JITHENDRA KUMAR AMMIAPPA KRISHNAPPA

Contact: +1 925-310-8699 | jeetu9590@gmail.com | Location: Fremont, California

Carrier Overview
 Around 8+ Years of experience in IT industry, comprising of Development, Systems Administration, Change Management,
Build/Release and Software Configuration Management (SCM).
 Working with the hardware vendors and application team for the faulty replacement and planning the downtimes.
 Expertise in working as cloud engineer/Build and release engineer in field of release automation for Java technologies to
achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD).
 Creating Cloud AWS EC2, Azure VM instances in secured, private network and deploying them in load balancing, assigning
Elastic IP Addresses.
 Deploying infrastructure on Azure, AWS, and GCP services in IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS using infrastructure as a code tool.
 Knowledge on Cloud technologies including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service
provider (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).
 Provided with strong knowledge on Infrastructure design and implementations with solid background in various IT Systems
and technologies including OSes, Storage, Database, Middleware, VMware, etc.
 Expertise with Chef Data bags, Ohai plugin, supermarket, provisioning concepts and all various cookbook components like
attributes, definitions, files, libraries, recipes, resources & templates.
 Experience in Chef automation including writing Cookbooks, customized recipes for test driven development environments.
 Experience writing chef scripts to build the applications, deploy and in areas of configuration management and
infrastructure automation.
 Experience in Chef to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Groups and Packages.
 Knowledge on using Ansible to automate the process of deploying/testing the new builds in each environment, setting up a
new node and configuring machines/servers.
 Installed and Managed Jenkins and Nexus for CI and sharing artifacts respectively within the company.
 Worked on different plugins in Jenkins like Build Pipeline plugin, Delivery pipeline plugin, Parameterized trigger plugin,
docker/Kubernetes deployments with Artifacts to achieve Continuous Delivery (CD) in an organization.
 Worked with multiple DevOps methodologies and tools Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) tools)
Integrating with Infrastructure in hybrid environment.
 Used Docker for automating the docker images build and deploy into jfrog antifactory as docker registry.
 Worked on Docker container snapshot, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing Directory structures
and managing containers
 Expertise on best practices for feature branching in GIT, merge conflicts and common library management.
 Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing the images.
 Managing the containers in Docker using Kubernetes.
 Creating and control of the release plan and its implementation according to the schedule. Work for Releases of product to
multiple countries.
 Applied embedded programming knowledge to the design and development of new products as well as product changes
and enhancements.
 Define processes, publish the white paper for creating branches, performing merges, applying baseline, defining code
promotion for release.
 Setup monitoring tools like Nagios, splunk and Amazon Cloud watch to monitor major metrics like Network packets, CPU
utilization, Load Balancer.
 Cross-functional teamwork, communication, analytical and presentation skills, Demonstrated leadership, management
skills, time management, and problem-solving skills.
Skills
Programming Languages: Python, SQL, Shell Scripting, Groovy scripting, MATLAB, Node.js
Web Servers: Apache, Nginx plus, WebLogic, IIS
Version Control: SVN, GIT, Bitbucket
Service Tools: Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow
Cloud Platforms: IBM cloud, Sky tap, Azure, GCP (google cloud platform), AWS (amazon web services)
On-prem hosting Platforms: VMware vSphere vCenter, vRA/vRO
Project-Methodologies: Agile, Kanban, Iterative & Incremental Development
Configuration Management Tools: Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Terraform
Virtualization and Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Virtual box, Vagrant, VMware, EKS, AKS and GKS
Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS
Simulation Tools: ANSYS, CAD, Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks
 Databases: Oracle 12c/11g/9i, PostgreSQL, Redis, MS SQL, Cosmos DB, Spanner DB, Dynamo DB
Experience
GAVS Technologies N.A. Inc/Kaiser Permanente Pleasanton,
CA
Lead Engineer, DevOps & Cloud Dec 2018 –
Present

 Manage project timelines and communicate with management staff and clients to ensure project progresses satisfactorily.
 Enact delivery upon completion of projects and ensure that delivery adheres to agile practices followed in industry
 Extensively used project management methodologies like agile and Kanban to manage the project long-term and short-
term goals with project team requirements.
 Integrating and collaborating the use of DevOps tools with cloud platform services and Security tools to achieve a dynamic
and robust CI/CD deployment process using deployment tools
 Providing detailed documentation for design and implementation of cloud best practices in AWS, GCP and Azure with
required architectural blueprints for implementation of disaster recovery proof environments across different regions
 Effectively used configuration management tools such as Terraform, chef, Ansible, Puppet for managing the infrastructure
configuration
 Hands on experience using the Terraform templates with different provisioners and providers to integrate with different
tools and processes.
 Expertise in using the virtualization technologies - VMWare, Vagrant and worked with containerization technologies -
Docker, Kubernetes.
 Developed Terraform templates/command line/templates/REST API to deploy services on Azure cloud, Amazon web
services (AWS), Google Cloud platforms (GCP).
 Managed PaaS for auto scaling deployments using Docker and AKS which reduced considerably deployment risks and
outages.
 Administering, Setup of Jenkins servers, Artifactory and code quality analysis tools for CI and sharing artifacts respectively
within the company.
 Administered and Engineered Jenkins upstream and downstream for managing bi-weekly Build, Test and Deploy chain,
using GitHub webhook actions with Dev/Test/Prod Branching Model for weekly releases.
 Automated the daily backup of Jenkins Master using Thin Backup plugin and stored the backup files on azure storage and
S3 buckets.
 Jenkins server setup using EKS for confining the deployments within a short container life cycle.
 Docker compose files for configuring the Docker containers and for different environments.
 Handled operations and maintenance support for Cloud platforms which includes launching, maintaining, and
troubleshooting Virtual Machines, storage, auditing and security policies, ECS, and databases SQL, DynamoDB and
SpannerDB
 Experience using the Azure functions and AWS lambda functions for platform triggers and timely management of resources
 Hands-on experience with AWS services EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB, EBS, S3, EFS, VPC, IAM, SQS, RDS, Lambda, Cloud Watch,
Storage Gateway, Cloud formation, Elastic Beanstalk and Autoscaling deployments using Terraform and Cloud formation
templates.
 Configured Git with Jenkins and scheduled jobs using the Poll SCM option and integrated the tools to automate code
checkout process.
 Setting up Big Data, Hadoop tools such as Apache spark, Apache Kafka, Apache hive for data analytics platform in AWS,
Azure and Google platforms.
 Extensively used identity access management tools for user and non-user access in AWS and Azure using role-based access
controls.
 Automated the cloud deployment using Chef, Ansible, Python, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates.
 Worked on Kubernetes lab environments on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and Elastic Kubernetes services (EKS) and
Google Kubernetes services (GKS) for testing the different features.
 Create container base images for deploying in containers using Packer, Terraform, Python, Docker and Ansible.
 Software Configuration Management Support with Branching and Merging strategies, Version Control Systems, Integration
Management, Build/Release Management, and Requirement Management.
 Assist in the development, improvement, and maintenance of imaging, deployment solution.
Formac Inc/ Kaiser Permanente Fremont, CA
DevOps Engineer Apr 2017 – Nov 2018
  Responsible for Design and implementation of Server Infrastructure technology. Thorough knowledge of Windows Server,
Active Directory, Group Policy, Scripting Technologies, OS builds and troubleshooting and Server Hardware expertise.
 Implementation of Proof of Concept, for Oracle 12c and 11g Installation with Chef.
 Creation of Virtual Machine servers using Terraform templates on Bluemix SoftLayer and vSphere vCenter cloud services.
 Experience writing chef scripts to configure provisioned Virtual servers using Configuration management and infrastructure
automation.
 Design and implementation for installation, configuration, and management of databases on-premises
 Infrastructure management using rest API and inbuilt CLI tools for on-prem server hosting platforms and post configuration
management using ansible and python
 Hardened and implemented custom Jenkins shared libraries to deploy manage AWS PAAS and SAAS services in integration
with CI/CD process.
