Yashwanth Lakkaraju

Documents infra, systems, and concepts. Analyzes flows, interactions, and costs. Designs and automates infra, security, testing. Defines DevSecOps adoption across tech stacks. Builds cloud solutions, balancing cost/performance. Advises on new tech adoption. Implements security best practices. Creates architecture artifacts (Diagrams, ADRs). Evaluates tools, frameworks, and architectures. Improves solution quality. Leads small team planning.

Designed & implemented CICD infra with Github Actions in collaboration with migration from Bitbucket to Github. Supporting in adaption to Git workflow using Github Actions & Cloud Deploy Leveraged Terraform for provisioning GCP resources with reusable modules for consistency across projects. Collaborated on a Proof-of-Concept assessment of ArgoCD and FluxCD. Introduction of Flux, as the GitOps tool, for the rollout of Infra Workloads to GKE using GitHub, Cloud Build.

Successfully led & assisted the in migration of code from Bitbucket to Azure DevOps, ensuring seamless transition and minimal disruption. Implemented best practices for version control and branching strategies in Azure DevOps, enabling for better collaboration & code management. Configured & optimized Azure DevOps Pipelines for different types of applications, to enhance the overall CI/CD process with implementation of automated testing and quality checks to ensure code quality & reliability.

Extensively worked on moving the Helm Charts for various uses into a parent and sub-charts. Migrated existing CICD to a GitOps methodology with FluxCD and progressive delivery using Flagger by using different strategies. Migration of Infrastructure created in AWS to Terraform and using Gitlab and orchestrating using Terragrunt in the CI/CD. Integrated Vault Secrets using the Secrets Store CSI Driver. Migration from APIGEE Gateway to InHouse Edge Gateway, built with Gloo Edge

Build and maintain cloud environment using Infrastructure as Code(IaC) like Terraform. Building CI/CD with Bitbucket-Jenkins and GitLab(SaaS). Implementing GitOps using FluxCD for deployment through Helm(v3). Using Azure AD, AWS Cognito, Oathkeeper, Hydra for implementing authN/authZ integrated with Gateway's(Istio). Basic level of programming skills with Golang. Monitoring, alerting solutions using DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, Jaeger, AWS OpenSearch. Working with Apache Kafka(AWS MSK).

Have designed multiple deployment pipelines for Mobile (iOS App, Cocoapods) and Java based projects. Experience with iOS SDKs for developers with software debugging techniques. Managed Helm Charts for Kubernetes deployment and service files and managed releases of Helm packages GitOps. Used Apigee as an API Gateway for APIs transformation, multiple authentication mechanisms with authN/authZ, policies. Worked on Istio an open source platform to connect, manage, and secure Microservices.

Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for a dedicated project, with various Gating mechanisms using macOS, Jenkins, Artifactory, & GitLab, XCode, fastlane Supporting Development and Testing Teams and their pipelines; distributed Jenkins XCode, fastlane. Working closely with Architecture, Development, Test, Security and IT Services teams. Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management tools.

Experience with Kubernetes to managing, creating configMaps, secrets and externalizing Configurations using Consul or Spring Config Server and various other manifests Deployment, StatefulSets, Service, Ingress using helm. Created a Continuous Delivery process to include support building of Docker Images and publish into a private repository hosted OnPrem or Cloud. Provided guidance to development regarding effective Microservices architectures in Hybrid Cloud.

Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management tools. Participate in various sessions for moving the On-Prem Infrastructure to the Cloud (AWS) and automate for cost reduction using tools like Ansible and for Configuration Management Automate application packaging using Docker. Implementing monitoring and reporting solutions using Splunk and Appdynamics Familiar with tools like Jenkins, Git, SVN, Bitbucket, Artifactory.

Primarily responsible for application deployment, authentication and DS integration. Provide end-user support for professional workstations/servers on Solaris, OEL, AIX systems. Responsible for all aspects of production application support Responsible for design, management, and continuous improvement of Middleware Services. Performed root-cause analysis for production outages and provided management with analysis reports.