Karuna Dawadi

☏ 678-802-9907 ✉ karunadawadi1@gmail.com karuna-dawadi-54b21021a

Resourceful Cloud & DevOps Engineer with around 7 years of IT Experience. Strong background in Linux & System
Administration and proficient in Cloud, Containerization, CI/CD, Configuration Management, and Build/release
Management. Adept at collaborating with the Software Engineering team to deploy & operate different systems and to
automate & streamline the operations. Customer-focused software professional with superior communication skills and
expertise in various technical platforms. Understands and meets both client & employer needs and develops highly
functional, robust, and easy-to-use applications.
Education:

Master of Science in Information Technology Willamburgs, KY

University of the Cumberlands

Bachelor’s in Management Information System Oakland, CA

Lincoln University

Technical skills:

Cloud Amazon web services (EC2, VPC, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, ELB,
Auto scaling server, Load balancer, ECR, ECS, EKS, S3, Glacier, EFS,
Storage gateway, RDS, Redshift, IAM, IAC, KMS, Cloud formation
AWS config, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Route 53, VMware, Data
pipeline)
Build and CI/CD Tools Jenkins, ANT, Maven
Container Orchestration Tools Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS
Configuration Management Ansible, Puppet, Chef
Version Control Tools Git, GitHub, GitLab, SVN
Web and Application Servers Apache Tomcat, Nginx
SSH Tools Putty
Scripting Languages Bash/Shell, Python, PowerShell, JSON, YAML
Repository Management Nexus, Artifactory
Virtualization platform Oracle VirtualBox, VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V
Operating System Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux/UNIX, Windows, and iOS
Networking Protocols TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, NFS, SMTP, DHCP, OSPF, BGP, UDP, and RIP

Professional Experience:

Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA Sep 2020 – Present

Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Designed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, and security
groups. Worked on tagging standard for proper identification and ownership of EC2 instances and other AWS Services
like Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, and Cloud Trail.
• Used APIs, Ansible, and Python, and migrated & automated cloud deployments.
• Converted existing AWS infrastructure to server-less architecture (AWS Lambda) and deployed it via Terraform.
Migrated data from Datacenters and on-premises to Cloud using AWS Import/Export Snowball service.
• Used Terraform in AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to automatically setup and modify settings by interfacing with
control layer.
• Built vault infrastructure in AWS and on-prem (PureFlex). Built CI/CD pipeline for provisioning secrets and policy
using GitHub.
• Created Ansible roles in YAML and defined tasks, variables, files, handlers, and templates. configured the Ansible files
for parallel deployment in Ansible for automating the Continuous delivery process and used Ansible for configuring
and managing multi-node configuration management over SSH and PowerShell.
• Worked with Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing directories
structures, and managing containers.
• Coordinated developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT
source control.
• Supported infrastructure consisting of RHEL 4.x 5.x, 6.x, CentOS and Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04. Installed, configured,
and administered RHEL OS on standalone servers using kickstart installation.
• Extensively used JIRA as a ticketing tool for creating sprints, bug tracking, issue tracking, project management
functions, and releases.

Environment: AWS, Git, Maven, Jenkins, Linux, Jira, Ansible, Docker, Splunk, Python, EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, Ops
work, Nexus, Bash, Unix/Linux, Nagios.

Fannie Mae, Washington, DC Jun 2019 – Aug 2020

DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Configured and maintained the AWS Lambda function to trigger when there is a Jenkins build kicked off, which
internally gets stored on AWS S3 bucket for everybody to access. Created Route53 to route traffic between different
regions. Worked with Security groups & Network ACLs.
• Involved developing and modifying new and existing environments to support newer versions of Infrastructure stack,
and build/deployment management using tools like Chef, Jenkins, and Git.
• Hands on experience on using Terraform along with Packer to create custom machine images and automation tools
like Chef/Ansible to install software after the infrastructure is provisioned.
• Configured the Kubernetes provider with Terraform which is used to interact with resources supported by
Kubernetes to create several services such as Config Map, Namespace, Volume, Auto scaler, among others.
• Wrote Chef cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize product configuration, converting
production support scripts to Chef Recipes and AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.

