Hello I'm

Balakrishna

Senior Devops Engineer

About Me

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing robust cloud infrastructure solutions. Skilled in Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines, I specialize in automating workflows and optimizing deployments for SaaS and microservices architectures. With a strong background in Python, Bash, PowerShell, and Linux, I bring expertise in scalable systems and fostering collaboration between development and operations teams. I am currently open to new opportunities.

  • Kubernetes
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • ML-Ops
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Python
  • bash
  • PowerShell
  • Cloud Architect
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What I do

Cloud Architect

Design, deploy, automating, maintaining, implement, and manage cloud-based production systems and provide infrastructure solutions across Azure, AWS, or GCP. Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of cloud systems while optimizing cost and automating deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.

Devops Engineer

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery. Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management while ensuring system reliability, scalability, and security in both cloud and on-premise environments. Collaborate with development and operations teams to foster seamless integration and deployment processes.

Kubernetes Engineer

Specialize in designing and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes. Implement scaling, monitoring, and deployment strategies to optimize container orchestration. Enable robust microservices architectures by configuring and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Combine software engineering and systems administration to enhance the reliability and performance of applications. Develop monitoring, alerting, and incident management systems to maintain high availability. Automate tasks to reduce toil and ensure scalability across distributed systems.

Technical Skills

Azure
80%
Kubernetes
90%
AWS
80%
Docker
95%
linux
70%
bash/Powershell
70%
Python
50%

Professional Skills

  • Communication
  • Team Work
  • Project Management
  • Creativity

Work Experience

Senior Kubernetes Engineer Value Labs

Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
  • Performance Optimization: Orchestrated container apps, achieving a 28% performance boost and 30% cost savings by migrating to AKS.
  • Kubernetes : Configure and maintain private AKS clusters, Nginx ingress controllers using helm charts
  • Efficient Architecture: Revamped architecture, optimizing naming conventions, and enhancing pipeline performance
  • Security and Reliability: Strengthened data security and implemented a robust failover system for enhanced system reliability.
  • Documentation: Maintained comprehensive infrastructure documentation for knowledge sharing and process clarity.

Platform Engineer Intellect EU

April 2022 - July 2022
  • Single Sign-on: Configured key cloak for users to sign in to the application
  • Efficient Infrastructure: Introduced and Kubernetes best practice such as Resource Limits and Requests limits.
  • Vulnerability Fix: Review the security of container images and take action to fix issues all using docker scan tool
  • Identified the cross-team differences, lead a positive collaboration and resolved issues.

Devops Engineer Autoscheduler.AI

September 2020 - April 2022
  • CI/CD Leadership: Implemented robust CI/CD pipelines from scratch, reducing release times by 40%, minimizing errors by 60%, and cutting deployment time by 30%.
  • Efficient Infrastructure: Introduced Kubernetes-based IaC practices, reducing infrastructure deployment times by 50% and saving 20% in infrastructure costs.
  • Cost Optimization: Optimized cloud infrastructure, lowering monthly expenses by 25%, resulting in substantial annual savings.
  • Containerization: Containerized all of the microservices using Docker, enabling seamless scaling and efficient resource utilization.
  • Security: Implemented Site-to-Site VPN and Point-to-Site VPN for secure connections.
  • Database Migration: Migrated on-prem databases to Azure SQL Databases without losing any data.
  • Automation: Automated Bash scripts for building Docker images, storing images on Azure Container Registry, and deploying on Azure Kubernetes clusters.
  • Open Source: Configured the MBT open-source build tool for monorepo management.
  • Documentation: Created and maintained wiki and markdown documentation.
  • Containerized the microservices using Docker.

Cloud Engineer Adventum advanced solutions Pvt Ltd

April 2020 - September 2020
  • Lead design and implementation of AWS Cloud Solutions, including infrastructure, data, and application services.
  • Reviewed existing infrastructure and made recommendations for improvements.
  • Containerized the applications using Docker and deployed them on AWS EC2 instances.
  • Written AWS CloudFormation templates in YAML format to provision AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, DocumentDB, and more.
  • Enhanced web apps for stability, performance, security, and defect tracking.
  • Source code reviewing, integration, and promoting team changes to the targeted environment.
  • Supported project deadlines and contributed to technical documentation.
  • Implemented security policies and controls aligned with ISO/IEC 27001 to ensure compliance and strengthen the organization's information security management system (ISMS).
  • Containerized the microservices using Docker.

Devops Engineer Pogeyan Technologies

April 2017 - April 2020
  • Creating and maintaining an AWS EKS cluster for production deployments
  • Creating a cluster for the development environment on bare nodes via kubeadm for costcutting
  • Having hands on experience with helm charts
  • Created docker images for CMIS-Server
  • Integrated code-coverage for cmis-server APIs using JACOCO plugin
  • Involved in the implementation of key features and enhancements
  • Worked on Automation Test cases and manually testing
  • Proficient in Release Management, streamlining software deployment processes to achieve efficient and reliable delivery outcomes.
  • Implemented security policies and controls aligned with ISO/IEC 27001 to ensure compliance and strengthen the organization's information security management system (ISMS)

Education

Masters in Computer Science fromFitchburg State University

Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering fromAndhra University

Licenses & Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA)