Imdad Kondakamarla

Senior Software Engineer

Persistent Systems•  August 2020 - Present

1. Proficient in AWS cloud migrations, with a focus on securing infrastructure against vulnerabilities, optimizing costs, and managing networking. Extensive experience with services such as EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, VPN, Elastic Cache, Route53, and IAM, as well as OpenStack cloud using Python, Terraform, and automation scripts. 2. Orchestrated Docker containers using Kubernetes, facilitated the migration of micro-services to Kubernetes platform, and implemented best practices for container security, scalability, and deployment. 3. Implemented GIT branching strategy for pipeline deployments and version control system integrations, streamlining the development process and reducing deployment times. 4. Utilized Ansible, Puppet, and Chef for managing configurations, ensuring environments are in the desired state, and automating infrastructure activities such as continuous deployment, application server setup, and stack monitoring. 5. Gained extensive experience in monitoring application logs using Splunk, VM Wavefront, and AppDynamics, providing real-time insights and proactively addressing incidents using Pagerduty. 6. Led Kubernetes initiatives, including designing and implementing Kubernetes cluster architecture, deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes, and integrating Kubernetes with other tools such as Jenkins, Helm, and Prometheus for a seamless CI/CD pipeline. 7. Improved Kubernetes security posture by implementing role-based access control (RBAC), network policies, and secrets management using tools like Vault and HashiCorp. 8. Developed custom Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to automate and manage custom resources, ensuring a more efficient and effective Kubernetes environment.

Software Engineer

Simeio Solutions•  March 2019 - July 2020

1. Established continuous build environments to speed up software development by 50% 2. Delivered comprehensive best practices by managing and reviewing 100% of technical operations. 3. Worked with 3 teams development, server, and network and Analyzed and problem-solved major setbacks and shortcomings and presented findings to 6 stakeholders and 3 senior managers where identified to improve the application performance. 4. Coached a 6-person team in Devops fundamentals, implementing 3 training handbooks. 5. Adviced unique solutions to manage and monitor containerized workloads and AWS services such as ECS, EKS.