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, India04.2021
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