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Niharika Anamalamudi

Sr. Cloud Infrastructure/ DevOps Engineer

Irvine,CA

Summary

Passionate Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer dedicated to delivering high-quality Platform Solutions, emphasizing security and efficiency to enhance development processes.
Proficient in implementing Agile Methodologies, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration and Deployment, and SRE principles.
Proficient in analyzing and crafting business needs with resilient cloud solutions, contributing to operational excellence and customer success.
Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, addressing technical challenges, and leading end-to-end project implementations from design to deployment.
Proven excellent interpersonal skills to drive and influence decision-making on annual Infrastructure Roadmaps, technology strategy and Cloud Migration.
Ability to thrive in high-pressure startup environments with little to no-supervision.

Overview

years of professional experience

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Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Finfare Financial Inc

06.2024 - 03.2026

Architected and managed multi-account AWS environment using AWS Control Tower, including provisioning new accounts and integrating acquired company infrastructure.
Modernized network architecture by migrating from VPC peering to AWS Transit Gateway, improving scalability and simplifying inter-VPC connectivity.
Designed and implemented secure VPC architectures, including site-to-site VPN connectivity between Amazon Web Services and external banking/vendor systems.
Led migration from AWS CDK to Terraform, standardizing infrastructure deployments and improving maintainability across environments.
Designed and implemented a Terraform “golden path”, enabling consistent, scalable infrastructure provisioning across teams.
Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines, incorporating reusable GitHub Actions workflows to improve deployment efficiency and reduce duplication.
Developed event-driven architectures using AWS EventBridge and AWS Lambda to power customer-facing features such as automated email and payment reminders.
Implemented secure, keyless authentication in CI/CD using OIDC with AWS, eliminating long-lived credentials and improving security posture.
Implemented comprehensive observability using Datadog across multiple product ecosystems, improving system visibility and incident response.
Led cross-functional training sessions to educate engineering teams on best practices for Datadog and AWS CDK usage.
Enabled data science workflows by deploying and managing Databricks infrastructure for the data team.
Integrated Snowflake with AWS, supporting scalable data warehousing and analytics capabilities.
Collaborated with IT to integrate Forescout alerts with Slack for real-time AWS usage monitoring and security visibility.
Supported compliance initiatives by participating in SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits.

Senior Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

InVenture Capital Corp D/B/A Tala

03.2022 - 05.2024

Support development teams from multiple business units through automation provided in Terraform, Helm, CI/CD pipeline, and scripts, that provides rapid development and ship scalable software solutions.
Expertise in designing and architecting cloud infrastructure leveraging a full suite of AWS services like IAM, EC2, S3, CDN, WAF, SNS, SQS, VPC, Route53, RDS, EKS, AWS Kafka, Kinesis Data Stream and Firehose, Keyspaces for highly available and fault tolerant systems.
Led seamless application/service migration, partnering with multiple teams for transition from legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes cluster, ensuring operational continuity.
Migrated legacy cloud resources from a legacy Terraform version to Terraform Cloud's unified management.
Oversaw manipulation of Terraform state files, redefined resources, and refactored Terraform modules by making it dynamic and reusable for future market expansions thus reducing manual intervention by 60%.
Implemented cost-saving strategies utilizing Graviton instances and GP3 storage across all markets (PH, MX, IN, PE), optimizing performance and reducing expenses across AWS services like EKS, RDS, Redis, and MSK.
Optimized utilization of cloud resources resulting in significant cost reductions and improved system performance by implementing cost-saving strategies, including right-sizing and scheduling resources.
Skilled in using GitHub Actions and Jenkins to design and implement efficient CI/CD pipelines, enabling seamless automation of software integration, testing, and deployment processes.
Assessed feasibility of using DBaaS solution for Cassandra by conducting a POC on DataStax and AWS Keyspaces.
Acquired proficiency with Snowflake warehouse administration and integration with core products and multiple third party tools for data pipelines synchronization and data storage.
Collaborated with IT and spearheaded access management and access control across the organization by mapping permissions based on teams by leveraging groups and roles with Google SAML SSO authentication.
Proficient in utilizing Ansible playbooks to deploy a highly available Cassandra cluster on EC2 instances, leveraging Kubernetes jobs to run playbooks to streamline and optimize deployment process.
Conducted regular post-mortems after incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
Leading migration of Jobs and Cron Jobs from Legacy Jenkins Server to Argo Workflows, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop custom runners tailored to specific use cases and integrating them into Argo Workflow jobs.
Proficient in configuring CloudWatch alarms with Instana and Sumo Logic for comprehensive application monitoring and real-time incident alerts across teams, resulting in reduced system downtime.
Proficiency in DevSecOps practices for security management and prevention of bot attacks with fraud IPs at NGINX load balancer tier.
Currently engaged in several Proof of Concepts (POCs) including Argo Workflows, GitHub ARC controller, Istio (Blue/Green deployment) and Keda.
Involved in ISO compliance audit for PII data for fiscal year 2022.

Senior DevOps Engineer | DevOps Engineer

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC

09.2019 - 03.2022

Setup on-prem Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure for substrate based blockchain network and crypto token using ansible playbooks.
Successfully rolled out blockchain infrastructure to production as a sole DevOps engineer, ensuring smooth deployment and ongoing maintenance of critical blockchain nodes for crypto token operations.
Evaluated emerging DevOps and blockchain-related technologies, recommending and integrating tools such as Hyperledger, Substrate, and Web3 to align with business goals and enhance operational efficiency in the blockchain ecosystem.
Deployed a robust, production ready, highly available Kubernetes infrastructure to facilitate load balancing and reduce application downtime for in-house quantum messenger app.
Incorporated automated testing procedures into development process to ensure code quality before deployments were executed.
Improved release management processes by introducing version control systems such as GitLab Server for tracking changes throughout software lifecycle.
Designed DevOps workflow for software product by orchestrating build, test, release and deploy stages through Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline using GitLab and Jenkins.
Evaluated emerging technologies in DevOps space and recommended strategic adoption of solutions that aligned with organizational goals and requirements.
Integrated subquery service with PostgreSQL to process and query blockchain data at server-side and deployed secured GraphQL endpoint service for client-side to give ability for them to query their transactions.
Contributed to the design and architecture of distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms, ensuring blockchain nodes were integrated with other decentralized applications (dApps) and met performance benchmarks for cryptocurrency processing.
Experience working with multi docker builds and integrating SonarQube with Jenkins and GitLab build pipeline to check any vulnerabilities in code before it goes into production.
Experience with Cloudflare for DNS Management, Firewall rules, Domain migration, Traffic analytics and Access control for two business lines.
Configured MongoDB database system with replica set topology with security best practices and ensured regular backups to data center protection domain.
Orchestrated deployment of ELK stack on Kubernetes for centralized logging and monitoring, optimizing resource utilization and enhancing system reliability.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

California State University - Fullerton

Fullerton, CA

05.2019

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

India

05.2017

Skills

Cloud & On-Prem: AWS, Nutanix

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows

IAC: Terraform, Terragrunt, CDK

DBA: Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra

Monitoring & Logging: Instana, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Sumologic

Scripting: Shell, Python

Compliance & Audit: PCI DSS, NIST (CMVP), GDPR, SOC 1, SOC 2

AI Tooling: Windsurf, Claude