Karthika Pedoti
Chicago,Illinois
Summary
Experienced Core Infrastructure Administrator with expertise in designing, deploying, and managing scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions over 9 years. Skilled in AWS, Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and automation (Terraform, chef, Helm). Extensive experience in managing DevOps toolchains, monitoring and security best practices. Proficient in administering Atlassian tools (Bamboo,Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) Github Actions and other DevOps platforms to optimize team productivity and collaboration. Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on high availability, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
SR. CORE ENGINEER
Fitch Group Inc
01.2023 - Current
- Upgraded and managed Amazon EKS clusters, onboarding new containerized applications using Helm and Kubernetes best practices, improving deployment consistency and cluster reliability.
- Implemented Bamboo, Github Actions using ArgoCD on EKS, enabling automated Helm-based releases and environment promotions across dev, staging, and production, increasing release velocity and auditability.
- Led enterprise migration of Bamboo plans and Bitbucket repositories to GitHub Actions, modernizing CI/CD architecture.
- Architected scalable GitHub Actions workflows with automated QA, security gates, and compliance checks, decreasing build failures
- Led migration evaluation for Bamboo to GitHub Actions and Harness by developing comprehensive POC, assessing performance, scalability, and ease of use for each platform
- Integrated Veracode security scanning with Bamboo to automate application security testing in CI/CD pipeline, ensuring secure code prior to deployment
- Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, standardizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and reducing manual provisioning efforts.
- Installed, Upgraded and administered and maintained SonarQube instances, ensuring accurate code quality analysis and secure scanning for multiple development teams
- Integrated Artifactory Edge Nodes to support a globally distributed team, improving access times for build and release artifacts
- Automated the synchronization between central Artifactory instances and edge nodes, ensuring all build artifacts were consistent and up to date across regions Installed
- Drove AWS cost optimization initiatives by right-sizing EC2/RDS workloads and leveraging Reserved and Spot Instances, reducing cloud spend by 20%+ while maintaining performance and availability.
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Fitch Group Inc
04.2020 - 01.2023
- Administered and optimized the Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo) to streamline project management, documentation, and CI/CD pipelines for cross-functional teams.
- Led cloud migration of on-premise tools like Atlassian Jira and Confluence to Cloud
- Migrated legacy applications and databases to AWS
- Led the migration of multiple EC2-based applications to Kubernetes (EKS), utilizing containerization with Docker to improve deployment flexibility and enable automatic scaling based on application load
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment pipelines using Terraform, reducing migration time
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using DevOps tools (Bamboo, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform).
- Executed disaster recovery for Kubernetes and legacy EC2 applications.
- Developed Kubernetes deployment strategies including blue-green deployments to ensure seamless application updates with zero downtime
- Automated migration process by creating Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and ConfigMaps for efficient deployment
SR. DEVOPS ENGINEER
Fitch Ratings
09.2017 - 03.2020
- Created a complete solution for CI/CD for legacy and new services
- Implemented DevOps and continuous delivery methodologies to enhance existing build and deployment strategies.
- Defining, designing, and implementing complex enterprise system integration solutions with Industry standard technologies such as Oracle, LDAP, Active Directory, and CRM applications;
- Providing end to end SCM consultation and implementation
- Implemented service-oriented architecture (SOA) design principles and best practices to streamline application integration.
- Created reusable Mule extensions to enhance application integration.
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies
- Developed Chef Cookbooks to install and configure Apache, Tomcat, Splunk, Jenkins, WebLogic, RabbitMQ, Docker, and automate deployment.
- Developed Chef Roles and Environment files based on the environments.
- Automating Chef Cookbooks, Roles, Environments, Data Bags deployment using Jenkins jobs
- Integrating Jenkins and Docker to Achieve CI and CD Process in different Environment
- Implemented containerized microservices using Amazon EC2 Container Service and Application Load Balancer.
- Implemented a Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline with Docker containers, Jenkins and GitHub, Bit bucket and AWS AMI's
- Working on orchestration frameworks and managing Docker containers using kubernetes
- Configuring, deploying and testing enterprise software applications;
- Identifying and addressing client needs by actively participating in client discussions and meetings, and communicating a broad range of Firm services;
- Delivered clear requests for information and prioritized tasks effectively.
- Performing as a high-functioning team leader by understanding personal and team roles;
- Contributing to a positive work environment by building solid relationships with team members;
- Seeking guidance, clarification, and feedback, while providing candid and meaningful feedback to less-experienced team members
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Formac Inc
05.2015 - 09.2017
- Working in an Agile based project with 2 weeks iterations which includes daily standup and iteration planning, backlog grooming sessions every 2 weeks
- DevOps Engineer for a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases
- Migrated SVN repositories to Stash
- Installed and configured Bamboo from scratch
- Responsible for build, design and maintain the platform automation infrastructure using Chef
- Developed Chef Multiple cookbooks to install and configure Applications , Atlassian tools and also Upgraded all Atlassian tools
- Responsible for Managing all Atlassian tools and Monitor servers using new relic and solar winds
- Integrated Bamboo and Chef
- Helped Developers to setup Workstations in Windows, Linux and Mac to work with Chef
- Written Chef Cookbooks and recipes to Provision several pre-prod environments consisting of Deployment automation
- Developed Python/Ruby scripts for rolling deployments using AWS CodeDeploy
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of processes and associated scripts/tools for automated build, testing and deployment of the products to various developments
- Responsible in deploying the application WARs, EARs on Jboss/Tomcat applications servers and troubleshoot any deployment issue
- Involved in all projects that move to production and work closely with the Data Center, Development, Quality Assurance and Management teams to ensure cross communication and confirmed approval of all production changes
- Developed build using ANT and MAVEN as build tools and used Bamboo to builds Jobs
- Working closely with developers, users, business Analysts and Operations group to triage and resolve build failures
- Resolving build issues and deploying to multiple environments
- Carried Deployments and builds on various environments
- Configured Apache webserver with Jboss application server through proxy plug-in
- Wrote Maven Scripts to automate the build process
- Responsible for build pipelines in Bamboo which will deploy builds to applications
- Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process
Education
Master - Computer Science
National University
CA05.2015
Skills
- Github Actions
- Bamboo CI
- Jenkins
- Stash/Bitbucket
- Harness platform
- Chef
- Artifactory
- Jfrog
- Edge Nodes
- JIRA
- New Relic
- DataDog
- Sumo Logic
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- SonarQube
- Veracode
- DevOps practices
- System enhancement
- Performance optimization
- Agile methodologies
- Project management
- Cross-team collaboration
- Maven
- Shell scripting
- Perl scripting
- Java
- Python
- Ruby
- Nodejs
- Windows
- Unix/Linux
- RHEL
- PostgreSQL
- Communication methods
- Problem solving
- Team management
- Time optimization
- Continuous integration processes
- DevOps concepts
Timeline
SR. CORE ENGINEER
Fitch Group Inc
01.2023 - Current
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Fitch Group Inc
04.2020 - 01.2023
SR. DEVOPS ENGINEER
Fitch Ratings
09.2017 - 03.2020
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Formac Inc
05.2015 - 09.2017
Master - Computer Science
National University