Venkateswar Reddy Kasa
Hyderabad
Summary
Senior DevSecOps Engineer with a strong track record of leading enterprise platform engineering, CI/CD modernization, DevSecOps transformation, and AI-driven automation initiatives. Experienced in building scalable developer platforms, implementing secure software delivery practices, and driving adoption of cloud-native technologies across global organizations. Expertise includes GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, Atlassian Forge, Splunk, SignalFx, AWS, Azure OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock. Passionate about leveraging automation, observability, and Generative AI technologies to enhance engineering productivity, strengthen security posture, and accelerate business value delivery.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Specialist DevSecOps Engineer
Novartis Health Care Private Limited
Hyderabad
10.2022 - Current
- Contributed to architecting and implementing DevOps pipelines that enabled automated software delivery, integrating robust deployment strategies to reduce manual interventions and improve release efficiency.
- Facilitated adoption of GitHub Copilot across organisation, supporting improvement of developer efficiency and code quality through AI-driven code assistance.
- Spearheaded enterprise AI adoption initiatives by integrating Generative AI capabilities into SDLC, DevOps, and Agile processes using Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Atlassian Intelligence, and internal LLM platforms.
- Delivered AI-powered solutions including automated code fixes, intelligent CI/CD failure analysis, custom PR review assistants, Jira story generation agents, and AI-driven test case generation, significantly improving engineering efficiency and development velocity.
- Designed, developed, and deployed custom Atlassian Forge applications and AI agents to streamline software delivery, testing, and project management workflows.
- Led the development of enterprise CI/CD platforms, shared libraries, and reusable automation frameworks, enabling standardized software delivery practices across multiple engineering teams.
- Spearheaded GitHub Actions adoption for strategic programs, developing custom Composite Actions and reusable workflow components that improved scalability, maintainability, and developer experience.
- Designed and implemented automated quality gates, validation frameworks, and compliance checks within CI/CD pipelines, strengthening software quality and deployment reliability.
- Mentored engineering teams on DevOps best practices, CI/CD standards, and automation strategies, driving increased platform adoption and operational excellence.
- Delivered AI-powered and DevOps automation solutions spanning GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, Atlassian Forge, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and enterprise LLM platforms to enhance engineering productivity and software delivery efficiency.
- Led the adoption of modern observability practices across engineering teams, establishing monitoring standards, operational dashboards, alerting frameworks, and reliability engineering processes for critical business applications.
- Drove continuous improvements in platform reliability through proactive monitoring, automated incident detection, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization, resulting in improved system availability and operational excellence.
Education
Electronics & Communication Engineering
G Pulla Reddy Engineering Collège
Andhra Pradesh2017
Skills
- GitHub and Bitbucket
- CI/CD tools
- Python programming
- Shell and Groovy scripting
- AWS services
- Containerization and orchestration
- MLOps and model repositories
- Checkmarx security scanning
- Sauce Labs testing solutions
- Atlassian Jira and Confluence
- Atlassian Rovo and Intelligence
- Atlassian Forge applications
- DevOps automation
- Code quality assurance
- Infrastructure as code
- Splunk monitoring and CloudWatch
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (06/2022 - 06/2025)
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate (03/2022 - 03/2025)
- Hashicorp Certified Terraform – Associate (01/2022 - 01/2024)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamental (04/2022 - Present)
Timeline
Senior Specialist DevSecOps Engineer
Novartis Health Care Private Limited
10.2022 - Current
Electronics & Communication Engineering
G Pulla Reddy Engineering Collège