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Phani Kumar Vantipalli

Dublin,CA

Summary

Seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience resourcefully planning and deploying necessary application tools to meet organizational goals. Expert at generating quality coding to enhance critical software automation, accuracy, agility and security based on latest industry-standard concepts. Established history providing pivotal consultation with Dev, QA, security and IT operations staff to influence software development effectiveness. Resourceful when overseeing group projects and providing detailed analysis to craft practical processes.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Software Engineer

Comcast
Sunnyvale, CA
01.2023 - Current
  • Implemented replacement of siloed software architecture, enhancing productivity and resulting in better client experience.
  • Developed scripts to automate deployment and maintenance of public cloud resources.
  • Created a highly scalable infrastructure to build thousands of CI/CD runs
  • Containerized and orchestrated multiple applications using Kubernetes on EKS
  • Implemented ansible roles for comcast internal application deployments as part of CI/CD.
  • Implemented the log monitoring with ELK across all the applications and created the dashboards for higher management.
  • Designed and implemented the utility for the SSL auto renewal for comcast CL apps using comodo cert issuer.
  • Integrated the HC Vault to use password for connected living apps.
  • Monitoring Solution: Evaluated Prometheus, Consul, and Sensu to monitor clusters and service checks and
    implemented Prometheus and Grafana in a large-scale environment with HA.
  • Designed and implemented utility for the dashboard uploads to staging and prod Grafana using GitHub actions
  • Configured computing, networking and security systems within cloud environment.
  • Collaborated with architects and engineers to design networks, systems and storage environments that reflected business needs, security specifications and service level requirements.

Sr Release Engineer

Cloudera
08.2021 - 12.2022
  • Worked with the top minds of the company and gained a lot of knowledge on software design and architecture
  • Developed multi-regions and highly scalable unified docker registry and integrated with the Enterprise cloud product
  • Maintained 250+ on-prem servers, built a Kubernetes infrastructure using Openshift, and offered standard Kubernetes services like monitoring, logging, storage, and backup to a large engineering group and services
  • Mentored multiple team members in various projects
  • Created a highly scalable infrastructure to build thousands of CI/CD runs
  • Worked on many automation and tools to increase Engineering productivity
  • Containerized and orchestrated multiple applications using Kubernetes on AWS/Openshift
  • Automated code scan process to validate code licenses and security scans of docker containers
  • Developed Github user management tool using python to handle user addition, deletion, and other git functions
  • Integrated ETCD to store cluster state and build state of the application
  • Integrated the HC Vault to use password for builds
  • Monitoring Solution: Evaluated Prometheus, Consul, and Sensu to monitor clusters and service checks and implemented Prometheus in a large-scale environment
  • Implemented the log monitoring with EFK across all the applications and created the dashboards for higher management for product build status
  • Collaborated with cross-functional team to define features and build powerful and easy-to-use products and customer-facing workflow tools.
  • Introduced automation tools to enhance workflow.

Sr DevOps Engineer

CGI Inc
09.2017 - 08.2021
  • Migration of a monolithic application to microservices running on Kubernetes for Azure and Private Cloud
  • Introducing Continuous Integration and containerization principles and best practice to multiple product teams, introducing and onboarding them to Kubernetes, Docker, and Jenkins pipelines
  • Developing scripts to automate the process for build, deployment, maintenance, and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Gradle, Python, Ansible, JSON for MongoDB and Bash
  • Working with Development and Test teams to create fully automated CI/CD Pipelines using Azure and Jenkins
  • Implemented and assisted in design of CI pipelines for ML workload's
  • Implemented Auto healing scrips for on-boarding services
  • Test proofed Kubeflow and implemented these for on-boarding various stages in a ML lifecycle
  • Setup of Kubernetes services on Azure with load balancers, gateways, ingress and Encrypt TLS certificates
  • Deployment of ConfigMaps, Secrets and Volumes on Kubernetes
  • Accountable for setup and Integration of Hashicorp Vault to application pods for secrets management
  • Setup of ELK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd & Kibana) on Kubernetes
  • Accountable for setup and integration of Azure HDInsight Cluster as well as in house HDInsight setup.

