Rakesh Budde

DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India4 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in Kubernetes platform engineering and automation.
Proven track record in cloud infrastructure optimization.
Skilled in architecting CI/CD pipelines for scalable solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud-native infrastructure and automation for SaaS applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesDevopsAws

Other Skills

Amazon EKSAnsibleAwxAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CloudFormationCloudNativePGDatabase Management System (DBMS)Distributed Event Driven SystemDockerDynatraceEKSFastAPIFluxGitHub Actions

About

I am a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building, automating, and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and On-Premise environments. My core strengths include Kubernetes platform engineering (AKS, EKS, RKE2, OpenShift), Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure optimization. I specialize in architecting automated delivery pipelines, hardening Kubernetes clusters, and enabling engineering teams with self-service, scalable infrastructure built on Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Flux CD, Jenkins, Helm, and modern observability tooling. My work includes reducing platform costs, strengthening security posture, automating rebuild and deployment pipelines, and migrating complex applications to highly available container platforms.

Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

American airlines

DevOps Engineer - IT software

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Cloudera

2 roles

Software Engineer 2 - DevOps

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

1. Responsible for managing Highly Available Kubernetes(Rancher Kubernetes Engine[RKE2] and OpenShift) clusters in the Private Cloud(OnPremise).
2. Configured Highly Available DNS and HAProxy servers with KeepAlived.
3. Migrated ComOps services(stateful and stateless applications) to Kubernetes with minimal downtime.
4. Configured Highly Available Postgres Database with CloudNativePG operator including scheduled backups and Point in time Recovery.
5. Streamlined Ansible automations to deploy dozens of BareMetal clusters concurrently on daily basis.
6. Worked on Python FastAPI to deploy VMs on Kubernetes asynchronously with Kubernetes-asyncio.
7. Worked on Python Django Rest Api to filter machine selection.

KubernetesRancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2)OpenShiftHighly Available DNSHAProxyAnsible+4

Software Engineer 1 - DevOps

Oct 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

1. Configured Prometheus Operator, Grafana, and Alert Manager on Kubernetes clusters for observability.
2. Implemented Distributed Event Driven System with state machines for the host lifecycle management using Servitor and Python.

PrometheusGrafanaPythonDistributed Event Driven SystemKubernetesDevOps

Lti - larsen & toubro infotech

2 roles

Senior Engineer - Cloud & Infra Services

Oct 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr

1) Managed AWS services such as EKS, IAM, CloudFormation, Lambda, S3, EC2, EFS, EBS, VPC, Subnets, etc.
2) POC on Private EKS Cluster and product components deployment setup in AWS.
3) POC on the conversion of Docker microservices to Distroless microservices.
4) Migrated Spark from EMR to the Kubernetes, which helped to reduce the execution time from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.
5) Published our product(LUMIN) to the AWS Marketplace by using AMI + CloudFormation templates.
6) Created a single-click deployment script from scratch to deploy the whole product into Kubernetes by integrating Terraform, Ansible, and Shell scripts.
8)Transformed normal Dockerfiles to the Multi-stage Dockerfiles to improve the building efficiency and moved them to the production environment.
9) Design and set up Jenkins Pipelines (CI/CD) for microservices deployment.
10) Configured Prometheus Alertmanager in the Kubernetes cluster to send alerts.