Nikhil Reddy Yerragondu

Master's

Computer Science

TIAA

SRE/DevOps Engineer

• Worked on AWS services EC2, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Redshift, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, SES, EMR, Elastic Bean stalk, Elasticache, VPC, EKS, ELB, RDS, EBS and Route 53. Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Front, Route53. • Managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS) with Helm charts and service mesh integrations (Istio) for microservice scalability. • Integrated Snyk and Aqua Security into pipelines ensuring secure container image scanning and compliance checks. • Deployed robust monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, ELK stack, and Datadog AI. • Extensive experience with configuration management tools Chef with AWS Ops Works, Elastic Beanstalk and then launch, scale Docker containers in production using Apache Mesos and Marathon and/or configuration management automation. • Wrote many Ansible playbooks which is the entry point for Ansible provisioning, where the automation is defined through tasks using YAML format. Run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers. • Proficient in integrating AI/ML-powered monitoring and anomaly detection using Datadog AI, Dynatrace Davis AI, and Prometheus AlertManager. • Developed shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python for setting up baselines, branching, merging, and automation processes across the environments using GIT on Linux and windows platforms. • Automated security and compliance checks using HashiCorp Vault, Prisma Cloud, and Checkov. • Configured Argo CD for continuous integration, fast feedback, and Argo CD Pipeline to support implementing and integrating continuous delivery pipelines in Jenkins. • Trained staff on effective use of Semaphore, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes • Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories and the access control strategies. • Resolved update, merge, and password authentication issues in JIRA.