Shekar Meduri

• Design and Hands-On Implementation of reusable MLOps/GenAI Platform and Infrastructure for R&D Data Scientists to accelerate AI development path to production
• Design and Development of reusable Data Annotation Platform and Infrastructure for R&D to generate high quality Data Sets for ML LifeCycle
• Maintained compliance with Healthcare industry regulations standards (AI Acts) and implementing best practices through AI Operations Framework adhere to the Guidelines
• Provided Technical mentorship to in DevOps/DataOps and MLOps with Cloud Infrastructure across IT Teams to adhere to Architecture standards supporting Iaas/Paas/SaaS solutions
• Established strong relationships with key industry partners, creating mutually beneficial opportunities for growth and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design & Build Cloud based, Scalable, Highly available distributed infrastructure for R&D products in AWS
• Implementing R&D Data Science ML/AI initiatives, Enterprise MLOps Platform with Domino Data Lab, AI Training and Inference Lab with NVIDIA DGX A100.
• Provisioning Production grade Kubernetes Clusters to run ML/AI NLP, Text to Speech, Speech to Text workloads in K8s, EKS, Kubeflow pipeline. DeepOps using Ansible and AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, Docker.
• Experience in Containerizing Machine Learning and Deep Learning Frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Matlab, Spark, Dask, TensorRT, Triton
• Active collaboration and supporting IoT implementation in AWS and Building reusable DevOps CI/CD pipelines for R&D Products.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines to enforce security checks using Veracode for SAST/DAST and RAPID7 for Container Scans, Blackduck to Identify Vulnerabilities and mitigation strategy to increase the security posture of the R&D systems.
• Experience with Microservices and Serverless Architectures.
• Collaboration with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, ML Engineers, IT Security, Network, Quality, Compliance, Enterprise Teams to implement R&D Systems into Production.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead of DevOps/Microservices Platform (SRE) Engineering team to adopt DevOps/SRE Transformations to accelerate SDLC with Agile, ITSM and Lean Methodologies and actively engaging with various stakeholders from Architecture, Security, Audit, Infrastructure, Cloud and Business domain areas like Digital, Data, Application, Inforce and New Business domains.
• Hands on Experience with Design, Implementation and Administration of DevOps Tools (Git, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Ansible, JFrog Artifactory/X-ray, SourceClear, Veracode, Rapid7, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, RedHat OpenShift, NewRelic, Splunk, Azure DevOps
• Applying DevOps practices to Big Data Platforms Spark, Azure Databricks, PostgreSQL, Talend CI/CD pipelines
• Worked on establishing Site Reliability Engineering team on defining SLO's, SLI's for Microservices Application stack
• Hands on experience in Container technologies using Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), Azure Kubernetes Services in Azure and RedHat Openshift in AWS and leading migration of applications from RHEL to Kubernetes platforms
• Implemented Jenkins distributed Build Architecture in K8s platform with on demand test environments to increase Build/Test velocity
• Develop reference Architectures for DevOps and Microservices Platform, 12 factor Cloud Native apps and design templates to accelerate component onboarding with deployment strategies and mentor geographically distributed scrum teams
• DevSecOps by Shifting left with SonarQube, Veracode, Rapid7 to Identify gaps in SDLC with Value stream mapping exercises to achieve Operational Automation
• Strong in Design and Implementation of API led development with Jenkins Declarative CI/CD Pipelines for Microsoft .Net, Angular, RedHat Fuse, Camel, ActiveMQ, 3Scale, Azure API Management
• Hands on Experience with Design and Implementation of Configuration as Code using Ansible on managing Kubernetes Application Configurations and Deployments on Windows and RHEL, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with ServiceNow to automate Change Management Process for ITSM standard and participate in Change Advisory Board meetings
• Provided Operational Automation to accelerate application management and onboarding process to Microservices/DevOps/API Management platforms
• Worked with Salesforce application teams to adopt DevOps practices using Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, Scratch Orgs
• Presenter at Technology meetup's, Workshops through Developer Conferences
• "Automate as we go" strategy with Continuous Learning, Experimentation, Improvement in DevOps Maturity

Achievements

• Received "Going Above and Beyond" award and recognized by Senior "C" Leadership on DevOps transformations
• Mentored Product Agile teams and Technical Lead to DevOps/SRE team
• Recognized by technology communities through presentation skills in Global DevOps Boot Camp 2018 held in Dallas

Responsibilities

• Worked in Production Control team on Microsoft Enterprise technology stack involving BizTalk Server as Integration platform, Team Foundation Server as Versioning and Deployment tool and BMC Control-M Server for Scheduling
• Develop Powershell scripts for BizTalk performance counters to enhance BizTalk functionality and improve business critical applications workflow and providing timely details on Electronic applications using Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Achievements

• Received Kudos award for enhancing BizTalk Performance counters and improving efficiency of electronic applications and implementing Build Once and Deploy Many using TFS Build and Release Automation

Responsibilities

• Worked as Subject Matter Expert for in-house WEB/Desktop applications Sales Illustration System used by licensed agents as Sales aid for doing business with customers to demonstrate Life Insurance Illustrations for new and current products, by leading Inforce Illustrations projects execution through out its Software Development LifeCycle
• Worked on in-house calculation engine for solving complex insurance calculations for insurance products and model calculators
• Writing complex business components like Insurance product Rate Calculations and Solves with presentation system
• Demonstrated great success as developer, lead under aggressive project schedules and deadlines with hands on experience on C#.net, SQL Server, Adobe ColdFusion, VC++ applications
• Application modernization of ColdFusion web Applications and New Business applications workflows through Document management systems

Achievements

• Modernization of legacy applications and rewarded as core Subject Matter Expert for critical Inforce business function

Responsibilities

• Worked as active team member in New Business Applications platform, worked on core business functions of automated workflow through Case Assignment, document routing/management using Onbase, in-house utilities for Print room end users for generating Policy amendments and receipts
• Demonstrate hands on experience on VC++, VB.net, C#.net applications

Responsibilities

• Worked as developer for Largest Pharmacy Retail chain in Canada for applications spread across five domains, Finance, Retail, Pharmacy, Supply Chain, Business Intelligence
• Demonstrated hands on experience on C++, VC++, DotNet, Informix DB applications hosted on Windows Servers/ Linux