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Pramod Merugu

Beaverton,OR

Summary

Experienced software engineering professional with expertise in developing robust and scalable applications. Collaborates effectively with teams to drive projects to successful completion, adapting to evolving requirements. Proficient in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and tools, showcasing a versatile skill set. Committed to delivering high-quality results and fostering a productive work environment that values efficiency and innovation.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr.Software Engineer III

Nike, Inc.
08.2021 - Current
  • Designed and implemented self-service internal platforms using crossplane and kubernetes, enabling teams to provision cloud resources and deploy applications securely and at scale.
  • Reduced cloud provisioning time by 50% through declarative infrastructure patterns, including crossplane compositions,Kubernetes CRDs and custom Terraform provider integrations
  • Streamlined infrastructure automation and resource management by developing reusable Helm charts,integrating ArgoCD for GitOps workflows, and implementing IRSA for secure AWS service access.
  • Designed a Platform for running Apache Airflow on Kubernetes which supports more than 1000 Nike Engineers
  • Worked on multiple container orchestration tools like ECS, EKS, Fargate and Kubernetes
  • Built and managed the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) cluster for centralized logging and search functionalities for the Platform Observability
  • Developed RESTful API’s using Python Flask Frameworks
  • Implemented Devops CI/CD pipelines to perform the Monthly Releases and Deployments in Pre-prod and Prod environments
  • Designed Key automation strategies and developed code for clients for managing cloud engineering activities in AWS
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams during major incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues affecting business operations.
  • Enhanced cloud infrastructure efficiency by implementing advanced automation techniques and tools.
  • Environment: Amazon Web Services, Crossplane,GitOps.Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Splunk, CloudWatch, Helm, Airflow, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Python, Go

Sr.DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Nike, Inc.
08.2017 - 07.2021
  • Orchestrating infrastructure using various AWS resources, Puppet and Jenkins
  • Automated build and deployment of various highly available applications using CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, terraform and puppet
  • Created puppet modules for automating installation and configuration applications
  • Created various Jenkins jobs and CircleCI for build and deploy of containers, cloud infrastructures, migration tasks, microservices and day to day administration tasks using JenkinsFiles with GitHub integration
  • Automated various administration task using python and shell scripting utilizing lambda services to integrate with cloud
  • Automating and testing HANA system application with puppet code in a multi-node environment
  • Utilize DevOps methodologies and best practices to create infrastructure automation and continuous delivery
  • Environment: RHEL 6.x/7.x, Puppet, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, Serverless, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CircleCI, Atlantis server, New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, Helm, Airflow

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Viacom
10.2016 - 08.2017
  • Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Configuration management using puppet
  • Worked Closely with SQA and development to ensure point to point integration and end to end testing and maintaining 99.9% up time for all the environments including Production
  • Worked extensively on services like EC2, S3, VPC, Route53, CloudFormation, Lambda, SQS, SNS and IAM
  • Migrating a production infrastructure into an Amazon Web Services utilizing AWS Cloud-Formation, Code Deploy, EBS, and Ops Works
  • Hands on experience in AWS Lambda to run the scripts in response to events such as changes to data in the S3 buckets, Changes in the EC2 Instance status
  • Scripting & automating tasks using Python for backup, monitoring and file processing
  • Deployed and configured GIT repositories with branching, forks, tagging, merge requests, and notifications
  • Environment: RHEL 5.x,6.x, Puppet, Amazon Web Services, Shell Scripting, Python, New Relic

DevOps Engineer

Symantec
01.2016 - 09.2016
  • Evaluating performance of EC2 instances their CPU, Memory Usage, IOPS, Network Usages and suggest appropriate instance type for the same
  • Build out monitoring platform and continuously improve capabilities
  • Design and document CI/CD tools configuration
  • Worked with GitHub to manage source code repositories and performed branching, merging and tagging depending on requirement
  • Configured S3 to host static web content
  • Automated installing the Linux packages and administering Linux service using Ansible, and automating product installation configuration
  • Administered Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Deployment into Tomcat/Web Sphere Application Servers
  • Accelerated shipment of application within continuous delivery environment using Bamboo, Docker, Stash and NPM
  • Result driven consultant with good experience in the area of UNIX/Linux System Administration
  • Ensure communication between Operations and all Engineering Teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters
  • Environment: Ansible, Python, MYSQL, MSSQL, Perl, Shell Scripting, Jenkins, Cloud formation, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Route 53, GIT, Web services, Web Logic, Web sphere, Nagios

DevOps Engineer

BCBS
01.2014 - 08.2016
  • Installation, configuration and Administration of Red Hat Linux 5.1 and 6.0
  • Installed and upgraded packages on RedHat Linux Servers using YUM and RPM package manager
  • Installed and configured System Imager for automated Linux install and software distribution
  • Monitored servers, switches, ports etc
  • With Nagios monitoring tool
  • Installed and configured LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) for different applications
  • Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage using Nagios, scheduling backups and restore
  • Creating user accounts, managing permissions, maintaining user & file system quotas on different servers
  • Troubleshoot hardware, software and operating system related errors in Linux and windows platforms
  • Responsible for documentation issues, configurations, architecture and support procedures
  • Provided support 24x7 by shift rotation and pager support basis
  • Environment: RHEL 5.x/6.x, Tomcat, Nginx, SNMP, Samba, Korn, Bash, Shell Scripting

Education

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
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Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Crossplane
  • Terraform
  • Argo CD
  • Go
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Github Actions
  • Jenkins
  • GIT
  • Kibana
  • Prometheus

Certification

AWS - Certified Solutions Architect associate

Timeline

Sr.Software Engineer III

Nike, Inc.
08.2021 - Current

Sr.DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Nike, Inc.
08.2017 - 07.2021

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Viacom
10.2016 - 08.2017

DevOps Engineer

Symantec
01.2016 - 09.2016

DevOps Engineer

BCBS
01.2014 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
AWS - Certified Solutions Architect associate

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of South Florida
Pramod Merugu