Maheswara Reddy

• Ericsson CCD (Cloud Container Distribution) manages and orchestrates all containerized applications deployed in Ericsson products.
• Designed and implemented security strategies to protect platform where CCD deployed.
• Conducted security risk assessments and implemented IAM policies to enforce least privilege access.
• Led vulnerability management programs and security patching initiatives.
• Automated Trivy ans Grype vulnerability scans on contianer interfaces
• Developed automated security controls using [Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.].
• Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate security best practices in CI/CD pipelines.

IBM Cloud Storage Team

• Worked as lead developer for the Cloud Storage Platform Systems from evolving Hardware scrutiny, Baseboard(BMC) API’s from SMC, boot(netboot),OS hardening customization and the deployment of the containerized CEPH (SDS). Also responsible for the management of SOS tooling to ensure compliance for the RHEL-OS VULN’s.
• Implemented APIs (Monitoring) at the platform level in storage solutions for IBM Cloud Storage IaaS team.
• Liaisoning of efforts among platform, control plane, storage, compute, observability, SRE and onsite teams.
• As Platform Cloud Storage Developer, responsible to fix any cloud storage bugs reported by the QA team on the existing cloud storage offerings in SDS.

Senior Software Engineer - AIX DCT, ISDL, IBM India Pvt Ltd.

• As Senior Software Engineer in AIX Support Kernel team, focusing on the Storage Driver component covering File Systems (iSCSI, SCSI and FC) and Logical Volume Manager.
• End-to-end responsibilities, from team selection through the hiring process to technical onboarding, training, daily stand-up and mentoring new team members.
• Coordinated with global teams in Austin, Dallas, and EMEA, facilitating technical discussions, addressing queries, and participating in interlock meetings.

• Worked as a developer in CCP (Common Controller Platform).
• CCP can be better described as a platform and OS abstraction layer between the OS and the applications (DAP, iHLR, iBSC, IGW, iSG, etc.) running above it.