Prabhulingamma Biradar — DevOps Manager

AI-Driven DevOps & Cloud Transformation Leader with 18+ years of experience driving innovation across Observability, GenAI, Agentic AI, and DevSecOps. I am scale-obsessed, cost-optimization focused, and a strategic DevOps manager with multi-domain expertise in Observability, DevOps integration, Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Build & Release, and OAM.💡 Observability Trailblazer: Architected and built an in-house observability platform from the ground up, forming a new team and leveraging open-source solutions to deliver significant cost savings and empower organizational excellence.💡 Leading AI Enablement & Intelligent Automation: Leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP), GitHub Copilot, ArgoCD, n8n workflows, Karpenter autoscaling, and AWS Bedrock for GenAI integration, I architect and lead intelligent cloud ecosystems that are secure, scalable, and self-healing.🌟 High-Performance Team Leadership: As a visionary leader, I take pride in building DevOps and Observability teams from scratch, mentoring and transforming them into cohesive, high-performing units.💎 Architected and led multi-tenant, high-scale SaaS platforms on Kubernetes, driving end-to-end observability with the Grafana OSS stack.💎 Drove enterprise-wide AWS cost optimization and monitoring strategies.💎 Spearheaded cloud-native transformation through expert containerization, automated deployments, and unified observability across hybrid clouds.💎 Orchestrated large-scale infrastructure automation and CI/CD modernization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.💎 Delivered complex telecom and cloud solutions, leading cross-functional teams in software development, automation, and security at scale.Aligned with CI/CD, I believe in CL (Continuous Learning) and CI (Continuous Improvement), always driven by a zeal for new learnings.My embracing attitude, TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More) belief, and relentless pursuit of excellence make me a distinguished leader, great team player, and valuable asset to any organization.🌍 I believe the future of technology leadership is AI-amplified, secure, and continuously evolving—where human insight and agentic intelligence co-create limitless engineering possibilities.I genuinely relish participating in community service and volunteering activities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused DevOps and Cloud Transformation Leader.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 19 yrs 1 mo

Skills

Observability
Devops
Cloud Computing
Telecommunications

Career Highlights

Architected a cost-optimized observability platform.
Led high-performing DevOps teams from scratch.
Expert in multi-cloud and containerization strategies.

Work Experience

Radware

DevOps Manager (2 yrs 11 mos)

Infra-Monitoring Team Lead (11 mos)

HCL Technologies

Technical Specialist (7 yrs 9 mos)

Nokia

Lead Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent (3 yrs 2 mos)

Senior Software Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent (3 yrs 7 mos)

Software Engineer, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs innovations (8 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at P.D.A College of Engineering, Kalburgi(Gulbarga)

Prabhulingamma Biradar

DevOps Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Architected a cost-optimized observability platform.
Led high-performing DevOps teams from scratch.
Expert in multi-cloud and containerization strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused DevOps and Cloud Transformation Leader.

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Skills

Core Skills

ObservabilityDevopsCloud ComputingTelecommunications

Other Skills

AWSAgentic AIAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApplication InstallationAutomationBackup and Restore ToolsCI/CDCiliumClearcaseContainerizationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Disaster RecoveryDocker

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Experience

Radware

2 roles

DevOps Manager

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Architected and implemented a unified, cost-optimized observability platform from the ground up, leveraging open-source technologies and DevOps best practices. Achieved significant cost reductions, through deep AWS expertise and automation. Led the formation and scaling of a high-performing DevOps team.
Optimized AWS costs and monitoring
Streamlined CI/CD with Jenkins and ArgoCD
Managed Kubernetes environments
Built an observability platform using Grafana Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Open Telemetry and Grafana OSS

ObservabilityAWSGrafanaCI/CDKubernetesDevOps

Infra-Monitoring Team Lead

May 2022 – Apr 2023 · 11 mos

Work in a multi-tenant, high-scale, distributed SaaS echo system on top of k8s platform
which is used for managing the cloud security services infrastructure, customers' self-service
configuration, monitoring and reporting, analytics and more.

Hcl technologies

Technical Specialist

Aug 2014 – May 2022 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Rebadged from Alcatel-Lucent(Nokia) to HCL.
🔸 Key contributor in design and development of cloud service IaaS models which simplifies lifecycle management of IT infrastructure resources on Multi Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
🔸 Ownership of design and development of containerizing various standalone applications and deploying over Nokia PaaS.
🔸 Responsible for Open stack cloud infrastructure resource creation and maintenance.
🔸 Ownership of design and development of Restore and backup (S3) mechanism, DB replication of application data for high availability, disaster recovery purpose.
🔸 Responsible for setting up and deploying new changes at Production and UAT environment.
🔸 Proficiency in automating manual tasks via shell scripts, Python & Ansible playbooks.
🔸 Extensive experience in 3G (CDMA) applications and platform (RHEL OS) upgrades, migration, SCM, build, tool chain (SDE) and ISO image creation.

Cloud ComputingContainerizationAutomationPythonAnsibleDevOps

Nokia

3 roles

Lead Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent

May 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

End customer: Verizon Wireless, Sprint
Key contributor in EMS product new features integration, release integration and upgrade support.
EMS product migration work from Solaris to RHEL platform
Providing 24/7 phone on call support for EMS product deployed in field.
Technical analysis and impact assessment of high priority complaints/defects
Priority assessment of defects based on customer impact score
Providing workarounds, critical code fixes, patches, tools, workarounds to resolve the field issues.
Key owner in Automate the process of EFS VLAN configuration and NTP configuration
Worked on Security Mode Management Framework feature integration
Worked on OS hardening security features and IPMP, Channel bonding and Ethernet interface configuration features

EMSTechnical AnalysisSecurity FeaturesTelecommunications

Senior Software Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent

Promoted

Sep 2007 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

End customer: Verizon Wireless, Sprint
Extensive experience in handling product, firmware and middle ware platform upgrades and migration.
Expert in Automatic disk replacement and Software update Automation based SU/GR interface request handlers
Key person developing end to end Backup and Restore tools
Contributed in Data modelling in Configuration management.
Developed support tools and scripts required for efficient debugging based on type of issues seen and deployed CDMA releases in US Tier 1 customers

Firmware UpgradesBackup and Restore ToolsTelecommunications

Software Engineer, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs innovations

Dec 2006 – Aug 2007 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

End customer: Verizon Wireless, Sprint
Key developer in Operations Administrations and Maintenance common telecom platform team:
Contributed in developing different application installation and rollback procedures and automating the same.
Worked on applications Disaster recovery mechanism
Exposure on Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris container creation to support hosting different applications

Application InstallationDisaster Recovery