 Web application migration using the environment as a service (EAAS) platform
 Source code management using strategic branching methods
 Scheduler jobs for database backups for longer retention and disaster recovery management
 Experience in writing Chef Cookbook recipes for Oracle 12c and Oracle 11g installation on RHEL 7.4
 Expertise in version controlling Chef cookbooks in GitHub repo using Git SCM tool.
 Worked on integrating different Jenkins’s plugins like, Terraform plugin and chef Identity plugin, vSphere vCenter plugin for
oracle installation of microservice applications.
 Migration of different web application jobs from on-Premises to skytap cloud environment using Jenkins Automation tool.
 Worked with multiple DevOps methodologies and tools to implement continuous integration (CI) / continuous delivery (CD)
tools (Jenkins) Infrastructure.
 Hands-on experience to set up the Kubernetes sandbox on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) for testing the different
features.
 Build and Maintain Internal Lab Profiles by configuring Virtual Machines, Cloud Services & ancillary documents, and
resources as needed.
 Worked on Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, Config Maps, selectors, services, and
deployed application containers with helpers in Pods.
 Created custom Jenkins shared libraries for deploying NodeJS, Python and JAVA-based applications in AKS and docker
containers.
 Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Azure VM, EC2 instances using Chef,
and custom Bash scripts.
 Python scripts for creating Oracle 12c pluggable database creation and deletion.
 Bash scripts for Startup and shutdown of the database server.
 Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of Azure Nodes and Test Playbooks on
Azure virtual machine using Python.
 Designing and implementing CI (Continuous Integration) system: configuring Jenkins’s servers, Jenkins’s nodes, creating
required scripts (Python), and creating/configuring VMs (Windows/Linux).
 Setup and manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO and Folders redirect.
Sree Aathma Sai Text Mill Puttur, AP, India
Software Engineer May 2013 – Dec 2014
 Overseen machinery processing and operations of human power, materials, and textile resources.
 Worked towards increasing the efficacy and quality of work of workforce with task-based incentives.
 Designed and developed HR and Payroll modules using Oracle 9i database, Forms 6i, and Reports 6i.
 Design core, backend software components that can scale as our product does.
 Implemented and determined SWOT analysis to assess and improve the production of the textiles daily
 Programming semi-automated machines using C++ for patterns/ designs on textile material.
 Helped build and enhance highly available, scalable, real-time, and secure systems used by customers.
 Implementing six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing Quality systems to improve the manufacturing process.
LMS Engineering Innovation Chennai, India
Software Engineer Jun 2012 – Apr
2013
 Programmed the semi-automated machines using C++ for patterns/ designs on textile material.
 Designed and developed Employee Human Resources (HR) and Payroll modules using Oracle 9i database, Forms 6i and
Reports 6i.
 Programming to specifications for the company’s internal tool for time tracking system
 Design and development of invoicing and costing modules, especially the user interfaces
 Created the process documents and Train the team members. And provided code Branching strategies for the releases in
SCM tool Git.
 Technical support for Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat, and Application file servers on Unix Servers using
scripts.
 Auditing the Source, maintained the Tags, Branching and merging the code in the parallel development of two phases and
applied the vendor patches to the Trunk and All branches in Git Repository.
 Documenting the process of code promotion, defect tracking and user guide for Subversion. Maintained user’s security on
Git.
 Worked with MAVEN for building the application, has written MAVEN scripts and shell scripts to automate the build
process.
Education
University of the Cumberland’s Williamsburg,
KY
Ph.D., in Information Technology Present
University of the Cumberland’s Williamsburg,
KY
Master of science in Information security Aug 2021
University of Missouri Columbia, MO
Master’s In engineering Dec 2016
Sri Venkateshwara University (NBKR INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) AP, India
Bachelor of Technology May 2012
Certification(s)
Professional Scrum Master – I Feb 2019