Vakula Nemalipuri

• I contribute to the Environment as Code Project, where we develop a wrapper around Terraform modules. This innovation simplifies the process for application teams, enabling them to effortlessly provision infrastructure for any AWS cloud services.
• I serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for compute-related services, including Amazon EKS, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, and ECR.

Cloud Platform Team:

• Developed Kubernetes terraform module .
• Developed EKS Container Stack as part of Microservices Blueprint effort .
• Developed Terraform module which provisions EKS, node groups, network Ingress, and automates pod and network access to Lambda, Secrets, KMS, S3, EFS, DynamoDB, RDS Oracle/Postgres, Aurora MySQL, SQS, MSK, SNS and more. This provides EKS + service connectivity in fully working stack.
• Developed unit testcases using the Go language.
• Developed AWS Lambdas using Python language.
• Solid understanding on Agile practices.
• Developed public cloud (AWS) container and run time platforms for Internal application Development teams.
• Allowed our developers to use public cloud containers in secure and compliant fashion.
• Developed Automation scripts .
• Developed Highly Available and Resilient public cloud Terraform module.
• Integrated kubernetes monitoring and logging tools like prometheus,cloudwatch,fluentd,xray,datadog to the EKS terraform module.
• Integrated Calico open source networking and security solution on our kubernetes module.
• Integrated Istio service mesh to Kubernetes (EKS) module for safe and reliable communication between services.
• Coordinated all release activities.

• I developed the terraform module for EKS and also created acceptance tests to ensure its reliability and performance.
• I assist teams in resolving any issues they encounter during the provisioning of EKS Clusters, ensuring smooth and efficient deployment processes.
• We consistently ensure that our organization stays at the forefront of Kubernetes development adapting swiftly to any changes and advancements.

• Contributed to design and architecture of applications to be hosted on AWS
• Installed HPC applications on AWS environment and running batch jobs on those application
• Services used are EC2,EFS,S3,Cloud Trail ,Cloud watch,Lambda,CF,SQS, Systems Manager ,EFA etc
• Created Splunk dashboards which represented the machines which have GPU drivers installed
• Created a Splunk dashboard which represented the machines which have LSF installed
• Experienced in using Scrum Agile Methodology in my work

Responsibilities:

• Creation of VPC, public and private subnets, Nat gateway, IGW, DHCP , SG using Cloud formation template .

• Provisioning new VMs using Cloud formation.

• Using Cloud Formation User Data for automation(Joining VMs to AD).

• Using Terraform for Launching AWS Resources.

• Scheduling the VMs to running for specific interval of time using lambda.

• Using AWS SSM system manager for scheduling the scripts to run every day.

• Using AWS Athena for analyzing CloudTrail and ELB Access logs.

• Creating puppet manifest files for WSUS updates .

• Deploying Qualys, Splunk Forwarder Addon, Tanium, IISCrypo to VMs by creating puppet manifests.

• Updating Linux packages using puppet.

• Creation of IAM Users, Roles and Access keys IDs for Accessing AWS resources.

• Pushing the puppet manifest code to GITLAB repository.

• Creation of the CPU and Disk utilization Alerts in Splunk.

• Extracting the reports from the Splunk.

• Creating bulk user accounts in Microsoft AD using Scripts.

• Creation of managed service and service accounts in AD.

• Creating and troubleshooting issue of ALB, ELB, NLB.

• Creating host-based /Path based routing using application load balancer rules.

• Creating Records in Route 53.

• Creation of hardened AMIs with prebuild installation of puppet, Splunk forwarder.

• Creation of S3 buckets and granting Access to User-Specific Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket.

• Troubleshooting and recovering Linux and Windows Virtual Machines with different issues.

• Recovering the data using snapshots.

• Configuring ELB with HTTPS for SSL offloading.

• Working experience on Lambda function using Boto3 framework.

• Working experience on monitoring services like Cloud Watch, CloudTrail.

• Working Experience on Docker, Jenkins, GIT, Puppet,Ansible.

• Creating custom facts in puppet.

• Experience on deploying docker containers using AWS ECS.

• Automation using Boto3, like releasing Elastic IP which are not associated with any resources.

• Creating snapshots backup using AWS Lambda.

• Had experience on PowerShell and Bash scripting.

• Experience on Apache and Nginx web servers.

• Setup/Managing Linux Servers on to Amazon (EC2, EBS, ELB, SSL, Security Groups, RDS and IAM).
• Setup/Managing VPC, Subnets; make connection between different zones, blocking suspicious ip/subnet via ACL.
• Setup/Managing CDN on Amazon CloudFront (Origin Path: Server / S3) to improve site performance.
• Create/Managing buckets on S3 (CLI) and store DB and logs backup, upload images for CDN serve.
• Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS, Monitoring servers thorough Amazon CloudWatch, SNS.
• Creating/Managing DNS records on Amazon Route 53.
• Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)
• Creating AWS Instances and Resources Bills.
• Migrating 3000+ servers into both Azure and Aws.
• Experience on AppDynamics tool for monitoring resources
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services into secure VNets and subnets.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Associated routes with VNets via the route table per relationship constraints.