Implemented Azure Cognitive Services solutions including computer vision, AutoML for model selection, and hyperparameter tuning for improved ML model accuracy.
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (VSTS), integrated Ansible with Jenkins, and used Azure Container Registry and pipelines for containerized deployments.
  • Developed automation scripts in PowerShell and Python; designed ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and used Prometheus for Kubernetes monitoring.
  • Environments: Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK

Azure DevOps Engineer

Tech Data
07.2019 - 11.2020
  • Configured and managed core Azure services including Web Apps, Function Apps, VNets, Application Gateway, App Insights, Key Vault, Active Directory, and security features using ARM templates and PowerShell.
  • Implemented automation and configuration management with Azure Automation DSC, Terraform, and Ansible—provisioning VNets, VM Scale Sets, Load Balancers, NAT rules, RBAC, and DSC configurations with alerts.
  • Built enterprise integration and migration solutions using Azure Service Bus, App Services, Storage, Hybrid Connection Manager, AD authentication for Azure SQL, and on-prem to Azure cloud migrations.
  • Containerized applications with Docker (files, images, containers, JFrog Artifactory, snapshots), managed clusters with Docker Swarm, and deployed Kubernetes clusters/templates for microservices in production.
  • Supported CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Python, and Shell scripts, improving automation, deployments, and application security.
  • Environments: Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, JFrog, Ansible, Jenkins, Git

Education

Bachelor’s - Computer Science Engineering

GITAM University
Visakhapatnam
04.2018

Skills

  • Cloud Technologies: Azure, AWS, OpenStack, PCF, GCP
  • Containerization: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
  • Configuration Management Tools: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Chef, puppet
  • CI/CD Tools: Jenkins/Hudson, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
  • Build Tools: Maven, Ant, Gradle
  • Version Control Tools: GIT, Bitbucket, SVN, TFS, Azure Repos, GitHub
  • Scripting Languages: Python, JSON, YAML, Bash shell, Power Shell
  • Virtualization Technologies: VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Virtual box, Vagrant
  • Web Servers: Apache HTTP 3x, Apache Tomcat, Nginx
  • Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Nagios, ELK, App Dynamics, Dynatrace
  • Repository Management: JFrog, Nexus, Artifactory
  • Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, VersionOne, Azure Boards
  • Operating Systems: Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Linux, Windows
  • Databases: MySQL, MS Access, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Solutions

Timeline

Devops Engineer

Crash Champions
11.2024 - Current

Sr Devops Engineer

MUFG Bank Ltd (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group)
04.2024 - 07.2024

Devops Engineer

University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC)
12.2022 - 04.2024

Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Freddie Mac
12.2020 - 11.2022

Azure DevOps Engineer

Tech Data
07.2019 - 11.2020

Bachelor’s - Computer Science Engineering

GITAM University

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