I'm Karthik Nalapatla, a DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with 7 years in the trenches, honing my skills in building and maintaining robust, scalable infrastructures. Having collaborated with diverse teams across the tech spectrum, I specialize in leveraging tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Ansible to ensure seamless delivery and optimal system health. A continuous learner and advocate for efficiency, I thrive on optimizing systems and processes, always seeking the synergy where development meets operations.
My journey in DevOps began with an innate desire to bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring smooth delivery cycles and optimal system health. Over the years, I've gained proficiency in an array of tools and platforms, from container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker to infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible. I have championed the principles of the SRE discipline, always aiming to measure, optimize, and maintain high levels of service reliability and system uptime.
Outside of the technical realm, I'm a mentor and speaker, sharing my insights and learnings with budding engineers and the broader tech community. When I'm not deep-diving into the latest DevOps trends or fine-tuning system architectures, you'll likely find me exploring new hiking trails or immersed in a gripping novel..
December 2021 - Till Date
Site Reliability Engineer -II
In my experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), I've had the privilege of working in a dynamic role where AWS serves as the backbone of our infrastructure. Leveraging Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for container orchestration has allowed us to build highly scalable and resilient microservices architectures. The observability stack, consisting of Datadog and Dynatrace, has been instrumental in providing real-time insights into our system's performance and identifying potential issues proactively. HAProxy, Amazon's Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), and Application Load Balancers (ALB) play a pivotal role in managing and balancing traffic across our services, ensuring high availability and efficient request routing. Terraform has been a linchpin for our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy, enabling us to declaratively define and manage our AWS resources efficiently. To streamline operations and automate routine tasks, I've extensively used shell scripting and Python programming.
Environment:
Linux, AWS, Ansible, Git, Git Hub, Terraform, ECS, HAProxy, Jenkins,
Gradle, AppDynamics, CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog
August 2018 - December 2021
DevOps Engineer
Working as a Release Engineer for the dot-com domain of Best Buy. As
a Release Engineer, my roles and
responsibilities include but not limited to Deploying the application to the production and non-production
environments
and troubleshooting the lower environment issues and make sure that the developer workflow is not
disturbed.
Environment:
Linux, AWS, Ansible, Git, Git Hub, Casandra DB, Nagios, Redis, Jenkins,
MAVEN, AppDynamics, CloudWatch, Splunk
July 2016 - August 2018
DevOps Engineer
Worked as a DevOps consultant to various clients within the Health
care, Insurance, and Transportation domain, helping
the organizations create the CI/CD pipeline and automate daily tasks using the shell and python scripts.
and troubleshooting the lower environment issues and make sure that the developer workflow is not
disturbed.
Environment:
Linux, AWS, Ansible, Git, Git Hub, MongoDB, Nagios, Redis, Jenkins,
MAVEN, AppDynamics, CloudWatch
January 2016 - May 2016
Information Security Analyst
Worked as an Information security analyst responsible
for installing the software and configure the firewalls to
protect computer networks.
Environment:
Linux, Splunk, FireEyes, Jira, Git, Git Hub, Grafana, MFA
January 2015 - August 2015
Technical Support
As a Technical Support Engineer at the Valparaiso University,
responsibilities include resolving network issues,
configuring operating systems, and creating the students' lab environment by installing the required
software and
assisting the professors at the Valparaiso University Law school if any technical support needed by the
staff.
Environment:
Linux, Mac OS, GitHub (Git), ANT, WebSphere, Tomcat,
Webservers, Shell Scripts, Perl, MySQL
karthikrn27@outlook.com
Minneapolis MN
