Vijayadurga Chunchu
Warsaw,IN
Summary
Results-driven Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems that power high-traffic platforms. Skilled in automating operations, enhancing reliability, and driving performance optimization through observability and proactive monitoring. Adept at collaborating with development teams to implement reliability-focused design patterns, performance testing, and incident response automation. Strong communicator and mentor with hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer
HSBC
01.2020 - Current
- Elevated reliability and performance for mission-critical financial and digital platforms used by millions of users.
- Drove improvements in system latency, throughput, and availability through proactive capacity planning and caching optimization.
- Designed end-to-end monitoring and alerting strategy using Datadog and Grafana; reduced mean time to detect (MTTD) by 45%.
- Automated repetitive operational workflows using Python, Ansible, and Terraform, saving 30+ engineering hours per week.
- Led incident triage and root cause analysis (RCA) for SEV1/SEV2 outages, delivering lasting solutions and post-incident reviews.
- Collaborated with developers to instrument applications with telemetry, improving visibility into performance and error metrics.
- Executed load and performance testing to validate scalability under peak transaction loads; implemented optimized thresholds.
- Partnered with security teams to review and remediate penetration test findings, ensuring resilience and compliance.
- Mentored junior engineers on observability, automation design, and reliability engineering best practices.
Linux System Administrator
BrownGreer PLC
03.2019 - 12.2019
- Managed Linux/Unix systems hosting large-scale web and database applications, ensuring high uptime and responsiveness.
- Developed Python and Bash scripts for system validation, backup verification, and automated patch deployment.
- Implemented proactive monitoring via Nagios and SolarWinds, reducing unplanned outages by 40%.
- Partnered with developers to enhance deployment reliability through automated configuration validation.
Education
M.S. - Computer Science
Wright State University
OH12-2018
B.S. - Information Technology
GITAM University
Visakhapatnam05-2016
Skills
- AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, Lambda)
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Python
- Bash
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Splunk
- ELK
- Go (basics)
- Java (debugging)
- NodeJS (support)
- REST APIs
- Load Testing
- SLO/SLI Design
- Alerting
- RCA
- ServiceNow
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer
HSBC
01.2020 - Current
Linux System Administrator
BrownGreer PLC
03.2019 - 12.2019
M.S. - Computer Science
Wright State University
B.S. - Information Technology
GITAM University