KARUN VENGAREDDY

Staff DevOps Engineer

DevOps DevSecOps SRE MLOps
9000380543 karun.vengareddy@gmail.com

Profile Summary Technical Skills

Performance-driven technology leader with 13 years of
Programming Languages: Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C++, Bash
experience in Software Engineering, Team Management,
Scripting, PowerShell, Groovy
Solution & Technical Architecture, expertise in AI/ML
AI/ML Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT, Triton
solutions, cloud architecture, Observability, Monitoring, and
Platform as a Service: Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, EKS, AKS
Cloud Operations across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, VMware
environments, GitOps CI/CD pipelines, and Centralized
Automation Tools: Salt Stack, Vagrant, Ansible, Terraform
Logging.
CI/CD: Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker, ArgoCD
Centralized Logging: Splunk, ELK, EFK, LOKI, Sumo Logic
Led DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE technical projects in
AI/ML: Azure Machine Learning, Google Cloud AI Platform
digital transformation, roadmap discussions, and team
AIOps/MLOps: Kubeflow, Datadog, IBM AIOps suite(Netcool
development.
Omnibus, Impact, ASM, Watson AIOps)
Expertise in cloud computing principles, including
SecOps: SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Azure Security Center, AWS
microservices, serverless, and infrastructure building
Security Hub, AWS Guardduty, GCP Security Command Center
using Terraform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Serverless: AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Azure Functions
Specialized in Security Automation, application security,
Service Mesh & API Gateway: Istio Service Mesh, Kong
API security, cloud security, container security, and
Data Platform Tools: Kafka, Redis, Tableau, Power BI, MySQL,
secret management solutions.
PostgreSQL
Excelled in gathering and translating client and
Business Intelligence: Tableau, AWS QuickSight, Apache Superset
stakeholder requirements into functional specifications
Web Technologies: REST APIs
and suitable solutions.
Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus,
Proven ability in driving operational excellence, ensuring
Grafana, VictorOps, PagerDuty, GCP Stackdriver, Nagios,
system reliability, managing cloud resources to optimize
Catchpoint, OpenTelemetry
performance and cost, and aligning with organizational
Software Development: Jira, Agile, Scrum Board, Kanban Board
objectives.
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Cloud
Proficient in Python programming for automation,
SQL, MongoDB
scripting, data analysis, and developing REST APIs.
Networking: TCP/IP, SNAT, IPSEC, TMOS Dynamic Routing
Messaging Stack: RabbitMQ, SQS

Work
Experience
Lead DevOps Engineer

Led DevOps and SRE teams, improving cross-team collaboration by 40% and reducing time-to-
OCT 2024 - Present
market for new features by 35%
Egnyte India Developed Terraform scripts for Azure cloud infrastructure, reducing provisioning time by 80% and
improving consistency by 95%
Designed and implemented an automated migration framework using Python to seamlessly
transition resources from GCP to Azure
Created terraform modules for Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob storage lifecycle management and
Autoscaler
Implemented a cloud-based AI/ML solution on Azure, enhancing security monitoring efficiency by
50% and reducing false positives by 30%
Led the development of observability solutions using Datadog, including custom dashboard
creation, alert configurations, and performance monitoring
Collaborated with customers to establish SLOs and SLI’s aligned with business goals, instrumented
Automated security scanning in GitLab CI/CD pipelines by integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools,
improving security posture
 Led a team of 12 DevOps engineers, improving infrastructure management efficiency by 30%.
Designed, developed, and implemented GitOps CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD for deploying
Nov 2020 - May 2023 applications on Horizon cloud environments.
VMWare India PVT
Built and deployed Kong API Gateway on Azure Kubernetes Service, integrating it with Istio ingress
LTD, Bengaluru gateway, and created virtual services for routing traffic.
Implemented a dynamic monitoring and alerting system on GCP, using machine learning and anomaly
detection to improve performance and reliability. Leveraged Google Cloud AI Platform, BigQuery,
Stackdriver, and Cloud Functions for AI model deployments, reducing MTTR through effective alert
correlation
Designed and implemented a Python-based log aggregation system to collect, process, and analyse
logs from various services within our infrastructure.
Implemented strategies on Azure Government cloud to achieve FedRAMP security compliance and secret
management solution using azure key vault with secret-store-csi-drivers
Implemented blue-green deployment using Azure Kubernetes Service and designed chaos engineering
practices to ensure smooth, reliable software releases and improve the resilience of distributed systems.
SRE Technical Lead
Led a team of 7 SRE Engineers, increasing operational efficiency by 40% through the implementation
May 2018 - Nov 2020 of Kubernetes on AWS and design of microservices architecture.
Implemented a dynamic monitoring and alerting system using TensorFlow for anomaly detection,
F5Networks, involving data preparation, model training, deployment with TensorFlow Serving in Docker
Hyderabad containers on cloud platforms (AWS ECS, Amazon ECR), and real-time integration with monitoring
systems using AWS Lambda for serverless functions
Designed and implemented end-to-end monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and
VictorOps, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) issues by 60% and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) by
45%.
Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Spinnaker, resulting in a 70% reduction in
deployment time and enabling 20+ daily releases across AWS and GCP environments.
Conducted architecture and code reviews to evaluate software systems and infrastructure,
identifying weaknesses, risks, and areas for improvement
Ensured the integrity and security of CI/CD workflows by integrating GCP's Cloud Build and Container
Registry vulnerability scanning.
Designed and deployed Kafka cluster setups across Dev, QA, and Production environments,
improving data streaming capabilities and reducing latency by 60%.
Led training initiatives on Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker, upskilling 50+ developers and
reducing application migration time to containers by 40%.
Designed and created unified dashboards in Datadog and Splunk, providing real-time visibility into
system health and performance.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Led large-scale containerization initiative, successfully migrating 1000+ virtual machines to Docker
containers within Kubernetes, resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and 60%
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018 improvement in resource utilization.
Designed and implemented a robust Kubernetes environment with 3 Master and 8 worker nodes
CDKGlobal,
using ContainerOS, enhancing system reliability and scalability
Hyderabad
Worked on Salt Stack Configuration management tool for deployment of software, maintain
production systems and monitoring the systems.
DevOps Engineer
Orchestrated end-to-end CI/CD and infrastructure automation, implementing Jenkins
pipelines and Puppet for configuration management.
Pioneered virtualization and containerization efforts, deploying and managing VMware
April 2014 -Dec 2015
vSphere environments and implementing early versions of Docker for application
Net Access India containerization.
LTD, Hyderabad Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for production deployments, automating
90% of repetitive tasks and reducing deployment errors by 70%.
software Engineer
April2013-April 2014 Developed Java-based enterprise applications using Spring Framework
GlobalLogic, Developed robust software systems by applying advanced algorithms and data structure
Hyderabad techniques to optimize performance and resource utilization
software Engineer
Feb 2011 - Mar 2013
Developed web applications using PHP and MySQL
AmorditTechnologies, Demonstrated strong expertise in data structures, algorithms, and software design
Hyderabad principles, resulting in efficient and scalable solutions.

Achievements
Education
EUC India Excellence award 22FQ3 at VMWare
Master of Science in
Tech talk on Microservices and Kubernetes with Istio 2009 - 2011 Telecommunication
(The Service Mesh) on DevOps Day 2018, Bengaluru staffordshire
Engineering
Actively engaged in multiple hackathons, showcasing University, UK 7.4/10 GPA
innovative problem-solving abilities, effective
2004 - 2008 BTech in Electronics and
collaboration, and a capacity to rapidly develop and CMR College of comminications
deploy solutions under tight deadlines Engineering, India 60%