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Gangadhar Bollam

Gangadhar Bollam

IT Consultant
Chennai

Summary

Currently serving as Associate Consultant with TCS, working on GCP, provisioning services using Terraform with Gitlab CICD pipeline as platform for migration team. Since automation is key now, working with Ansible for automation. Holds hands-on experience on creating GKE Cluster for onsite solution architects using terraform for application deployments. Holds knowledge on K8s architecture, nodes, pods failure troubleshooting etc.. Also have knowledge with other GCP services like IAM, GLB, VPC, App engine, Cloud Ops Agent for monitoring, Basic understanding on Cloud PubSub, BigTable, BigQuery so on. Have built the GCP infrastructure from the scratch for the DB migration teams, also managing a small team of 10+ members and guiding them to achieve their individual goals. Participating in daily standup, status and technical troubleshooting calls is a part of daily routines, holds basic knowledge on Linux OS like centOS and RHEL, register these linux servers with Satellite to avail latest linux patch updates.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
06.2022 - Current

Working as a Google Cloud Admin for now and doing the automation on front.

Lead Administrator

Wipro Ltd.
Bengaluru
01.2021 - 05.2022

Worked for an health care client as GCP Infra engineer, have provisioned GCP services using Terraform along with Ansible integrations using Gitlab CICD pipeline. Creation of GKE clusters and other GCP resources, troubleshooting of pods, application failures, auto scaling, setting up monitoring tools etc with IaC.
Also worked as Linux admin on access management part and worked on enduser service-now tickets. Taking part on all key discussions, status calls, working sessions, workshops and mentoring the team members.

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
04.2011 - 01.2021

Worked as Sr. Infra engineer which involves daily work on GCP services like IAM, Load Balance, VPC, Storage, Kubernetes, Stackdriver monitoring, App engine, Compute engine, Deployment manager.

Good hands-on experience in ITIL framework: Incident, change and problem management. driving severity-1 calls, and preparing RCA.

Queue monitoring, conducting ticket audits for resolved incidents. Managing all technical towers during the shifts as shift manager and attending client facing all on daily basis.

Technical Support Analyst

HCL Technologies
Chennai
11.2009 - 04.2011

Worked at at&t technical support analyst, providing technical troubleshooting solutions via phone and emails. Dealing with internet releated issues.

GPRS Advisor

IBM Daksh
Visakhapatnam
06.2007 - 07.2008

Career begins at IBM Daksh as an GPRS advisor, troubleshooting with mobile internet connectivity.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Mrs. AVN College
Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
04.2007

Skills

GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, Basic Linux , ITIL Framework, Team Management

Certification

GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Hashicorp Certified Terraform Engineer and ITIL Foundation v4

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/gangadhar-bollam-2aaa2130

Timeline

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2022 - Current

Lead Administrator

Wipro Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2022

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2011 - 01.2021

Technical Support Analyst

HCL Technologies
11.2009 - 04.2011

GPRS Advisor

IBM Daksh
06.2007 - 07.2008

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Mrs. AVN College
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