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Overview
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Cloud
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Key Contributions Platform Modernization & Observability
Projects
Certification
Awards
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Laxma Reddy

Hyderabad

Summary

Cloud and DevOps professional with over six years of experience in architecting and managing secure, high-availability platforms on AWS and Azure. Spearheaded infrastructure automation and CI/CD initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab, achieving a 60% increase in deployment speed and an 80% reduction in manual tasks. Developed scalable EKS and ECS clusters, ensuring 99.99% uptime for production services while cutting monthly cloud expenses by 30%. Established observability and disaster recovery strategies compliant with PCI-DSS, meeting critical RTO and RPO objectives.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Pepperfry
Bangalore
10.2019 - Current
  • Company Overview: Scalable Cloud Platform for Web, Android, iOS, and Internal Systems. www.pepperfry.com
  • Cloud Infrastructure Responsibilities
  • DevOps Automation Responsibilities
  • Security & Compliance
  • Cost Optimisation & Reliability Engineering
  • Leadership & Collaboration
  • Architected and maintained scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and native services.
  • Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps to automate application delivery for Java, Node.js, and Python-based workloads.
  • Containerized legacy applications and orchestrated deployments on Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) and ECS, with advanced configurations for stateful apps and zero-downtime upgrades.
  • Automated DevOps tasks using Bash, Python, and cloud-native services like EventBridge, Lambda, and Step Functions.
  • Implemented centralized monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, and AWS FireLens for observability across cloud workloads.
  • Handled security and compliance responsibilities including IAM policies, SCPs, encryption (KMS), and audit trail configurations using AWS Config, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty.
  • Led cloud cost optimization initiatives by using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Reserved Instances, and Spot strategies - achieving up to 30% savings.
  • Designed and tested disaster recovery (DR) and high-availability solutions with RTO < 5 minutes and RPO < 1 minute across multi-region deployments.
  • Migrated workloads from CentOS 7 to AL2023/AL2 and from EC2-based deployments to fully containerized solutions on EKS and ECS.
  • Configured and maintained ITSM tools such as Wazuh and integrated them with alerting systems for security incident response.
  • Collaborated with dev, QA, and security teams to ensure secure, high-quality releases and compliance with PCI-DSS and internal audit standards.
  • Maintained deep knowledge of networking (VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, VPNs) and database platforms including AWS RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift.
  • Provided leadership in DevOps practices, mentored junior engineers, and drove adoption of cloud and automation best practices.
  • Reduced AWS cloud costs by 30% using proactive FinOps strategies and cost explorer optimization.
  • Improved deployment speed by 70% by automating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI.
  • Achieved 99.99% uptime across production workloads by implementing resilient multi-region infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
  • Migrated 20+ monolithic apps (Java, Node.js, Django) from EC2 to EKS and ECS with zero downtime.
  • Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery strategy achieving RTO < 5 minutes and RPO < 1 minute.
  • Upgraded Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with zero downtime and migrated stateful apps to containers.
  • Passed PCI-DSS and internal compliance audits with zero critical findings through cloud hardening and automation.
  • Optimized Jenkins pipelines, reducing failure rate by 40% via automated rollback and validation stages.
  • Successfully migrated workloads from CentOS 7 to AL2023 and AL2 with no production outage.
  • Created self-healing infrastructure using Terraform, Lambda, and EventBridge reducing manual intervention by 90%.
  • Scalable Cloud Platform for Web, Android, iOS, and Internal Systems. www.pepperfry.com

Education

B-Tech - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

JNTUH
Hyderabad
12.2017

Skills

  • Cloud infrastructure and DevOps automation
  • Web server and database administration
  • Incident and performance management
  • Log analysis and API management
  • Microservices architecture and cost control
  • Infrastructure design and CI/CD pipelines
  • Security compliance and Kubernetes orchestration
  • Linux administration and system monitoring
  • Monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery
  • Collaboration tools and continuous integration
  • DevOps methodologies and source control management
  • Infrastructure as code and configuration management
  • Serverless computing and virtualization technologies
  • Process improvement and problem-solving
  • Effective communication

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Azure

Tools

Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Route53, CloudFormation), Azure (VNet, VM, NSG, Azure DevOps) DevOps and automation: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Monitoring and SRE: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog Scripting: Bash, Python, PowerShell Version control: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket

Key Contributions Platform Modernization & Observability

  • Migrated Jenkins setup from legacy CentOS 6 to Amazon Linux 2, and then to Amazon Linux 2023 Graviton instances, achieving a 25% performance boost and enhancing plugin compatibility and security
  • Reduced Jenkins infrastructure cost by 30% by shifting to Graviton architecture, maintaining high availability, and reducing build agent sprawl
  • Integrated full DevSecOps suite into Jenkins: SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk, Trivy, and policy-as-code scanners to ensure secure, compliant CI/CD pipelines
  • Enabled Slack-based notifications for Jenkins pipeline events and builds, improved developer awareness, and reduced MTTR
  • Configured and monitored Jenkins audit logging to meet internal compliance and governance standards
  • Set up a centralized ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for deep observability across microservices: latency, API request rates, browser/device/user metrics, etc
  • Migrated Redis from on-prem clusters to ElastiCache with improved memory tuning, and managed large-scale Redis deployments in HA mode
  • Upgraded Kubernetes clusters and worker nodes through major versions (1.14 to 1.34), ensuring feature compatibility and minimal downtime
  • Migrated all applications and legacy infrastructure to Graviton-based EC2 instances, achieving 35% overall cost savings and modernizing compute architecture

Projects

🔧 Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE – Pepperfry.com (E-commerce Platform)

Tools and technologies: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53, EKS, ECS), Azure (VMs, VNet, NSG), Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Datadog, Prometheus, Ansible, PCI-DSS, Bash, Python

  • Designed and provisioned secure, scalable, and cost-efficient multi-cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure to support Pepperfry's web, Android, iOS, and internal platforms (CRM, SALESCRM, BRIDGE)
  • Migrated workloads to AWS EKS and ECS clusters with zero downtime, improving availability and deployment control across environments
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, reducing deployment times by 60%, and improving release quality
  • Migrated Jenkins CI/CD infrastructure to Graviton architecture (Amazon Linux 2023), improving build speed and reducing infra costs by 30%
  • Integrated DevSecOps tools (Snyk, Checkmarx, Trivy) into GitLab/Jenkins pipelines for automated vulnerability scanning
  • Built advanced dashboards in Kibana for latency, geo-location, and API traffic insights, enhancing monitoring capabilities
  • Implemented real-time observability and alerting with Datadog, Prometheus, and custom dashboards for platform health and SRE metrics
  • Drove cloud cost optimization, resulting in a 30% reduction in monthly cloud spend via reserved instances, auto-scaling, and resource rightsizing
  • Ensured cloud security and compliance aligned with PCI-DSS standards, including IAM governance, network segmentation, and vulnerability remediation
  • Supported incident response, uptime SLAs, and disaster recovery planning, including RTO/RPO design, and implementation

🔗 www.pepperfry.com

Certification

AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional

Awards

04/01/24, Flaming Hot Award, awarded in recognition of outstanding performance and innovative thinking

Timeline

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Pepperfry
10.2019 - Current

B-Tech - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

JNTUH

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