Shashikumar Akler
Austin
Summary
Results-driven 4+ years of DevOps Engineer with expertise in cloud platforms, CI/CD, and automation. Proven ability to implement scalable solutions and enhance collaboration through robust DevOps practices.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Engineer
DaVita
Austin
04.2025 - Current
- Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
- Implemented containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for faster delivery cycles.
- Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
- Implemented systems automation using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
- Collaborated with developers in order to troubleshoot application related issues quickly.
- Set up monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana to track performance metrics.
- Participated in disaster recovery exercises to test reliability of system.
- Programmed applications and tools using object-oriented languages with goals of code abstraction, stability and reuse.
- Leveraged Agile methodologies to move development lifecycle rapidly through initial prototyping to enterprise-quality testing and final implementation.
- Implemented GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, and environment promotions, with version-controlled workflows.
- Supported MLOps workflows by integrating GitHub Actions for model training, validation, and deployment automation, ensuring reproducibility, traceability, and continuous delivery of ML models.
DevOps Engineer
Accenture
Hyderabad
03.2019 - 06.2023
- Designed, provisioned, and managed secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS using ARM templates, Terraform, and PowerShell, supporting highly available production environments.
- Built and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, and SonarQube, enabling automated build, test, and deployment across dev, QA, staging, and production environments.
- Containerized applications using Docker and orchestrated workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and AWS EKS, implementing auto-scaling, high availability, and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform, Ansible playbooks, and scripting, reduce manual effort and improve deployment consistency.
- Implemented GitOps and source control best practices using Git, Azure Repos, GitHub, managing branching strategies, pull requests, and versioned releases.
- Integrated code quality and security tools such as SonarQube, OWASP Dependency Check, Trivy, and Nexus, enforce quality gates and vulnerability scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
- Designed and optimized Kubernetes resources, including Ingress, Services, Pods, HPA, VPA, Persistent Volumes, and Secrets, ensuring reliable microservices deployments.
- Managed Azure and AWS networking components, including VNets, VPCs, NSGs, Security Groups, Load Balancers, Application Gateways, Traffic Manager, and Firewalls, for secure traffic flow.
- Configured identity and access management using Azure AD, RBAC, AWS IAM, implementing least-privilege access, SSO, and MFA for secure resource access.
- Implemented centralized monitoring and logging using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, ELK, and Grafana, enabling proactive alerting and operational visibility.
- Optimized cloud costs by managing Azure reservations, right-sizing resources, and AWS cost controls, reducing infrastructure spend while maintaining performance.
- Automated artifact management and release versioning using Azure DevOps Artifacts and Nexus, supporting repeatable and auditable deployments.
- Developed and maintained PowerShell, Shell, and automation scripts to streamline infrastructure management, deployments, and operational tasks across cloud environments.
- Supported production releases, on-call operations, troubleshooting CI/CD failures, Kubernetes issues, and cloud infrastructure incidents in high-availability systems.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and clients to design, implement, and enhance DevOps solutions, following Agile and ITIL best practices.
Education
Master of Arts - Information Technology And Computer Systems
Webster University
St. Louis, MO03-2025
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
CVR College of Engineering
Hyderabad04-2019
Skills
- Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), Azure (AKS, VNET, App Services, Azure Monitor, Key Vault)
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, ARM templates, YAML pipelines
- Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm (AKS, EKS)
- CI/CD and GitOps: Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, and Splunk
- Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), Azure (AKS, VNET, App Services, Azure Monitor, Key Vault)
- Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm (AKS, EKS)
- CI/CD and GitOps: Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps,
- Programming: Python, Go, Shell, YAML, HCL,
- Security and Networking: IAM, RBAC, TLS, Trivy, SonarQube, VPC/VNET, DNS, Load Balancers
Certification
AWS Solution Architect
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
DaVita
04.2025 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Accenture
03.2019 - 06.2023
Master of Arts - Information Technology And Computer Systems
Webster University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
CVR College of Engineering