prakash kanikanti

Migrated and validated an on-prem application portfolio onto Google Cloud, redeploying legacy apps through reusable Terraform modules. Owns the Google Cloud estate as code and built CI/CD pipelines for applications and AI workloads.

Led migration of multiple apps from on-prem data centers to Google Cloud, ensuring performance post-migration. Managed Kubernetes estate across GKE, EKS, and OpenShift with RBAC, Pod Security Standards, and CNAPP tooling integrated into CI/CD.

Built IaC across AWS and Google Cloud with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Puppet, with CI/CD in GitHub Actions. Set up end-to-end ML pipelines with Airflow, Kubeflow, and MLflow, and implemented Zero Trust security for HIPAA workloads.

Migrated on-prem apps to Google Cloud with ARM templates and Cloud Build, and built custom Terraform modules for GKE and core resources. Secured GKE with RBAC, Network Policies, Pod Security Standards, and OPA/REGO admission-control policies.

Built Terraform modules for Kubernetes namespaces, RBAC, and networking, and implemented real-time ingestion with Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect. Used Argo CD for GitOps deployments and Dynatrace as a CI/CD quality gate.

Designed cloud architectures on GCP and migrated on-prem apps across OpenStack, AWS, Google Cloud, and VMware vCloud. Automated AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation, Lambda, and Boto3, and set up ECS with Auto Scaling and load balancers.

Built and ran AWS infrastructure including VPC, EC2, ELB, SQS, Auto Scaling, EBS, and CloudWatch, and automated most of it with Boto. Set up the AWS security baseline from scratch and migrated on-prem servers and data warehouses to AWS and OpenStack.

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from Dakota State University, completed in December 2021.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTUK, completed in June 2015.