Environment: GIT, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, WebLogic, AWS, Cloud computing, JDK, Jira, Shell Scripts,
Python Scripts.

Verizon, Piscataway, NJ Aug 2018 – May 2019

Build and Release Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Development of scheduled tasks and UNIX scripts and Perl to maintain and automate the Build process.
• Mentored and trained project members in building and configuring Red Hat Linux Servers using Kickstart server as
required for the project.
• Scheduled the Linux Cron jobs and Jenkins jobs for build automation. Developed Shell scripts for automation of the
build and release process & to perform deployments to JBOSS and Tomcat Web servers.
• Developed Power shell scripts to automate web application servers and automation of the build and release process and
to automate certain processes for the smooth process of build tool like Maven.
• Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process. Defining Release Process & Policy for projects
early in SDLC.
• Experience in writing Maven pom.xml and Ant build.xml for build scripts.
• Involved in setting up the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, Puppet, Terraform, and AWS.
• Wrote Puppet manifests for deploying, configuring, install shield and managing collected for metric collection and
monitoring.
• Developed Puppet scripts and maintained multiple Modules in Puppet by converting production support scripts to
Puppet Manifests to automate the configurations in servers.
• Working closely with Web Administrators to understand, participate, and experience the technical architect for web
sites such as Apache, WebSphere, WebLogic and deploying J2EE Applications to these environments
• Experience in Networking protocols such as TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, FTP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP & SMTP.

Environment: UNIX, Red Hat, Shell Scripting, Tomcat Web Server, Power Shell, Maven, Chef Cookbooks, GIT, Puppet,
Terraform, Apache, WebSphere, AWS, WebLogic, Jenkins.
GE Digital, San Ramon Feb 2016 – Jul 2018
Build and Release Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Automated testing builds and deployment by developing and maintaining the processes and associated scripts/tools.
• Configured and maintained the Shell/Perl deployment scripts for Web logic and UNIX servers. Analyzed the Maven
Build projects for conversion.
• Employed Puppet to configure production and test infrastructure provisioned with Apache, Nginx, and MySQL.
• Worked with deployment team in the Release cycle of the product which involves environments like Development, QA
UAT and Production.
• Wrote Bash shell scripts for getting information about various Linux servers and prepared Ruby codes, programming
of web applications and testing services on daily basis.
• Used combination of Puppet Master, R10K Wrapper, Git Enterprise, Open stack (Horizon), Vagrant, and Simple UI
(Jenkins) and developed a puppet module for automation.

Environment: SVN, Tomcat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Maven, Shell/Perl Scripting, ANT, Splunk, Puppet, Nginx,
Ruby, Vagrant.

Amway India Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India June 2014 – Nov 2015
Python Developer
Responsibilities:
• Created Python back-end and JavaScript front-end components integrating with the firm’s enterprise management
systems.
• Designed a new feature for the company’s email marketing tool (Mail Sent) in 7 Active Days, contributing to the
marketing department’s win in the IAC award competition in the Best Email Message Campaign category.
• Developed entire frontend and backend modules using Python on Django Web Framework.
• Designed and developed data management system using MYSQL. Built application Logic using Python 2.7.
• Used Django APIs for databases access.
• Used Python to extract weekly hotel availability information from XML files.
• Worked on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its related technologies like Web Services, BPEL, WSDLs,
SOAP1.1, XML, XSD, XSLT etc.
• Participated in requirement gathering and worked closely with the architect in designing and modeling.
• Worked on development of SQL and stored procedures on MYSQL.
• Designed and developed a horizontally scalable APIs using Python Flask.

Environment: Cassandra schema for APIs, Python 2.6/2.7, JavaScript, Django Framework 1.3, CSS, SQL, MYSQL,
LAMP, jQuery, Adobe Dreamweaver, Apache web server.