Ravi Kumar Patakamuri — DevOps Engineer

Led the design and implementation of Rancher-managed Kubernetes clusters in production, ensuring high availability and scalability for critical applications." • Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible, reducing deployment time by 45%. • Automated cluster provisioning and lifecycle management using Rancher and Ansible, reducing setup time by 35%. • Configured and managed Ingress controllers to optimize traffic routes and improve application performance by 20%. • Implemented and maintained a robust monitoring and alerting system with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing incident response time by 40%." • Implementing Kubernetes security best practices such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), network policies, and secure secrets management which is essential for safeguarding clusters against vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. • Implementing appropriate storage solutions like Persistent Volumes (PVs) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) ensures data persistence and consistency, even when containers are moved or rescheduled. • Migrated VMware virtual machines to a containerized environment using Docker and Kubernetes, resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs. • Managing cert-manager to automate the certificate lifecycle. • Managed source code repositories Harbor and implemented automated workflows for building container images. • Worked in a Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) environment, managing container orchestration, deployment, and lifecycle operations to support scalable and efficient application delivery. • Collaborate with other IT teams, developers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure components • Mentoring junior engineers to develop structured thinking, encourage a growth mindset, introduce debugging techniques, and promote ownership of project results. • Participate in blame-free root cause analysis meetings to promote learning and continuous system improvement in the event of production system incidents. • Create and contribute to policies and runbooks to ensure that operational processes are well-documented and consistently followed. • Provide on-call support, ensuring our Cloud services follow a 24/7 model by promptly responding to alerts, meeting SLAs, and automating root cause analysis. • Plan and execute software upgrades, including Kubernetes versions. Manage and communicate migrations from Classic Cloud to the new Cloud platform.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Kubernetes and CI/CD automation.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 15 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Kubernetes
Ci/cd
Monitoring
Containerization
Vmware

Career Highlights

Reduced deployment time by 45% through CI/CD automation.
Migrated VMware VMs to containers, cutting costs by 30%.
Implemented robust monitoring, reducing incident response time by 40%.

Work Experience

Intel Corporation

Mfg Software Development Engineer (5 yrs 10 mos)

Platforms Engineer (4 yrs 5 mos)

CGI

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)

VOLVO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AB

VMware Administrator (1 yr)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Mission Critical solution support Engineer (3 yrs 2 mos)

Education

M.Sc at Bapatla Engineering College

Ravi Kumar Patakamuri

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced deployment time by 45% through CI/CD automation.
Migrated VMware VMs to containers, cutting costs by 30%.
Implemented robust monitoring, reducing incident response time by 40%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Kubernetes and CI/CD automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesCi/cdMonitoringContainerizationVmware

Other Skills

dockerAnsibleJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaRancherInformation Technology InfrastructureVMware ServerBashGitGitHubWindows ServerRed Hat LinuxLinux

About

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Intel corporation

2 roles

Mfg Software Development Engineer

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

In this role I am responsible for Design and develop Kubernetes Clusters and managing the Application life cycle using the PODS.

Kubernetesdocker

Platforms Engineer

Dec 2015 – May 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led the design and implementation of Rancher-managed Kubernetes clusters in production, ensuring high availability and scalability for critical applications."
Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible, reducing deployment time by 45%.
Automated cluster provisioning and lifecycle management using Rancher and Ansible, reducing setup time by 35%.
Configured and managed Ingress controllers to optimize traffic routes and improve application performance by 20%.
Implemented and maintained a robust monitoring and alerting system with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing incident response time by 40%."
Implementing Kubernetes security best practices such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), network policies, and secure secrets management which is essential for safeguarding clusters against vulnerabilities and unauthorized access.
Implementing appropriate storage solutions like Persistent Volumes (PVs) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) ensures data persistence and consistency, even when containers are moved or rescheduled.
Migrated VMware virtual machines to a containerized environment using Docker and Kubernetes, resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs.
Managing cert-manager to automate the certificate lifecycle.
Managed source code repositories Harbor and implemented automated workflows for building container images.
Worked in a Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) environment, managing container orchestration, deployment, and lifecycle operations to support scalable and efficient application delivery.
Collaborate with other IT teams, developers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure components
Mentoring junior engineers to develop structured thinking, encourage a growth mindset, introduce debugging techniques, and promote ownership of project results.
Participate in blame-free root cause analysis meetings to promote learning and continuous system improvement in the event of production system incidents.

KubernetesAnsibleJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaRancher+1

Cgi

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Sep 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Design, implement and maintain Windows and VMware vSphere infrastructure
Monitor, troubleshoot and capacity planning of vSphere environment
Proactively identify and perform hardware and software upgrades
Evaluate new products and recommends updates and upgrades
Provide technical guidance to other VMware administrators
Built Windows Server 2003 and 2008 VMs and physical servers via HP iLO virtual media and deploying virtual machines from templates.
Installed several hotfixes and patches on windows servers to eliminate vulnerabilities.
Failed over Windows cluster resources from Active to Passive nodes in a cluster environment for scheduled maintenance and emergency changes.

Information Technology InfrastructureVMware ServerVMware

Volvo information technology ab

VMware Administrator

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Installing, Configuring and Managing VMware infrastructure environment with ESXi 5.x/6,x servers, Virtual machines.
Installing, configuring and managing virtual center.
Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM’s into resource pools.
Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM’s.
Creating and managing VMWare cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.
P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.
Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources.
Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.
Configuring alarms and Manage task, events and alarms.
Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.
Troubleshooting virtual machine issues.
Manage users, groups, permissions and roles.
Rotated 24/7 on-call support
Adding Additional Disk Space for Running VM’s hosted on server.
Patch Management in ESX Servers & Windows Servers through update Manager.
Hands Experience on resizing VMDK. Also experienced in increasing the size of the datastores within the extent.
Decommissioning of retired Virtual Machines.
Hands Experience clearing on Address resolution protocol cache of ESXi.
Troubleshooting on Virtual Machine related issues after P2V’ed
Good Knowledge on Troubleshooting issues like SVMotion, VMotion, and VLAN’s.

Information Technology InfrastructureVMware ServerVMware

Hewlett packard enterprise

Mission Critical solution support Engineer

Jul 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Good Experience in handling HP Proliant DL and ML Series servers
Expertise in handling c3000 and c7000 Blade enclosures
Installing hardware for all the HP chassis (i.e. c7000) and all the necessary blades in it.
Building ESX and VMware infrastructure using HP Blade Enclosures
Maintaining the HP chassis from HP SIM.
Configuring OAs and maintain the blades servers from it.
Configuring Virtual Connect Module for the Windows and VMware servers