Venkata Sai Lankesh Karuturi

South Bend,IN

Summary

About 3 plus of experience as a Software engineer with competency in writing scalable, efficient, and maintainable code.

Developed broad range of technical abilities in fast-paced data center environment, focusing on system reliability and operational efficiency. Excel at troubleshooting, server maintenance, and network management, enabling smooth operations and minimal downtime. Seeking to transition into new field where these transferable skills can drive success and innovation.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Data Center Operations Technician

Amazon

New Carlisle, IN

04.2025 - Current

Monitored data center operations to ensure optimal performance and minimize downtime.
Conducted routine maintenance and troubleshooting of servers and network equipment.
Implemented standard operating procedures to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address technical issues and improve service delivery.
Trained new technicians on safety protocols, equipment handling, and operational best practices.
Analyzed system alerts and logs to identify potential risks and recommend solutions.
Led initiatives to streamline workflows, reducing operational bottlenecks in data management processes.
Developed documentation for processes, contributing to knowledge sharing within the team.
Reduced downtime through proactive troubleshooting and resolution of network, server, and storage issues.
Conducted training sessions for new team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the data center operations group.

Devops Engineer

Sprydo Systems LLC

Charlotte, NC

05.2023 - 03.2025

Managed Git repository, code merging, and production deployments. Coordinate/assist developers with establishing, applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using Subversion, Git source control.
Maintained build related scripts developed in shell for Maven builds. Created and modified build configuration files including POM.xml. Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers using AMI's.
Worked recently on tools migration from old tools like PVCS (version control system) to SVN, Tracker to Jira and finally CI tool Hudson to Jenkins.
Partially worked as build tools administrator (SVN, Jira, and Jenkins).
Worked on management tools like chef, puppet, Nagios, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket and Jenkins for CI CD.
Developing Docker images to support Development and Testing Teams and their pipeline.
To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment, used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx.
Setup full CI/CD pipelines so that each commit a developer makes will go through standard process of software lifecycle and gets tested well enough before it can make it to the production.
Cloud infrastructure maintenance using a combination of Jenkins, Chef and Terraform for automating CICD pipeline in AWS.

Intern - Software Engineer

Apex IT Systems Global USA,LLC

Texas, USA

01.2023 - 05.2023

Trained on AWS, AZURE and have command on services of AWS and Azure like Azure Active Directory, Storage Accounts, S3Bucket, EC2 Instances, Dynamo DB, Lambda Functions.
Hosted applications using containerization ecosystem tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and application integration using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab respectively. Used Terraform tool and Cloud Formation for infrastructure creation.
Successfully built Docker Image using Docker file and containerized it using Docker Swam, furthermore also hosted the Web application on AWS using Kubernetes and Docker Swam using proper containerization technique.
Monitored the application using different monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus tools. Configured application using Ansible playbooks, Chef Cookbooks.
Hosting Web-application (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Git)

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Central Missouri

Lees Summit, MO

05-2023

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering

Visakhapatnam, India

08-2021

Skills

Languages: C and C, Data Structures and Algorithms, Java, Python, JavaScript, HTML
Tools/ Framework: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Cloud Formation, EC2, AZURE, GCP, Apache Tomcat, IntelliJ, Azure DevOps, ARM Templates Azure PowerShell, Shell Scripting and PowerShell, Python, Nodejs, Git, Spring Boot, Spring, Jenkins, Cloud Formation, GIT, GITHUB, Subversion (SVN), Cloud Watch, Splunk Maven, Gradle, Ant, MS Build, Code Commit, JIRA, Nexus

Database & Operating Systems: MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Dynamo DB, Cosmo DB, Linux, Ubuntu

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