Venkata Madhavareddy Kurre
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior DevOps and Java Engineering professional with 17+ years of experience ensuring zero-downtime operations, security, and scalability of large-scale, high-transaction systems in financial services and global enterprises. Proven expertise in Java/J2EE development, microservices, cloud/container platforms (AWS, Docker), DevSecOps practices (CI/CD, IaC, observability, security and compliance), and SRE principles (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response). Skilled at leading high-performing teams, partnering with stakeholders, and delivery of innovative, secure, scalable and cloud-native solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Engineer / DevOps Lead
S&P Global, India
09.2020 - Current
- Led DevOps and Site Reliability strategy for mission-critical applications in Fixed Income space, handling high volume of secure transactions daily.
- Involved in defining SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for key applications; monitored error budgets and implemented postmortems to drive continuous improvement.
- Provisioned and managed AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform (IaC), creating scalable, secure, repeatable environments.
- Built and maintained secure CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub, TeamCity) by integrating with various tools like Fortify, SonarQube, Mend (WhiteSource), Checkov, and TFLint, and best practices (IAM, secret management, vulnerability scanning, encryption), along with automating deployments for dozens of applications and cutting release time by 50%.
- Spearheaded on-premises to AWS cloud migration for 1000+ workloads with zero downtime and seamless cutovers.
- Configured advanced monitoring and observability (Grafana, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch), implementing proactive alerting and anomaly detection.
- Automated operational tasks and environment provisioning using Python and Shell scripting, reducing manual effort by 40%.
- Implemented containerization strategy (Docker) to standardize deployments, improve portability, and reduce infrastructure costs.
- Planned capacity and scaling strategies for AWS-hosted workloads to anticipate future growth.
- Led problem bridges coordinating multiple technical teams for rapid incident resolution.
- Mentored cross-functional teams on DevOps best practices, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Partnered with product, engineering, and operations stakeholders to optimize cloud costs, improve reliability, and ensure business continuity.
Senior Technology Specialist / Java Lead
Wells Fargo India
03.2011 - 05.2019
- Led design and development of multiple enterprise-grade applications including Commercial Card Expense Reporting, Lockbox Image (WLI), Batch Image Retrieval (BIR), WLI Data Services (WDS), LSOR UI, and Image File Import, serving millions of customers.
- Architected and implemented Java-based microservices and APIs using Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, SOAP/RESTful Web Services, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Drove Domain Driven Design (DDD) for microservices; developed critical components such as User Management, Statement Management, and Company Management microservices.
- Independently designed, developed, and deployed LSOR UI to Pivotal Cloud Foundry—kick-starting migration of an entire line of business to PCF.
- Led migration of legacy Struts applications to Spring MVC, improving maintainability and performance.
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, UDeploy) enabling automated builds, deployments, and environment onboarding.
- Ensured production reliability by providing 12x5 production support, incident management (EACO calls), root-cause analysis, change requests, releases, and proactive monitoring.
- Implemented robust monitoring and alerting using AppDynamics and PAC2000, ensuring compliance with SLAs and reducing MTTR.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams and onsite stakeholders to ensure smooth integration, timely delivery, and adherence to business objectives.
- Hands-on development across full SDLC: requirement analysis, high-quality design documentation, coding, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
- Worked extensively with middleware and front-end technologies (Oracle, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere MQ, ReactJS, JSP, JSTL, HTML/CSS, JavaScript).
Application Programmer
IBM India
12.2009 - 03.2011
- Contributed to telecom payment systems ensuring high reliability and transaction integrity.
- Delivered scalable J2EE applications on IBM WebSphere platform and collaborated with cross-functional teams.
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Services
06.2006 - 11.2009
- Developed internet banking modules for Barclays across India, UAE, and Uganda.
- Played key role in production support and UAT implementation onsite in South Africa.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) -
National Institute of Technology
Warangal, India03-2006
Skills
- SRE & DevSecOps
- Cloud & Containerization
- Design & Development
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Observability & Monitoring
- Programming & Scripting
- Middleware & Databases
- Collaboration & Agile
- Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Tools & Technologies
- SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, capacity planning, problem bridges, CI/CD, IaC, cost optimization, DevSecOps (Fortify, SonarQube, WhiteSource, Checkov)
- AWS, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Python & Shell scripting, Gen AI and MLOps exploration for operational automation
- GitLab, GitHub, TeamCity, Jenkins, Artifactory, UDeploy, Azure DevOps
- Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch
- Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Python, Shell Script, JavaScript
- WebLogic, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, SQL Server
- Jira, Confluence, Scrum
Accomplishments
- Zero Downtime Deployments: Migrated 1000+ workloads from on-premises to AWS with no customer impact.
- Operational Excellence: Reduced incident resolution time by 30% with automation and proactive monitoring.
- Team Leadership: Managed distributed teams of up to 10 engineers, mentoring and setting DevOps/SRE best practices.
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer / DevOps Lead
S&P Global, India
09.2020 - Current
Senior Technology Specialist / Java Lead
Wells Fargo India
03.2011 - 05.2019
Application Programmer
IBM India
12.2009 - 03.2011
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Services
06.2006 - 11.2009
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) -
National Institute of Technology
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