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Certification
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Pranayadurga Pondala

Bangalore

Summary

Experienced DevOps Lead / Senior Platform Engineer with expertise in managing production Kubernetes platforms for cloud-native and Web3 environments. Skilled in AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability, emphasizing platform reliability and predictable delivery. Capable of enhancing mature systems, guiding teams with established standards, and navigating the balance between security, compliance, and operational velocity.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer

Tricon Infotech Pvt Ltd
08.2021 - Current
  • Owned and evolved production Kubernetes platforms (EKS, multi-region) supporting business-critical workloads, with emphasis on stability, predictable releases, and controlled blast radius
  • Led infrastructure reliability across AWS and Azure, supporting cloud-native and Web3 workloads, balancing security, compliance, and delivery speed
  • Operated always-on, distributed systems where downtime and data integrity directly impact user trust and business outcomes
  • Designed and maintained long-lived Terraform modules and Helm charts, focusing on versioning, safe reuse, and operational clarity rather than one-time provisioning
  • Strengthened observability (metrics, logs, traces) using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, SigNoz, and CloudWatch to enable calm, evidence-based incident response
  • Defined and implemented SLOs/SLIs and alerting, using reliability signals to guide platform improvements
  • Served as escalation point for production incidents, troubleshooting distributed systems under load and conducting root-cause analysis to prevent future failures
  • Applied DevSecOps and compliance controls pragmatically, working with security stakeholders to manage risk without blocking delivery
  • Mentored and guided engineers on Kubernetes operations, cloud architecture, and production reliability practices

Associate Software Engineer

Sails Software Solutions
03.2021 - 08.2021
  • Implemented Jenkins pipelines for continuous integration, automating build and test processes effectively.
  • Automated test cases to ensure rigorous quality assurance, significantly reducing manual testing efforts.
  • Utilized Git for version control, facilitating code collaboration and traceability.
  • Applied expertise in programming languages C and C++, managing database systems for effective data handling and retrieval.

Education

B.Tech( Computer Science And Engineering) -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Vizianagaram, India
04.2021

Skills

  • Infrastructure as code
  • Platform Engineering & Reliability
  • Microservices
  • Cloud Native Technologies
  • DevSecOps compliance
  • Security best practices
  • Docker, Kubernetes(k8s)
  • AWS, Azure,GCP
  • Git
  • Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions,
  • Gitlab
  • Monitoring tools
  • Prometheus, Grafana, SigNoz
  • JMeter
  • SonarQube, Megalinter
  • HCL, Python, Shell
  • Cloud Native Technologies

Accomplishments

  • Outstanding Performer Award(2024)
  • Employee of the Month
  • Spot Awards

Certification

AWS Certified Solution Architect , 7X3754G242FEQ45N

Timeline

DevOps Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer

Tricon Infotech Pvt Ltd
08.2021 - Current

Associate Software Engineer

Sails Software Solutions
03.2021 - 08.2021

B.Tech( Computer Science And Engineering) -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Pranayadurga Pondala