Rineesh Konaparthi

Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Email: Rineesh.konaparthi@gmail.com
Contact: 312-937-5598

Professional Summary:
 Three plus years of experience in IT industry comprising of development, containerization, cloud
implementation and deployment.
 Multi cloud experience with Azure and AWS in implementing IAAS, PAAS and FAAS services
including Compute, Networking, Storage, Databases and DevOps.
 Multi tool experience in handling the Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like ARM templates, Cloud
Formation, Terraform, boto3, Azure python SDKs, API based deployments and infra maintenance.
 Experienced in configuring and maintain the build tools like Maven and Gradle.
 Artifact Repository experience with Azure Container Registries, Nexus and Artifactory.
 Containerization and Orchestration experience with tools like Docker and Kubernetes services
implemented as Azure PAAS service – AKS
 Very strong experience in python scripting and development frameworks like Flask and Django.
 Have working knowledge on container security tools like Twistlock and Tenable.

Technical Skills

 Version Control Tools : Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Repos

 CICD Tools : Azure DevOps, Jenkins
 CM & IAC Tools : Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure ARM
 Application Servers : Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Windows IIS
 Scripting Languages : Python, Ruby, Bash Shell, Powershell
 Containerization : Docker, Kubernetes
 Monitoring Tools : CloudWatch, Azure Monitor & Insights, Prometheus
 Operating Systems : RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows
 Package Management : Azure Container Registry, Artifactory, Nexus

Work Experience

Cloud Engineer / DevOps July 2018–Current

TekInvaderZ, Arlington Heights, IL

Cloud Engineer and SRE July 2021 – April 2022

Valorem (Volkswagen Automotive Cloud), Wheeling, IL

 Develop and maintain Azure infrastructure using Microsoft ARM templates for various Azure
resources.
 Written Pester test cases for validating IAC code to ensure code integrity and compliance and ensure
code linting.
 Build CI/CD pipeline for Application code deployments supporting Spring Boot microservices and
Python Flask based ML service.
  Implemented code quality using Cloud SonarQube and code coverage using Codecov and used Junit
and Pytest for unit testing.
 Create and maintain Azure DevOps deployment pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and
application build and deploy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and App Services.
 Manage end to end environment setup across USA, Germany and China tenants, to set up prebuilt
PAAS MCVP service.
 Worked on constructing ARM templates from scratch and integrated them to the environment
deployment using linked templates of ARM.
 Responsible for some Powershell automations around Cosmos DB key rotations, data disc
migrations, and so on.
 Support platform teams debugging the environment issues and creating automations required for
them.
 Develop and maintain PowerShell based MCVP/VWAC dependent Scripts.
 Worked with Azure Privileged Identity Management service to provide temporary elevated access to
guest users on request basis.
 Created custom Azure RBAC roles.
 Create custom Azure IAM Security policies for enforcing tagging, public IP checks, JIT policy for any
public IP VMs, restricting public endpoints on Azure PAAS services.

Environments: Azure, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Python SDK, Azure DevOps, Python.

