Deepak Cherukuri

A component professional with over 15 + years of IT experience as a Devops Specialist, Build and Release engineer with technical expertise in agile implementation. Extensive experience includes Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, AWS, Azure, DevOps, Terraform, Build/Release Management and Cloud Management and Containerization and Databases. Proven ability to drive successful outcomes through strategic planning, collaboration, and a deep understanding of cloud technologies.

Takenaka CDPF, Takenaka Corporation, Japan, Jan’23 – Till Date, Devops Architect

Architecting, building and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable AWS cloud environments for customer, Define Account Structure, Network Structure, Connectivity design, Logging-Monitoring Solution, Understanding business objectives of the Customer and Creating cloud-based solutions. Prepare Design Document & review design document Incorporate customer feedbacks and lead the discussion as and when necessary to close the Design document review with the customer.  Oversee and provide leadership direction during operational incidents, ensuring necessary resourcing and availability of subject matter expertise as well as proactive, business communications. 

NWS2.0, Norfolk and Dedham, Massachusetts, Mar’21 – Dec’22,  Devops Lead 

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Work with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes for managing containerized applications. Develop and maintain automation scripts using programming languages such as Python, Shell, or AWS CLI.  Collaborated with cross functional teams (firewall team, data base team, application team) in execution of this project. Define and communicate the DevOps vision, goals, and strategies to the team and stakeholders.Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure.

Norfolk and Dedham, Massachusetts, Jan’19 – Dec’22, Senior Devops Engineer

Experience in using version controller tools like GIT, Azure Repos., Environment provisioning solutions using Docker. Experience in containerization tool like Docker and build Docker Images using Docker files, Proficient in recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate., Monitoring system performance statistics like storage, CPU utilization and network bandwidth utilization., Having proficiency in using Azure Portal, ARM templates, cloud infrastructure, storage.

 Policy Administration System (PolicyAdmin), Royal Sundaram General Insurance, India, Mar’13 – Nov’18, Senior Devops Engineer

 Developing CI/CD roadmap and implementing to the project. Build CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and GitHub.  Operational Support, evaluation, integration and administration of monitoring and availability support services such as Splunk, ELK. Experienced in the blue/green pattern deployment methodologies and rollbacks with zero down time.

 IGMS, Royal Sundaram General Insurance, India, Oct’13 – Nov’14, Devops Engineer

 Automated deployment of web applications, bindings and configuration settings using the scripting tools. Able to resolve complex version control issues, such as merge conflicts and cherry-picking. Act as an expert and advocate for the importance of tools and services at the intersection of engineering and operations. Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems across distributed servers and environments.

 Amsure, Royal Sundaram General Insurance, India, Sep’11 – Sep’13, Senior Release Engineer

 Design, develop, improve operational processes including automated backup and recovery procedures, security and patch management. Used SVN for maintaining different versions and releases of the changes. Interacting with malware activities like DR, Build movement etc. Configured and managed enterprise class application servers like JBoss, wildfly and Glassfish. 

Rating Calculator, Royal Sundaram General Insurance, India, Aug’10 – Aug’11,Software Engineer

Involved Requirement analysis, Defect fixing during all phase of unit testing, integration testing., Co-ordinate with team members to find out smart solution for application performance increases and security. Executing the requirements as per BRD Comprehensive Reinsurance Management, 

Royal Sundaram General Insurance, India, Nov’08 – Aug’10, Software Engineer

Study of requirements, functional specification for developing the test cases based on SRS. Test case creation & execution, defect reporting, test setup creation. Effectively involved in Functional, Sanity, Regression and Performance Testing Worked closely with customers and developers during all phases of the project. Maintenance of automation scripts for daily build