Pandu Karibandi
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced DevOps Engineer with 11+ years in building and supporting reliable, scalable systems. Self-motivated and able to handle high-pressure situations while meeting deadlines. Strong focus on system performance, automation, and teamwork.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Sr. DevOps
MITS Global Consulting Pvt. Ltd (NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL))
Hyderabad
06.2025 - 09.2025
- Identified and implemented automation opportunities across key workflows, resulting in a 10% increase in efficiency and significant reduction in operational downtime.
- Managed day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of services to ensure optimal performance.
- Monitoring and Logging visibility of application performance and system health by using tools Prometheus, Grafana, EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Fluent, Kibana).
- Administered production infrastructure, supporting system stability and operational continuity.
- Maintenance and troubleshooting of applications, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Documented faults in tracking system and generated daily reports for improved incident management.
- Provided guidance and support to a team member to foster professional growth and collaboration.
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Netradyne Technology India Pvt ltd
Bengaluru
06.2023 - 10.2024
- Enabled reliable application performance on AWS Public Cloud infrastructure.
- Own day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of services.
- Worked monitoring resources and alerting systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Datadog and PagerDuty.
- Collaborated with development team to identify and resolve software bugs, enhancing service reliability.
- Work Experience on Incident Management, Oncall Support & RCA.
- Coached and mentored junior Engineer, resulting in faster onboarding and a 30% improvement in reliability in service.
- Coached staff in troubleshooting and incident management, fostering confidence and independence among newer team members.
- Automated processes with Python and Terraform, streamlining operational efficiency.
- Developed a mentorship program within the team.
DevOps Engineer
Walmart Labs India
Bengaluru
07.2020 - 06.2023
- Administration of production infrastructure.
- Led cloud cost optimization project, achieving millions in infrastructure cost savings.
- Implemented continuous monitoring and alerting for platform components to enhance reliability.
- Deployment support and monitoring of new platform and application stacks.
- Coordinated builds and releases in production and development environments, ensuring smooth deployment processes.
- Logging and monitoring experience designing, deploying and running systems.
- Provided cloud support for private OpenStack and public cloud platforms, including Azure and GCP.
- Developed expertise in public cloud platforms, focusing on Azure and GCP.
- Utilized Docker and Kubernetes in various projects to manage containerized applications.
DevOps Engineer
Wenger & Watson Inc (Walmart Labs India)
Bengaluru
06.2019 - 06.2020
- Builds tools to continuously monitor and alert platform components.
- Builds and releases in the Production and Development environment.
- Utilized CI and CD automation testing to improve application functionality and enhance user experience.
- Troubleshot Linux machines to maintain and optimize system performance.
- Collaborated with cloud ecosystems to gain insights into deployment and management processes.
- Developed understanding of CI/CD methodologies by studying industry practices.
Technical Service Engineer
Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt.Ltd
Bengaluru
09.2016 - 03.2019
- Managed NetApp FAS-Series storage solutions to optimize data storage and retrieval.
- Gained expertise in NAS and SAN technologies to enhance data management strategies.
- Run the scripts and Ansible Playbook to install and Configure Prime Cluster (Fujitsu Hardware).
- Utilized version control systems, Git (Gitlab), to manage code changes and collaboration.
System Administrator
Magna InfoTech Pvt Ltd ( Netapp India Pvt.Ltd )
Bengaluru
09.2014 - 09.2016
- Managed data centre operations to ensure optimal system performance.
- Developed and tested installation of company-wide servers.
- Configuring and maintaining the Linux , windows server & ESX (VMware)Server.
- Provided external storage solutions for Linux, Windows, and ESX servers.
- Configuring and networking switches, i.e., Cisco, Brocade, NetApp, etc.
- Demonstrated strong knowledge of compute, storage, and network architecture.
- Worked on the NetApp FAS -Series Storage.
- Experience NAS ,SAN Technologies.
Software Engineer
Ahalya Labs Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
02.2013 - 12.2013
- Developed and tested robust code for various software projects, ensuring high quality and functionality.
- Collaborated with engineering team to optimize hardware-software interfaces, enhancing system performance.
- Supported quality assurance team by testing software, identifying bugs, and creating comprehensive test cases.
Jr. Executive
SEW Infrastructure Limited
Hyderabad
02.2012 - 12.2012
- Demonstrated outstanding product knowledge to achieve high customer satisfaction levels.
- Analysed business work practices, recommending actionable improvements to optimize operations.
- Developed programmes fostering team communication and collaboration to enhance project outcomes.
- Troubleshot and diagnosed computer system issues, restoring functionality to minimize downtime.
- Diagnosed hardware and software issues, implementing action to prevent reoccurrence.
Education
Master of the Computer Applications - Computers
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada08-2009
Skills
- Kubernetes orchestration
- GitOps CI/CD
- Prometheus monitoring
- Incident response tools: PagerDuty and Xmatter
- Database management with Elasticsearch and MySQL
- Python scripting
- Data center management operations
- Storage architecture solutions
- Networking expertise in Cisco and Brocade technologies
- Server hardware expertise: NetApp systems
- Virtualization technology: VMware solutions
- Performance monitoring tools
- Operating systems proficiency
- Multi-vendor environments
- Project management tools
- Data visualization tools
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, 12/01/25
- NVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and Operations
- Google Cloud - Associate Cloud Engineer Certification
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Timeline
Sr. DevOps
MITS Global Consulting Pvt. Ltd (NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL))
06.2025 - 09.2025
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Netradyne Technology India Pvt ltd
06.2023 - 10.2024
DevOps Engineer
Walmart Labs India
07.2020 - 06.2023
DevOps Engineer
Wenger & Watson Inc (Walmart Labs India)
06.2019 - 06.2020
Technical Service Engineer
Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt.Ltd
09.2016 - 03.2019
System Administrator
Magna InfoTech Pvt Ltd ( Netapp India Pvt.Ltd )
09.2014 - 09.2016
Software Engineer
Ahalya Labs Pvt Ltd
02.2013 - 12.2013
Jr. Executive
SEW Infrastructure Limited
02.2012 - 12.2012
Master of the Computer Applications - Computers
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University