Prasad Keelu
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
CLOUD AND DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS LEADER WITH 18+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE Collaborative leader partners with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director, CloudOps, DevOps & SaaSOps
Model N Software India pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, India
05.2020 - Current
- Spearheaded a comprehensive DevOps transformation, resulting in a 45% reduction in deployment time and saved 60% deployment engineer time in over 8 months
- Led a cross-functional team of 20+ engineers, driving the implementation of CI/CD pipelines to reduce code-to-production time from 4 days to under 13 hours
- Developed and executed a cost-optimization strategy using opensource tools that decreased cloud spending by $1.2 million annually while maintaining service quality
- Provided technical leadership migrating an inhouse automated testing, audit and compliance reporting application required by customer for hippa compliance
- Partnered with security teams to integrate automated security checks into the CI/CD pipeline, reducing security vulnerabilities by 50% in new deployments
- Mentored junior DevOps engineers and facilitated bi-weekly training sessions that increased team proficiency with Kubernetes by 40%
- Regularly drive standup, especially focused on technical discussion, resource allocation for upcoming projects and any opportunity to help deployment teams.
SR. CONSULTANT
NETENRICH TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
Hyderabad, India
06.2018 - 04.2020
- Designed automated CI/CD pipeline for quick development, testing and Canary deployment for an insurance insurance client features without any impacts to millions of customers
- Lead containerization of a large 26+ micro-services architecture based cloud management platform deployed on ec2 instances to Azure AKS in 60 days
- Provided technical leadership in building scalable data pipeline to store and analyze 100 of millions of transactions using DynamoDB and data lake
- Managed large size Offshore and On-site teams of more than 20+ resources, and successfully delivered several Partnership Cards & Data migration projects from MF to AWS Cloud
- Extensive experience in handling Integrated Production Support(IPS) crisis calls and root cause analysis for timely development of hot fixes.
MANAGER DEVOPS
ZETA GLOBAL PVT. LTD.
Hyderabad, India
01.2017 - 03.2018
- Introduced IaC practices which streamlined environment setup, improving infrastructure management and reduced error rates by 40%
- Assisted in the deployment and management of Kubernetes 1.4/1.5 clusters, enhancing application uptime
- Implemented GitLab based version control workflows that enhanced team collaboration and reduced merge conflicts by 70%
- Standardized deployment process using Jenkins, Consul for service discovery which mitigated integration chaos and boosting team productivity
- Designed and executed a service monitoring strategy using Prometheus and Grafana, improving system observability and reducing downtime incidents by 40%.
CONSULTANT
NETENRICH TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
Hyderabad, India
04.2015 - 01.2017
- Member of Cloud and virtualization practice for our diverse client base as we were geared up for emerging datacenter technologies in public and private cloud space
- AWS, Openstack and Cloudstack were some of the software we were experimenting to build capabilities and sell our services
- Work closely with datacenter vendor, product deployment, monitoring and managing outage bridge with multiple 3rd party involved
- Designing and architecting private virtual datacenter using vmware, setting up network loadbalance and DR sites
- Infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible, puppet etc
- And service deployment using Jenkins with rollback features
- Implemented Opennebula 'vOneCloud', cloud like cloud orchestration and provisioning portal for our inhouse virtual datacenter.
AVP TECHNOLOGY
OLIVE DATA CENTRE
Hyderabad, India
04.2013 - 03.2015
- Startup in managed services, specialized in BCP and DR products for the domestic BFSI and middleeast clients using Vison Solutions & CA product line
- Mostly dealing in datacenter hosting, dc management, server hardware, application services monitoring and handover to NOC for day-to-day operation
- Implemented inhouse zimbra collaboration mail server with drbd and pacemaker based active-active HA cluster on centos 6 replacing 3rd party hosted mail
- Mentoring and knowledge sessions for the NOC teams on new and emerging technologies, technically as well as sharing customer management experiences.
LEAD LINUX ENGG.
NETENRICH TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
Hyderabad, India
05.2006 - 03.2013
- Joined as linux administrator into GlobalNOC and worked my way up to a Team Lead managing a 7 members team
- We were shared managed services i.e
- Supporting multiple customers datacenter, linux servers, application management
- Install os, monitoring setup, services deployment, patch management & service uptime, regular maintenance and customer escalations
- Implemented Jenkins (formerly know as Hudson) based manual wordpress deployment pipeline with dev/uat/production promotion and split second failover/rollback capabilities.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth
Hyderabad, Telangana08.2007
High School Diploma -
Koras Schoools & Colleges, National Open School
Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh04.2000
High School Diploma -
Kendriya Vidyalaya Duliajan
Duliajan, Assam03.1996
Skills
- Team management
- Culture shift
- DevOps Tools & Technologies
- Decision-Making
- Critical Thinking
- Crisis Management
- Strategic leadership
- Coaching and Mentoring
Timeline
Associate Director, CloudOps, DevOps & SaaSOps
Model N Software India pvt. Ltd.
05.2020 - Current
SR. CONSULTANT
NETENRICH TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
06.2018 - 04.2020
MANAGER DEVOPS
ZETA GLOBAL PVT. LTD.
01.2017 - 03.2018
CONSULTANT
NETENRICH TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
04.2015 - 01.2017
AVP TECHNOLOGY
OLIVE DATA CENTRE
04.2013 - 03.2015
LEAD LINUX ENGG.
NETENRICH TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
05.2006 - 03.2013
Bachelor of Technology -
Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth
High School Diploma -
Koras Schoools & Colleges, National Open School
High School Diploma -
Kendriya Vidyalaya Duliajan