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PREMCHAND GARNIPUDI

West Hollywood,CA

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13+ years of software services industry experience and stellar track record fueled by strong leadership, architecting solutions, leading teams, managing client relationships, project delivery, hands on development, strategic-planning, and people-management skills. Experience in RHEL, Debian, AIX, CentOS, SUSE, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and VMWare vSphere ESX/ ESXi environment. Strong knowledge in cloud compute services like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and implementation using EC2 machine, Windows Azure, Rackspace, Compute Engine, AWS elastic beanstalk, Apache, OpenStack, Salesforce. Experience setting up the enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services like EC2 Instance, ELB, EBS, S3 Bucket, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, AMI, RDS, IAM Cloud Formation & VPC services. Highly motivated and committed DevOps Engineer experienced in Automating, Configuring, and deploying instances on AWS, Azure & Rackspace Cloud environments and familiar with EC2, Cloud Watch, Elastic IP's and Managing security groups on AWS. Architected and implemented automated cloud infrastructure using Chef and Puppet on multi platforms on AWS Cloud Servers. Worked on container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Knowledge on Elastic Kubernetes Services EKS, Design, build, and operation of Kubernetes infrastructure and Architecture Configuration. Automated Integration and deployment process and Kubernetes for deploying pods and maintaining each pod on Kubernetes dashboard and load balancing. Experience in configuring pipeline and environment management using Copado and Gearset. Expertise in Installation and configuration of automated tool like Puppet which includes Puppet Master, Agent Nodes and an administration control workstation. Expertise in setting up Chef Infra, Bootstrapping Nodes, creating and uploading Recipes, Node convergence in Chef SCM and worked with data bags, attributes, cookbooks, recipes and templates in Chef. Managed On-site OS, Applications, Services, Packages using Chef and EC2, EBS, ELB for Amazon Web Services with Chef Cookbooks. Working experience in Azure App & Cloud Services, PaaS, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Power BI, Azure Blob Storage, Web API, VM creation, ARM Templates, PowerShell scripts, IaaS, Lift & Shift, storage, network, and database. Performed automation tasks on various Docker components like Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker Machine, Compose and Docker Registry. Deployment and maintenance using Micro services using Docker. Worked as AWS DevOps Engineer, having functional experience in designing along with maintaining database applications, including implementation and support to designed systems for applications. Used IaaS, PaaS & SaaS. Have worked primarily in the domain of Insurance. Outstanding ability to use the best practices in Ruby on Rails development with Amazon Web Services. Experienced in setting up the monitoring tools like Nagios and Amazon Cloud watch to monitor major performance metrics like Network packets, CPU utilization, Load Balancer Latency. Proficient with Python, Perl & Shell Scripting for build automations and deployment process. Worked with different Bug Tracking Tools like JIRA, Rally, Remedy, HP Quality Center and IBM Clear Quest.

