Chandra Sekhar Balla

I’m a Senior Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS. I’ve built enterprise-scale platforms supporting 300+ microservices running on Amazon ECS across multiple AWS accounts, with a strong focus on production operations and platform reliability.

I lead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Terraform Cloud, and CloudFormation to standardize provisioning and governance. I manage containerized workloads on Amazon ECS—covering deployment automation, scaling, operational support, and reliability initiatives—while continuously optimizing cloud resource utilization and delivery speed.

I build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHubActions to enable consistent, automated infrastructure and application delivery. I implement secure cross-account AWS access using IAM roles, trust relationships, KMS policies, and resource-based permissions across shared cloud environments.

I strengthen observability and incident response by designing Grafana and Kibana dashboards and leveraging CloudWatch, New Relic, ElasticAPM, ELK, and PagerDuty. From ECS rightsizing and capacity planning to Terraform imports, PostgreSQL access management, and DynamoDB auto-scaling, I drive improvements that reduce cost while keeping scalable, highly available AWS environments running smoothly.