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Sai kumar Thondala

@saikumarthondala

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DevOps engineer with 5+ years building CI/CD and AWS/Kubernetes automation to improve reliability and delivery.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a DevOps role where I can own GitOps CI/CD, cloud and Kubernetes reliability, and observability—building secure, version-controlled automation and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver operational excellence.

I’m a DevOps engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps practices, automation, and infrastructure management. I’ve built CI/CD pipelines and managed cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS), deploying applications on VMs and Kubernetes clusters.

I focus on GitOps-based delivery and Infrastructure as Code to keep environments consistent, secure, and self-healing—using tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, Terraform, and Ansible. In production, I support Kubernetes workloads with strong operational ownership (on-call and incident resolution), and I improve observability with Prometheus/Grafana and the EFK/ELK stack while tackling real reliability issues like DNS latency and implementing zero-downtime traffic migration with Istio canary deployments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Engineer

Current

Nymcard

Sep 2025 - Present (9 months)

Designed and implemented multi-cloud infrastructure (OCI/AWS/GCP) and operated microservices on RKE/OKE Kubernetes clusters. Automated GitOps deployments with ArgoCD/FluxCD and supported production reliability through on-call incident resolution.

Kubernetes OKE ArgoCD Flux CD Terraform Ansible Prometheus Python Shell

DevOps Engineer

Samsung SDS

Jun 2023 - Aug 2025 (2 years 2 months)

Implemented GitOps by extending Git workflows across infrastructure and operations, and automated Kubernetes deployments with Helm and ArgoCD for self-healing and rollbacks. Built reusable Terraform modules cutting infrastructure redundancy by 40% and improved observability with Prometheus/Grafana and the ELK stack.

GitOps ArgoCD Helm Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Istio Jira

DevOps Associate

Samsung SDS

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)

Led AWS migration for the Woomi project, transitioning workloads from on-premises to AWS to improve scalability and reduce costs. Built Terraform IaC that reduced manual errors by 90% and implemented AWS CodePipeline to cut release cycles by 50%, while securing AWS environments and automating EC2 provisioning with Ansible.

AWS Terraform AWS CodePipeline CI CD IAM VPC Ansible EC2 Cloudfront Load Balancing

RPA Developer

Samsung SDS

Nov 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 1 month)

Developed 300+ Brity RPA automation scripts to streamline business processes, including data fetching from Jira and KPI calculations. Created automations to clone, move, and translate Jira issues to improve operational efficiency.

Brity RPA Process Automation Jira Data Fetching Workflow Automation