Ravindra Gollapelli
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic DevOps Technical Lead with extensive experience at JP Morgan Chase, specializing in AWS cloud services and CI/CD pipelines. Proven track record in team leadership and cloud migration, driving modernization initiatives and enhancing performance testing. Adept at Terraform provisioning and fostering collaboration across development teams to achieve operational excellence.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AVP - Devops Technical Lead
JP Morgan Chase India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
04.2018 - Current
- Handling a team of four resources in DevOps, which includes guiding on various issues, modernization, upskilling, and migration to AWS as part of support and consulting.
- Work with app teams to get the initiatives or tasks, assign them to the resources, and work in parallel on other DevOps action items, such as CI/CD, onboarding to AWS, etc.
- Train the new joiners in the team on the DevOps platform, tools, and technologies being used as part of the regular job, and upcoming initiatives.
- Guiding the team on performance-related tasks, such as improvements and enhancements that can be made in DevOps areas, like CI/CD, cloud adoption, and deploying apps to Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with app teams on the current tech stack and provide suggestions to them on cloud migration for the eligible apps, adopting or implementing any scenarios for the betterment of the app, such as CI/CD, Splunk, Dynatrace, performance testing, and containerizing the apps that are running as monolith apps, etc.
- Provide assistance to development teams on CI/CD issues, cloud migration, and Kubernetes deployments across all environments, which include Dev, Test, and Prod.
- I have been working at JP Morgan Chase as an Operations and Infrastructure Associate for over 6 years, with a major role in handling the operations for the apps, which includes setting up CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and maintenance in AWS Cloud, integrating various monitoring tools, and other automations related to app deployments.
- Worked on various AWS projects as part of infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment, with services including AWS ECS, EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, RDS, load balancers, Route 53, IAM, etc., by provisioning them using Terraform.
- Collaborate with development teams related to modernization, methodologies for upgrading to the latest tools and technologies in Cloud, and DevOps practices.
- Handled configurations and set up an end-to-end Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for multiple projects across LOB sub-tower levels.
- Good working experience in JMeter and BlazeMeter for performance testing.
Project Leader
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
12.2014 - 04.2018
- Creating patch sets for the module for every major release of E-Business Suite (EBS) so that the dev team can create the patches for various sub-products.
- Preparing the development portal for the module, which includes the builds schedule, code pull cut-off dates, approvals, handover to QA, and release dates.
- Creating environments based on the release, with various baselines of EBS.
- Provided mentorship and guidance to junior project team members.
- Developed project plans and managed resources to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Prioritized tasks and assignments to maintain project momentum and meet critical deadlines.
Analyst - Build and Release Engineer
Bank of America Continnum India Pvt. Ltd
12.2012 - 12.2014
- Deploying the new builds onto the environments, as requested by the dev team.
- Applying the configuration and DB changes as per the work requests raised by the dev team.
- Creating branches and merging the files in Perforce based on requirements, and creating new Jenkins jobs for new branches.
- Supporting the non-production environmental issues, which include QA functionality and the infrastructure of the project.
- Preparing the implementation steps for production deployment and handing the same over to the production support team.
- Monitoring the ITRS tool, which provides the status of hosts, processes, disk space, and the status of WebLogic application components.
- Assessed company operations for compliance with safety standards.
Sr. Build Engineer - Configuration Management
Wavecrest
03.2011 - 12.2012
- Creation of new branches in SVN for releases, and maintaining them with control of providing access to developers.
- Triggering the builds with ANT, and performing the deployments using Hudson/Jenkins onto the Apache Tomcat server.
- Performing configuration changes, as provided in the release notes for that particular build.
- Supporting the Prod and Non-Prod environments and deployment issues, which include QA functionality and infrastructure of the project.
- Maintaining the release notes for future purposes to track the information on the version of the code that was deployed in production.
- Executing the MySQL DB scripts in both prod and non-prod environments during the release and regular deployments.
- Performed a dry run before every production release and ensured the environment was stable with the new code base.
- Performed disaster recovery every six months to ensure the DR system is accessible during production environment issues, such as server crashes or any other sort of disasters.
- Taking the DB dump of schemas and data as a backup during the production deployment.
- Setting up the new environments for the project whenever required, when provided with new Linux hosts and other required installations.
- I have set up Tomcat Apache configurations on deployment servers.
Analyst - Build and Release Engineer
Verizon Data Services India Pvt. Ltd
06.2008 - 03.2011
- Handle builds almost 3-4 builds daily, which include accepting patches and scripts from developers, creating a suitable release for them, creating the profile with the suitable middleware components, coordinating the patches to the relevant profile, and finally scheduling the build.
- Coordinate with development and Configuration Management for system environment and build process changes.
- Raise work requests to install the kits in UAT, SIT, and production once the testing team confirms the code is good to go.
- At the same time, the task of Release Manager would involve the maintenance of various environments that include updating the scripts, databases, and set-up files.
- Identified areas for improvement, narrowing focus for decision-makers in making necessary changes.
- Created plans to propose solutions to problems related to efficiency, costs or profits.
- Maintained positive working relationship with fellow staff and management.
- Facilitated training sessions for new employees on company policies and procedures.
- Completed day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - EEE
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyd
Hyderabad03-2007
Skills
- Git
- Maven
- Gradle
- Jenkins
- CI/CD pipelines
- AWS cloud services
- Terraform provisioning
- Performance testing
- Kubernetes deployment
- DevOps practices
- Apache Tomcat
- WebLogic
- WebSphere
- Docker
- Ansible
- Linux
- Artifactory
- Nexus
- Shell scripting
- Jira
- Team leadership
- Cloud migration
- Operations management
Certification
- Solutions Architect - Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Awards
- Topped in my Engineering College from my branch.
- Awarded 'U Deserve Award' for the work in my projects.
- Awarded with 'Spot Awards' for the work in my Organizations.
- Spot awards and Five keys recognitions in current company.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 06/06/85
Timeline
AVP - Devops Technical Lead
JP Morgan Chase India Pvt. Ltd
04.2018 - Current
Project Leader
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
12.2014 - 04.2018
Analyst - Build and Release Engineer
Bank of America Continnum India Pvt. Ltd
12.2012 - 12.2014
Sr. Build Engineer - Configuration Management
Wavecrest
03.2011 - 12.2012
Analyst - Build and Release Engineer
Verizon Data Services India Pvt. Ltd
06.2008 - 03.2011
Bachelor of Technology - EEE
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyd
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