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SURESH REDDY ADDULA

SURESH REDDY ADDULA

Frisco,TX

Summary

An accomplished AWS and Informatica certified Data Platforms Architect/Administrator with over 12 years of dynamic expertise spanning cloud technologies, systems administration, and impactful IT consulting. Proficient in crafting comprehensive solutions encompassing Oracle, SAP HANA, Confluent Kafka, Snowflake, and an array of cutting-edge platforms. Demonstrated success in engaging customers, steering complex technical projects, and harmonizing solutions with industry-leading best practices. Committed to perpetual growth, fostering business evolution, and elevating cloud utilization for maximum impact.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Principal IT Architect - Enterprise

Medtronic
Mounds View, MN
10.2013 - Current

Current Project: Redefining Legal Contracts - Medtronic GPT

  • Spearheading a pilot initiative utilizing GPT (Generative AI for Legal Contracts) to redefine legal contracts.
  • Leading the development of the Medtronic GPT using Azure's open AI services.
  • Strategically aligning the Medtronic GPT for implementation within the Enterprise, focusing on model training and optimization for legal.

Professional Responsibilities Highlights:

  • Technology Evaluation and Standardization - Currently spearheading the end-to-end Database, Integrations, Analytics, Cloud and AI solution selection process, rigorously evaluating and piloting cutting-edge technologies at Medtronic. Driving the endorsement of selected solutions as standard platforms by the Architecture board.
  • Cloud Services and Platform Implementations - Proficiently orchestrated the implementation of AWS services adhering to the Well-Architected Framework, including VPC, Route53, Privatelinking, EC2, OpenSearch, AWS Transfer Family, Security Groups, RDS, and EKS. Additionally, successfully deployed and secured Confluent Kafka, Snowflake, Dataiku, ThoughtSpot, SAP HANA DB, Oracle Exadata, and SAP BW, ensuring resilient architecture and fortified security measures.
  • Data Platforms Architecture and Administration - Orchestrated the installation, upgrading, and administration of a 24 TB SAP HANA scale-out cluster, devising innovative solutions to maximize efficiency, performance and saving significant infra costs.
  • Advanced Kafka Cluster Management - Built secured Kafka clusters through SSL integration with zookeepers and Brokers, implemented kafka connect on EKS, built cloud clusters and enabled privatelinking, enabled Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Oauth by integrating with Azure AD.
  • Integration and Security Enhancements - Facilitated seamless integration of multiple platforms and solutions with Active Directory, enabling a unified Single Sign-On (SSO) experience with Azure AD. This integration significantly enhanced both accessibility and security measures across the integrated systems.
  • Efficient Data Management and Optimization - Implemented data ingestion strategies into Snowflake from S3 data lakes using Snowpipe, Streams, and tasks, reducing warehouse compute charges by 75%.
  • Innovative Solutions and Cost Savings - Strategically leveraged Snowflake as a backend for ThoughtSpot using Embrace, reducing data duplication and cloud compute footprint by 50%.
  • Automation and Process Improvements - Automated DB code promotions for Oracle databases using GIT and Jenkins, streamlining development processes and ensuring version control.
  • Strategic Planning and Operational Oversight - Developed strategic plans, road maps, policies, and guided stakeholders to achieve organizational growth objectives, ensuring efficient resource allocation and budget management.
  • Analytical Insights and Improvement Initiatives - Analyzed operational data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement, providing valuable insights for strategic decision-making.
  • Business Consulting and Solution Development - Provided consultative expertise across diverse business units, developing tailored solutions to meet varied business needs. Contributed to building specialized capabilities beneficial to multiple business sectors within the enterprise.
  • Leadership and Team Guidance - Provide technical guidance to staff, overseeing complex operational issues and facilitating skill development, ensuring operational excellence.

Database Administrator -SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL server

IMATRIX CORP (Clients: Kaiser Permanente, CA and Medtronic, MN)
Edison, NJ
06.2011 - 10.2013
  • Technology: SAP HANA, BW, Oracle, Linux, DD Boost backup, Business Objects, Tableau
  • Upgrading, Monitoring of Enterprise HANA, BW HANA systems and Oracle databases.
  • Oracle databases performance tuning and period analysis of AWR reports for very large databases.
  • Installing of application functional libraries (AFL), Diagnostic agent for solution manager, host agent, hdb clients and hdb studio.
  • Implemented SLT replication to replicate large tables from Global ERP system real time
  • Creation, modifying and promoting various SAP HANA data models like Attribute View, Analytic View, and Calculation View.
  • Implemented automation of database backups and parameter files to TSM and EMC Data Domain.
  • Security administration, performance monitoring and tuning of databases
  • Database propagation, capacity planning and consultation with developers on technical issues, database design, and systems analysis.
  • Administrate database design, performance analysis, Disaster recovery and production support for the BW HANA and Oracle systems
  • Provided expertise related to DB performance, HA, scalability, Database security and diagnostic maintenance of BW and EE HANA.
  • Created end to end process for building explore spaces by building and automating SQL server databases
  • Also automated the chargebacks for the database space used.
  • Helped Building an offshore HANA DBA team from scratch by providing HANA database training.

Web Application developer

University of North Texas
Denton, TX
- 01.2011
  • Technology: HTML and Drupal
  • Worked as a web developer for the college of engineering
  • Job duties include design and development, regular maintenance, updating the news, creating new topics and converting currently existing website into Drupal based Links, websites I worked on is http://engineering.unt.edu/.

Systems Engineer

Techmetric Info systems PVT LTD
Bengaluru, India
04.2008 - 07.2010
  • Technology: Oracle Databases, Toad and SQLplus
  • Primary Oracle database support DBA responsible for Monitoring of Oracle Instances, Users, Tablespaces, Memory Structures, Roll Back Segments, Redo Logs, Archive Logs and Alerts
  • Maintaining security of the OLTP systems by granting required privileges and roles to users
  • Refreshing databases using export import utility.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science -

University of Northern Virginia

Skills

Cloud: Amazon AWS (Computing Services, Storage Services, Database Services, Security, CloudFormation), Azure Open AI services

Informatica products: MDM, IDQ, EDC, Axon, DEI, Powercenter and IICS

Database: Oracle, SAP HANA, Aurora MySQL RDS, Hive, Impala, Snowflake, RedShift, Postgres, Sybase IQ, SQL Server and Athena

Streaming: Confluent Kafka and Kinesis

Languages: Shell, Python

DevOps Tools: Git, Ansible and Jenkins

Analytics platforms: ThoughtSpot, Alteryx and Power BI

Replication Tools: SAP SLT, QLIK replicate, IBM IRS and Informatica MIS

OS: Windows, Linux all flavors, AIX

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Informatica Certified Professional
  • SAP Certified Technology Associate
  • Green Belt certification

Training

AWS Solution Architecture – Linux academy Enterprise Data Catalog: Configuration and Maintenance – Informatica Snowflake Fundamentals 4-Day – Snowflake Cloudera Hadoop Administrator – Cloudera

Accomplishments

  • Received CIO award for Implementing smart digital factory - 2023
  • Received MECC achievers award for Implementing Digital pitch chars on manufacturing floor

Timeline

Senior Principal IT Architect - Enterprise

Medtronic
10.2013 - Current

Database Administrator -SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL server

IMATRIX CORP (Clients: Kaiser Permanente, CA and Medtronic, MN)
06.2011 - 10.2013

Systems Engineer

Techmetric Info systems PVT LTD
04.2008 - 07.2010

Web Application developer

University of North Texas
- 01.2011

Master of Science in Computer Science -

University of Northern Virginia
SURESH REDDY ADDULA