Dinesh Janaparapu

Dynamic IT professional with extensive experience at Cognizant Technology Solutions, specializing in CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. Proven ability to enhance system performance and observability using AWS, Terraform, and Prometheus. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions while maintaining coding standards and optimizing resources.

• RJ Reynolds: DevOps Engineer, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing, Provided DevOps and application support for RJ Reynolds enterprise applications used for product tracking, order processing, and media management workflows across distribution channels., Ensure high availability and stability of business-critical systems supporting supply chain and sales operations., Monitored application performance and system health, identifying and resolving issues proactively., Assisted in troubleshooting application, infrastructure and deployment related issues in Linux based environments., Supported change management activities, including deployment validations and rollback procedures., Coordinated with development, QA, database, and infrastructure teams during incident resolution and releases.
• Sanofi: DevOps Engineer, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, Provided DevOps and application support for Sanofi enterprise applications used for Sanofi's medicine tracking and sales information., Supported stable releases for critical healthcare workloads with zero data loss incidents., Reduced incident resolution time through effective log analysis and cross-team coordination., Improved application uptime by proactively monitoring and resolving issues before business impact., Managed environment configurations, secrets and application parameters across dev, test and production., Performed root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring incidents and implemented preventive fixes to improve application stability., Monitored application using logging and monitoring tools to identify performance bottlenecks and system failures.
• BAT (British American Tobacco): DevOps Engineer, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing, Played a key role in maintaining operational continuity for application used by global business teams., Acted as primary production support engineer handling incidents, service requests and operational tasks across multiple environments., Performed continuous monitoring of application services, batch jobs and background processes to ensure uninterrupted business flows., Supported release and deployment activities, validating application readiness and post-deployment stability., Investigated environment related and performance issues, working with infrastructure and database teams to restore services., Conducted detailed RCA documentation and implemented corrective actions to reduce repeat incidents., Managed application configuration changes and environment-level updates following change management procedures., Participated in on-call support rotations for critical production operations.

• AWS certified Cloud Practitioner.
• Published Knote at the organization level and received appreciation for technical contribution and knowledge sharing.

• Experience in building and deploying highly scalable microservices as well as large scale applications with high availability.
• Writing Terraform scripts from scratch to provision required cloud infrastructure for building Dev, Staging and Production environment.
• Gained complete knowledge on CI/CD development from dev to production environment.
• Developing ansible playbooks to automate the entire deployment process as well as Infrastructure provisioning.
• Working with Docker and Kubernetes on multiple cloud providers, helping developers to build and containerize their applications (CI/CD) to deploy on public or private cloud.
• Skilled at performing Cloud monitoring tools like ELK, CloudWatch and other tools.
• Application monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines for microservices architecture with the help of integration tools like Jenkins.
• Security best practices including IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
• Ability to work within a Team with strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. Able to work in ambiguous situations.