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Chandra Sekhar Palakuri

@chandrasekharpalakuri

Am passionate about Startup, Challenging and Learning kind of environments. And looking to implement devops best practices.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior DevOps/cloud roles where I design scalable, secure Kubernetes platforms, drive automation and cost optimisation, mentor engineers, and lead SRE/infra initiatives in a collaborative organization.

Having 11.6 years of competitive experience as DevOps Engineer in Container-Orchestration (Kubernetes on AWS, Azure & On-Premise Datacenter), Containerization (Dockers), Infra & Security Architecting, Cost
Optimization, Virtualization, Build Engineering, Configuration Management, IAAS, PAAS, Cloud Native &
Micro services, Cloud Computing Technologies, Production Delivery and Automation with domain expertise in serving World's Largest Retail Service (Walmart 15K+ Store’s Applications and Devices), Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Virtual Assistant, ChatBots), Secured Digital Payments (UPI, BHIM,
ExpressCheckout), Backup Software and Cloud Operations (AWS & Azure). And Experience of 4.2 years in
mentoring Junior DevOps Engineers across (AWS & Azure) clouds, CICD, IAC, Kubernetes and SRE roles.

Having good hands-on experience with Kubernetes (On AWS EKS, Azure AKS & On-Premise), OWASP,
Docker, Openstack, Jenkins, AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Front, IAM, Lambda, ElasticSearch, ElastiCache, RDS, ELB, Elastic Beanstalk etc), AWS Account Migration, Azure (Vnet, AKS, SQL, ACR, Log Analytics, Azure Devops, CosmosDB), Istio (Service-Mesh, Network routing), EnvoyFilter, Ansible Playbooks, SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Graylog, Kiali, Jeager, SpotInst, Dynatrace, Splunk, Spotlight, Rsyslog, Logstash, Superset cluster, PM2, NodeJs, Redis, Keepalive, PostgreSQL On-Premise Cluster, MySQL, Gatling, Confluence, JIRA, ServiceNow, Scala, Shell Scripting, Pascal Scripting, Perl Scripting, Python Scripting, Test Link, Pingdom, Uptime Robot, Mantis, GIT, Vernemq, Flagger, Bitbucket, VMWare and Hypervisor, Super micro servers, FortiGate firewall etc.

Capable of contributing effectively in both team-oriented and independent roles to achieve organizational objectives. And I have been dedicated, results-driven, innovative professional with a strong work ethics and a passion for learning emerging technologies.

Along with DevOps passion my other Potential Competences includes Strategic Thinking, Decision-Making Under Pressure, Cross-Functional Collaborator, Conflicts Resolver, Mentor and One-Man Army in
implementing End-To-End DevOps best practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior DevOps Engineer

Walmart Global Tech

Nov 2020 - Jun 2025 (4 years 7 months)

Automated deployments to Walmart internal tools supporting 15K+ stores and 700K+ devices, architected Kubernetes (AKS) infrastructures and one‑click DR, and delivered cost-optimization saving approximately $12.5k per day.

Kubernetes Istio Terraform Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Splunk Python Ansible

Senior DevOps Engineer

PAYJO Technologies

Oct 2018 - Nov 2020 (2 years 1 month)

Built and managed Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI conversation and banking platforms on AWS/Azure, implemented Istio, monitoring and security controls, and led account/resource migrations and cost optimization.

Kubernetes AWS Azure Istio Jenkins Terraform Prometheus Grafana ELK

Senior DevOps Engineer

JUSPAY Technologies

May 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Operated payment and UPI infrastructure, created high-availability VMware/OpenStack deployments, automated CI/CD and monitoring, and performed benchmarking and production troubleshooting for payment stacks.

VMWare OpenStack Nginx PostgreSQL Redis Jenkins Shell Scripting Rsyslog Grafana

DevOps Consultant

HCL

Sep 2016 - May 2017 (8 months)

Delivered DevOps consulting across client environments including automation, configuration management and migrations, implemented CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure hardening to improve reliability and delivery velocity.

CI CD Ansible SaltStack Terraform Jenkins Shell Scripting AWS Infrastructure Hardening

DevOps Engineer

Vembu Technologies

Apr 2014 - Sep 2016 (2 years 5 months)

Automated build creation and deployment for Vembu BDR and Online Backup products using Jenkins, Perl and shell scripts, implemented monitoring and automated crash/log reporting to reduce manual intervention and downtime.

Jenkins Perl Shell Scripting UptimeRobot Cloudwatch Monitoring