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Prudhvi Shaganti

Dallas

Summary

Results-driven DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience in architecting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in multi-cloud environments. Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation, containerization, and DevSecOps practices. Adept at leveraging tools like GitLab CI/CD, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Hemlm, Terraform, Ansible, Ansible and more to enhance deployment reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Strong focus on aligning technology with business objectives, ensuring security, cost optimization, high availability (HA), and performance tuning. AI enthusiast with hands-on experience integrating LLMs and Vector Databases for intelligent DevOps solutions.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Applied Systems
Chicago
02.2022 - Current
  • Designed and optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines, reducing build times by 40% through advanced features like multi-stage builds, dynamic job configurations, and matrix execution
  • Standardized GitLab project settings organization-wide using GPC (GitLab Project Configurator), improving compliance and enhancing security consistency across projects
  • Managed GitLab Runners on Windows & Kubernetes, optimizing CI/CD workflows and reducing deployment failures by 30%
  • Designed and implemented highly scalable and fault-tolerant architectures on AWS using EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, and Elastic Load Balancing, achieving 99.99% uptime for production environments
  • Designed and implemented disaster recovery solutions leveraging AWS Backup, S3 versioning, and Cross-Region Replication, reducing recovery time by 50% during critical incidents
  • Deployed containerized applications using ECS and EKS, leveraging AWS Secrets Manager for secure access to sensitive data
  • Migrated from Kubernetes External Secrets (KES) to External Secrets Operator (ESO), improving secret management efficiency and aligning with compliance standards without disruptions
  • Successfully upgraded Istio service mesh across production environments, enhancing network security and reliability
  • Modularized Terraform configurations, creating reusable templates for multiple environments, reducing deployment time by 25%
  • Migrated and configured Terraform Cloud (TFC) workspaces, improving infrastructure management
  • Actively led hiring efforts, participating in panel interviews to onboard skilled resources for DevOps projects

DevOps Engineer

Paramount Commerce
Toronto
07.2021 - 02.2022
  • Built and maintained Azure EPAC policies and initiatives, automating diagnostic settings for critical resource types (e.g., AKS nodes, DBs, VMs) and enabling seamless security log forwarding to Log Analytics Workspace and Event Hubs
  • Automated infrastructure setup using Terraform and Ansible, enabling seamless provisioning of VMSS, Nginx gateways, and dependencies with a single 'terraform apply', reducing setup time by 60%
  • Implemented Nginx Ingress Controller as a reverse proxy, replacing Traefik with zero downtime and enhancing security configurations
  • Optimized costs by 50% through Artifactory cleanup, automating unused artifact removal using plugins and labels
  • Established GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and Helm, reducing deployment errors by 30% and improving CI/CD efficiency
  • Refactored ArgoCD monolithic repositories, reducing pipeline latency by 40% and upgrading the system without downtime
  • Documented all processes for audit compliance (e.g., PCF audits), reducing audit preparation time by 25%
  • Maintained high availability and disaster recovery standards for cloud infrastructure, achieving 99.9% uptime across environments

Cloud Engineer

Capco
Toronto
11.2019 - 06.2021
  • Migrated builds from Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines, reducing build times by 35% and standardizing CI/CD workflows
  • Designed and tested Azure-based cloud architecture in collaboration with cross-functional teams, increasing system scalability by 30%
  • Created and managed Kubernetes operators on AKS clusters, reorganizing namespaces and implementing resource quotas
  • Customized and deployed Helm charts for management and streamlining application deployments across environments
  • Onboarded and implemented Velero as a Kubernetes backup tool, ensuring disaster recovery for namespace-level resources and persistent volumes, improving recovery times by 40%

DevOps Engineer

AdrimTech
Toronto
09.2018 - 10.2019
  • Implemented Jenkins pipelines with static code scanning tools like Veracode and publishing secure Docker images, improving code quality and reducing vulnerabilities by 60%
  • Configured and maintained centralized logging systems using FluentD and LogDNA, improving log analysis efficiency by 25%
  • Established backup and disaster recovery plans using N2WS, securing critical AWS resources and reducing recovery time by 50%

Education

Master’s - Computer Science

Southern Arkansas University
05.2024

Post-graduation - Big Data Science and Informatics

Lambton College
12.2018

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering

JNTU
05.2016

Skills

  • CI/CD & DevOps Automation
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • ArgoCD
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS
  • EC2
  • S3
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • RDS
  • ECS
  • EKS
  • Lambda
  • Route53
  • CloudFormation
  • CloudWatch
  • Backup
  • Azure
  • AKS
  • VMSS
  • VNET
  • Azure DevOps
  • ARM
  • ACR
  • Log Analytics
  • Event Hub
  • Containerization & Orchestration
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Nginx
  • Istio
  • Velero
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Terraform
  • ARM templates
  • Pulumi
  • Configuration Management
  • Ansible
  • Monitoring & Logging
  • Splunk
  • Datadog
  • ELK Stack
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • FluentD
  • LogDNA
  • Security & Compliance
  • DevSecOps
  • Snyk
  • SonarQube
  • Veracode
  • AWS Secrets Manager

Projects

AI Powered CI/CD Code Fixer, https://github.com/prudhvidevops123?tab=repositories, Built an AI-powered CI/CD failure diagnosis system that analyzes GitLab job failures using self-hosted opensource LLMs and provides automatic code fixes.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Applied Systems
02.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Paramount Commerce
07.2021 - 02.2022

Cloud Engineer

Capco
11.2019 - 06.2021

DevOps Engineer

AdrimTech
09.2018 - 10.2019

Master’s - Computer Science

Southern Arkansas University

Post-graduation - Big Data Science and Informatics

Lambton College

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering

JNTU
Prudhvi Shaganti