Cloud Engineer (Azure)/DevOps March 2019 – July 2021

Walgreens, Deerfield, IL

 Strong experience with Azure IAAS, PAAS and FAAS service deployment and implementations.
 Worked with ARM templates, Terraform and Python SDKs for IAC deployments of Azure services like
Virtual Machines (multi-zone and Availability sets), VMSS, Storage Accounts, ACR, Data Factories,
SQL Servers, SQL Managed Instances, Private Endpoints, Private Links, Messaging services and Key
Vault.
 Automated the CI process for building and deploying Spring Boot microservices & flask-based ML
code using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle, Twistlock, Tenable, Sonar, pylint,
safety and deploy to Kubernetes
 Responsible for migration of application workloads from AKS-Engine to AKS PaaS.
 Write and maintain Helm Charts for Deploying Microservices on to Kubernetes (AKS) (implemented
helm chart automations for multi microservice deployments).
 Using Python Fast API and Databricks Rest APIs, designed a service application to orchestrate
databricks apis for a particular project. Hosted the app in AKS cluster using Kustomization tool.
 Maintained accelerators or boiler plate repositories for a specific type of deployments, which gave
project teams a kickstart to work with their code and infra repos, at the same time maintain the
standards.
 Managing secrets related to pipelines securing them in variable groups and integrating with Azure
Key Vault service.
 Install and maintain self-hosted agents in Azure DevOps with MSI enabled agents, helping removal of
using service accounts/ password rotation burdens improving the pipelines overall security.
 Migrate on-prem and cloud data to Azure Data Lake Store using Azure Data Factory Pipelines.
  Implemented horizontal scaling for Azure Virtual machines in lower environments using Azure
Monitor, action groups and Azure Functions app written in python.
 Created a cli tools in python by writing custom modules for helm and kafka. Helm to manage our
custom helm charts depending up on the project and kafka to handle various kafka apis.
 Worked with Azure Service Bus Apis and created a centralized configuration yaml file, which
synchronizes the configurations across all the lower environments.
 Create and maintain self-healing jobs on Azure Virtual Machines and services running on them using
tools and services like Prometheus, Java based webhooks, Jenkins pipelines and Python scripts.
 Responsible for managing Auto shutdown and startup of Azure Virtual machines, Scale Sets and a
graceful shutdown and startup of services running on them. This Auto shutdown is done daily as a
part of resource cost management (services include Kafka clusters, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Hadoop
and Talend). Implementation done using RunDeck, Python, Python Fabric and Azure Blob storage.

Environments: Azure, Linux, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Python SDK, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Python, Chef,
Kafka.

Cloud Engineer (AWS)/DevOps October 2018 – March

2019
TransUnion, Chicago, IL:

 Implemented IAC through CloudFormation templates written in YAML to properly build and
maintain infrastructure in multiple AWS cloud environments.
 Carried out end-to-end infrastructure establishments through CloudFormation stacks and
maintained the stack statuses and monitor them for stack drifts.
 Responsible for creation of CFT templates for IAM roles, policies, volumes, Ec2-instances, S3 buckets,
SSM parameters, lambda functions and lambda layers.
 Created IAM roles and policies at a granular level by permitting very limited access to the IAM roles,
users, and policies to identify and implement minimal access to improve infra stability and security.
 Worked with AWS Permissions Boundaries to restrict access to IAM entities like users and roles,
which helped improve security from accidental over privileged roles.
 Established role-based deployments in automated pipelines, using custom deployment scripts
written in python 3.x, which act by assuming a role to perform its task.
 Worked thoroughly with AWS Function as a Service (FAAS) - Lambda functions; written using boto3
APIs, to automate various processes in AWS cloud environment.
 Those Lambdas maintained compliance standards on the AWS resources across all the environments
by establishing tag-based and security-based standards on resources.
 Worked with Lambda layers, to add and reuse common and custom python libraries across various
lambda functions.
 Logged lambda data as json objects to CloudWatch Logs and queried them using CloudWatch Insights
to pull lambda function reports.
 Promoted auto-remediation (deletion of the resources after a periodic notice), actions in all non-
production environments to reduce the costs, security and improve bill tracking for multiple projects
onboarding into cloud.
 Used AWS SSM Parameter Store for storing and maintaining parameters at a centralized location.
Environments: AWS, Linux, Git, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Python, Jenkins, Agile Central, Confluence.
DevOps & Cloud Engineer April 2018–July
2018
Advanced IT Solutions, The Colony, TX

 Designed and developed embroidery e-commerce application using python flask web application
framework and html/css.
 Developed Cloud Formation templates for creating VPCs, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances,
volumes and S3 buckets.
 Managed AWS IAM Users and Groups; and was responsible for creating custom roles and policies.
 Worked with Version Control tools like Git and GitHub, to store and maintain the python application
source code and IaC code.
 Written unit test cases to check the syntax check and API connectivity on IaC CFT templates.
 Worked with CentOS linux machine to configure python dependencies and systemd configurations to
run the flask app as system service.
Environments: AWS, Linux, Git, Github, Artifactory, Python, Jenkins, Docker.

Education:

 Bachelor’s in Technology – Computer Science at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.

 Master’s in Computer Sciences at Governors State University, Chicago, Illinois.

Certifications:

 AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator (Exam Date: 21 March 2021)

 AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - English (ENU) (Exam Date: 22 November 2019)