Ravindra Gollapelli

• Executed comprehensive DevOps strategies, including CI/CD pipeline establishment and AWS Cloud infrastructure management, to optimize application performance and operational workflows.
• Led a team of four DevOps professionals, providing guidance on modernization, upskilling, and AWS migration initiatives.
• Oversaw initiative allocation to resources in partnership with app teams, while executing parallel DevOps tasks such as CI/CD integration with AWS.
• Developed and delivered training programs for new joiners, ensuring proficiency in DevOps platform tools and alignment with team objectives.
• Directed team on performance optimization initiatives, focusing on enhancements in DevOps practices such as CI/CD, cloud adoption, and Kubernetes deployment.
• Worked on various AWS projects as part of infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment, with services including AWS ECS, EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, RDS, ELB, Route 53, IAM, API Gateway, etc., by provisioning them using Terraform.
• Guided development teams in addressing CI/CD challenges, facilitating cloud migration, and managing Kubernetes deployments across all environments, including development, testing, and production.
• Working on new GitHub project setups in order to onboard the apps to Kubernetes, and CI/CD implementation is also being taken care of.
• Engaged with development teams to enhance modernization practices, focusing on the adoption of the latest cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies.

Projects, POCs, and initiatives.

• Contributed many Confluence pages for the POCs done on various AWS scenarios by provisioning using Terraform.
• Conduct regular AWS review calls with the App Teams for onboarding apps to AWS, architecture discussions, approvals, planning of deployments, and provisioning resources in AWS.
• Directed mentoring efforts for DevOps resources, focusing on addressing modernization challenges, enhancing skills, and executing AWS migration.
• Configured and optimized Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, ensuring seamless integration and deployment for multiple projects across LOB sub-tower levels.
• Good working experience in JMeter and BlazeMeter for performance testing.
• Developed foundational skills in MLOps and pipeline implementation to enhance operational efficiency.
• Led cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and enhance operational efficiency.
• Developed and implemented risk management frameworks to ensure regulatory compliance and mitigate financial risks.

• 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.
• Developed project plans and managed resources to ensure the successful completion of projects.
• Implemented best practices in project management methodologies to optimize workflows.
• Prioritized tasks and assignments to maintain project momentum and meet critical deadlines.
• Coordinated with developers and testers to ensure quality control during project lifecycle.
• Mentored junior team members, enhancing skills and fostering professional growth.

• Configured the Jenkins jobs and setup with CICD for various App teams and performed deployments from non-prod till Prod environments.
• Worked on Jenkins pipelines for seamless build and deployments.
• Creating branches and merging the files in Perforce based on requirements, and creating new Jenkins jobs for new branches.
• Managed release schedules, coordinating with development teams for timely project delivery.
• Supporting the non-production environmental issues, which include QA functionality and the infrastructure of the project.
• Designed and implemented build processes to enhance software deployment efficiency.
• 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.

• Created Jenkins jobs based on requirements and automated the deployments to Tomcat Servers.
• Creation of new branches in SVN for releases, and maintaining them with control of providing access to developers.
• Performing configuration changes, as provided in the release notes for that particular build.
• Led cross-functional teams to streamline build processes and enhance product delivery timelines.
• Implemented automated testing frameworks, improving software quality and reducing deployment errors.
• Supporting the Prod and Non-Prod environments and deployment issues, which include QA functionality and infrastructure of the project.
• Developed and maintained build scripts using Jenkins, optimizing continuous integration workflows.
• Mentored junior engineers on best practices in software development and build management techniques.
• Maintaining the release notes for future purposes to track the information on the version of the code that was deployed in production.
• 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.
• Setting up the new environments for the project whenever required, when provided with new Linux hosts and other required installations.
• Worked on setting up Tomcat Apache configurations on deployment servers.

• 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.
• Supported release management activities by validating deployment packages and providing sign-off for production deployments based on successful test execution results.
• Facilitated successful software deployments by participating in release management activities including version control, build verification, and deployment approvals.
• 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 that the code is good to go.
• At the same time, the task of the Release Manager would involve the maintenance of various environments that include updating the scripts, databases, and setup files.
• Identified areas for improvement, narrowing focus for decision-makers in making necessary changes.
• Facilitated training sessions for new employees on company policies and procedures.
• Worked successfully with a diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.