Balaji Ramulapalli

14+ years’ experience Sr Engineering Leader with proven experience in designing high performance applications with multimillion dollar business impact. Exceptional skills in team building, mentoring, envisioning the product road map and leading teams across geographies. Excellent attitude, communication and leadership skills. In depth Engineering, Architecture and Product management experience. Hands on with strong understanding of GCP, AWS, Azure, DevOps, Data Modelling, Algorithms Security and Release Management.

14+ years’ experience Sr Engineering Leader with proven experience in designing high performance applications with multimillion dollar business impact. Exceptional skills in team building, mentoring, envisioning the product road map and leading teams across geographies. Excellent attitude, communication and leadership skills. In depth Engineering, Architecture and Product management experience. Hands on with strong understanding of GCP, AWS, Azure, DevOps, Data Modelling, Algorithms Security and Release Management.

Professional Summary

• Strong experience in working with Enterprise Architects, Product Architects Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Master and Developers to execute on the Agile team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly identifying customer’sneeds.
• Responsible for translating customer requirements into consistent, compliant, value-added solutions, creating associated cost models and associated proposal documentation, managing due diligence and assisting in contract negotiations, as needed.
• strong understanding of the managed cloud hosting business concepts (AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure), market practices and trends, customerneeds, existing products, and IT solutions, key global and regional players,business dynamics, etc.
• Strong experience in Implementing Azure DevSecOPs using AZSK, Snyk, Checkmarx, Accurics, Anchore.
• Strong experience in creating Azure Pipelines for Dev, QA and Release automation. 
• Strong experience in Architecting solutions cloud apps and infrastructure using AWS components EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, NoSQL, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, Redis, Redshift, OPS Work, Security Groups, Kafka.
•   Strong in building the Datawarehouse platform using GCP Storage, Google Big Query and GCP Airflow.
• Strong experience in defining excellent DevOps strategy in VM’s and Cloud environment using DevOps Technology stack includes Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, CI /CD with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform.
• Strong experience in defining configuration management, Automated deployments, Infrastructure provisioning using terraform.
• Strong experience in Creating SAFe Visual dashboards using Grafana and integration of Prometheus, PostgreSQL.
• Very strong in Directing and provide ongoing leadership for a team of individual contributors, set objectives, review performances, define growth plan and nurture.
• Strong experience in databases modelling and integrating monitoring tools includes Oracle, My SQl, Mongo DB, Nagios and Grafana.

Experience

               DevOps Enthusiast / Engineering Leader                                              June 2022 – Till Date

                    Intuitive.cloud, Bangalore, India

                    Magellan, Aura, Careington.

• Owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects and developing a deep expertise in the AWS and Azure technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS and Azure platform.
• Serve as a key technical member of the Business Development team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS and Azure platform.
• Responsible for designing, building Cloud solutions and providing required support to Sales/Pre-Sales teams.
• Nurture the Cloud practice & to be part in complete life cycle of service offerings like Pre-Sales /Transition/Service delivery till it reaches the matured level.
• Study the existing Cloud Services like processes, best practices and standardize the service offerings, strengthen, and improve the maturity levels and make a strong practice.
• Give inputs to standardize the Sales kit for Cloud offerings (Proposals, PPTs, Templates) etc.
• Focus on continual improvement of Cloud service offerings. Work closely with Sales, Pre-sales, Transition, Service delivery teams and key functions like HR, Finance, and Training department and support them.

                Sr DevOps Architect / Engineering Leader                                            Apr 2021 – June 2022

                     Cirruslabs, Bangalore, India

                     Deloitte, Anthem, Bed Bath & Beyond, Hilton Hotels & Resorts.

• As a Part of Deloitte defined and Implemented DevSecOps Automation for DSOE (DevSecOps Engine).
• Created Azure CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform and Ansible scripts for White Source, Sonar, Prisma, CodeQL, Registration API and Compliance in Azure Cloud.
• Implemented automation and test strategies for API, Docker Containers.
• Effectively communicated with Sales directors of DevSecOps tools stack for DSOE Product using Azure DevOps and Azure cloud.
• Created Kubernetes clusters, defined security and integrated with Prometheus and Grafana for real statistics.

               Architect / Sr Engineering Lead, Cloud & DevOps                        Sep 2019 – Apr 2021

                     LTTS, Bangalore, India

                     Keysight, Honeywell, Baker Hughes, Eaton, ABB:

•  Primary owner of all technical deliverables from offshore.
• Presales and Client engagement to Scope, POC, Development, UAT and Deployment.
• Implemented end to end Application automation and infrastructure using AWS and its components.
• Implemented End to end Azure and its components for Deploying Containers.
• Implemented CI/CD Pipelines Using Jenkins and integrated Docker and Kubernetes for deployments.
• Created Cloud formation template using python and terraform scripts for Infrastructure provisioning, building, versioning and deployments.
• Created and configured Prometheus, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and integrated with Grafana, Nagios for Log and infrastructure metrics.
• zero downtime, blueprint deployments using docker.

               Architect / Sr Lead, Cloud & DevOps                                              Aug 2017 – Sep 2019

                   Infosys, Bangalore, India

                  PWC, AAA and SE.

• Execute DevOps strategy, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and cloud infrastructure for PWC. (Productivity impact 65 %).
• zero downtime, blueprint deployments using Docker.
• Orchestrated microservice application deployments using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, terraform and Azure.
• Created a fully automated DevOps and cloud infrastructure platform for PWC applications using CI/CD Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, terraform and Azure.
• Configured Prometheus, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and integrated with Grafana, Nagios for Log and infrastructure metrics.

                   Lead Engineer, Cloud & DevOps                                                          June 2015 – Aug 2017

                   IBM, Bangalore, India

• Created and deployed Go Language applications in LTE development and provisioned infrastructure successfully.
• Designed and implemented DevOps and Cloud infrastructure solutions for Hutchison using Aws and Jenkins, Docker.
• Automated over 5 departments contain VM and BareMetal Data. (Productivity Impact 79%).
• Created Jenkins Pipelines for Go Lang and Microservice applications.
• Provisioned infrastructure and created automated deployment using ansible.

                   Delivery Module Lead – DevOps                                                      May 2010 – Jun 2015   

                   TCS, Bangalore

• Participated in Agile Start-ups, Scrum and Department meetings to help facilitate Releases.
• Deployed Java/J2EE based applications and deployed using Jenkins Maven and Git.
• Automated release mechanism using Jenkins and delivered successfully.
• Defined solid Branching strategy using Git for multiple projects.
• Managing direct reporting team of 9 top notch engineers DevOps, Configuration Management and Release Management.

               Software Engineer                                                                                    Aug 2008 – Apr 2010

               Sysnet Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd.

• Created and setup Database for FedEx courier. 
• Data replication using Golden Gate
• Implemented backup and recovery procedures.

Education                                                                        Apr 2004 – Apr 2007

               MCA, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati.

  Skills

• AWS, Azure, GCP, GKE, GCP Market Place, Big Query, Datawarehouse
• Security Groups, Grafana, Fargate, Oracle, PL/SQL. Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bamboo, Maven, Python, Jira, Git, Bitbucket.
• Communication, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Agile.
• Unix, Linux, Windows, Centos, Ansible, Stack, Informatica, Cognos.
• Azure DevOps, WebLogic, Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Team City (CI), Dynamo DB, Go Language++, Big Data, Hadoop, Java script, Jason.
• Cassandra, Distributed MQ, Redis, Kafka, Cognito, Nagios, Splunk, ERP, CRM.

MCA, Computer Applications