Venkat Prasad Reddy Avatala
Rayachoty
Summary
Cloud Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating secure, scalable cloud native platforms. Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and DevSecOps. Proven track record in delivering internal platform capabilities, automation, and self service infrastructure to support microservices and event driven systems. Certified Kubernetes professional and holder of multiple Google Cloud Professional certifications, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and developer experience.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior GCP Platform Engineer
WPP
Bengaluru
04.2024 - Current
- Designed and implemented secure, scalable cloud native platforms using GKE.
- Implemented Workload Identity Federation, enabling secure, keyless access for workloads.
- Built automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Cloud Build, including private runners and private pools.
- Implemented Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) and Anthos Config Management (ACM) for policy enforcement, service security, and traffic management.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules and implemented Secure Landing Zones (SLZ) using the Cloud Foundation Toolkit.
- Designed organisation wide governance: folders, organisational policies, SCC notifications, and centralised monitoring.
- Architected Shared VPC networking, firewall rules, Cloud NAT, and logging for multi-environment isolation.
- Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus and Cloud Monitoring to improve reliability and performance.
- Actively drove automation and self-service capabilities to improve developer productivity.
Senior Cloud Engineer
66degrees
Mysore
12.2021 - 04.2024
- Built end to end CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure and application deployments.
- Designed highly available architectures using Load Balancers, MIGs, Serverless NEGs, Cloud IAP, and Cloud Armour.
- Deployed and managed Anthos Bare Metal in on-prem environments and extended platform to AWS using Terraform.
- Performed Anthos upgrades ensuring zero disruption and configuration consistency.
- Led cross cloud migrations: Amazon RDS to Cloud SQL using DMS, Amazon Redshift to BigQuery, and Amazon S3 to GCS via VPN.
- Migrated Kubernetes cron jobs to Cloud Batch using Cloud Scheduler.
- Implemented API management using Cloud Endpoints and Cloud Functions with IAM based authentication.
Site Reliability Engineer
HCL Technologies
Noida
07.2019 - 12.2021
- Implement and maintain monitoring solutions at the server and application levels to increase visibility into day to day operations and issues.
- Experience in analysing system and network performance using monitoring tools for historical and real time data.
- Worked on implementing proactive and end to end monitoring of IT infrastructure, application, and service alerts via monitoring tools.
- Skilled in incident management and change management, and worked according to the SLAs and priorities.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - ECE
Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
CHENNAI, INDIA04.2019
Skills
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Git
- Devops
- Anthos
Certification
- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Architect
- Professional Cloud Network Engineer
- Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Professional Cloud Developer
- Associate Cloud Engineer
- Google Cloud Digital Leader
Timeline
Senior GCP Platform Engineer
WPP
04.2024 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer
66degrees
12.2021 - 04.2024
Site Reliability Engineer
HCL Technologies
07.2019 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Technology - ECE
Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science