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Work History

Lead Software Engineer/ DevSecOps/ Cloud Engineer/ SRE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
06.2022 - Current
  • Experience in designing, configuring, and managing public cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) including EC2, Auto-Scaling, high-availability, fault tolerance, in launching EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Lambda, Glacier, cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, IAM, SNS.
  • Designed and Implemented load balancers, highly available fault tolerant, auto-scaling, Kubernetes, AKS infrastructure, and microservice container orchestration.
  • Working with multiple teams, architects, networking team, firewall team, application and business users on daily basis, plan and Develop roadmaps and deliverables to fasten the migration of existing solutions on premise systems/applications to Azure cloud.
  • Worked on traditional systems on Azure (Lift and shift/Azure Migrate, other third-party tools).
  • Worked on Azure suite: Azure Key Vault, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Search, Azure AppService, Azure data Platform Services.
  • Effectively manage multiple applications across all projects while keeping all stakeholders informed of the progress.
  • Track and report on technical issues, timelines, progress and resource allocations as required.
  • Communicate with project stakeholders and influence direction of participants to meet the overall project goals and objectives.
  • Implemented DevSecOps frameworks that improved the development for detecting the security vulnerabilities in the applications using Prisma Cloud, Veracode and Fortify.
  • Configured and Implemented DAST, SAST and SCA scans for any application security vulnerabilities.
  • Conducted Dry-Run Tests to ensure successful execution of CD pipeline, Application, Database and customized scripts before execution in production environments prior to cutover.
  • Experienced in creating Azure Dashboards for monitoring Micro services-based applications.
  • Creating alerts using Azure Log analytics workspace for monitoring bad traffic.
  • Worked with Terraform templates to automate the Azure virtual machines using terraform modules and deployed virtual machine scale sets.
  • Managing the Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) policies, providing access to different Azure resources and developing improving the workflows that govern access.
  • Worked on Azure Monitoring tools such as Azure Log Analytics and Azure service Health to diagnose and minimize service degradation.
  • Deployed ML models for applications and services to consume them as part of a unified release process.
  • Provisioned infrastructure through declarative configuration files as part of MLOps efforts.
  • Configured Gitlab Runner instances and setup Gitlab pipelines to perform the code checkout till deploy the apps to target environments including performing Quality Gates and Security Vulnerabilities using Yaml.
  • Identify and manage project scope, dependencies, and key milestones across all functional areas of the business.
  • Maintain and administrate GIT source code tool and create branches, labels and performed merges in GIT and implement and maintain the branching and build/release strategies.
  • Configured Ceph Clusters and monitoring runtime metrics on the current state & system load, including storage utilization and the storage solutions.
  • Leveraged EFS & FSX for cross-region file sharing for multiple app environments.
  • Configured delivery and testing with Copado CI/CD to scale across the production pipelines.
  • Used GoLang in Monitoring side of things in conjunction with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK stack.
  • Deployed application using Jenkins server and involved in troubleshooting, build and release, job failures and worked with engineers and provided a fully recoverable microservices build solution.
  • Worked on Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, selectors, services, and deployed application containers as pods.
  • Meticulously tuned intricate data visualizations and interactive dashboards using Kibana. These visualizations offered actionable insights, while comprehensive dashboards provided holistic views of system performance and data trends.
  • Worked on ELK Stack's powerful components, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, to build and optimize data analysis and visualization solutions. Effortlessly transformed raw data into meaningful insights through skillful data manipulation and presentation.
  • Client: Ford Credit
  • Tech Stack: Python, Go-Lang, EC2, Lambda, ELB, S3, Route53, VPC, Docker, API Gateway, AWS Step Function, Linux/Windows, CICD, Veracode, Prisma, IBM Ceph, Fortify, Gitlab CI, Grafana, Dynatrace, PowerShell, ROSA, RedHat 9, Linux, SRE, Salesforce Cloud, AWS FSX, Copado, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Rancher, Harness, VMWare Aria Suite, Azure Key Vault, AWS KMS, ELK, NetApp, GCP, DataDog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Snowflake, RDS, Terraform, OpenShift, VMWare ESXi, vSphere, EKS, RDS, Shell scripting, Perl script, Jenkins, OpenShift, Groovy, ECR, IAM, API Gateway, Step Function, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker.

