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Lakshmi Ujwala Golla

Bangalore,India

Summary

  • Over 12+ years of experience in IT industry with experience on Azure DevOps, Azure Administration, PowerShell Scripting, Agile Process, Office 365 and SharePoint Administration.
  • Extensive experience in Terraform, Azure and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Github and Docker services.
  • Hands on experience on Storage Accounts, Databricks, Key Vaults, Data Factory, Event Hubs, Networking Services, Load Balancers, Virtual Machine Services, Azure Active Directory, Azure Functions, Application Service, Azure Kubernetes and Basics of Machine Learning Services.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Consultant - TL

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2022 - Current

DevOps Lead for Re-insurance client


Project Objective: Application management and Database deployments Insurance client in Switzerland and USA for containerizing the internal applications and managing dependencies of insurance clients data.


  • Architect, design, develop, deploy, and document new systems or maintain existing systems on Cloud Platforms based on specifications.
  • Worked with Senior DevOps Architects to design scalable, reliable, performant, and efficient systems.
  • Implemented DevOps architectures and standards based on the goals and requirements set forth by leadership.
  • Responsible for Provisioning, configuring and managing infrastructure-using Terraform
  • Responsible for creating and managing Azure pipelines to move data to Databricks.
  • Created multiple scripts to automate database deployments on ServiceNow using Zeebee
  • Script deployments in development environment and running queries/jobs for developers in database management portal.
  • Worked on setting up machine learning based pipelines in development environment of new projects.
  • Mentoring and managing offshore team members on assigned tasks
  • Created knowledge base of CI/CD Automation using different tools
  • Worked with cross-functional leadership teams - engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.
  • Helped engineers on the operational challenges related to scalability, reliability, performance, and efficiency.

Associate Consultant – Lead

Wipro Technologies
11.2020 - 05.2022

Azure Devops Engineer for Healthcare Client


Project Objective: Marketing Data Platform for a leading Healthcare Client in North America for streamlining data for Purchase, Claims, and Renewal of healthcare plans


  • Responsible for Provisioning, configuring and managing infrastructure-using Terraform.
  • Working as an individual contributor in setting up Jenkins server instance.
  • Working as an individual contributor in setting up CI CD pipelines in Jenkins server.
  • Responsible for Git Version Control activities for the project.
  • Created Docker files for different code-based applications, building the images and pushing to Container Registry.
  • Implementing Key vault services to secure secrets, Data Factory, Machine Learning workspace and Data Bricks services
  • Exposure to Azure App Service, Function App, Storage Account and various other Azure resources for various purposes.
  • Created diagnostics settings to monitor performance of application, and alert systems and respond to interruption of service events for running service
  • Created a parameterized template and Jenkins pipelines for the Machine Learning environment. The template can be used to spin up the ML environment for any project with a click.
  • Supported builds and deployments for multiple environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Production.
  • Created groovy scripts for CI CD automation
  • Implemented Sonarqube for continuous monitoring of Code Quality of the application
  • Responsible for setting up application insights and diagnostic settings

Associate Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2014 - 11.2020

Digital Security for the leading Healthcare in US


Project Objective: Digital Security for the leading Healthcare in US to improvise the security of the Applications


  • Worked as an individual contributor in setting up CI CD pipelines in Jenkins server.
  • Managed release process, GIT based code versioning on Azure (ADF Functions, Databricks PySpark), Snowflake
  • Provisioning, configuring and managing infrastructure using Terraform and modularized existing scripts
  • Architect, design, develop, deploy, and document new systems or maintain existing systems on Cloud Platforms based on specifications.
  • Responsible for collaborating with development team in GIT feature branching for scaling the solution to multiple regions
  • Created Application Insights to monitor performance of application, created automated system administration monitoring and alert systems and respond to interruption of service events for running service
  • Supported builds and deployments for multiple environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Production.
  • Working with team to check and merge the code merge requests

Associate Project

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2018 - 07.2019

Project Objective: Developing and Hosting Web Applications in Azure for leading Financial Service Company.


  • Individual contributor in setting up Azure CI CD pipelines
  • Responsible to build an Azure board.
  • Enabled Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to end-users – CI/CD
  • Cloud security and compliance ensure solutions and operations reliability.
  • Involved with Infra team on networking like DNS, Routing, Subnets, VLANs, WAN
  • Worked closely with the development and product management teams to design, deliver and manage our Application with high uptime
  • Created frameworks and automation in the communication process to maximize transparency and reduce effort and time
  • Decision based on audits on current cloud utilization and recommend cloud optimization and security changes.
  • Hands on experience with Unix and Linux based systems, shell scripting
  • Supported multiple projects, collaborate effectively with multiple teams
  • Automated adhoc requirements using PowerShell Bash.

Associate Project

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2016 - 01.2018

Project Objective: Developing and Hosting Web Applications in Azure for Mars Food UK.


  • Migrating Applications from on premise to Azure cloud
  • Developing templates and scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions
  • Automated tasks using PowerShell/ CLI
  • Worked with Azure Log Analytics to monitor performance
  • Enabled backup reports for servers.

Associate Project

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
11.2014 - 06.2016

Project Objective: SharePoint Upgradation to latest versions and enhancements for Antham


  • Prepared Business rules and Business Requirement Document.
  • Web Portal development for Healthcare client. Project to create SharePoint Farm (Production, Stage and Development) and installing SharePoint in those servers and maintaining the servers by installing patch updates to SharePoint and renewing the expired certificates, deploying solution packages, maintaining server health by monitoring them on daily basis
  • Worked in multi-cultural work environments and handled senior stakeholders
  • Transformed team from traditional SDLC (waterfall) to Agile Team
  • Process automation using PowerShell scripting.
  • Monitoring applications and servers daily and Installing patch updates to SharePoint
  • Monitoring and solving health analyzer issues and Solving end user issues in form of tickets
  • Business User on-boarding and Process Documentation
  • Updating Knowledge Lake with process documents
  • Analyzing web analytic reports, predicting upcoming issues, and taking precautionary care

Consultant

Ciber India Pvt Ltd/Philips
04.2012 - 11.2014

Project Objective: SharePoint Migration from SP2007 to SP2010 and Connect Us and Connect Share



  • Migration of sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using Metalogix manager.
  • Prepared Manifest files and performed pre and post migration activities.
  • Administering and maintaining “Connect Us”.
  • Administered a group of SharePoint 2010
  • Solving technical issues raised by users related to SharePoint 2010.

Project Engineer

Ciber Sites India Private Limited
09.2011 - 03.2012

Project Objective: Web portal development for Walt Disney


  • Analyzing the requirement documents and developing the UI for the web pages.
  • Creating the MVC 3 solution to support test-driven development.

Education

B.Tech -

Srinivasa Institute of Technology and Management, Chittoor
01.2011

Class XII -

Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Tirupathi
01.2007

Class X -

Shantineketan English Medium School, Penukonda
01.2005

Skills

  • Azure Devops and Jenkins Devops
  • Shell, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, and MVC Net
  • Linux and Windows
  • Gitlab, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Basics of Kubernetes, Quest and Metalogix
  • SonarQube and Fortify
  • Service now
  • JIRA and Rally
  • SDLC and Agile
  • Email applications and Microsoft Office packages

Certification

  • Certified in Microsoft Azure Administrator
  • Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Certified SAFe Agilist

Accomplishments

  • Best performer of a Quarter Q42021 – Wipro Technologies
  • Quick Learner Microsoft Practice – Wipro Technologies

Timeline

Associate Consultant - TL

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2022 - Current

Associate Consultant – Lead

Wipro Technologies
11.2020 - 05.2022

Associate Project

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2018 - 07.2019

Associate Project

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2016 - 01.2018

Associate Project

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
11.2014 - 06.2016

Associate Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2014 - 11.2020

Consultant

Ciber India Pvt Ltd/Philips
04.2012 - 11.2014

Project Engineer

Ciber Sites India Private Limited
09.2011 - 03.2012

B.Tech -

Srinivasa Institute of Technology and Management, Chittoor

Class XII -

Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Tirupathi

Class X -

Shantineketan English Medium School, Penukonda
Lakshmi Ujwala Golla