Venkatesh Sakati
Morrisville
Summary
Bringing a comprehensive IT background, integrating cloud solutions with DevOps methodologies. Expertise in deploying containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, alongside experience in infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible, effectively supporting development teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
01.2021 - Current
- Definition, design, development, testing, debugging, release, enhancement, and maintenance of software.
- Collaborating with development teams to design, implement, and deploy microservices on Kubernetes.
- Implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the deployment of microservices, ensuring rapid and reliable release.
- Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or AWS CodePipeline to automate the build, test, and deployment process.
- Integrating automated testing and quality checks to maintain code quality and ensure consistent deployments.
- Setting up monitoring and logging solutions to track the performance and health of microservices and infrastructure.
- Implementing practices like distributed tracing and logging aggregation for efficient debugging and troubleshooting.
Devops Engineer
Staxa Technologies
- Deployed client applications in Docker-based environments hosted on Kubernetes clusters with dedicated namespaces.
- Managed CI/CD pipelines using Drone, facilitating deployment of microservices via Helm charts.
- Created and maintained Helm charts and Docker code for building and deploying microservices.
- Configured centralized logging with ELK stack, integrating logs into S3 using Lambda functions.
- Implemented end-to-end CI/CD processes on Kubernetes, enhancing deployment automation and efficiency.
- Integrated Ansible Tower with Jenkins for rapid application deployment and change management.
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize continuous delivery environments using Docker.
- Set up monitoring for Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus and AppDynamics for application insights.
DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Veridic Solutions LLC
- Collaborated with DevOps team to replicate QA environment using Ansible and provision EC2 instances via Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Developed prebaked AMIs for client environments and launched VPCs using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Designed proof of concepts and demonstrations showcasing Azure capabilities for project migration requirements.
- Prepared and delivered multiple presentations for senior management and C-level executives.
- Built AWS infrastructure utilizing VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, EBS, Route 53, SNS, SES, SQS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail with Terraform and CloudFormation templates.
- Automated infrastructure components including VPCs, ELBs, security groups, SQS queues, and S3 buckets using Terraform.
- Migrated legacy systems to AWS while provisioning highly available EC2 instances through Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Implemented ETL processes to ingest data from S3 into Redshift using AWS Lambda microservices.
Sr. System Engineer
BTS Software Labs
- Planned and developed Azure migration for on-premise client infrastructure across multiple sites.
- Designed hybrid cloud strategies for data centers, optimizing single and multi-site deployments.
- Provisioned Azure instances via Ansible, interacting efficiently with Azure Resource Manager.
- Participated in software development life cycle phases, including requirements gathering and coding.
- Reported budgetary needs to management, ensuring comprehensive project oversight.
- Developed electrical subsystem designs aligning with technical specifications.
- Collaborated in documenting design modifications for improved implementation.
- Managed scalable business solution projects impacting various company functions.
System engineer
Siliconbricks technologies
- Facilitated agile project management using JIRA for issue tracking and monitoring.
- Collaborated with architects on SDLC processes, owning post-development environments.
- Converted Ant build projects to Maven build projects, enhancing build management capabilities.
- Redefined release engineering processes by implementing tools for builds, patch creation, and source control tracking, streamlining deployment workflows.
- Maintained current build systems, developing scripts and managing the source control system.
- Developed Puppet module for automation with Puppet Master, R10K wrapper, Git Enterprise, OpenStack, Vagrant, and Jenkins to improve configuration management.
- Authored Puppet manifests for deployment and configuration management of metric collection and monitoring.
- Installed Jenkins on Linux to configure master/slave architecture for parallel builds.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Information Systems
University of South Alabama
Mobile, ALSkills
- JavaScript
- Java
- Python
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- MySQL
- NoSQL databases
- AWS
- Azure
- OpenStack
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm Charts
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Chef
- Jenkins
- Git
- Bitbucket
- Nexus
- Artifactory
- JIRA
- Drone
- Spinnaker
- ELK
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Prometheus
- Datadog
- Grafana
- MAC
- Microservices design
- CI/CD
- Containerization
- Kubernetes management
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer & Administrator
- Basic Chef Fluency
Timeline
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
01.2021 - Current
Devops Engineer
Staxa Technologies
DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Veridic Solutions LLC
Sr. System Engineer
BTS Software Labs
System engineer
Siliconbricks technologies
Master of Science - Computer Information Systems
University of South Alabama