Sr. Cloud Engineer (Hybrid Cloud/ Multi-Cloud/ Public Cloud / Private Cloud)/ Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
04.2018 - 05.2022
  • Experience in designing, configuring, and managing public cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) including EC2, Auto-Scaling, High-Availability, fault tolerance, in launching EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Lambda, Glacier, cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, cloud Watch, cloud Formation, IAM, SNS.
  • Used Terraform for building, changing, versioning infrastructure and collaborate the automation of AWS Infrastructure through Terraform and Jenkins with Groovy DSL.
  • Skilled in creating reusable and scalable Terraform code for infrastructure-as-code deployments.
  • Implemented and managed highly available and fault-tolerant Linux-based infrastructures on AWS.
  • Skilled in designing and implementing secure networking architectures on Linux, including VPN, firewalls, and network segmentation.
  • Proficient in defining and managing AWS resources using Terraform modules and state files.
  • Extensive experience in writing and maintaining Terraform templates for infrastructure provisioning on AWS.
  • Worked on different infrastructure resources, like physical machines, VMs and even Docker containers using Terraform and created automated build procedures to ensure code is always ready for deployment in AWS.
  • Designed and deployed an EKS cluster with Terraform, including the implementation of policies, security groups, and node groups, resulting in a highly scalable and resilient infrastructure.
  • Troubleshoot and resolved EKS cluster issues, such as node unresponsiveness, pod evictions, and networking problems.
  • Utilized Terraform modules to streamline the creation of alerts in Slack and Microsoft Teams, saving significant time and effort.
  • Orchestrated applications using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service EKS, deployed EKS cluster for containerization of multiple apps.
  • Architect and rollout initial foundation over CI/CD for the new Hybrid Infrastructure (AWS & On-Prem several Data Centers) which will host current production services and new microservices orchestrated by Kubernetes (EKS & bare-metal).
  • Designed & Implementation operation of all the network layers across the company: corporate level, physical datacenters and AWS Cloud.
  • Integrating various technologies & vendors such as: Amazon Direct Connect, SSL VPN, IPSEC VPN, OpenVPN, Fortinet, DELL Switching, Cisco.
  • Implemented state of the art architecture (spine-leaf, network automation using CloudFormation).
  • Responsible for support, maintenance and upgrade of the engineering environments and infrastructure.
  • Implementation and automation of continuous integration pipelines to support application and infrastructure development lifecycle activities and release cycles.
  • Architecture and implementation of services in AWS Cloud, developing all the infrastructure as code (IaC) with CloudFormation. Implementing a wide range of AWS Cloud services as: VPCs, EKS, ELBs, EC2, R53, RDS, CloudFront CDN, Gateway API, Step Function, CloudFormation, CodeCommit, Lambda, ELK (Elasticsearch, Kibana) etc.
  • Storage on AWS, EBS, S3, and Glacier and automate sync data to Glacier. Databases services n AWS like RDS, cloud front, and Elastic Beanstalk. Migration of two instances from one region to another.
  • Setup/managing databases on amazon RDS.
  • Defined, designed, and implemented EKS clusters in multiple environments and accounts.
  • Written Terraform modules to build AWS, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, EKS clusters, and database instances.
  • Provisioned and Deployed AWS EKS clusters using Terraform to achieve scalability, high availability and zero downtime.
  • Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification.
  • VPC peering with other Accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate accounts to communicate.
  • Utilized Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of containerized environments, integrating with tools like Docker and Kubernetes for efficient deployment and orchestration.
  • Designed and implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, enabling efficient and consistent provisioning of cloud resources on platforms.
  • Client: FedEx Ground
  • Tech Stack: Python, AWS, S3, VPC, Route53, ELB, EKS, Gitlab, CloudWatch, Terraform, Amazon RDS, AWS Well-Architected Framework, PySpark, Dynatrace, GoLang, Grafana, Prometheus, Snowflake, Terraform, Kubernetes, Landing Zone, AWS Glue, Rancher, Azure DevOps, Control Tower, FSX, EFS, AWS Backup, GuardDuty, Glacier, Azure Key Vault, Athena, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Grafana, Prometheus, Code Build, Groovy, Java, PowerShell, Bash Script, Linux.

