SRI HARI SHARANYA BHAMIDIPATI

DevOps Engineer
Hyderabad, IN.

About

Highly accomplished Strategic DevOps Engineer with 10 years of IT experience, including 7+ years specializing in automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native solutions that significantly improved platform stability and saved over $1M. Proven expert in Kubernetes, AWS, Ansible, and Python/Shell scripting, consistently reducing manual effort by 50% and streamlining infrastructure operations. Leveraging an MS in Big Data Systems with AI/ML coursework, I am now applying MLOps skills to build innovative solutions like an OpenAI-powered Kubernetes automation assistant for advanced infrastructure automation.

Work

VERIZON DATA SERVICES PRIVATE LTD
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Engineer III - Consultant DevOps

Hyderabad, TG, India

Summary

Led DevOps initiatives for Amazon EKS and CI/CD pipelines, optimizing infrastructure, reducing deployment times, and achieving significant cost savings.

Highlights

Managed and maintained Amazon EKS clusters, configuring RBAC/IAM roles, and optimizing DNS for ingress routing, ensuring automated and compliant node updates via Nebula.

Engineered an automated deployment pipeline for the Rating & Billing Manager utilizing Python and CI/CD tools, successfully reducing deployment time from hours to 5-10 minutes.

Designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Ansible, Python, and YAML, migrating over 100 Java/Python batch jobs from uDeploy to open-source tooling, resulting in annual savings exceeding $1M.

Automated the fault-tolerant transfer of over 10,000 files across environments using Python/Shell scripts, reducing processing time by 70% and improving system uptime by 40%.

Developed shell and Python-based health check scripts with integrated email alerting, significantly improving incident response times and accelerating detection and recovery of infrastructure issues.

NTT DATA GLOBAL DELIVERY SERVICES LTD
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Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, TG, India

Summary

Provided 24x7 production support and developed automation solutions for a retail platform, enhancing system stability and operational efficiency.

Highlights

Provided 24x7 production support for a high-volume retail platform, enhancing system stability and ensuring high customer satisfaction.

Automated audit report generation using Unix Shell scripting and CRON, significantly reducing manual workload and ensuring timely mainframe data delivery.

Collaborated with cross-functional clients to deliver timely functional insights, improving support quality and building strong stakeholder trust.

Resolved recurring production issues through in-depth root cause analysis, significantly reducing incident frequency and improving system reliability.

Participated in SLA optimization initiatives, contributing to enhanced service performance and a reduction in escalations.

Education

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Tempe, AZ, United States of America

Master of Computer Science

Big Data Systems

Grade: 4.0/4.0

Courses

NoSQL Project and Hotspot Analysis using Scala, Apache Spark and Hadoop

Extracting Time Series Properties of Glucose Levels in Artificial Pancreas

Machine Model Training to distinguish Meal and No-Meal data

Anomaly Detection with Negative Selection

ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY
Guntur, AP, India

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science Engineering

Grade: 71%

Languages

English

Certificates

OCI 2024 Gen AI Professional Certificate

Issued By

Oracle

CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)

Issued By

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

PCEP (Python Certified Entry-level Programmer)

Issued By

Python Institute

Oracle Certified Java Programmer, SE 6

Issued By

Oracle

Skills

Programming & Scripting

Python, Shell, Groovy, SQL, HTML, YAML.

DevOps & Cloud

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS), Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, IBM uDeploy.

Monitoring & QA

New Relic, Fortify, SonarQube, Artifactory.

Tools & Workflow

JIRA, Agile, CI/CD, Kafka, GitHub Actions.

Data & ML

PostgreSQL, Oracle, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Hadoop, Spark.

Projects

LLMOps Kubernetes Assistant

Summary

Built an AI-powered DevOps tool integrating OpenAI GPT, MCP server, and Kubernetes clusters to convert natural language prompts into live `kubectl` commands. Supported real-time execution via CLI with user confirmation and Minikube integration.

Terraform-Based CI/CD Workflow with Python Validation

Summary

Designed and implemented a mini CI/CD workflow using Terraform to provision Kubernetes resources (namespace, deployment, service) on Minikube, with a Python script performing health checks and HTTP validation for the deployed Nginx service.