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Harsha Vardhan Chamarthi

Harsha Vardhan Chamarthi

Chennai,India

Summary

Seasoned DevOps and SRE engineer with over 12 years of experience in creating highly reliable and scalable systems. Proven track record in implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure provisioning using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Expertise in cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker empowers the delivery of innovative solutions. Committed to leveraging advanced skills to enhance operational efficiency and drive continuous improvement.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps & SRE

Genesys Telecom Labs
Chennai, India
02.2021 - Current
  • I collaborate with stakeholders (project owners, dev leads, operations directors) to provide guidance in designing infrastructure for applications to be deployed in Azure and AWS.
  • I lead several initiatives to improve our CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions. This initiative has enabled us to intake new projects using a reusable build and deployment pipeline.
  • Maintaining and automating the deployment process of GitHub self-hosted runners across AWS and Azure clouds, ensuring efficient CI/CD workflows using Terraform and automation scripts.
  • Maintain the Jenkins server nodes and work on server maintenance, such as upgrades and scaling.
  • Developing and maintaining Terraform scripts for provisioning and managing cloud resources across multiple cloud platforms, AWS, and Azure.
  • Implementing monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana to ensure system health and performance optimization.
  • Deploying Kubernetes workloads on AKS, EKS, and GKE using Helm, and managing cluster upgrades.
  • Using Ansible and Packer to automate and standardize system configurations across environments.
  • Developed serverless functions using Golang on AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. Proficient in utilizing Golang's concurrency features for efficient, scalable serverless applications.
  • I mentored a team of traditional operations engineers to join their journey to become DevOps engineers.
  • I help the team acquire skilful engineers by being a technical screener and experienced in utilizing Jira for agile project management and issue tracking.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Apptium Technologies
Chennai, India
09.2019 - 02.2021
  • Tracked the team activity through Jira, defined sprint stories for the team and ran stand-up calls to track their status.
  • Worked on migrating resources from AWS to GCP, upgrading the Jenkins server, and migrating the Bitbucket server from on-premises to the cloud.
  • Involved in AWS architectural design to provision AWS resources based on client requirements, and manage the following AWS services: EC2, VPC, Security Groups, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, System Manager, Route 53, and SNS.
  • GCP Administration: Create and maintain projects, manage GCP services such as IAM, GCE, GKE, GCS, Stackdriver, load balancers, GCR, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataproc, and Cloud DNS.
  • Manage Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment frameworks from code to deployment using Jenkins, Ansible.
  • Deploy a containerized application to Google Kubernetes Engine using Helm charts.
  • Implemented log management using ELK, and application performance monitoring using AppDynamics.

Software Engineer

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
Chennai, India
04.2016 - 09.2019
  • Managing application deployments and dealing with production job failures.
  • Source Code Management Using GIT/SVN, Build Using ANT, Application Running on JAVA, CI/CD, and Pipeline Management Using Jenkins.
  • Configuration Management using Ansible.
  • Managing AWS/VSPHERE infrastructure and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.
  • Ticketing/Incident Management with JIRA, interaction with DEV and QA teams from India and US sites in issue tracking and bug fixing.
  • Testing with the SELENIUM tool and code coverage with SONARQUBE.
  • Employee of the Year in 2017-18 for working on automating the build process using Jenkins and SonarQube.

Software Engineer

Temenos
Chennai, India
12.2014 - 04.2016
  • Source Code Management Using RTC and SVN.
  • CI and Pipeline Management Using Jenkins.
  • Build using ANT and MAVEN applications running on Java.
  • Managing application servers (DEV, QA, CI), MSSQL, and Oracle database servers.
  • Automation of manual tasks, such as taking backups using shell scripting.

Software Engineer

3g Cell labs
Hyderabad, India
10.2011 - 12.2014
  • Source Code Management Using SVN.
  • Setting up branching strategies, merging, and taking regular backups of the source code on the SVN server.
  • CI using tools like Jenkins and TeamCity, build using ANT and MAVEN for applications using JAVA.
  • Managing Application Deployments Using Automated Jobs in Jenkins.

Education

MSc - Telecommunication Engineering

Middlesex University
London, UK
01.2011

BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Chennai, India
04-2009

Skills

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Golang
  • ELK
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • ANT
  • MAVEN
  • Shell Scripting
  • Linux

Certification

  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation, 01/01/24
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft, 01/01/23
  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud, 01/01/20

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps & SRE

Genesys Telecom Labs
02.2021 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Apptium Technologies
09.2019 - 02.2021

Software Engineer

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
04.2016 - 09.2019

Software Engineer

Temenos
12.2014 - 04.2016

Software Engineer

3g Cell labs
10.2011 - 12.2014

MSc - Telecommunication Engineering

Middlesex University

BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Harsha Vardhan Chamarthi