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Rajender Koppula

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Location

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Toptal Member Since

September 26, 2022

Rajender is a DevOps and SRE engineer with nearly four years of expertise in building and supporting web and native SaaS solutions on Kubernetes, cloud, and OpenShift. He has experience in service and infrastructure migrations and securing and integrating with open source alternatives in CI/CD processes. Rajender has worked with automation and logging and has set up metrics.

Linux Kubernetes DevOps Ansible Docker Shell Continuous Delivery (CD)Helm Open Source Jenkins Amazon Web Services (AWS)Microservices Go Python 3 Web Security OpenSSL

Portfolio

Aqua Security

Kubernetes, Helm, Go, Terraform, Jenkins, Shell, OpenSSL, Open Source...

Entain

On-premise, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Shell...

Experience

Linux - 5 years Ansible - 4 years Kubernetes - 4 years Docker - 4 years DevOps - 4 years Helm - 3 years Terraform - 3 years Red Hat OpenShift - 2 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Terraform, Go, Linux, DevOps, Ansible, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker

The most amazing...

...project I've done is an end-to-end migration to Kubernetes from the monolith, which saved a lot of resources and scalability, and had zero downtime.

Work Experience

Devops Engineer

2018 - 2022

Aqua Security

Contributed to Aqua Security with open source tools like Aqua-helm deployments and Aquasec Terraform provider, which helped customers deploy and configure the product.
Tracked and fixed open source solution bugs and internal infrastructure pipeline issues.
Resolved custom integrations with deployment. Integrated with Flux CD, Argo CD, vault sidecar injection, Artifact Hub, and ChartMuseum.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Helm, Go, Terraform, Jenkins, Shell, OpenSSL, Open Source, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Red Hat OpenShift, Microservices, App Infrastructure, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2020

Entain

Migrated all application services from AWS to on-premise, which saved multi-billions in the long run.
Prepared all automated Ansible playbooks to deploy applications, database cache, and Elastic Stack (ELK).
Conteranised most monolith applications and integrated them with a microservices CI/CD system.

Technologies: On-premise, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Shell, Python 3, Microservices, App Infrastructure, Docker, Jenkins Job DSL, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)

Experience

Complete Node.js CI/CD Setup

A complete Node.js application CI/CD setup. Having IaC for terraforming and Jenkinsfiles for deploying and scaling applications.

Helm charts to deploy the application to Kubernetes and Node.js autoscaling in EKS with CloudWatch monitoring setup scripts.

Education

2014 - 2018

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology (CBIT) - Hyderabad, India

Skills

Libraries/APIs

OpenSSL, Jenkins Job DSL, Jenkins Pipeline

Tools

Helm, Ansible, Shell, Jenkins, ELK (Elastic Stack), Terraform, Git

Paradigms

DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices

Languages

Go, Python 3

Platforms

Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Red Hat OpenShift

Storage

On-premise

Other

Open Source, App Infrastructure, Web Security, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile DevOps, Autoscaling, Continuous Monitoring

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