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Ramu Reddy

Dallas,TX

Summary

Skilled Software Engineer with 10+ years of IT consulting experience in design, development, automate, deploy, support, and monitor highly available and scalable distributed systems for telecom, e-commerce tech domains in both Public and Private Clouds like AWS, Azure, Openstack and Big Data by utilizing Infrastructure as a code, CI/CD, Site Reliability and DevOps practices. Highly motivated, can lead, work independently and as well as in a team with minimal supervision. Available to work both in Canada and USA

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Platform Operations Engineer

Namitus Technologies
09.2017 - Current
  • Deployment and maintenance of AT&T Integrated Cloud (AIC) and Network Cloud (NC) to run OpenStack components on Kubernetes control plane
  • Responsible for writing python automation scripts and Ansible playbooks to monitor and configure management tasks to manage ~4000+ hosts
  • Reduced on-boarding process for tenant deployment's from 2 days to 2 minutes by automating Lab Readiness test cases via terraform
  • Automated terraform build and deployments using Jenkins pipelines to reduce engineer's manual effort and dependency
  • Deploying and Troubleshooting VNF's for various Telecom Tenant applications on AT&T cloud to make sure the labs meet SLA's
  • Monitoring >15 AT&T cloud zones using Prometheus/Grafana for metrics, Kibana for log analysis and Nagios for alarms
  • Lead hacker sessions for a team more than 100 plus engineers at AT&T for Site Reliability Lab Operations to train and share knowledge across cross functional teams
  • Discuss automation requirements, documenting procedures for change requests and root cause analysis for mitigating issues

Software Engineer DevOps

BlueFox IO
05.2017 - 08.2017
  • Created and maintained software to monitor and improve all aspects of mission critical Software on Amazon Web Services Public Cloud environment
  • Implemented and optimized Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and alerts, monitoring 100+ EC2 instances, microservices, and databases, resulting in 35% faster incident detection and 50% reduction in mean time to resolution (MTTR).
  • Analyze existing system capacity and perform system tuning
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git, enabling automated testing and deployment across multiple environments, which reduced release cycle time by 60% and increased deployment reliability by 40%.
  • Participate in a follow-the-sun model to perform regular on-call duties

Cloud Engineer

Namitus Technologies
10.2014 - 04.2017
  • Managed the Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management, Security for Production and non-prod accounts at Shutterfly, Inc
  • Engineered the effort of installing and integrating twemproxy through Chef for memory optimization on Elasticache memcache nodes
  • Worked on cost optimization and saved at least $15,000 per month by automating to terminate unused EBS volumes, stopped EC2 instances, scaling down the ELB node pool instances based on load, unused elasticache clusters
  • Re-engineered Graphite/Grafana setup to handle 200k requests/min and integrating LDAP authentication for Grafana login
  • Avoided increase in latency spikes behind the Elastic load balancer during the peak Q4 season by working closely with the Amazon web services support and recommendations
  • Re-engineered MySQL database infrastructure setup from r3 to i2's instances achieve huge gains on I/O
  • Used Chef 11 as configuration management tool to create cookbooks, roles, templates for our mysql databases, apache webservers

Programmer Analyst

Hexaware Technologies
06.2014 - 10.2014
  • Designed and Developed user interfaces using JSF web framework, Html, CSS and Javascript
  • Installation and configuration of Mysql server to create users, databases, tables to load data for query and to work on ORM and dependency injection
  • Installation, Deploying Applications, Management, Tuning and Troubleshooting Apache Tomcat 7 Server for application deployment
  • Installing, Configuring and Managing Jenkins Integration Server to work with Git

Platform Engineer Intern

Orpine Inc
01.2013 - 06.2013
  • Duties included Spinning up Amazon EC2 machine instances
  • Configuring Mysql and postgresql database servers using Amazon RDS service for Multi AZ deployment and Provisioned IOPS
  • Configuring Ganglia for real time health monitoring of the Server stacks
  • Used shell scripts for triggering parameterized and periodic build jobs with Jenkins server
  • Assisted in Deploying Vanilla Apache Hadoop 0.23 multi node cluster
  • Generated POC's and possible benchmarks to propose a possible deployment with specification of Hadoop ecosystems

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of North Texas
Denton, TX
05.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering

Kakatiya University
Warangal, Telangana
05.2011

Skills

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • OpenStack
  • Virtualization Technologies
  • Chef
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Git
  • Gerrit
  • Jenkins
  • MySql
  • SQL server 2015/2017
  • RDS
  • Rabbitmq
  • Bash
  • Python
  • CloudWatch
  • Graphite/Grafana
  • Sensu
  • Kibana
  • Prometheus
  • Nagios
  • Jira
  • PagerDuty
  • Itrack
  • Vagrant
  • Centos
  • Ubuntu
  • Linux AMI
  • Load balancing
  • Incident management
  • Security best practices
  • Virtualization technologies
  • Configuration management
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Capacity planning
  • Automation tools
  • Incident response
  • Application security

Certification

  • 01/01/21, Certified Scrum Master, 1320168
  • 12/01/20, CNCF Certified Kubernetes Developer, LF-dv9eer8t4g
  • 08/01/20, Certified Rancher Operator Level 1
  • 03/01/20, CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CKA-2000-006417-0100
  • 12/01/20, Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
  • 12/01/15, Amazon Certified Solution Architect Associate, AWS-ASA-12675

Accomplishments

  • Master's Thesis in Computer Science on Distributed Frameworks towards Building an Open Data Architecture with a GPA of 3.76
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate, 2015 (AWS-ASA-12675)

Timeline

Platform Operations Engineer

Namitus Technologies
09.2017 - Current

Software Engineer DevOps

BlueFox IO
05.2017 - 08.2017

Cloud Engineer

Namitus Technologies
10.2014 - 04.2017

Programmer Analyst

Hexaware Technologies
06.2014 - 10.2014

Platform Engineer Intern

Orpine Inc
01.2013 - 06.2013

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of North Texas

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering

Kakatiya University