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Kalpana Valasapally

Sunnyvale,CA

Summary

Experienced IT professional with over 10 years in the industry, specializing in DevOps. Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, resulting in significant improvements in deployment efficiency and frequency. Proven track record of collaborating effectively with development teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation, leading to reduced development and deployment timelines. Strong proficiency in containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, with a focus on testing and troubleshooting to ensure robust and reliable deployments.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Devops Engineer

NRG Energy
Texas, USA
05.2023 - Current
  • Designed, implemented, and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automating the build, test, and deployment processes for .NET applications and JAVA applications.
  • Automating build and deployments in Dev/QA/UAT/PROD Environments.
  • Developed Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests to define deployment specifications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and resource efficiency for applications deployed in Kubernetes clusters.
  • Integrated AKS with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate the deployment and management of microservices.
  • Implemented containerization strategies using Docker and orchestrated microservices deployments in Kubernetes clusters on Azure Kubernetes Services.
  • Implemented rolling updates and blue-green deployments to minimize downtime and ensure smooth application updates.
  • Integrated Python-based unit tests and code quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring code reliability and consistency.
  • Worked on deployment of server infrastructure by using ARM templates and terraform and automate those scripts using CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
  • Used Azure Boards analytics and reporting to monitor project progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve team efficiency.
  • Experience in setting up and configuring self-hosted agents in Azure DevOps pipelines to execute builds and deployments within the organization's infrastructure.
  • Monitored applications and Azure services using Azure Monitor,Application Insights and Dynatrace to track performance metrics, detect anomalies, and troubleshoot issues.
  • Implemented branch policies to enforce build validation and gated deployments, ensuring that only verified changes are promoted to production environments.
  • Utilizing configuration management tools such as Ansible on Linux machine, creating different customized modules playbooks for configuring application on client node.
  • Worked on Azure Storage Services (Storage, Data Lake Store, and Backup), Database (Document DB, SQL Data Warehouse) and Networking services (Vnet, LB, DNS and CDN).
  • Experience in conducting Azure threat modeling assessments for projects, identifying and prioritizing security risks.

Cloud Devops Engineer

Citibank
09.2022 - 05.2023
  • Experienced in creating, configuring and maintaining Infrastructure on AWS Cloud services including EC2, RDS, Redshift, EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service), S3, IAM, SNS, EMR, GLUE, Cloud Watch and Secrets Manager.
  • Experienced in creating complex IAM policies, Roles, and user management for delegated access within AWS.
  • Experience working with version control systems like GitHub.
  • Developed and maintained shell scripts to automate routine tasks, such as system provisioning, configuration management, and backup processes in AWS.
  • Python coding experience - Lambda and Jupyter notebook.
  • Utilized Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision and manage cloud resources efficiently.
  • Played a key role in the development and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for multiple applications by using Jenkins.
  • Hands on experience on setting up access control at Sage maker domain level, set up the team-based access control policy, automate User’s on boarding.
  • Implemented AWS Open Search secure, cloud-scale log analytics and observability platform within a multi-account AWS environment.
  • Developed server less applications using AWS Lambda, orchestrating workflows and integrating with other AWS services.
  • Set up Infrastructure on Self-Managed Kubernetes cluster from scratch on AWS using Terraform.
  • Use Kubernetes as an open-source platform for Automating deployment, scaling and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts, providing container-centrist infrastructure.

Cloud Engineer

Nextgen Health Care
03.2021 - 08.2022
  • Reviewed the quality of Automated Build plans to ensure the delivery process across non-prod and prod Environments
  • Deploying windows Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and Octopus Deploy
  • Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and Managed releases of Helm packages
  • Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes
  • Worked with Terraform Templates to automate the Azure IAAS virtual machines using terraform modules and deployed virtual machine scale sets in production environment.
  • Managed Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Azure Portal.
  • Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics and used Terraform as a tool, Managed different infrastructure resources Cloud, VMware, and Docker containers.
  • Using Ansible created multiple playbooks for machine creations and SQL server, cluster server and my SQL installations.
  • Implemented Git for Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments on Linux platforms and, designed and implemented Git Metadata including elements, labels, attributes, triggers, hyperlinks.

