Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Awards
Key Cloud Initiatives
Timeline
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Ravindra Vemulapalli

Hyderabad

Summary

Seasoned Cloud Architect and Engineer with over 15 years of experience specializing in AWS, OCI, and Oracle DBA. Expert in designing and deploying scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions. Proven track record in optimizing infrastructure performance, leading seamless cloud migrations, and driving automation and DevOps practices. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver innovative cloud solutions that align with business goals.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Architect

ZF India Pvt Ltd
11.2024 - Current
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and optimal performance of AWS cloud services
  • Analyzed and understood team requirements to provision and support AWS cloud infrastructure for Data Simulation management applications
  • Monitored and optimized cloud resources to improve efficiency and reduce costs
  • Provided technical support and troubleshooting for cloud-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and quick resolution

Principal Cloud Engineer

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - 11.2024
  • Designed and deployed high-availability, fault-tolerant AWS/OCI architectures using multi-region and multi-AZ strategies, improving uptime by 99.99%
  • Supported critical cloud infrastructure, enhancing scalability and performance
  • Developed automation for cloud provisioning and security using Terraform and Ansible, improving security compliance
  • Managed AWS ECS, EKS, and OCI Kubernetes for containerized applications, enhancing deployment efficiency and container orchestration
  • Troubleshot and resolved issues during EKS/OKE cluster upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to services
  • Led large-scale on-prem to cloud migrations, transitioning mission-critical applications to AWS and OCI, reducing maintenance costs by 35%
  • Architected disaster recovery solutions, ensuring business continuity and data integrity during outages
  • Developed serverless applications using OCI Functions and API Gateway, reducing infrastructure costs and improving scalability
  • Built a disaster recovery solution using OCI Object Storage replication and cross-region failover strategies
  • Developed and enforced cloud governance policies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA and PCI-DSS standards
  • Optimized AWS and OCI cost structures, achieving significant cost savings
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship, guiding junior engineers in cloud technologies and best practices

Cloud Engineer/Oracle DBA

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 09.2019
  • Automated cloud provisioning, monitoring, and cost control measures, significantly improving operational efficiency
  • Supported large-scale IT infrastructure and cloud migration projects, ensuring seamless transitions and minimal downtime
  • Integrated OCI with on-premises systems using OCI FastConnect and VPN, enhancing hybrid cloud capabilities
  • Automated Oracle DB migration to OCI using Data Safe and Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM), ensuring seamless and uninterrupted service
  • Used IAM to create roles, users, and groups, policies and implemented MFA to provide additional security to the OCI account and its resources
  • Implemented multi-layer network firewalls using security groups, NSG, and WAF, safeguarding against DDoS attacks and common web exploits
  • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions using OCI Monitoring and Logging, enhancing system visibility and troubleshooting capabilities
  • Designed and implemented disaster recovery solutions using AWS/OCI Backup and AWS/OCI Elastic Disaster Recovery, ensuring business continuity
  • Diagnosed and resolved issues causing Kubernetes pods to crash, ensuring application stability and reducing downtime
  • Performed in-place upgrades of OS, Grid, and Database from 12c to 19c
  • Migrated Oracle Apex from ADC to OCI and integrated with SAML for improved authentication and security
  • Led Oracle DBA functions, including performance tuning and security enhancements, to optimize database operations
  • Provided database support for mission-critical applications, ensuring high availability and reliability

Oracle Database Administrator

Ericsson India Pvt Ltd
05.2008 - 11.2011
  • 24
  • 7 production Support for mission critical production systems
  • Administering, Monitoring, Maintenance and Patching for the Production instances
  • Configuring backups using various strategies like Cold/Hot/RMAN for all databases

Education

Master of Computer Applications - undefined

Andhra University
01.2005

Skills

  • AWS
  • OCI
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • OCI Resource Manager
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • AWS CodeBuild
  • CodePipeline
  • Python
  • Bash
  • SQL
  • Oracle
  • RDS
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • Aurora
  • Red Hat Linux
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu
  • Solaris
  • Windows
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Dynatrace
  • EM Grid
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • OCI O&M

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Migration Architect Certified Professional
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 AI Foundations Associate
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2022 Cloud Operations Professional
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect Associate

Awards

PACESETTER FY-2023

Key Cloud Initiatives

  • Designed and deployed hybrid and multi-cloud architectures with AWS and OCI, boosting scalability by 50% and resilience by 40%.
  • Led AWS & OCI cloud migrations, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% and improving application response time by 50%.
  • Automated infrastructure deployment with Terraform, CloudFormation, OCI Resource Manager, and Ansible, reducing provisioning time by 40% and minimizing manual errors.
  • Optimized AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing, improving response time by 40% and reducing operational costs.
  • Implemented AWS Landing Zone and Control Tower, strengthening governance and security compliance.
  • Implemented AWS Auto Scaling and Load Balancing, achieving 99.9% uptime and ensuring seamless user experience.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 40%.
  • Developed cost management strategies, achieving up to 30% savings through AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, optimizing resource allocation, S3 lifecycle policies, and Glacier storage.
  • Implemented AWS and OCI security best practices, including IAM, WAF, GuardDuty, and Data Safe, ensuring compliance and enhancing security posture.
  • Worked extensively with AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, and more to deliver robust cloud solutions.
  • Led the design and deployment of a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy across multiple regions, utilizing Active/Active and Active/Warm configurations to ensure maximum availability and resilience.
  • Successfully managed AWS ECS, EKS, Fargate, and OCI Kubernetes to optimize scalable containerized workloads, significantly enhancing deployment efficiency and resource utilization through innovative blue-green and canary deployment strategies, resulting in improved system reliability and reduced downtime.
  • Implemented comprehensive cloud monitoring solutions using AWS CloudWatch and OCI O&M, ensuring real-time visibility and proactive issue resolution.
  • Knowledgeable in Machine Learning concepts.
  • Experienced in the software development life cycle using Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Timeline

Cloud Architect

ZF India Pvt Ltd
11.2024 - Current

Principal Cloud Engineer

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - 11.2024

Cloud Engineer/Oracle DBA

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 09.2019

Oracle Database Administrator

Ericsson India Pvt Ltd
05.2008 - 11.2011

Master of Computer Applications - undefined

Andhra University

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