Pavani Reddy Idamakanti
Fremont,CA
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience in technical program management, cloud infrastructure, and software engineering, including current experience at Johnson & Johnson MedTech. Skilled in CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, containerization, and AWS-based deployment workflows, with a strong focus on scalable, secure, and reliable software delivery. Experienced in leading technical programs, managing cross-functional teams, and driving platform improvements across cloud and software engineering domains. Strong background in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Linux automation, OS patching, and system hardening, with experience in AI-assisted development workflows, SBOM generation, vulnerability reporting, and automation for build and dependency analysis.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Software DevOps Engineer
Johnson & Johnson Medtech
Santa Clara, California
05.2022 - Current
- Lead and support cloud and infrastructure initiatives for medical technology platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant software delivery.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines, containerized build environments, and release automation to improve development productivity and deployment reliability.
- Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, configuration management, OS patching, and system hardening.
- Optimize build efficiency through caching strategies, dependency management, and standardized toolchain configurations to accelerate engineering workflows.
- Partner with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to drive platform improvements, dependency management, and operational excellence.
- Support technical program execution, service reliability, and process improvement across cloud and software delivery initiatives.
- Contribute to team enablement, mentoring, and continuous improvement while fostering a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture.
- Automated software supply chain and security workflows, including SBOM generation and vulnerability reporting, to improve compliance and early risk detection.
- Integrated AI-assisted development and build analysis tools to support engineering productivity, issue triage, and troubleshooting workflows.
- Improved pipeline visibility by automating dependency analysis, vulnerability tracking, and release governance processes.
Senior Devops Engineer/Project Manager
Nuuly
Philadelphia
02.2021 - 04.2022
- Facilitated Docker container orchestration and containerization using Kubernetes, and enhancing deployment reliability.
- Supported Kubernetes-based deployment, scaling, and administration of Docker containers.
- Automated infrastructure and application deployments using Kubernetes YAML files, Bash scripting, and Python.
- Configured Google Cloud Platform services, including GKE, GCB, GCR, IAM, service accounts, Cloud Run, Logging, Spanner DB, Anthos, GCE, Cloud Endpoints, API Gateway, Config Connector, and related tools.
- Installed and maintained CI tools such as Jenkins and Google Cloud Build.
- Helped migrate Jenkins jobs to Cloud Build.
- Used gcloud, KCCS, gRPC, NGINX load balancing, New Relic, Elasticsearch, Envoy Proxy, and related tools.
- Participated in code reviews, pull request reviews, release activities, and ticket grooming to ensure code quality and project alignment.
- Coordinated Scrum board updates, Scrum meetings, code reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog management to streamline agile processes.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer/Team Lead
Sovos Compliance
Wilmington
02.2020 - 02.2021
- Provide architectural and practical guidance to software development to improve resiliency, efficiency, performance, and costs
- Configured alerts in monitoring and logging tools to enable proactive issue detection.
- Monitored and reported service level objectives for application services, collaborating with business and product owners to establish key performance indicators.
- Identifying, gathering, analyzing, and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
- Implementing monitoring/logging tools like AppDynamics, Nagios XI, Scalyr, Splunk, solarwinds, OEM, EM7 and Cloudwatch on Docker containers, AWS cloud and on-prem servers.
- Performing Load/Performance Testing to scale servers.
- Automating JMeter tests using Groovy/PowerShell scripting.
- Setting up CI/CD Jenkins pipeline on AWS to run smoothly JMeter tests.
- Documented project work and procedures for running JMeter tests to ensure clarity and reproducibility.
- Provide technical insight on development projects.
- Distributed server load using F5 load balancers to enhance performance. by implementing F5 load balancers.
- Experience in creating DockerContainers leveraging existing Linux Containers.
- Created a Continuous Delivery process to include support for building of Docker Images.
- Used CI/CD tools Jenkins, Git/Gitlabs, Jira and Docker registry for configuration management and automation using Ansible.
- Created Docker containers for various services and applications to streamline deployment.
Devops Engineer/SME
Healthedge Software Inc.
Burlington
03.2017 - 01.2020
- Developed CI/CD Jenkins pipelines for integration testing and migrated existing Jenkins jobs to new Master to streamline deployment process.
- Automation on deploying applications onto customer environments and provisioning the servers using ANSI B LE playbooks, Shell Scripting and Python.
- Automating creation of VMs on both on-prem using VxRails and AWS by following a Hybrid model.
- Identified gaps in customer application deployments and provided insights for automation improvements.
- Deployment using a Blue/Green approach to ensure no data loss.
- Utilized source control tools, such as Bitbucket, GIT, and Perforce, to manage code versions and collaborate with the development team.
- Participated in team coding sessions and code reviews to enhance collaboration and improve code quality.
- Hands-on Experience in implementing from ground and troubleshooting IBM MQ series
Linux Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.
, India
01.2012 - 06.2015
- Built high-performance, highly available environments for clients.
- Installed patches and packages on servers according to the release schedule.
- Troubleshooting issues in the server and Resolve issues on Disk, CPU, and memory performance issues
- Scripting to automate day-to-day tasks
- Deploying the code in production, UAT, PT, development servers.
- Managed user accounts and access permissions; enabled and Disabled Administrative security, Application Security, Global Security.
- Coordinating with multiple teams and taking ownership for planned activities.
- Facilitated communication between teams and customers to secure approvals for planned maintenance.
- Worked with multiple DBA and APP teams to support oracle/SQL databases and weblogic applications.
Education
Masters - Computer Engineering
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH12-2016
Skills
- Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows
- Scripting: Bash, Python, PowerShell
- Version Control: Git, Bitbucket, Perforce
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Google Cloud Build, GitLab CI
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Configuration Management: Ansible, OS patching, system hardening
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Build Optimization: ccache, dependency caching
- Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, AppDynamics, Nagios, CloudWatch, Splunk, ELK, Scalyr, Prometheus, Grafana
- Messaging: IBM MQ, RabbitMQ
- Performance Testing: JMeter, LoadUI
- Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence
Timeline
Staff Software DevOps Engineer
Johnson & Johnson Medtech
05.2022 - Current
Senior Devops Engineer/Project Manager
Nuuly
02.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Site Reliability Engineer/Team Lead
Sovos Compliance
02.2020 - 02.2021
Devops Engineer/SME
Healthedge Software Inc.
03.2017 - 01.2020
Linux Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.
01.2012 - 06.2015
Masters - Computer Engineering
Cleveland State University