Devops Engineer

ANZ
Hyderabad, India
04.2019 - 03.2021
  • Configuration of Azure Virtual Networks, Subnets, DHCP, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers, Front door, Application Gateway and Traffic Manager.
  • Involved in Requirement gathering workshops and documented the outcomes with Requirement gathering specifications.
  • Created, Configured Load balancers as per application requirement, needed to maintain high availability of servers.
  • Created Virtual Network with Frontend and Backend subnets, Assigned Frontend and Backend Network security group rules to these subnets.
  • Experience in monitoring and optimizing data solutions in Azure including using Azure Monitor.
  • Troubleshoot and identity performance, Connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted in Azure platform.
  • Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting required VMs to take the VM level backups.
  • Shaped the backup and retention policy for the client and leveraged Azure Backups.
  • Extensive involvement in Designing Azure Resource Manager Template and in designing custom build steps using PowerShell
  • Work on escalated tasks related to interconnectivity issues and complex cloud-based identity management and user authentication, service interruptions with Virtual Machines (their host nodes) and associated virtual storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues)
  • Provisioning the infrastructure using the Terraform for the different environments according to the service now request
  • Provided 24/7 on call support to the team.

Cloud Engineer

Global Blue
Hyderabad, India
06.2017 - 03.2019
  • Handled AWS cloud administration tools and management frameworks.
  • Managed system administration work on EC2 instances.
  • Worked on AWS services like EC2, VPC, IAM, SNS, and RDS etc.
  • Configured Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing IAM and Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC and other services in the AWS
  • Responsible for managing source code repository Git, creating Tags, Branches and Branch Merges.
  • Configured GIT with Jenkins and scheduled jobs using the Poll SCM option.
  • Installed and configured Docker on the deployment servers.
  • Manage AWS and install web certificates(SSL, Client Authentication Certificates).
  • Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies and create AMI’s for Critical production servers for backup.
  • Responsible for ensuring Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration across all environments from UAT/TEST to Pre-Production and Production using Jenkins.
  • Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups
  • Strong understanding of Windows and Linux system administration, installation, security, user management, networking, disk configuration.
  • Configuration DHCP, DNS, MYSQL, MS SQL Server installation on servers.

Build and Release Engineer

WebMD
Hyderabad, India
11.2013 - 05.2017
  • Documented all build and release process related items
  • Level one support for all the build and deploy issues encounter during the build process
  • Worked closely with the Development Team in the design phase and developed use case diagrams using Rational Rose
  • Created and maintained documentation of build and release processes and application configuration to comply with audit requirements and industry best practices
  • Converted entire code base from subversion to git and maintaining it
  • Provided technical assistance during operational changes
  • Backing up previously build and used artifacts
  • Responsible for automating & designing build process like setting up jobs, writing build scripts
  • Provided technical assistance during operational changes via both on-site support and remotely
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes
  • Involved in Troubleshooting when pipelines failed and coordinate with application team
  • Setup and Configure GIT Hub, GIT, clone repositories, work on local repositories.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India
01.2012

Skills

  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Maven
  • Kubernetes
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Data Factory
  • Databricks
  • Cloud formation
  • Azure Monitor
  • Splunk
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Azure Repo
  • BitBucket
  • Azure Devops
  • Jenkins/Hudson
  • Terraform
  • ARM Template
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • MYSQL
  • Cosmos DB
  • Redshift
  • DynamoDB
  • PostgreSQL

Websites

Certification

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate :AZ-104

Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert : AZ-400

Timeline

Devops Engineer

NRG Energy
05.2023 - Current

Cloud Devops Engineer

Citibank
09.2022 - 05.2023

Cloud Engineer

Nextgen Health Care
03.2021 - 08.2022

Devops Engineer

ANZ
04.2019 - 03.2021

Cloud Engineer

Global Blue
06.2017 - 03.2019

Build and Release Engineer

WebMD
11.2013 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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