Ravindra Prasad
Sr DevOps Manager
Bangalore
Summary
DevOps/Platform Engineering Architect and Technical Evangelist with 19+ years delivering enterprise-scale platforms and digital transformations. Hands-on in Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib) for reliability/capacity analytics; expert in Kubernetes/Helm and GitOps at scale. Administered Argo CD for 700+ applications with app-of-apps, multi-tenant RBAC, and policy guardrails, achieving 99.95% SLOs, MTTR ↓40–60%, and deployment frequency ↑3–10x. Built and governed observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry) and platform governance (OPA/Gatekeeper, secrets/IAM). Designed and operated large-scale Kafka-based event platforms and cloud-native foundations with Terraform/IaC and CI/CD. Champion Agile+DevOps craftsmanship, mentoring teams and optimizing reliability, velocity, and cost (15–25% savings via FinOps). Targeting Senior/Principal DevOps, Platform Engineering Lead, or DevOps Architect roles.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Sr DevOps Manager
Transunion
Bangalore , Karnataka
08.2021 - Current
- Operating 50+ EKS clusters (AWS+GCP) across DEV/UAT/PROD with GitOps; 700 apps via Argo CD; sustained 99.95% SLOs and reduced MTTR by 40–60%
- Security hardening via Bottlerocket migration on worker nodes and curated base images; reduced critical/high CVE exposure by 60–80% and shrank patch windows from weeks to hours
- FinOps: $500/month immediate AWS bill reduction through rightsizing and image/compute optimizations; runway to scale savings across 50 clusters into multi-$K/month
- Operated and optimized 50+ EKS clusters across AWS and GCP spanning DEV/UAT/PROD; standardized GitOps with Argo CD for 700 applications, sustaining 99.95% SLOs and improving MTTR by 40–60%.
- Migrated Kubernetes worker nodes to Bottlerocket and curated base images; reduced critical/high CVE exposure by 60–80%, eliminated OS drift, and cut patch cycles from weeks to hours via immutable updates.
- Delivered FinOps improvements with rightsizing, pod density tuning, and storage tiering; achieved $500/month immediate AWS savings and set autoscaling/policy baselines to expand into multi-$K monthly optimizations across 50 clusters.
- Built Terraform-based EKS landing zones and reusable modules; reduced environment provisioning from weeks to 1–2 days and lowered change failure rate by ~30% through policy-as-code and automated rollbacks.
- Implemented unified observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK; defined SLIs/SLOs, alert hygiene, and runbooks that reduced false alerts by ~35% and accelerated detection/recovery by 40–60%.
- Established compliance-by-design: SAST/DAST/SCA, IAM/secrets hardening, OPA/Gatekeeper admission controls, SBOM scanning (Syft/Trivy); improved audit readiness and image governance for 700 apps across 50 clusters.
- Led a 12–15 engineer DevOps/platform team; hiring, mentoring, OKRs, incident/postmortem governance, and cross-functional steering with product and security.
- Built observability accelerators for 50+ EKS clusters and 700 apps: authored and productionized custom Prometheus exporters/integrations including Prom2Teams, Event Exporter, Certificate Exporter, CSR Exporter, and Elastic Exporter to standardize metrics and actionable alerting across DEV/UAT/PROD.
- Implemented deep datastore monitoring for MongoDB and Redis (replication lag, cache hit ratio, memory/evictions, latency p95/p99, slow ops); delivered golden dashboards and SLO-aligned alerts that preempt capacity and performance incidents.
- Engineered an enterprise alerting framework with 400+ Prometheus rules mapped to SLIs/SLOs and runbooks; reduced false alerts by ~30–40% and improved detection/recovery times by 40–60%, stabilizing on-call operations.
- Integrated Alertmanager with Microsoft Teams via Prom2Teams, enabling severity-based routing, deduplication, inhibition, silences, and maintenance windows; improved triage quality and reduced alert fatigue.