Senior Member of Technical Staff Cloud Operations

MetricStream InfoTech
12.2009 - 09.2017
  • Implementation, configuration and maintain docker and Kubernetes across MetricStream private cloud, AWS and Oracle Cloud by using AWS VPC and VPN
  • Deployment, administer and maintain docker containers in Kubernetes for high availability
  • Developed docker files, reusable recipes for docker containers and Jenkins scripts for building golden docker images for production deployments
  • Release and configuration management by using CI/CD process using Git and Jenkins
  • Automated the process of creation nginx configuration files by reading the port definitions using Kubernetes
  • Automated the creation of access control files (acl files) of nginx for doing the IP filtering based access control
  • Accountable for the integration of MetricStream application with different Identity providers like ADFS, Ping and OKTA by using HTTP-Redirect and HTTP-POST
  • Gathering requirements from customers for user provisioning and authorization and implementation of user provisioning by using Just-in-Time provisioning and Active Directory Integration
  • Working as Site Reliability engineer/L3 support for all cloud hosted Applications by working closely with customers, internal R&D teams
  • As part of L3 support team drafted and published root cause analysis reports and 8D reports for production incidents
  • Worked as a NOC engineer and developed the scripts for monitoring using Nagios, moved URL monitoring framework from Alertbot to Site24
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  • Implemented and configured APM, RUM and Synthetic monitoring for the Applications
  • Working in Performance SWAT Team for quickly identifying performance bottlenecks in the application and in different middleware components
  • Developing, organizing and maintaining standard operational procedures and educating the team in the standard operation procedures
  • Evaluation of latest risks in Application security with focus area on Load balancers, web servers and implementing the remediation’s for the risks
  • Member of Technical Staff Customer Oriented R&D
  • Responsibilities:
  • Installation, configuration and deployment of MetricStream Applications in different Operations systems like Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX by using different application servers like tomcat, Jboss, WebLogic and WebSphere and using different webservers like Apache, IBM HTTP Server and IIS.
  • Working closely with customer IT teams in gathering the requirements for Infrastructure, capacity planning and deployment of MetricStream applications in customer IT environments.
  • Maintain, monitor and release management of internal customer replica environments.
  • Create build documents for customer deployments
  • Worked as Single point of contact for all the application related incidents by doing L3 support for any incidents by doing the troubleshooting through logs, analyzing heap dumps, thread dumps, web servers and operating system components
  • Worked as SME for doing the directory integration with MetricStream applications using different directory servers like AD, IBM Tivoli directory server, Sun directory server.
  • Worked as SME for doing the Web Single Sign On integrations by using different Identity Providers like ADFS, Okta, Ping Identity and ForgeRock suite of products.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

Skills

  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Programming/Scripting : Python, Shell, bash, Java and SQL
  • Microservices and Containerization : Docker, Podman, Kubernetes (OCP, Rancher, EKS and AKS), Helm, istio, datadog
  • Cloud Providers : AWS, Azure
  • Configuration management : Terraform, Ansible
  • Build Tools : Apache ANT, Maven, Gradle
  • CI/CD : Jenkins, HC Vault, Git Hub, Atlassian Bitbucket, Agile/SAFe methodologies
  • Monitoring : EFK (Elasticsearch, Kibana and fluent-bit/vector), CloudWatch, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana
  • Operating systems : Windows, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu)
  • Database : Oracle, mongodb and MS SQL Server
  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Accomplishments

  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Timeline

Sr Software Engineer

Comcast
01.2023 - Current

Sr Release Engineer

Cloudera
08.2021 - 12.2022

Sr DevOps Engineer

CGI Inc
09.2017 - 08.2021

Senior Member of Technical Staff Cloud Operations

MetricStream InfoTech
12.2009 - 09.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

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