SAI SPOORTHY REDDY NERAVETLA
Hyderabad
Summary
DevOps SRE / Cloud Engineer with 12+ years of progressive experience in Configuration Management, CI/CD, Release Engineering, and most recently MLOps and AI application hosting. Currently managing the complete DevOps pipeline for an AI-driven healthcare startup, with hands-on work in GCP, Kubernetes, and modern AI platforms. Passionate about automation, infrastructure optimization, and enabling scalable deployment workflows across cloud-native environments. Known for consistently delivering above expectations, especially in fast-paced, high-pressure environments. Thrive in challenging circumstances and take pride in driving dependable results.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Individual Contributor – DevOps/SRE
Leap Metrics (AI Healthcare Startup, US)
10.2022 - Current
- Leading all DevOps activities for the AI product lifecycle, Implemented key tools such as Camunda, KSQL, Kafka, CastAI, and even doubled up as a UX developer during Keycloak upgrades. spearheaded the migration to a self-hosted Cert Manager, which significantly reduced certificate costs across multiple environments.
- Achieved production readiness of the private cluster within six weeks.
- Developed and optimized Jenkins pipelines to reduce build failures and improve efficiency.
- Supported AI workloads by setting up pipelines , and tools like vLLM / ML flow/ Ollama for experimentation and LLM training.
- Streamlined PR processes, build times, automating jobs, improving developer efficiency significantly.
Lead Systems Engineer
EPAM Systems
08.2022 - 09.2022
- Short-term engagement supporting DevOps strategy and tool migrations.
Team Lead – DevOps / Associate Scrum Master
ATMECS Technologies (Client: JetBlue Airways)
05.2019 - 07.2022
- Led DevSecOps practices across GCP and Azure, overseeing build-to-deployment for enterprise-wide applications.
- Designed and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines; secured Jenkins and managed plugins.
- Deployed services to Kubernetes via Helm; maintained manifests and namespace-level Helmcharts.
- Used SaltStack for configuration management and system automation across non-prod and production.
- Handled vulnerability and license management via Prisma Cloud and Atlassian tools.
- Supported GCP-based production deployments, base image updates, and container standardization.
- Installed JFrog Xray in production; led vendor discussions for issue resolution.
- Balanced hands-on engineering with Agile coordination as part-time Scrum Master.
Cloud Automation Engineer
ATMECS Technologies (Client: Western Sydney University)
05.2016 - 04.2019
- Built HPE OO flows for automated VM provisioning using zero-touch orchestration.
- Developed custom HPCSA UI catalogs; managed ESXi environments with vCenter.
- Liaised with client teams to adapt infrastructure to academic demands.
DevOps Engineer II
Oracle (Fusion SCM)
11.2015 - 04.2016
- Managed Jenkins-based deployments for Fusion SCM product across multi-environment pipelines.
- Resolved application-level and system-level issues; supported CI/CD lifecycles.
DevOps Engineer
ADP (WorkForce Now)
06.2013 - 11.2015
- Built automated deployment pipelines in Jenkins; implemented HPOO flows for touch-free deployments.
- Integrated Selenium-based post-deploy validations; supported production and lower environments.
- Maintained monitoring and visibility via Splunk, Zabbix, and internal dashboards.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Information Technology
Vasavi College of Engineering
Hyderabad01.2013
Skills
- Cloud & Infra: GCP, GKE, AWS, Private/Public Clusters
- DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Helm, Docker, SaltStack, Terraform , Keycloak, Cert Manager, CastAI
- CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins Pipelines, Groovy, GitHub Actions
- Monitoring & Security: Stackdriver, Grafana, Prisma Cloud, SonarQube, JFrog Xray
- AI Hosting & MLOps: Vertex AI, ClearML, Chroma, Google Cloud Functions, Snowflake Cortex, MCP Server
- Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis
- Version Control: Git, Bitbucket, SVN
- Other: Camunda, KSQL, Jira, Confluence, Python, Bash, REST APIs
- OS: Linux, Windows
Certification
Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
Timeline
Individual Contributor – DevOps/SRE
Leap Metrics (AI Healthcare Startup, US)
10.2022 - Current
Lead Systems Engineer
EPAM Systems
08.2022 - 09.2022
Team Lead – DevOps / Associate Scrum Master
ATMECS Technologies (Client: JetBlue Airways)
05.2019 - 07.2022
Cloud Automation Engineer
ATMECS Technologies (Client: Western Sydney University)
05.2016 - 04.2019
DevOps Engineer II
Oracle (Fusion SCM)
11.2015 - 04.2016
DevOps Engineer
ADP (WorkForce Now)
06.2013 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Information Technology
Vasavi College of Engineering
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