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Madhu Babu Kandragula

Lead DevOps Engineer
Hyderabad
Madhu Babu Kandragula

Summary

  • 10+ years of extensive experience in IT industry, primarily on Infrastructure operations, Managed services, DevOps, Automation, Architecture, Design and Deployment, OS Management, Application Management, Cloud-to-Cloud/Onsite-Cloud Migrations, Servers and Application Tuning, Cloud Management, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Monitoring Solutions, Multi-Cloud Services, and Infrastructure Technical Advisories.
  • As a DevOps Specialist, handled multiple migration projects on cross-domain technologies, cross-database migrations like Microsoft SQL to PostgreSQL, worked on new products configurations, monitoring integrations, driving new automation scope in day-to-day activities.
  • Certified in AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Level
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer & Certified System Administrator
  • Assisted companies in meeting their data compliance obligations in accordance with GDPR and SOC2 regulations.
  • Multiple OS platforms administration (Windows Servers, Linux servers, Virtual Machines).
  • Infrastructure Automation (Terraform, Chef, Ansible, AWS Cloudformation, Jenkins, AWS OpsWorks)
  • Continues Integration with Jenkins and Continues Delivery with Spinnaker using Canary/Blue-Green Release models.
  • Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Anthos, Amazon ECS etc).
  • Infrastructure and Application monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic, StackDriver, Pingdom, Elastic Stack, Nagios, Zabbix, OpsView, PagerDuty, OpsGenie
  • Amazon AWS technologies- EC2 tools, S3, AMI, RDS, EBS, Auto- Scaling, CloudWatch Monitoring, ELBs, IAM, VPC, Route53 etc)
  • Coding and Scripting (Python, Shell)
  • Database administration (MySQL, Percona Clusters, MSSQL Server, Postgres)
  • Web & Content Management technologies (Nginx, Apache, HTML, Drupal, Wordpress, javascript, PHP ,ASP, IIS)
  • NewRelic Synthetic monitoring and developing complex scripts compatible with selenium web drivers
  • Design, deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.
  • Leadership, Mentoring & people management

Overview

10
years of professional experience
4
Certification

Work History

Kami Vision India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad

Lead DevOps Engineer
12.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Led the effort for SOC2 Type2 compliance certification across multiple products.
  • Maintained compliance frameworks, policies, and documentation to support audits and collaborated with external audit professionals and prepared process evaluation documentation.
  • Developed and implemented strategies to minimize the risk of non-compliance.
  • Monitored compliance risk controls, identified deviations, and provided recommendations.
  • Organized training programs to educate company staff on the importance of compliance.
  • Created and managed action plans to address audit findings and compliance concerns.
  • Led the migration of infrastructure and applications from AliCloud to AWS for three regions: US, EU, and Singapore.
  • Developed and executed a DevOps strategy to deploy software, improving application health and performance.
  • Designed and set up development, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments.
  • Coordinated testing and validation procedures throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Established integration with Duplo Cloud and AWS for seamless infrastructure and application deployment automation.
  • Implemented monitoring and alerts for applications and infrastructure using CloudWatch, Sentry, Uptime Robot, and Slack integration.
  • Designed the architecture for the disaster recovery environment, ensuring continuous replication of application and associated services data from production to DR.
  • Managed and maintained the security of application infrastructure through vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.
  • Automated docker image creation and application deployments using GitHub integration and Duplo Cloud.
  • Automated EKS deployments through GitHub Actions integration.

Verizon Data Services India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad

Senior Engineer - Cloud
06.2018 - 12.2021

Job overview

  • Lead migration initiative, transitioning Verizon's DevOps platform tools infrastructure from the datacenter to the AWS Cloud.
  • Designing the migration plan and architecture for seamless integration and deployment of Atlassian products.
  • Develop a comprehensive strategy and execute the migration process for transferring the Atlassian products' database from MSSQL to PostgreSQL.
  • Implemented an automated infrastructure provisioning and code deployment system on AWS EC2 and VPC utilizing Ansible, Jenkins jobs, and custom Bash scripts. Orchestrated the configuration automation framework using Ansible to efficiently build, deploy, and manage the infrastructure on EC2 instances.
  • Played a key role in the design and deployment of Atlassian applications, leveraging a wide range of AWS services such as EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, EFS, and SNS. Emphasized high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling capabilities within the AWS CloudFormation framework.
  • Developed a comprehensive and fully automated Disaster Recovery (DR) environment for Atlassian applications, incorporating cross-region data replication for both the database and file system.
  • As the responsible individual, I ensured annual compliance of the applications with CCPA, GDPR, and data regulations, conducting thorough checks and implementing necessary measures to maintain compliance.

WATERLINE DATA
Hyderabad

Sr. Consultant
09.2017 - 06.2018

Job overview

  • Implemented setup of Hortonworks Data Platform cluster, Cloudera cluster, and AWS EMR cluster for efficient product deployment.
  • Developed Dockerfiles and established single-node Hortonworks and Cloudera clusters on Docker.
  • Configured Vagrant virtual machines with single-node clusters for Hortonworks and Cloudera.
  • Conducted server configuration for multi-node clusters, including applications, databases, and other services.
  • Strategized and executed upgrades for Hortonworks, Cloudera, and applications.
  • Utilized Solr as a database store in Hortonworks, Cloudera, and Amazon EMR and established high availability configuration for Kerberos-enabled Solr.
  • Enhanced security by implementing Kerberos authentication for Hortonworks, Cloudera, and Amazon EMR clusters.
  • Configured HDFS and HBase in high availability mode to ensure reliable data storage.
  • Implemented KMS (Key Management Service) for secure key storage and automated key rotation.
  • Led and implemented Docker container implementation with Kubernetes.
  • Conducted AWS EMR migration from Hortonworks Hadoop platform.
  • Configured Elasticsearch primary/secondary cluster as a disaster recovery solution in production.
  • Automated Elasticsearch snapshot creation and validation.

