Pavan Kumar Micherla
Summary
Detail-oriented and innovative engineer with 4.5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Developer, DevOps automation, and cloud infrastructure management. Skilled in Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and OCI Cloud. Proven record of designing scalable, reliable, and secure systems that improve efficiency and reduce operational overhead.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Developer
Oracle
05.2024 - Current
- Built an automation for Security Central (SC) ticket assignment, integrating JIRA and OCI, eliminating manual owner mapping and improving response time.
- Designed and implemented a domain-level RBAC solution using Oracle IDCS App Gateway, strengthening customer access control.
- Took complete ownership of a core service, handling end-to-end lifecycle and reliability improvements.
- Developed a custom monitoring and alerting stack using Prometheus and Grafana, integrated with JIRA and OCEAN
- Developed a module to manage Nginx server block configurations at runtime with zero downtime, handling the complete Nginx lifecycle.
Site Reliability Developer
Oracle
05.2022 - 03.2024
- Worked on high-scalability gateway applications for OCI’s largest customer.
- Deployed infrastructure for highly scalable applications using Shepherd (Terraform), including OKE, logs, buckets, and networking.
- Performed extensive cross-region and cross-tenancy routing between different Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs).
- Designed and deployed an end-to-end application for certificate distribution, significantly reducing calls to the Certificate Management System (CMS) and vault services.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines and deployed applications through Helm and Shepherd (Terraform).
- Automated operational tasks, improving monitoring and observability, saving 10-12 hours of employee work weekly.
- Performed an OKE update from v1.21.1 to v1.30.1.
- Devloping small feature and fixes on gateway applcation and deploying.
- Provided On-call support for gateways
Fullstack Developer
TCS
06.2021 - 05.2022
- Developed Drupal custom modules and minor enhancements using CSS and jQuery
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
A.N.I.T.S College
Vishakapatnam09.2020
Diploma - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Govt Polytechnic Narsipatnam
Narsipatnam04.2017
Skills
- Python
- Drupal
- Helm
- Ansible
- Git
- OCI Cloud
- Fluentd
- Grafana
- MQL
- OCI
- CSS
- Linux
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Terraform
- K8S
- Docker
- Networking
- Nginx
- Jupyter Notebook
- CI/CD
Certification
- Udemy Certification in basics of Ansible
- NPTEL Certification in Microcontrollers and Microprocessors
- ML Certification on APSSDC
- Django Certification on APSSDC
Projects
Smart Parking System:
It has mainly two systems: hardware and mobile app. The mobile app gives live updates to the user on how many slots are free in the parking lot and guides the user to the parking lot using maps. The hardware system will guide the user to an empty parking slot and also send empty parking slot information to the cloud.
Attendance System Using Face Detection:
By using face detection and hand gesture, it takes attendance and stores it in Excel.
Hobbies and Interests
- RaspberryPi & Arduino
- Cooking
- Linux
Accomplishments
- On-the-Spot Award – Oracle (for automation improving accuracy and efficiency)
- Best Team Player – TCS
- 2nd Place – Debate Competition, Election Commission of Andhra Pradesh (2012)
- st Place – Debate Competition, AP Police Academy (2012)
- 5-Star Badge in Python – HackerRank
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Developer
Oracle
05.2024 - Current
Site Reliability Developer
Oracle
05.2022 - 03.2024
Fullstack Developer
TCS
06.2021 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
A.N.I.T.S College
Diploma - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Govt Polytechnic Narsipatnam