- Automated certificate hygiene using certificate/CSR exporters (expiry windows, issuance failures, trust chain validation); eliminated certificate-related outages and cut renewal toil through proactive alerting and ownership tagging.
Solution Architect (DevOps)
Accenture
Bangalore , Karnataka
02.2019 - 08.2021
- Architected Kubernetes platforms and GitOps pipelines for regulated clients; improved deployment frequency 3–5x and achieved 99.9% availability with automated rollbacks and policy-as-code.
- Standardized Terraform landing zones across AWS/Azure; cut environment provisioning to 1–2 days and improved change lead time by 60–70%.
- Instituted secure SDLC and image governance (private registry, curated base images, SBOM scanning); reduced critical CVEs by ~50% in 90 days and accelerated SOC2/ISO/PCI audit readiness.
- Implemented observability (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) with SLIs/SLOs and incident playbooks; reduced false positives by ~30% and improved MTTR by ~40%.
- Ran architecture workshops with client stakeholders; aligned platform roadmaps with business OKRs and accelerated modernization by 2 quarters.
- Managed 10–15 engineers; established golden paths, quality gates, and runbooks that improved predictability and onboarding speed.
Sr. System Administrator
Wipro Limited
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Partnered with multidisciplinary teams to implement tailored IT solutions aligning with organizational objectives.
- Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues.
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
- Minimized downtime through proactive monitoring and prompt resolution of issues.
- Improved end-user satisfaction by providing responsive technical support and addressing concerns efficiently.
- Enhanced vendor partnerships to optimize procurement strategies.
Sr. System Administrator (
SK Vedainfo Pvt Ltd. Offrole Infosys
01.2016 - 12.2017
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and deploy customized IT solutions, meeting specific organizational needs.
- Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues.
- Reduced downtime with proactive system monitoring and timely issue resolution.
Sr. Linux Administrator
Unique Infoways Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 03.2015
System Administrator
Sai Infosystem (India) Ltd
01.2012 - 09.2013
Linux Administrator
Pearson Education Services
10.2010 - 06.2011
Associate Customer Engineer
HCL Infosystems Ltd
10.2006 - 10.2010
Education
B-Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Rajasthan University
Diploma - CS Engg
Govt Polytechnic Kashipur
RoorkeeSkills
EKS Clusters
Ansible and Terraform
RedHat Linux
Docker and Docker Compose
Jenkins
GitLab, Github, Harness
Jfrog Artifactory and SonarQube
Kube-Prometheus-Stack ( Governing with 50 exporters, Dashboards and Its alerting)
AWS, GCP, Azure
Filebeat, Logstash, FluentBit, FluentD (Govern)
OpenSearch , ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka and KRaft along with RBAC, Alerting ( Govern )
ARGOCD, ARGO Event, Argo Workflow, ArgoApps in HA Mode and with all advanced feature( Govern)
Shell and Python Scripting
Automation
Auto Configuration Management
Source Code Management
Troubleshooting
Terraform
ChatGPT
Numpy
Pandas
Matplotlib
Accomplishments
- Achieved my products deployed through Argo effectively helping .
- Recently migrated 200+ all our applications and ELK pipelines to Kubernetes without any downtime to the clients.
- Awarded by the management for all above achievements along with other products lifecycle managements
Timeline
Sr DevOps Manager
Transunion
08.2021 - Current
Solution Architect (DevOps)
Accenture
02.2019 - 08.2021
Sr. System Administrator
Wipro Limited
01.2017 - 01.2019
Sr. System Administrator (
SK Vedainfo Pvt Ltd. Offrole Infosys
01.2016 - 12.2017
Sr. Linux Administrator
Unique Infoways Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 03.2015
System Administrator
Sai Infosystem (India) Ltd
01.2012 - 09.2013
Linux Administrator
Pearson Education Services
10.2010 - 06.2011
Associate Customer Engineer
HCL Infosystems Ltd
10.2006 - 10.2010
B-Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Rajasthan University
Diploma - CS Engg
Govt Polytechnic Kashipur