Sushma Hegde

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 9 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Reduced operational costs by over $300M.
Automated Scrum tasks saving 1,600 hours monthly.
Achieved 100% detection of unauthorized access.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps engineer specializing in AI-driven automation and CI/CD in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCi/cd

Other Skills

LinuxKubernetesJenkinsAnsibleAIObservabilityRovoAtlassian EcosystemGleanBitbucketPythonSplunkMachine LearningFlutterSoftware

About

Senior DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience specializing in CI/CD automation, Kubernetes orchestration, and GitOps. I focus on building scalable infrastructure and AI-driven DevOps workflows that bridge the gap between complex systems and developer velocity. Proven track record of reducing operational costs and deployment times by implementing high-performance automation and observability solutions. I’m passionate about driving engineering excellence through modern tooling—currently leveraging AI to automate incident response and scrum activities.

Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Western digital

3 roles

Senior DevOps Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Infrastructure Migration & Cost Optimization: Orchestrated the containerization of Jenkins applications and migrated legacy instances from VMware to Kubernetes, which could save over $300M+ in savings by eliminating licensing costs.
AI-Driven DevOps Workflows: Built Digital Scrum Master, an AI agent that automates Scrum Master tasks (standups, backlog grooming, and sprint health tracking), resulting in a projected saving of 1,600 hours per month using Rovo and Atlassian Ecosystem.
AIOps & Incident Management: Developed an AI-powered postmortem generator to automatically summarize incidents into the standardized 8D format, improving incident response documentation using Glean.
CI/CD Pipeline as a Service: Engineered automated CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket webhooks to integrate static code analysis and vulnerability scanning, reducing deployment errors by 15%.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation: Managed and upgraded 60+ Jenkins instances serving 5,000+ developers using Ansible automation, ensuring security compliance and stability.
Operational Efficiency: Launched "Access Ready," a day-zero onboarding solution that reduced the time for new engineers to gain application access from 7 days to 1 day.
Observability & Security: Developed Python-based monitoring scripts and Splunk alerts to detect unauthorized SSH/UI access from non-whitelisted IPs, achieving 100% detection of unauthorized attempts.

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