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SeniorSoftwareEngineer

Chaitra Golasangi

Bangalore

Summary

Engineering Leader with 11+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, cloud-native architecture, SRE, and DevOps within fast-paced tech environments. Skilled at leading high-performing teams, driving large-scale cloud migrations, and optimizing CI/CD workflows to accelerate software delivery. Experienced in aligning engineering efforts with product and business goals, while ensuring security, compliance, and long-term scalability across platforms.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Zscaler
Bangalore
02.2024 - Current
  • Spearheading DevOps security initiatives for CBI org to enhance enterprise security posture, implementing CI/CD security best practices.
  • Led a team of 8 DevOps engineers in FedRAMP migration efforts for a federal government project, ensuring compliance with FIPS 140-2 and FedRAMP High and Moderate security standards.
  • Implemented infrastructure as code using Terraform, reducing deployment errors by 40% across multiple projects.
  • Collaborated with software engineering teams to integrate microservices architecture, enhancing system reliability.
  • Architected cloud-based infrastructure solutions using AWS, driving a 25% reduction in operational costs through optimized resource allocation.

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart
Bangalore
11.2018 - Current
  • Led platform modernization efforts for CSIS/ASDA/Massmart by partnering with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers to design and implement infrastructure solutions for 450+ applications across 30+ engineering teams, supporting millions of customers.
  • Spearheaded a team of 7 engineers to migrate all servers to WCNP (Walmart's Cloud Native Platform) built on Kubernetes, resulting in a 64% cost reduction and an 87% improvement in server performance.
  • Developed the Autokitt tool using Python to automate the WCNP onboarding process, enabling 300+ developers to deploy applications on Kubernetes without requiring prior knowledge of Kubernetes or containerization.
  • Provided mentorship to junior engineers, facilitating a knowledge-sharing culture and increasing team productivity by 15%.
  • Collaborated in cross-functional teams during architecture design discussions, ensuring security and compliance standards were met.
  • Developed site reliability dashboard, providing real-time visibility on service levels enhancing issue detection speed by 24%.

Career Break

Remote
Bangalore
06.2023 - 12.2023
  • Took a professional break to care for an ailing parent while managing personal responsibilities and freelancing on cloud security and DevOps projects.
  • Continued up skilling and stayed current with industry trends through open-source contributions, conferences, and networking events.

Software Engineer(Cloud DevOps Engineer)

JCPenney
Bangalore
12.2016 - 11.2018
  • Managed the infrastructure of a full-scale e-commerce website, overseeing AWS EC2 instances, RDS databases, Elastic Load Balancers, S3 buckets, Route 53 DNS, and CloudFront CDN distribution.
  • Automated provisioning of 30+ non-production and dual data center production environments on AWS using CloudFormation Troposphere scripts and Ansible for configuration management.
  • Championed DevOps best practices, improving cross-team collaboration and streamlining processes across different departments.
  • Led a team of 4 DevOps engineers in the transition to AWS ultimately saving the company $2M per year and raising efficiency by 10%.
  • Reduced average server downtime by 67% through improved monitoring processes and 24/7 maintenance checks.

Software Engineer

Tesco
Bangalore
06.2014 - 11.2016
  • Overhauled first ever AWS migration task in Tesco from on premise to AWS cloud using terraform and packer and Ansible.
  • Implemented the Continuous Integration & Delivery from scratch for the projects using various tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Chef, Nolio, AWS, Terraform, SonarQube.
  • Automated CI/CD with Jenkins and Maven for the Critical java applications, eliminating 85% of manual work.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

R.V.College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Accomplishments

  • Winner of Walmart's Bravo Award for Operational Excellence
  • Winner of Women in Site Engineering (WISE) Challenge Cup 2022 by LinkedIn
  • Awarded Customer Champion and Collaborator for leading WCNP migration efforts at Walmart IDC.
  • Received JCPenney's competency award for outstanding achievement and excellence in driving results
  • Awarded Tesco Star of the Moment for independently managing CI/CD pipelines and driving DevOps contributions across multiple organizational projects.
  • Completed a freelance project to secure cloud infrastructure for India's largest political party during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Certification

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation, 01/01/22, 01/01/25, LF- qbw4bg1x7q

Timeline

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, The Linux Foundation, 01/01/23, 01/01/26, LF-7zkugx2p5x

01-2026

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation, 01/01/22, 01/01/25, LF- qbw4bg1x7q

01-2025

Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Zscaler
02.2024 - Current

Career Break

Remote
06.2023 - 12.2023

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart
11.2018 - Current

Software Engineer(Cloud DevOps Engineer)

JCPenney
12.2016 - 11.2018

Software Engineer

Tesco
06.2014 - 11.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

R.V.College of Engineering
04.2001 -

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