Prathisrihas Reddy Konduru, Developer in Berlin, Germany
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Prathisrihas Reddy Konduru

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer and Developer

Location
Berlin, Germany
Toptal Member Since
March 15, 2022

Prathisrihas is an engineer at heart—he loves to build, automate, and analyze things. He has hands-on experience in deploying and administering production-level systems and architecting, installing, configuring, and automating the deployment of fault-tolerant and highly-available environments. Prathisrihas has solid knowledge in virtualization, log management, and service monitoring. He's also a certified Kubernetes administrator and AWS solutions architect associate.

Portfolio

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TypeScript, Python, AWS IoT, Terraform, Grafana
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Experience

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Slack, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Networking, Python, CI/CD Pipelines, GitOps

The most amazing...

...thing I've done is helping development teams in rapidly previewing their changes from feature branches which enhanced their DevEx.

Work Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

2022 - 2023
Anonymous client
  • Implemented AWS best practices which enabled clearing WAR and FTR reviews. A few tasks included removing password-based access to the whole organization, centralizing access logs, and ensuring that intrusion detection/prevention systems work.
  • Acted as an enterprise-level architect to understand customers' challenges and suggest tailor-made solutions using in-house tools and technologies.
  • Involved in knowledge-sharing sessions and onboarding peers. Designed multiple scenario examples and documented approaches which increased clarity in following team practices.
  • Wrote Terraform modules, enabling single sign-on access to all AWS accounts via external Auth providers like Google.
Technologies: TypeScript, Python, AWS IoT, Terraform, Grafana

Site Reliability Engineer

2022 - 2022
Toptal client
  • Decoupled entire infra stack into development, staging, and production environments. This helped engineers to fail fast with reduced feedback times.
  • Implemented automated infra deployments using Terraform and GitHub Actions. Wrote reusable Terraform modules, which helped engineers autonomously manage their platform resources.
  • Implemented security standards in AWS EKS clusters by enabling IRSA and mounting secrets to workloads via service accounts.
  • Implemented observability for the entire stack using Grafana cloud.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, TypeScript

Site Reliability Engineer

2021 - 2022
Anonymous Client
  • Created Terraform modules for managing AWS platform components in code.
  • Configured access control and identity management via Okta and Teleport.
  • Empowered developers to understand the underlying platform and make improvements by documenting and participating in knowledge-sharing sessions.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Buildkite, GitHub, Prometheus, Grafana, Argo CD

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2021
Relayr
  • Set up metrics monitoring across all environments that involve AWS ECS and AKS. Modularized code and scaled the entire monitoring setup from one single host for the whole org to one host per environment.
  • Enabled development and QA teams to rapidly deploy their changes to production by developing tools and methodologies that help scale and maintain services.
  • Implemented strategies to build base Docker images for organization-wide adoption across all microservices.
  • Resolved production incidents while being on call.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Consul, Vault, Python, Go, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Instana, Argo CD, GitHub

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2019
Wayfair
  • Developed and contributed to tools that serve our purpose for notifications and paging. Deployed code to production using the custom integrator tool.
  • Fixed and managed issues of all sizes, from major outages to minor alerts. Communicated and coordinated severe incidents and ensured their quick resolution.
  • Created dashboards and tweaked alerts to improve our monitoring at scale. Refined the troubleshooting documentation.
Technologies: Kubernetes, VMware vSphere, Helm, ServiceNow, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, NGINX, Python, React, GitLab, Ubuntu, Jenkins

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2018
Bahnhof AB
  • Planned and architected environments as per customer needs by attending meetings and gathering requirements.
  • Developed infrastructure automation and configuration using Ansible and implemented CI for the same.
  • Maintained and managed monitoring and logging platforms run on Checkmk and Graylog.
Technologies: VMware, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Checkmk, Apache, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, Bash, Python, React, Ubuntu, OpenStack

Poké App

Developed a web app that lists the decks of all Pokémon. The app was written in React, and the data was retrieved from the PokéAPI. It was containerized and deployed on self-hosted Kubernetes, provisioned using K3s.

Grafana Dashboard Exporter

Developed a tool that addresses challenges to save Grafana dashboards at a central location so they can be restored whenever needed.

The tool was developed in Go, and it was running on an Azure-managed virtual machine. It fetched the Grafana dashboards via Grafana API, used the Azure system identity attached to the VM, and authenticated itself to the Azure Blob store to periodically upload those dashboards.

Tools

Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), NGINX, Grafana, GitLab, Jenkins, Slack, VMware, Checkmk, Apache, VMware vSphere, Helm, Vault, Instana

Paradigms

DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Software Development

Platforms

Docker, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, Azure, Buildkite, Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Other

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), CI/CD Pipelines, Pipelines, GitOps, Prometheus, Networking, ServiceNow, Consul, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Argo CD

Languages

Python, Bash, TypeScript, Perl, PHP, Go, HTML, CSS

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Datadog

Libraries/APIs

React

2015 - 2016

Master of Science Degree in Telecommunications Systems

Blekinge Institute of Technology - Karlskrona, Sweden

JANUARY 2019 - JANUARY 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

DECEMBER 2016 - DECEMBER 2019

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

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