HARMAN CONNECTED SERVICES
Hyderabad

SR. SOLUTIONS ENGINEER
01.2015 - 09.2017

Job overview

  • Led the Cloud/Infrastructure team in setting up infrastructure for various environments (Dev, QA, Pre-prod, and Production) on both metal and AWS Cloud (EC2 and VPC), ensuring compliance with requirements.
  • Took charge of the migration initiative for multiple clients, orchestrating the end-to-end infrastructure migration from Datacenter to AWS Cloud.
  • Provided assistance to companies like JDPower and Dodge Data Analytics in successfully migrating their infrastructure and services from on-premises data centers to AWS Cloud. Ensured seamless and fully automated deployments while prioritizing monitoring, security, and compliance. Additionally, facilitated the setup of Active Directory, Federation services, and integrated self-service solutions for enhanced operational efficiency.
  • Designed and planned Dev, QA, Staging, Production, and DR environments in AWS Cloud, aligning with security policies for seamless infrastructure migration.
  • Architected and implemented Active Directory, Federation services, and self-service solutions from scratch for clients.
  • Built and maintained highly available enterprise-scale production systems within the AWS ecosystem, utilizing services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, RedShift, CodeDeploy, SES, SQS, SNS, Datapipeline, Route53, OpsWorks, Lambda, and interacting with AWS APIs.
  • Set up and configured Chef as an Infrastructure management-as-code tool, facilitating server migration from Datacenter to AWS.
  • Established infrastructure for new applications from scratch, leveraging Chef for rewriting scripts and processes and enforcing Chef policies.
  • Developed Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations, optimizing the end product and enhancing modularity.
  • Configured and converted production support scripts to Chef Recipes, enabling efficient management and provisioning of AWS servers.
  • Configured VPC peering connections, On-Premise to Cloud VPN connections, Active Directory, and Domain controllers.
  • Implemented security restrictions using Alert Logic and conducted regular penetration testing on production instances.

Fission Labs
Hyderabad

Cloud Operations Engineer
04.2013 - 01.2015

Job overview

  • Built and maintained highly available production systems within the AWS ecosystem, utilizing services like EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, RedShift, and others. Proficient in working with AWS APIs for seamless interaction.
  • Constructed scalable infrastructure capable of supporting millions of users, employing OnDemand, Scheduled, and PreWarming methods.
  • Administered Linux systems (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu) and have proficiency with Bash and Python scripting languages.
  • Developed a multi-threaded Python program to facilitate the migration process efficiently in the migration of data from a VM-based MySQL database cluster to an AWS RDS MySQL cluster.
  • Developed Python scripts to generate an HTML based report for users, including API-related analytics. The scripts calculated metrics such as the total number of unique users for the day, unique API calls, total API calls, and other relevant data. The resulting HTML page provided a comprehensive overview of the analytics for easy access and analysis.
  • Created continuous integration servers using Jenkins, automating database backups and application deployments.
  • Set up monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools such as Zenoss, Sensu, Nagios, Collectd, and Ganglia.
  • Managed RDBMS systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, MongoDB).
  • Administered Tomcat, MySQL Cluster, and implemented Master-Slave setups, RDS, and Load Balancing configurations.
  • Developed scripts for Auto Scaling, Auto Deployments, ETL conversion tasks, and content management.
  • Designed advanced backup strategies and implemented Disaster Recovery solutions for production ecosystems.

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad

Bachelor of Technology from Electrical And Electronics Engineering
05.2012

University Overview

Skills

    Operating Systems Unix/Linux, Windows

    Scripting Languages Shell, Python

    RDBMS/NoSQL MSSQL, MySQL, Mongodb (NOSQL), PostgreSQL, Redis, Hbase, Cassandra

    Source Code Repositories GitHub, Bitbucket

    Continuous Integration tools Jenkins, CruiseControl, Teamcity, Bamboo

    Build and Packaging tools MSBuild, Gradle, Ant, Maven

    Web/Application Servers Apache, JBOS, Tomcat, nginx, Node JS, HAProxy

    Cloud AWS, Azure, GCP

    Artifactory JFrog

    Logging and Data Analytics ELK, Splunk, Greylog2

    Monitoring/Graphing Nagios, Prometheus, Newrelic, Grafana

    Message brokers RabbitMQ, SQS

    Virtualization/IT Automation Vagrant, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Chef 12, Ansible, Kubernetes

    Big Data Platform Stacks CDH 512 (Cloudera), HDP 26 (Hortonworks), AWS EMR 50, Azure HDInsight

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (8LQLZGDK2M111X3D)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (1TW1YDF21JFE1KSN)

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) – 160-100-830

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) – 160-100-830

Timeline

Lead DevOps Engineer
Kami Vision India Pvt Ltd
12.2021 - Current
Senior Engineer - Cloud
Verizon Data Services India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 12.2021
Sr. Consultant
WATERLINE DATA
09.2017 - 06.2018
SR. SOLUTIONS ENGINEER
HARMAN CONNECTED SERVICES
01.2015 - 09.2017
Cloud Operations Engineer
Fission Labs
04.2013 - 01.2015
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor of Technology from Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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