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Raghavendra Pokuri

Sr Tech lead DevOps
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

An organised and independent, DevOps and Full stack automation engineer expertise in cloud technologies and marketplace e-commerce industries. With over 11 years of experience. Passionate towards automating the job.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Tech Lead - DevOps

Rakuten India
05.2019 - Current
  • Spearheaded the hybrid cloud implementation for Rakuten, achieving level 3/4/5 resiliency by migrating over 100 microservices to OneCloud and GCP using Kubernetes. Additionally, assisted over 15 Rakuten businesses in migrating their workloads to private and public clouds, primarily leveraging GCP and Kubernetes for scalable and resilient deployments.
  • Ensured HA and fault tolerance while enhancing observability and doubling application performance compared to the legacy infrastructure.
  • Additionally, contributed to the development of an automated alerting system, aiding the SRE team in promptly addressing production issues.
  • Led the strategic development of the Security-CI platform, seamlessly integrating OWASP, Brakeman, and Horusec to create a comprehensive automated security solution.
  • Implemented automated prompts to OpenAI for generating deeper insights on vulnerability reports produced by various SAST/DAST tools.
  • Led the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines for automated Salesforce Bulk API data ingestion, leveraging Python to ensure data integrity and performance, and mentoring team members on best practices for handling large-scale data imports.
  • Utilized Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage cloud resources across OneCloud and GCP, ensuring consistency and repeatability in infrastructure deployments. Also involved in guiding to Terraform SDK for private cloud.
  • Performed Chaos testing on infra (Rack, DC, component failure testing) and performance testing across multiple DC's to make sure internal cloud is BCP compliance.
  • Assessed project milestones and team performance to keep staff on-task.
  • Developed technical solutions to diverse operational problems.
  • Answerable and lead a team of 5 members to design and setup the best DevOps/SRE/automation practices.

Senior SDET (DevOps)

247 Journey Analytics
11.2017 - 04.2019
  • Company Overview: [247].ai is redefining how artificial intelligence, human insight, and deep vertical expertise can produce personalized, satisfying customer experiences
  • Answerable for creating product deployment pipelines and monitoring for prod env
  • Owned on-premise product single/multi node deployments on client DC's and
  • Automated deployment process using Ansible playbooks and Jenkins pipelines
  • Executed product performance test using Jmeter for every new releases to test backend systems stability

Senior SDET

practo.com (MWeb) & practo.com (Booking Engine)
02.2016 - 11.2017
  • Company Overview: Practo is the world's leading healthcare platform that connects millions of patients with hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers around the world and helps people make better healthcare decisions
  • Owned entire Mweb product Regression suite Test automation
  • Developed test framework with Robot framework and Appium from scratch
  • Reduced execution time of regression suite by setting up Appium Modes to
  • Selenium grid (210 test scripts used to finish execution in 25 mins with no script issues)

Software Engineer

Archfront Technologies
08.2013 - 08.2015
  • Company Overview: ADAM(Advanced Device and Application Management)
  • Involved in Developing functional test scripts for web and mobile( Android / iOS) apps using Robot framework and python

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
01.2012

Skills

  • Python/Javascript/Core Java/Shell Scripting
  • K8S/Docker/Istio
  • Helm/Terraform
  • AWS/GCP/Private Cloud
  • Jenkins/Ansible
  • Prometheus/Grafana/ELK
  • Selenium/Robot framework/Jmeter
  • MySQL/PostgreSQL/NOSQL
  • Requirements analysis/Software architecture design
  • Technical leadership/Stakeholder management
  • Continuous integration/Continuous deployment
  • API development/Agile
  • Project leadership/Team mentoring
  • Cloud computing/Infrastructure management

LANGUAGES

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Sr Tech Lead - DevOps

Rakuten India
05.2019 - Current

Senior SDET (DevOps)

247 Journey Analytics
11.2017 - 04.2019

Senior SDET

practo.com (MWeb) & practo.com (Booking Engine)
02.2016 - 11.2017

Software Engineer

Archfront Technologies
08.2013 - 08.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Raghavendra PokuriSr Tech lead DevOps