RAJENDRA NELAKURTHI

About Me

I am Rajendra Nelakurthi

Lead AI DevOps Engineer at AT&T Service Inc. Plano,TX

I am a self driven, Result oriented and independent contributor who is passionate about edge technologies.
Certified in AWS(SAA-C03),Azure(AZ-900,AZ-400), CKA, GitLab, GitOps, Mulesoft.
10yrs of Proven expertise in DevOps practices, Development, CI/CD, IaC, Software Configuration Management, Release Management and Application Monitoring.

Male

Born on February 1

Dallas, Texas - USA

English, Telugu

Biker, AI POC's, Mentoring, DevOps Community Meetups, Tennis

Resume

Experience

AT&T Service, Inc - Plano,TX

Lead DevOps Engineer

Aug 2023 - Till date

Globalogic India Pvt Ltd..,

Sr DevOps Engineer

March 2023 - August 2023

Akamai Technologies

Sr Release Engineer - II

Dec 2021 - March 2023

Turvo Inc

Release Engineer

April 2020 - December 2021

Designed ServiceNow forms, catalog items, content items, and categories for L2 and L3 incidents and requests.
Designed a custom monitoring architecture for AWS and EKS using Prometheus, Grafana, and Node Exporter.
Created architecture resource diagrams (ARDs) for compliance and export-control approvals.
Designed AWS architectures for Discourse and CloudBees Jenkins and created their supporting ARDs.
Implemented Istio and Linkerd for service discovery and encrypted network traffic between pods.
Automated new-project deployment to the enterprise DevOps platform through APIs.
Developed custom Jenkins, Jira, and JFrog APIs using Python and FastAPI.
Built multithreaded Python applications to collect custom Jenkins metrics.
Served as acting Product Owner for CloudBees Jenkins, Stack Overflow, Discourse, and Xray enterprise products.
Administered CloudBees Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, and JFrog Xray enterprise platforms.
Developed custom Prometheus exporters in Python to collect application metrics.
Created reusable Ansible roles and playbooks to deploy a highly available Grafana, Prometheus, and Node Exporter monitoring stack.
Designed AWS Lambda architecture with CloudFormation and developed functions for custom tool metrics and health monitoring.
Developed Jenkins shared pipelines to build, version, and publish images to private JFrog Artifactory repositories.
Developed Python scripts to report Stack Overflow product-license metrics.
Managed Jira epics and stories, platform improvements, and daily standups across teams on two continents.
Administered Amazon EKS clusters and deployed Kubernetes resources using Helm.
Developed Helm charts for deploying containerized applications to Kubernetes.
Administered Kubernetes environments across Amazon EKS and on-premises infrastructure.

HCL Technologies

Sr DevOps Engineer

February 2019 - April 2020

Mphasis Private Ltd

System Engineer

August 2016 - December 2018

Created Ansible deployment pipelines supporting environments from development through production.
Developed advanced Ansible playbooks and inventory files for newly onboarded applications.
Created reusable Ansible roles for application deployments and virtual-machine baseline configuration.
Configured X.509 certificate-based authentication for MongoDB clusters from application servers.
Managed infrastructure security by creating and maintaining host-level SSL certificates.
Automated Java keystore and Symantec certificate creation for load balancers using shell scripts.
Developed Chef cookbooks for deployments across testing and production environments.
Onboarded virtual machines to the EPIC monitoring platform for CPU, memory, I/O, and load monitoring.
Onboarded multiple applications to the enterprise CloudBees Jenkins platform.
Developed a Python API utility to validate Jenkins configurations.
Created ACL catalogs and customized security groups to enable secure application-to-application communication.
Configured Docker Swarm for high availability and deployed containerized workloads.
Installed and configured a private Docker registry for custom images.
Developed shell scripts to automate complex deployments and recurring operational tasks.
Onboarded Jenkins jobs and troubleshot failed build and deployment pipelines.
Created load-balancer VIPs and registered hosts with the appropriate virtual IPs.
Performed daily deployments using Ansible and Chef and completed post-deployment health checks.
Used Elasticdump to migrate Elasticsearch indexes between clusters.
Configured and administered Amazon RDS for MySQL and Oracle.
Configured and managed Amazon CloudFront distributions.
Set up Elasticsearch for Jenkins log monitoring and installed plugins for graphical visualization.
Configured and maintained production servers in Auto Scaling groups.
Developed modular Chef cookbooks for database configuration and product optimization.

Education

Prakasam Engineering College, JNTUK, Andhra Pradesh

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

Technical Skills

Kubernetes

GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure Repo's

Azure, AWS

Ansible

Terraform

Shell Script

Docker

Maven

Blackduck

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Jenkins

Certifications

CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Aug 2020 - Aug 2023

AZ-900

AZ-900 : Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

Valid From Aug 2022

AZ-400

AZ-400 : Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Valid From Dec 2022

AWS SAA-C03

AWS SAA-C03 : AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Validate here

Valid From June 2023

GCA

GitLab Certified Associate

Valid From Feb 2022

LFS169

Introduction to GitOps

Valid FromDec 2021

MCD Level - 1

Mulesoft Certified Developer - Level - 1 (Mule 4)

Building reliable platforms
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