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Nagamani Kollati

Technical Lead
Hyderabad

Summary

Results-driven DevOps SRE / Technical Lead with 11+ years of experience in building and managing cloud-native platforms, microservices, and large-scale data pipelines across GCP, AWS, and on-prem environments. Proven expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, and SRE practices, supporting mission-critical banking and enterprise systems. Strong focus on automation, platform reliability, security, and performance optimization, with demonstrated leadership in driving engineering excellence and operational efficiency.

Tech-savvy innovator with hands-on experience in emerging technologies and passion for continuous improvement. Skilled in identifying opportunities for technological enhancements and implementing effective solutions. Adept at leveraging new tools and methods to solve problems and enhance productivity. Excels in adapting to fast-paced environments and driving technological advancements.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

Wipro Limited,Lloyds Banking GROUP
07.2024 - Current
  • Led microservices deployments on GKE for critical banking systems (Credit Cards, Payment by Link, Payment Limits), achieving 99.95%+ uptime SLA.
  • Implemented GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines (GHES, Jenkins, Harness), increasing deployment frequency by 2x and reducing release failures by 30%.
  • Developed and standardized Helm charts, reducing configuration drift and improving deployment consistency across environments by 40%.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, reducing environment setup time by 50%.
  • Configured Kubernetes resources (Secrets, ConfigMaps, Autoscaling, Pods), improving application resilience and scalability.
  • Performed Istio service mesh upgrades and configurations, enabling secure mTLS communication and canary deployments, improving release confidence.
  • Managed zero/minimal downtime GKE upgrades, improving reliability and compliance adherence.
  • Integrated Dynatrace monitoring, reducing MTTR by 35% through proactive alerting and distributed tracing.
  • Optimized GCLB and Akamai configurations, reducing latency and improving application response time by 20%.
  • Implemented Apigee API policies and WAF rules, enhancing API security and mitigating vulnerabilities.
  • Managed Google Cloud Spanner scaling and configurations, improving database performance for high-transaction workloads.
  • Designed and executed Disaster Recovery strategies, ensuring business continuity and failover readiness.

Leadership Impact:

  • Led platform-level decisions for Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability strategy.
  • Mentored junior engineers on Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD best practices.
  • Acted as primary SRE owner for production systems, driving incident resolution and reliability improvements.

Senior Devops Engineer

MindPool Technologies,Equinix
07.2021 - 11.2023
  • Led migration of on-prem ETL platforms to AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by 25% and improving scalability.
  • Automated deployment pipelines for Informatica and Control-M, reducing manual effort by 40%.
  • Designed cloud architecture for fault tolerance and high availability of ETL data pipelines.
  • Implemented monitoring and operational processes, improving pipeline success rate and reliability.

Leadership Impact:

  • Owned end-to-end migration execution and collaborated with cross-functional teams.
  • Standardized ETL deployment frameworks across environments.

Devops Engineer

BCT Consulting,Dell Technologies
09.2019 - 06.2021
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for ETL systems using GitLab, Jenkins, and Python, improving deployment efficiency by 30%.
  • Automated production deployment workflows, reducing manual errors and improving stability.
  • Managed incident response and production support, reducing downtime and improving SLA adherence.
  • Developed automation scripts for monitoring and operational tasks.

Leadership Impact:

  • Played a key role in production support and incident management, ensuring business continuity.
  • Collaborated with data teams to optimize deployment and operational processes.

Senior Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra,Virgin Airlines, Nestle, ANZ
05.2014 - 09.2019
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, Docker Swarm, and GitHub for enterprise applications.
  • Deployed Hadoop clusters for Virgin Airlines, enabling scalable big data processing and analytics workloads.
  • Integrated Hadoop ecosystem with Informatica, improving ETL data processing efficiency.
  • Worked on ANZ Banking ,Nestle projects, implementing CI/CD pipelines and improving release automation.
  • Developed applications using Spring Boot, Hibernate, PrimeFaces, and PostgreSQL.
  • Integrated tools like SonarQube, Nexus, and JFrog, improving code quality and artifact management.
  • Built containerized applications using Docker and DockerHub.

Leadership Impact:

  • Led deployment and integration of big data platforms (Hadoop) for enterprise clients.
  • Contributed to CI/CD adoption for banking clients, improving release cycles and automation maturity.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad
03.2014

Skills

Microservices architecture

Adaptability and flexibility

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Technology resource integration

Web development

Continuous integration

Continuous deployment

Technology stacks

Debugging techniques

Cloud computing

Infrastructure management

Workflow automation

Documentation and reporting

Issue troubleshooting

DevOps

Platform integration

Customer relationship management

Code review expertise

Accomplishments

  • Delivered highly available and secure banking systems handling mission-critical payment transactions.
  • Standardized deployments using Helm + GitOps, reducing configuration drift and release failures.
  • Led successful cloud migration initiatives, modernizing legacy ETL systems to AWS.
  • Improved deployment efficiency and reliability through end-to-end CI/CD automation.
  • Strengthened platform observability and incident response using Dynatrace monitoring.

Timeline

Technical Lead

Wipro Limited,Lloyds Banking GROUP
07.2024 - Current

Senior Devops Engineer

MindPool Technologies,Equinix
07.2021 - 11.2023

Devops Engineer

BCT Consulting,Dell Technologies
09.2019 - 06.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra,Virgin Airlines, Nestle, ANZ
05.2014 - 09.2019

Master of Science - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Languages

  • English
  • Telugu
  • Hindi
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