SRE/ DevOps/ Infrastructure Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA
01.2017 - 03.2018
  • The goals of this project involved to create, customize, and manage the chef cookbooks and provisioning the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Designed, configured, and managed public/private cloud infrastructures using Amazon Web Services (AWS), which includes VPC, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, ELB and Elastic Beanstalk.
  • Led the Build and CI team at the PPS R&D Hub and managed end to end CI. Owned the development and Partner.
  • Participated in weekly release meetings with Technology stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the releases.
  • Setting up and maintaining worker nodes on Amazon EKS using Terraform.
  • Build and used Terraform to design and launch Infrastructure resources.
  • Written automation scripts for creating resources in AWS Cloud using Python and Terraform modules.
  • Worked on Terraform for deploying infrastructure in AWS as per the requirement.
  • Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, template Kubernetes manifests, provide a set of configuration parameters to customize the deployment and Managed releases of Helm packages.
  • Orchestrated large-scale IaaS cloud environments using Apache Cloud Stack (ACS), optimizing resource allocation and service delivery efficiency.
  • Managed KVMs using Apache Cloud Stack.
  • Worked on Terraform for automating VPCs, ELBs, security groups, SQS queues, S3 buckets, and continuing to replace the rest of our infrastructure. Using Terraform as a tool, Managed different infrastructure resources Cloud, VMWare, Bare Metal Servers, and Docker containers. Involved in defining and setting architectural standards, definition, and direction across multiple projects within the program.
  • As a core member of system architecture group, involved from initial stages of project to drive the projects in line with architecture vision.
  • Developing CloudFormation templates to launch VPC's and instances in the AWS cloud.
  • Experience in writing Ansible scripts and heavy Shell, Perl, Python, and JSON scripting.
  • Client: KeyBank
  • Tech Stack: Jenkins, Groovy, Linux, KVM, Virtualization, vCD, Chef, Ansible, Apache Cloud Stack, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Elastic Load Balancer, New Relic, CloudFormation (YAML), EKS, AWS, GoLang, Amazon RDS, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Auto Scaling, IaaS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, DynamoDB, Linux.

Cloud Engineer / SRE/ DevOps/ Platform Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA
03.2014 - 12.2016
  • HCA is a convergence project of traditional Treasury Management and healthcare Clearinghouse services which delivers industry leading solution and an integrated comprehensive complete healthcare revenue cycle solution from pre-registration through collection that utilizes decision support tools throughout the cycle is required.
  • Designed, configured, and managed public/private cloud infrastructures using Amazon Web Services, which includes VPC, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, ELB and Elastic Beanstalk.
  • Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
  • Monitored batch processing tools between Main Frame and Maestro Console Manager and confirmed batch jobs and servers are running to provide crucial financial market data.
  • Managed artifacts generated by Jenkins, Responsible in developing components that interacts with Document repository.
  • Managed artifacts generated by Jenkins, Responsible in developing components that interacts with Document repository.
  • Monitored UNIX and NT production servers. Contacted appropriate personnel on critical errors and resolved mid-range issue in 24/7 command center environment.
  • Involved in developing custom scripts using Python, Perl & Shell (bash,) to automate jobs.
  • Deployed cloud stack using AWS Opsworks.
  • Client: BCBS HealthCare
  • Tech Stack: Jenkins, Groovy, Python, Ansible, Chef, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic Load Balancer ELB, Snapshots, Terraform, Amazon RDS, Auto Scaling, IaaS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail DynamoDB tables, Linux.

Cloud Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA
03.2011 - 02.2014
  • Extensively experienced in Windows Azure (IaaS) migrating like creating Azure VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, migrating on-premises servers to Azure and creating availability sets in Azure.
  • Built new Windows, SQL Server, and Linux VMs in Azure.
  • Provisioned Subnets, Gateway subnets through Terraform.
  • Experienced on Azure network connectivity (point to site, site to site).
  • Worked on express route connectivity configuration.
  • Created load (Azure, Application gateway and Traffic manager) balancers.
  • Hands-on experience in troubleshooting Azure IAAS components.
  • Migration of workloads from On-Premises to Azure and AWS to Azure. Hybrid Integration.
  • Deploying the Python code to Azure cloud for the applications.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps services (Azure pipelines CI/CD configuration, Azure repos, DevOps Administration, release pipelines) and Docker containers.
  • Hands-on experience on SQL Servers and databases migration to Azure cloud.
  • Experienced on DMA, DMS services and worked with Azure boards and Azure repos.
  • Designed and implemented an Azure DevOps pipeline for a healthcare application, ensuring that all code changes were properly tested and deployed to production.
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements and create custom Azure DevOps templates and pipelines for healthcare applications.
  • Deployed and managed containerized healthcare applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Docker.
  • Working on Microsoft Azure (Public) Cloud to provide IaaS support.
  • Provide the Azure cloud solution architecture to client as per their requirement to setup Environment on Azure.
  • Provide Multi Site VPN solution to connect multiple networks in Azure.
  • Client: American Airlines
  • Tech Stack: Azure VM and VMSS, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Virtual Network, Azure Key Vault, EKS, Azure storage, Azure DevOps pipelines, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitors, Azure Event hub, Azure DevOps, Azure ExpressRoute, ARM, GIT, Bitbucket, Jira, Azure CLI, Jenkins, Azure Kubernetes Services AKS, Ansible Tower, Azure, Azure Application Gateway, Azure DevOps, Azure AD, Azure Pipelines, Perl Scripts, Shell scripts.

