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Balavignesh Kunkulagunta Sanghameswar

Dublin

Summary

Master's Graduate in Cloud Computing with a background of 8 years of total experience in software development and around 4 years of experience as a Cloud and DevOps Engineer specializing in designing, developing and maintaining the AWS cloud infrastructure and creating several environments for different needs development, testing, UAT, production. Proven track record and expertise in CI/CD, IAC, Kubernetes and monitoring. Recognized as Top Talent 2023 in my previous organization. Self-motivated individual with strong communication skills. Familiar with operating in PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC2-aligned environments. Eager to apply academic knowledge and practical skills to contribute as a Cloud and DevOps Engineer, leveraging a strong foundation in cloud technologies and a commitment to continuous learning.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineering Lead

Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
03.2022 - 07.2023
  • Helped Client organization serving more than 100,000 customers to manage their products infrastructures in Cloud using AWS
  • Served as both the Sole Cloud & DevOps Engineer and team lead, collaborating closely with developers, testers, and stakeholders
  • Automated the creation and management of the cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK and using python, shell and bash scripts, reduced the manual deployment by 85%
  • Expertise in applying patches and updates to container images, maintaining container vulnerability scans, and automating security checks as part of CI/CD pipelines
  • Improved my knowledge on AWS services by attending various Knowledge Sharing sessions
  • Adapted quickly to C# and .Net, developing production level code using industry best practices and design patterns

DevOps Engineer

EdinPro Technologies
Chennai
09.2020 - 02.2022
  • Developed dynamic and interactive online job board application that ensured high user experience using Python and Django and Flask framework
  • Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for Code deployment for multi-tenants and multi-environments
  • Worked on platform engineering concepts along with best practice change management process for the client
  • Worked on services like IAM, S3, CloudWatch, VPC, EC2, RDS, Route53, ELB, ASG, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, Web Server (Apache), Application Servers (Tomcat, JBOSS), SonarQube

Associate Software Developer

DXC Technology
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 08.2020
  • Worked on Oracle, SQL, Pro C for a US State Government project (Kansas Medicaid Management System

Education

Masters - Cloud Computing

National College of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
01.2024

Master’s - Business Administration in ISM

Sikkim Manipal University
India
01.2018

Bachelor’s - Engineering (EEE)

Kumaraguru College of Technology
Tamil Nadu, India
01.2015

Intermediate - MPC

SRV Higher Secondary School
Tamil Nadu, India
01.2011

Skills

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Gitlab CI/CD
  • AWS CodePipeline
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • AWS CDK
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Shell
  • C
  • Net
  • SQL
  • CloudWatch
  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Splunk
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Redshift
  • RDS
  • Flask
  • Django
  • Apache
  • Tomcat
  • Agile
  • SAFe
  • Elasticache
  • Glue
  • Kinesis Firehose
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Transfer Family
  • Opensearch
  • Sonarcloud
  • JIRA
  • Route 53
  • CloudFront
  • API Gateway
  • AWS Cost Optimization
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect- Associate.
  • Udemy certifications on AWS, GCP, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and Microsoft Azure.

Accomplishments

Recognized as Top Talent 2023 among 10,000 employees in my previous organization.

Projects

Development of Django Web Application in Sports Domain and Deploying in AWS with CI/CD and Static Code Analysis, Built a CRUD based workout tracker with visual charts; deployed via AWS elastic Beanstalk with CI/CD using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. Integrated pylint and SonarCloud for static code analysis. Development of scalable APIs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to existing web application, Designed and integrated scalable APIs to enhance existing web app functionality using AWS Lambda and API Gateway; included third party API integration. Development of Social Media Marketing DApp using Blockchain, Built a decentralized application using Express.js and Facebook Graph API; deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Ethereum test networks using smart contracts. Designing a HPC Petascale with IBM Power9 for Correlated Fragmented Molecular Orbital Calculations, Designed a Petascale HPC system and compared it to Terascale architecture using Amdahl’s law and Gustafson’s laws. Calculated MTBF, MTTF, availability and 5-year TCO. Development of a Flask Web Application in Cloth Manufacturing Domain with AWS Services and deploying in AWS with CI/CD, Developed and deployed a flask-based app using AWS DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and CI/CD via CodePipeline and CodeDeploy. Prediction of Diabetes using ML Algorithm – Logistic Regression with Google Colab, Cleaned, combined and trained three public datasets to predict diabetics outcomes using logistic regression. Evaluated accuracy and model error. Design IOT and Fog Architecture and Simulation – Smart Football Stadium with Biometric, Proximity, Environmental sensors, Simulated IoT and fog architecture for a small football stadium using biometric, proximity and environmental sensors with iFogSim2 Toolkit.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Playing Video Games.
  • Writing.
  • Listening to Music.
  • Learning something new.

Timeline

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineering Lead

Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2022 - 07.2023

DevOps Engineer

EdinPro Technologies
09.2020 - 02.2022

Associate Software Developer

DXC Technology
07.2015 - 08.2020

Masters - Cloud Computing

National College of Ireland

Master’s - Business Administration in ISM

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor’s - Engineering (EEE)

Kumaraguru College of Technology

Intermediate - MPC

SRV Higher Secondary School
Balavignesh Kunkulagunta Sanghameswar