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VENKATA SAI ARAVIND DOODALA

Sr Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
TORONTO,ON

Summary

Critical thinking Cloud Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player and hands on experience in building, securing and managing Kubernetes production systems on AWS, GCP Cloud.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

MOBSQUAD (Client - F5)
Toronto, ON
08.2020 - Current
  • Developing cloud infrastructure in GCP and AWS using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
  • Extensively worked on GCP core products like GKE, BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloudsql, ComputeEngine, CloudFunctions.
  • Provisioning, managing and upgrading kubernetes clusters across cloud providers (GKE & EKS).
  • Building central monitoring, alerting and logging from legacy systems to modern infrastructure like Kubernetes
  • Automating much of the manual deployment work in various systems using Gitlab CI/CD tool.

Software Engineer

FINICITY
Salt Lake City, UT
11.2017 - 06.2020
  • Securing kubernetes platform using network policies with zero trust approach using Tigera.
  • Configuring traffic management inside kubernetes cluster using service mesh called ISTIO.
  • Developed terraform modules for AWS VPC, Aurora mysql and postgresql RDS, kinesis firehose and streams, Elasticache (Redis), Cloudfront with S3 and WAF according to company requirements.
  • Developed Lambda functions to launch spot fleet and EC2 fleet for batch processing, cross region replication of RDS snapshots for disaster recovery using Python.
  • Responsible for deploying self managed multi master HA (Highly Available) Kubernetes cluster with CIS compliance in mind from scratch using tool called KOPS with some instance groups completely running on spot instances and others running on on-demand instances depending on requirement and adding multi layers of security to access cluster using tools like AWS-IAM-Authenticator.
  • Responsible for developing docker base images for java applications.
  • Key member in migrating the core applications of the company hosted in data center to AWs Kubernetes platform.
  • Automating the autoscaling of Kubernetes cluster nodes and pods using tools like Cluster autoscaler and Horizontal pod autoscaler with custom metrics.
  • Responsible for setting up metrics and monitoring tool called Signalfx in development, testing and production and integrating applications to report to Signalfx.
  • Responsible for setting up the CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab to deploy the applications to development, testing and production systems including tools like Sonarqube, Checkmarx, Twistlock as part of pipeline.
  • Key member in reducing AWS cost using reserved instances, spot instances, tagging each aws resources according to project for better analysis of cost.

Assistant System Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Bengaluru
12.2014 - 05.2015
  • Worked on Oracle-Order-Management CISCO customized ERP tool as part of supply chain process
  • Worked on developing back-end java code for bus management system as a trainee in TCS

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
08.2015 - 05.2017

Additional Information

  • ACCOMPLISHMENTS , Received MVF (Most Valued Finitizen) - Employee of the year in January 2020 for the contribution in multi master kubernetes clusters and inter-cluster communication among them. Received Finovator (Best Employee of the month) award from Finicity for contribution in automating the autoscaling of nodes and pods in kubernetes cluster and for developing lambda functions to spin up spot and EC2 fleet for batch processing purposes

Timeline

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

MOBSQUAD (Client - F5)
08.2020 - Current

Software Engineer

FINICITY
11.2017 - 06.2020

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

University of Southern California
08.2015 - 05.2017

Assistant System Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
12.2014 - 05.2015

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