NAGA GOPALAPURAM
Dallas
Summary
Lead Cloud Platform Engineer | Kubernetes & Infrastructure Automation
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
HUMANA
03.2020 - Current
- Design and operate enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms that support containerized microservices and distributed workloads across AWS and Azure.
- Architected and operated Kubernetes platforms across AWS and Azure, enabling scalable environments for enterprise applications and distributed workloads.
- Designed and managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters supporting production microservices workloads.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, enabling repeatable deployments across multiple environments.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps to automate container builds, vulnerability scanning, and Kubernetes deployments.
- Operated distributed data workloads including Apache Flink streaming clusters and DynamoDB-backed systems.
- Designed and implemented platform observability frameworks using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Dynatrace.
- Led platform reliability initiatives including cluster upgrades, autoscaling optimization, and capacity planning.
- Implemented Kubernetes reliability mechanisms including Pod Disruption Budgets and controlled node rotation strategies.
- Collaborated with security teams to implement RBAC, IAM governance, and secure container build pipelines.
- Conducted production incident investigations and root cause analysis, improving platform reliability.
Infrastructure Engineer
CAPITAL ONE
09.2018 - 03.2020
- Supported enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms running large-scale financial systems.
- Operated AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC networking, and Kubernetes EKS clusters.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Built CI/CD pipelines to automate container image builds and Kubernetes deployments.
- Implemented IAM roles and security policies following least-privilege principles.
- Participated in AMI patching, infrastructure hardening, and vulnerability remediation across Linux systems.
- Collaborated with development teams to improve autoscaling strategies and infrastructure cost efficiency.
- Supported incident response and production debugging across distributed cloud systems.
Azure Support Engineer
MICROSOFT
02.2018 - 08.2018
- Supported enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms running large-scale financial systems.
- Operated AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC networking, and Kubernetes EKS clusters.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Built CI/CD pipelines to automate container image builds and Kubernetes deployments.
- Implemented IAM roles and security policies following least-privilege principles.
- Participated in AMI patching, infrastructure hardening, and vulnerability remediation across Linux systems.
- Collaborated with development teams to improve autoscaling strategies and infrastructure cost efficiency.
- Supported incident response and production debugging across distributed cloud systems.
Azure Support Engineer
NMAX IT
07.2014 - 11.2015
- Maintained CI/CD pipelines and automated application deployments.
- Managed Linux application servers and environment configuration.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Valparaiso University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Docker
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- GitOps
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Azure DevOps
- Datadog
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- New Relic
- Python
- Bash
- Go
- YAML
- Apache Flink
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Databricks
- MongoDB
- Neo4j
- Linux
- DNS
- Load Balancing
- Service Networking
- Incident Response
- Root Cause Analysis
- Capacity Planning
- High Availability
Certification
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, FDEC9R51NJEQ1XG5
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate, E2DYWYCCKM11QT9J
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), LF-hvjd2cjaxz
Timeline
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
HUMANA
03.2020 - Current
Infrastructure Engineer
CAPITAL ONE
09.2018 - 03.2020
Azure Support Engineer
MICROSOFT
02.2018 - 08.2018
Azure Support Engineer
NMAX IT
07.2014 - 11.2015
Master of Science - Information Technology
Valparaiso University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University