System Engineer

First Midwest Bank, IL
01.2010 - 02.2011
  • First Midwest Bank Is Secure Financial Institution That serves as large Domain of Customer in the Midwest. Global Resourcing (GR) is the First Midwest Bank back-office processing arm which will give support to various group entities / business customers. The data summarized in the pages can also be downloaded to Excel for further analysis.
  • Worked closely with Business for project deliverables and co-ordinate that with Offshore teams.
  • Primary responsibilities include Build and Deployment of the java applications into different environments like Dev, INT, QA, and PROD.
  • Managed Users and Groups in Subversion (SVN) and troubleshoot client spec issues and user issues.
  • Implemented Configuration Management, Change Management policies and procedures.
  • Maintained configuration files for each application for builds and installed on different environments.
  • Deploy single Docker container environments, and then we perform Blue/Green deployments to go from staging to production.
  • Presented reports to the Project manager about the progress and issues tracking key project Milestones, plans and resources.
  • Tech Stack: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Snapshots, Amazon RDS, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic IP, IAM, Amazon Machine Image (AMI), NAT Instance, Security Groups, NACLs, Glacier, RRS, SWF, AWS CLI, Jenkins, Python, Ansible, Git, GitHub.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Skills

  • Cloud computing: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace, OpenStack
  • Automation Tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack
  • Scripting Languages: Python, Perl, Shell, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell
  • OS Administration: RedHat 7X, 8x, 9x, Linux administration, Solaris 10 Administration
  • Web/AppServers: Apache, Nginx, Web Logic, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, LAMP, Jetty
  • Networking: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, SMTP, LDAP
  • Concepts: UNIX Internals, Linux Systems Programming, TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Cloud Implementation & Migration, Serverless Architecture, CICD, AWS EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, VPC, AMI, CloudWatch, Security Groups, IAM, Auto scaling, CloudFront, CloudTrail, OpsWorks, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation
  • Build Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, UDeploy, Rancher, Gitlab CI, Github Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipelines, Copado, ArgoCD, Tekton Pipelines
  • Project Tracking/Bug Tracking: ServiceNow, VersionOne, JIRA, Remedy, Rally, IBM Clear Quest, Crucible, Bugzilla
  • Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 5x,6,X,7, Ubuntu 10x, Solaris 10, Windows 2K, XP, 2003, NT, 2008, 2012
  • Database Servers: MYSQL Server, Oracle, MONGODB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
  • Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Splunk, ELK Stack, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK, Dynatrace
  • Version control tools: Git, GitHub, Subversion, SVN
  • Virtualization/Container: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere, VMWare vSphere 55/60
  • Interacting with the client & System engineering teams for requirements gathering & Project scoping
  • Handling architecture and designing the solution for the product

Certification

  • SUN Certified Java Programmer.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer/ DevSecOps/ Cloud Engineer/ SRE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
06.2022 - Current

Sr. Cloud Engineer (Hybrid Cloud/ Multi-Cloud/ Public Cloud / Private Cloud)/ Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
04.2018 - 05.2022

SRE/ DevOps/ Infrastructure Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA
01.2017 - 03.2018

Cloud Engineer / SRE/ DevOps/ Platform Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA
03.2014 - 12.2016

Cloud Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CA
03.2011 - 02.2014

System Engineer

First Midwest Bank, IL
01.2010 - 02.2011

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

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