Hi, I’m
Subbarao Kesiraju
Hyderabad
Summary
Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Overview
13
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
2
Certifications
Work History
ColorTokens
Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
12.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Provided leadership, technical direction and mentored high performing, engaged team to achieve maximum utilization
- Worked on strategy to help set direction for SRE/DevOps while staying on top of the day to day activities
- Increased company revenue by streamlining processes and implementing cost-saving measures
- Dive deep into availability, performance and scalability issues/outages for platforms and provide technical leadership for immediate and proactive resolutions
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure that operational and reliability requirements are clearly articulated and integrated into the product roadmap
- Strong experience in managing relationships with vendor and technology partners to achieve desired outcomes.
Podchaser Inc
Head of DevOps (SRE)
12.2021 - 10.2022
Job overview
- Sole owner of the entire tech stack within the company
- Managed the entire IT/DevOps/SRE operations - including, but not limited to - building robust platforms that can scale, automation, CI/CD, managing team, implementing new & latest features, incident resolution, observability, performance optimizations, vendor liaison, documentation etc
- Strong experience in architecting, designing and implementing HA, scalable, fault tolerant and cost-efficient systems in AWS
- Led the team in a hands-on manner, assisting with diagnosing complex issues and architectural guidance
- Created, administered and managed multiple AWS EKS clusters
- Configured CI/CD pipelines (GitLab Auto DevOps) to enable automated deployments to k8s clusters
- Provisioned and managed Cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Infrastructure-As-A-Code (Terraform).
Mercury NZ Ltd.
Senior Cloud Engineer
01.2020 - 11.2021
Job overview
- Strong experience in architecting, designing and implementing HA, scalable, fault tolerant and cost-efficient systems in AWS
- Optimized existing cloud environments by identifying bottlenecks and implementing best practices for performance improvements.
- Provisioned and managed Cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Infrastructure-As-A-Code (Terraform)
- Configured CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo) to enable automated deployments to k8s cluster
- Automated configuration management of servers using Ansible
- Mentored and up-skilled junior-mid team members
- Worked closely with various teams to effectively resolve incidents based on defined SLAs and priority.
Tower Insurance
Senior Cloud Engineer
04.2019 - 12.2019
Job overview
- Enhanced cloud infrastructure efficiency by implementing cost-effective solutions and optimizing resource allocation
- Migrated legacy systems to the cloud, reducing operational costs and improving system stability
- Automated deployment processes, allowing for faster software releases and reduced downtime
- Provisioned and managed Cloud infrastructure (Azure), firewall appliances (Checkpoint) using Infrastructure-As-A-Code (Terraform)
- Deploying, scaling, and managing/troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes (Azure AKS)
Deloitte New Zealand
Senior Consultant - Cloud Engineer
08.2017 - 04.2019
Job overview
- Strong experience in designing and implementing HA, scalable, fault tolerant and cost-efficient systems in AWS & Azure
- Installed, configured & managed Elastic, Logstash & Kibana solutions for several of our clients
- Created visualization, dashboards in Kibana to surface API & log metrics which show potential issues, trends etc
- Created Terraform scripts & modules to automate infrastructure deployment & management across different environments
- Automated operational processes, API-driven tasks using Python
- Documented solution architecture and configuration/deployment processes and shared technical knowledge within team.
ORION HEALTH LIMITED
Global Support Consultant
02.2015 - 08.2017
Job overview
- Worked with internal development teams to create & manage internal infrastructure & app deployments
- Designed, Documented & implemented pipelines to automate build & deployment process
- Worked closely with various teams to effectively resolve client issues based on defined SLAs and priority
- Automated routine operational processes
- Participated in rotational On-Call roster for after-hours support to high priority client requests and issues.
DELOITTE FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES LLP
Support Specialist 3 (FAS COORDINATOR)
05.2014 - 08.2014
Job overview
- Troubleshooting and resolution of all application, system and/or software problems
- Provided L2 support for all enterprise server related issues
- Performed complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management
- Provided analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of various complex computer software systems
- Provided research and analysis of existing computer programs and made recommendations on refinements and improvements to ensure optimal efficiencies throughout service
- Maintained technical documentation necessary to ensure the systems were operational and efficient.
POLARIS FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Associate Consultant
01.2014 - 04.2014
Job overview
- Responsible for administration of critical Production/ Staging/ Test Windows application and database servers
- Ensured maximum uptime of server infrastructure
- Provided analysis of deadlocks & diagnosis of infrastructure issues related to Windows servers such as memory, CPU, I/O, Disk utilization etc
- Take steps to optimize system availability, security, and performance for selected systems
- Maintained technical documentation necessary to ensure the systems were operational and efficient.
SUMTOTAL SYSTEMS INDIA Pvt.Ltd
Datacenter Administrator II (SaaS)
01.2011 - 12.2013
Job overview
- Performed system configuration, software installation and upgrades of Win2003 and Win2008 systems acting as web servers and application servers
- Performed End-to-End configuration of application including application installation on IIS server, DB setup, connecting Web and DB, DNS name setup, Load balanced setup, SSL setup and making the application Live for users to access
- Worked in a rotational 24X7 environment, L2/ L3 On-call rotation.
Education
University of HoustonHouston
Master of Science from Computer Science
08.2007 - 05.2009
Sreenidhi Institute of Science And TechnologyHyderabad
Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science
09.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Team Leadership
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Linux
Shell Scripting
Python
DevOps
Containerization Technologies
Incident Management
Microservices Architecture
Infrastructure Automation
Cloud Computing Expertise
Disaster Recovery
Security best practices
Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Timeline
Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
ColorTokens
12.2022 - Current
Head of DevOps (SRE)
Podchaser Inc
12.2021 - 10.2022
Senior Cloud Engineer
Mercury NZ Ltd.
01.2020 - 11.2021
Senior Cloud Engineer
Tower Insurance
04.2019 - 12.2019
Senior Consultant - Cloud Engineer
Deloitte New Zealand
08.2017 - 04.2019
Global Support Consultant
ORION HEALTH LIMITED
02.2015 - 08.2017
Support Specialist 3 (FAS COORDINATOR)
DELOITTE FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES LLP
05.2014 - 08.2014
Associate Consultant
POLARIS FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
01.2014 - 04.2014
Datacenter Administrator II (SaaS)
SUMTOTAL SYSTEMS INDIA Pvt.Ltd
01.2011 - 12.2013
University of Houston
Master of Science from Computer Science
08.2007 - 05.2009
Sreenidhi Institute of Science And Technology
Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science
09.2003 - 05.2007