Nishant Yedla
Miami
Summary
Over 10+ years of experience in managing and monitoring infrastructure on AWS, Azure and GCP following industry best practices.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff. Site Reliability Engineer
Sojern Inc.
San Francisco, CA
07.2022 - Current
- Led the migration of 200+ Kubernetes service deployments from monolithic Jenkins pipelines to Codefresh + Argo CD GitOps, increasing deployment throughput from 20 to 200 deployments/day while reducing deployment-related outages to less than 5 incidents over three years.
- Architected Kubernetes platform governance using Kyverno, Terraform, and platform operators to standardize security policies, DNS, secrets management, and self-service infrastructure across engineering teams.
- Led platform observability initiatives by standardizing Datadog instrumentation, monitoring, and SLI/SLO baselines across environments while modernizing infrastructure through GKE consolidation and legacy platform decommissioning.
- Reduced Google Cloud infrastructure costs by ~50% through Kubernetes rightsizing, storage optimization, and continuous infrastructure tuning using PerfectScale and cloud cost management best practices.
- Designed and operated highly available, production-grade infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps principles to deliver scalable, reliable platform services.
- Partnered with platform, security, and application teams during multiple acquisitions to plan and execute cloud infrastructure migrations, platform consolidation, identity integration, and operational standardization across engineering organizations.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Parkmobile LLC
Atlanta, GA
03.2019 - 07.2022
- Infrastructure as code using Terraform reusable modules.
- CircleCI & Helm for deploying Go, NodeJS, Dotnet microservices on EKS with Istio as service mesh for traffic routing.
- Egress filtering using Aviatrix Gateways which filters the outbound traffic from our VPC, whitelist is done via terraform as well.
DevOps Consultant
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
07.2018 - 02.2019
- Setup containerized build agents for TFS 2018 and Azure DevOps with all the pre-configs required.
- Create a road map to implement Azure DevOps and migrate all the existing data onto Azure.
- POC AKS to showcase how container orchestration with Kubernetes works.
- Build chocolatey packages to deploy software for onprem servers.
DevOps Consultant
Interline Brands Inc.
Atlanta, GA
12.2017 - 07.2018
- Responsible for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and TeamCity.
- Package Windows and Linux based web application as Nuget Packages in TeamCity and deploy on target nodes using Octopus Deploy.
- Build scripts via Powershell, Shell and Python in playbooks to automate the work processes using Ansible.
DevOps Consultant
Ernst & Young
Atlanta, GA
02.2016 - 11.2017
- Setup up Python R integrated environments using Chef & Ansible.
- Manage ELK Clusters, Hadoop clusters using Ansible playbooks for Data scientists.
- Follow Agile Kanban Methodology participating in daily standups, sprint plannings backlog grooming sessions.
SysOps Engineer
eBay Advertising
Brisbane, CA
10.2015 - 01.2016
- Setup continuous integration pipeline/build automation using Jenkins, Git/Gerrit, Nexus and deploy workflow management using Rundeck.
- Integrate static code analysis and code coverage tool SonarQube and implement quality gates to integrate with further workflows.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Carbondale05.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering
Gitam University
Visakhapatnam06.2013
Skills
- Cloud Cost Control: YotoScale, Cloudability , PerfectScale
- Scripting: Bash, Powershell, Python , Go
- Identity Management: Okta, GSuite
- Change/Release Management: FreshService, JIRA
- QA: Blazemeter, Hey, Jmeter , SonarQube
- Automation: Artifactory, LaunchDarkly, Helm, Gloo, CircleCI, Terraform, JenkinsX, Chef, Ansible, TeamCity, Octopus, Codefresh, Snyk , Argo, CrossPlane, KEDA
- Alerting: Opsgenie, Slack, Pagerduty
- APM, Logging: Datadog, Kibana, AppDynamics, NewRelic
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
Timeline
Staff. Site Reliability Engineer
Sojern Inc.
07.2022 - Current
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Parkmobile LLC
03.2019 - 07.2022
DevOps Consultant
Mayo Clinic
07.2018 - 02.2019
DevOps Consultant
Interline Brands Inc.
12.2017 - 07.2018
DevOps Consultant
Ernst & Young
02.2016 - 11.2017
SysOps Engineer
eBay Advertising
10.2015 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering
Gitam University
Master of Science - Computer Science
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY