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 -