Poojitha Nallam

DevOps engineer

Summary

Aspiring DevOps Engineer with 1.6 years of QA experience and a strong interest in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD . Skilled in AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Git. Currently learning DevOps tools through personal projects and eager to contribute to scalable, automated environments using Infrastructure as Code principles.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certifications

Work History

Deputy Manager

Axis Bank

03.2024 - Current

Performed manual testing for mobile banking applications, contributing to high-quality, bug-free releases.
Collaborated closely with development teams to identify, report, and resolve defects.
Executed test cases and managed defect tracking through structured QA processes.
Currently transitioning into a DevOps role by learning and applying tools like AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Built and tested Terraform scripts for AWS infrastructure provisioning, automated server configuration with Ansible Playbooks, and explored containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.

Analyst

Capgemini

11.2022 - 04.2023

Completed Java Full Stack training and worked on a mini-project to gain hands-on experience.
Gained knowledge of backend & frontend technologies used in software development.

Education

B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Engineering College

Andhra Pradesh

04.2001 -

Skills

Cloud Platform: AWS (EC2, S3, Load Balancer)CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub ActionsConfiguration Management: AnsibleInfrastructure as Code (IaC): TerraformContainerization: Docker, KubernetesScripting Languages: Shell Scripting, PythonVersion Control: Git, GitHub

Projects

Terraform – AWS Infrastructure Automation

Designed and deployed AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including VPC, public and private subnets, S3 buckets, and an Application Load Balancer.
Configured the load balancer to manage traffic efficiently across EC2 instances.
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), improving deployment speed and consistency.

Automated NGINX Deployment Using Ansible on AWS EC2

Automated the installation and configuration of the NGINX web server on remote AWS EC2 instances using Ansible.
Created and executed Ansible playbooks from a controller node to deploy NGINX on a web node.
Configured SSH key-based authentication for secure, passwordless communication.
Deployed a custom index.html file and verified the NGINX service via public IP.
Improved infrastructure automation and repeatability for future deployments.

CI/CD Pipeline Using Jenkins & GitHub Integration

Integrated GitHub repository with Jenkins to build a complete CI/CD pipeline.
Configured Jenkins on an AWS EC2 (Ubuntu) instance to automate build and deployment processes.
Enabled continuous integration and delivery of application updates using GitHub Actions and webhook triggers.

Certification

Introduction to DevOps – IBM

Timeline

AWS Cloud Essentials – AWS Academy

03-2025