Asrith Reddy

Mobile: 513-666-5084
Email: ashreddyg@gmail.com
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SUMMARY

● Around 5 years of combined professional experience in the IT and 3+ years of AWS and DevOps with strong
background in agile environment, Continuous delivery and deployment, Build and Release management and
System Administration.
● Expertise with AWS platform features of VPC (Subnets, NACLs, EIPs, VPC Peeing and Direct Connect),
EC2(Provisioning, Reserved, Spot instances, clusters), Security groups, Auto scaling (ELB, groups), Monitoring
(Cloudwatch, SNS, Cloud trail, Health checks), Data Storage (S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS), Route53, Cloudfront,
Cloudformation, IAM, Database (RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift).
● Proficient with AWS infrastructure and it’s ever changing technologies and features. Experience with
infrastructure assessment, design improvements and suggestions, implementation and provisioning of AWS
cloud infrastructure.
● Working on creating templates for AWS Cloudformation for easy provisioning of VPC and services in times of
backup and recovery.
● Experience with source control management systems like Git, Subversion and used them to initiate continuous
integration tools like Jenkins.
● Expertise in writing Ansible playbooks and creating roles for configuration management of servers and their
orchestration using YAML.
● Build pipeline setup using Jenkins with tools plugins of Git, Maven/ ANT, Ansible, Nagios for Continuous
Integration and Continuous Deployment.
● Experience with bash and python scripting for automation of tasks.
● Worked on provisioning and deploying Docker containers, swarms and stacks. Working experience with AWS EC2
Container Service and managing the services and tasks.
● Excellent communication, leadership skills with mindfulness and proficient time management.
● Working experience in Agile development environment and exposed to all aspects of software development
lifecycle and DevOps culture of improved collaboration and continuous improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud AWS

Operating Systems Centos, Ubuntu, Windows

Scripting Languages Bash, Python, Perl

Configuration Management Ansible, Knowledge of Puppet, Chef

Source Version Control Git, SVN

Build Tools Maven, ANT

Programming Languages C++, Java, SQL, HTML

 CICD Jenkins

Virtualization VirtualBox, VMWare

Containerization Docker

Monitoring Tools Cloudwatch, Nagios

CERTIFICATION

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Verification: 7EFZHEH11FBQ1W3F

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kakatiya University, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Directions Research, Cincinnati

April 2016 - Current
AWS DevOps Engineer

Directions Reseaarch is a business decision insight firm based in Cincinnati which provides various business tools to big
and small businesses equally whether it’s local or offsite. The role here is coordination with various development teams
and automate infrastructure, resources, builds and deployments.

Responsibilities:
● Continuous and automated deployment of public and private facing web pages in AWS infrastructure.
● Collaborating with various teams in gathering requirements and suggesting infrastructure solutions based on
necessity and financial constraints.
● Configuring and managing various AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, Cloudwatch, Cloudfront, Route53, SNS,
and IAM etc.
● Assigning roles and policies to users, Security groups using IAM.
● Implementing ELBs and Auto scaling groups for EC2 instances for providing high availability and fault tolerance.
● Using EC2 instances as servers to host and manage the services GIT, Jenkins and Ansible which made slow
processes into dynamic API procedures.
● Experience in cloud automation using template based service of CloudFormation.
● Scheduling downtimes and using reserved instances to reduce the costs
● Implementing build tools like Maven to enhance the overall operational environment.
● Working on managing the repositories for Maven using services like S3.
● Using Ansible playbooks to manage and configure servers in the virtual environment.
● Experience in working with Jenkins to build and manage integration and deployment pipelines.
● Involved in troubleshooting issues with CI/CD pipelines.
● Identify risks, cost saving opportunities and collaborating with the management in implementing them.
● Working on creation of Docker containers for work isolation and managing the application life cycles for
development teams
Environment: AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, Cloudformation, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Cloudwatch, Git, Apache

FedEx, Tennessee
April 2015 - March 2016
AWS DevOps Engineer

FedEx is a package shipping company. The role was to provision infrastructure in the cloud and administer resources,
configure and update. The collaboration between various teams on different projects was crucial. Two of the projects
involved in were updating the UI and an application for streamlining feedback.

Responsibilities:
● Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and
RDS.
● Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2; auto-scaling; and VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to build secure, highly
scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
● Utilize AWS CloudWatch to monitor environment for operational and performance metrics during load testing
with the help of auto scaling.
● Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs
for mission critical production servers for backup and glacier as long-term, low cost, archival storage option.
● Managed the Jenkins jobs to continuously integrate from git repositories, build with Maven, and deploy in target
environments (Integration, QA, and Production).
● Worked with source control tools GIT for source code management and maintaining access to the individual
users and teams.
● Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline. Ansible playbooks to provision servers and orchestrate them.
● Used Ansible playbooks to automate repeating tasks

Environment: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, Glacier, Auto Scaling, AWS CLI, Ansible, GIT, Maven and Jenkins

Cincinnati Bell, Cincinnati

Jan 2014 - March 2015
AWS Consultant

Cincinnati bell is a telephone and internet service provider company. The project I involved as a part of Consultant team
was to implement the best practices for setting up and helping setup the web-application on the AWS cloud.

Responsibilities:
● Built and deployed applications in the cloud using AWS EC2, Route53, IAM, S3 and RDS.
● Helped build migration roadmaps for AWS cloud, designed and implemented architecture according to the
compliance and security policies.
● Worked as a part of big team to provide disaster recovery plan and thus business continuity proposal using AWS.
● Designed and architected fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto scaling groups, ELBs and
AMIs.
● Built secure infrastructure using Security groups and Network ACLs as virtual firewalls to configure and restrict
access to instances.
● Configured VPN tunnel for AWS VPC to communicate to corporate network.
● Provided solutions and technical alternatives implemented in knowledge based articles and technical product
documentations.
 ● Responsible for creating IAM users, roles and policies for the various AWS users per requirements.
● Create group policies according to their roles thus maintaining security but also providing necessary resources as
per the requirements.
● Configured cloudwatch and set up dashboards for monitoring the resources in the cloud.
● Set up SNS notifications for automated scaling and critical actions.
● Worked as part of setting up RDS using multi-AZ deployment for high availability and failover.

Environment: EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, EFS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, IAM, AMI, Auto Scaling Groups, RDS, IAM
Roles.

Adtran Inc, Huntsville, AL/ Hyderabad, India

July 2012 - December 2013
Test and Junior Network Engineer

Adtran is a Wireless technology product company based in Huntsville, US providing switching and router technology. I
joined here as a Junior Network Engineer and the projects I worked on involved testing the various new technologies and
products.

Responsibilities:
● Worked along with operations team in helping build and deploy the applications and testing environments.
● Worked in Networking protocols and cloud technologies for migration of the on premises infrastructure towards
the cloud.
● Gained experience in Carrier/Enterprise Networking Domain products.
● Worked in development of tests for L2/L3 protocols.
● Worked in maintenance of code repositories in SVN and building tests for the committed codes.
● Assisted in the development of automated test applications for test system from existing cases and requirement
documents.
● Maintained test procedures documentation.
● Assisted in development of software stability test automation related software.
● Gained hands on experience with ADSL modems, N2X, Cisco routers and protocols of Ipv4, IPv6, DHCP.