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Abishek Penigalapati

@abishekpenigalapati

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DevOps engineer driving faster, reliable releases and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a DevOps/cloud role where I can lead automation, improve release velocity, optimize cloud costs, and build reliable, observable platforms in a collaborative team.

I am a DevOps engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience streamlining deployment pipelines, reducing manual work, and improving system reliability across multi-team environments.

I have engineered CI/CD pipelines, automated infrastructure with Terraform, and deployed containerized workloads to Kubernetes to enable faster, zero-downtime releases and robust rollback strategies.

I reduced AWS spend, cut deployment times dramatically, and shortened incident response by integrating monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch, Datadog, and Splunk while enforcing secure IAM and auditing practices.

I document processes clearly, standardize environments for consistent QA and developer feedback, and focus on automation and observability to keep sprint goals on track in high-paced development settings.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Engineer

Current

BCBS

Feb 2025 - Present (8 months)

Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 50+ microservices reducing deployment time 85% and implemented Terraform and EKS rearchitecture to cut AWS spend 45% while enabling zero-downtime blue-green deployments and improving incident response times from 90 to 25 minutes.

Gitlab CI Terraform AWS EKS Docker Cloudwatch Datadog Splunk

Associate DevOps Engineer

CGI Group Inc.

Aug 2020 - Aug 2023 (3 years)

Automated provisioning with Ansible and Jenkins pipelines to reduce manual setup 60% and improve deployment success; provisioned Azure resources via Bicep reducing deployment delays and optimized AKS/Helm to cut container restarts 45%.

Ansible Jenkins Azure Bicep AKS Helm Docker Gitlab

Junior DevOps Engineer

CGI Group Inc.

Jun 2019 - Jul 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented Puppet and Vagrant to automate server configurations and developer environments, reducing setup time 60% and improving backup verification and deployment template consistency across environments.

Puppet Vagrant YAML)JSON DC OS Python Cassandra Jira

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Illinois Springfield

Master of Science, Computer Science

Completed a Master's in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Springfield, focusing on graduate-level computer science coursework and applied projects.