Akshitha Samudrala

• Established and oversaw Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows via Azure DevOps, streamlining builds and deployments through automated release pipelines.
• Managed Azure DevOps services, including Azure Repos, Azure Boards, and Pipelines, for efficient collaboration on code development, and facilitated application deployment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Linux and networking fundamentals to effectively troubleshoot issues.
• Deployed Generative AI projects across various environments (development, staging, production) using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) methodology.
• Successfully addressed vulnerabilities within Linux and Windows environments.
• Exhibited a deep understanding of Azure infrastructure components such as Azure IaaS, including VMs, networking, storage, firewall, monitoring, private DNS zones, CI/CD, NSG, Azure Container Apps, Azure App Services, Azure Virtual Network, and Key Vault.
• Executed CI/CD processes for .NET, Python, React, and Tomcat applications, tailoring task groups to individual application requirements

Project: GenWizard.

Organization: Accenture.

Tools and technologies.

Azure DevOps, Docker, TFVC, Git, Azure Container Apps, Docker, Azure Container Registry, PostgreSQL, Application Gateway, nginx.

Responsibilities

• Utilized version control systems like TFVC for code checking, merging, and defining branching strategies.
• Spearheaded the end-to-end setup of Azure Container Apps and Azure App Services.
• Facilitated knowledge dissemination across the team by creating comprehensive documentation, which is needed to enhance understanding of the application environment and architecture.
• Proficiently configured Nginx, Application Gateway, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Tomcat software on Linux systems as per application requirements.
• Collaborated with multiple clients to establish enterprise-level platforms for generative AI applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating Azure CI/CD pipelines (build and release) from scratch.
• Managed artifact maintenance using Nexus and Azure Container Registry (ACR).
• Leveraged Azure OpenAI for generative AI projects.
• Developed technology-specific (dotnet, Python) Docker base images for deploying microservices within Docker containers.
• Created ARM templates (JSON) for Azure service provisioning, ensuring compatibility with existing infrastructure configurations.
• Implemented efficient communication protocols, resulting in reduced response times, and effective resolution of customer issues.
• Conducted root cause analysis for production downtimes, or platform-related issues.

Project: myWizard

Organization :Accenture

Tools & technologies :

Azure DevOps, MongoDB, nginx, Nexus, shell.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated strong proficiency in VM and Docker deployment techniques.
• Crafted Docker files for managing Docker images used in the application deployment processes.
• Managed the source code repository using TFVC.
• Orchestrated end-to-end management of Azure DevOps build and release pipelines, ensuring smooth and efficient deployments.
• Developed and implemented pipelines for code scanning, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), utilizing FPA.
• Integrated and maintained Nexus for artifact management purposes.
• Prepared comprehensive, high-level documentation detailing installation and configuration processes.

Certifications:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.

Achievements:

• Star of the Month Award: Manager, Senior Manager.
• Recognized multiple times as a token of appreciation from leads and managers for dedicated work on the project.

• ·Maintain GIT Repositories, Handling Releases and Branching activities for GIT.
• Handle multiple builds from Development team, create build jobs in Jenkins and perform deployment activities.
• Creating Azure virtual machines as per client requirement.
• Handled software configuration management issues and coordinated with development CI/CD tools implementation.
• Worked closely with developers in the creation of branches, pull requests, and resolving any issues related to builds.
• Created branch policies for implementing gated check-ins (PR jobs) in the Azure DevOps portal.
• I took part in the migration of code from Perforce to Azure Repos.
• Migrated pipelines (CI/CD) from Jenkins to Azure DevOps.
• Automated Continuous Integration builds, nightly builds, deployments, and unit tests across multiple different environments (DEV, QA, Training, Production), each constituting different types of servers (DB, App, Web) and a different number of servers of each type (for load balancing and such) using VSTS Build, PowerShell, MS Build, and MS Deploy.
• Worked closely with QA teams, business teams, DBA teams, and product operations teams to identify the QA and UAT cycle release schedule for non-prod and prod environments.
• Identified and logged defects in VSTS, and interacted with developers to prioritize the issues.
• Created build definition and release definition for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Created dashboards in VSTS for CI/CD pipelines, work items, and bugs.
• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins (TFS Plugin installed), Team Foundation Server (TFS), GitHub, and whenever a new TFS/GitHub branch gets started, Jenkins, our Continuous Integration (CI) server.
• Worked on GIT to maintain source code in GitHub and Azure Repo.
• Maintained artifacts in binary repositories using JFrog Artifactory, and pushed new artifacts by configuring the Jenkins project, Jenkins Artifactory plugin.
• Built Azure DevOps (VSTS) pipelines to create Azure infrastructure from Azure repos containing ARM template code.
• Create storage accounts for the dev and QA teams for their application development and testing purposes.
• Deploy and manage the Azure services, such as Virtual Machines, Web Apps, Storage, Azure Active Directory, and Virtual Networks.
• Proven experience in creating branching and tagging concepts in version control tools like Azure Repos, Git, and managing Azure Artifacts, private package repos (e.g. NuGet, NPM).
• Experience in building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for deployment into Azure App Service.
• Created the custom ARM templates for the creation of Azure resources as per project requirements.
• I wrote PowerShell scripts for the automation process to register your apps in AAD, and I worked on the elastic agent job schedule process.
• Proven experience with the Jira ticketing tool and Azure Boards. Excellent team player with problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Good communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills. Excellent work ethics, self-motivated, and a quick learner, willing to learn, and adapts to new technologies and third-party products.