Shree Vallabh — Engineering Manager

Kubernetes Leadership: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA); led the migration of 400+ microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD. Standardized deployments and upgraded outdated charts across environments. Cloud Infrastructure (AWS,GCP,AZURE): Deep experience architecting, designing and maintaining infrastructure on AWS,GCP and AZURE CI/CD & GitOps: Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Ansible. Embraced GitOps principles for reliability, security, and traceability across deployments. Observability at Scale: Architected full observability stacks using Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, and Alertmanager; exposed ingress controller metrics and tracked SLO/SLA. Migrated monitoring from Datadog to GCP for better control and cost efficiency. Monitoring & Logging: Extensive use of Grafana, Kibana, CloudWatch, ELK/EFK, Coralogix for metrics, tracing, and logs. Consolidated and cleaned up legacy alerting across Datadog and GCP. Cost Optimization: Saved over $24,000/month by downscaling compute resources, autoscaling Elasticsearch, cleaning GCP environments, and retiring unused infrastructure components. Incident Management: Improved MTTA, MTTD, and MTTR by standardizing on-call handovers, RCA documentation, and integrating follow-ups into agile sprint planning. Team Leadership: Led a team of five engineers, managing sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and executing high-impact infra and security projects. Security & Access Control: Enforced secure infrastructure practices through SSO rollout, VPN migrations, IAM restructuring, and proactive DevSecOps integration (AWS WAF, Shield, Cloudflare). Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure automation and environment consistency. Distributed Systems Expertise: Hands-on with Kafka, Redis Elasticsearch in production. Caching & Databases: Implemented robust caching solutions with RedisLabs and ElastiCache; managed MySQL (RDS), MongoDB, and Cassandra in production. Automation & Scripting: Skilled in Python, Flask, and Bash for developing tools, automating tasks, and integrating services. Virtualization & Containerization: Docker expert with deep Kubernetes and orchestration knowledge across AWS, GCP, and on-prem environments. Collaboration Tools: Effective use of Jira for sprint management, backlog grooming, and coordinating engineering execution with business priorities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert in the SaaS industry with strong cloud infrastructure skills.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 5 mos