Dr. Rakeshnag Dasari

Key Achievements:

• Designed and implemented DevOps security policies, resulting in a 50% reduction in security incidents and a 30% increase in compliance with industry standards
• Developed and maintained DevOps automation scripts, reducing manual effort by 40% and improving pipeline reliability by 25%
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement DevOps CI/CD processes, resulting in a 60% reduction in deployment time and a 20% increase in successful deployments
• Orchestrated the implementation of a centralized agent pool for developer pipelines, resulting in standardized deployments with embedded Policy as Code practices

Responsibilities:

• Developed and deployed a policy framework in alignment with governance requirements, encompassing tags, security measures, baselines, financial controls, and Terraform IaC best practices
• Implemented Google/Oracle Kubernetes Engine (GKE/OKE) for container orchestration
• Managed OCI Key Vault for secure storage and lifecycle management of credentials, certificates, and sensitive assets
• Developed and maintained secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using Buildkite, integrating static and dynamic security testing
• Managed Oracle application deployments with FlexDeploy, implementing role-based access controls and approval workflows
• Designed and implemented monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus and Grafana
• Enhanced DevSecOps maturity by embedding vulnerability scanning, credential management, and cloud security features

MLOps & AI Engineering:

• Developed and implemented end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including data ingestion, pre-processing, feature engineering, model training, and deployment in production environments
• Implemented Fraud and Revenue Control Management to identify frauds during customer acquisition and subscription
• Worked on face_recognition, MTCNN, FaceNet Neural Network models
• Led the team of ML Engineers, Data Engineers and Python Backend developers
• Deployed Image and document classification models into production
• Implemented Stream processing, Batch processing and automated the dataflow
• Designed the data flow end to end from data capture to insights delivery

Cloud & Infrastructure:

• Designed and maintained secure GCP architectures, leveraging IAM and VPC configurations
• Utilized Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Pub/Sub for serverless computing and event-driven applications
• Automated deployments and infrastructure as code (IaC) with Deployment Manager and Terraform on GCP
• Monitored and analyzed performance using Stackdriver and set up alerts for proactive issue resolution
• Executed data migrations and transformations with Google Dataflow and Cloud Dataprep
• Implemented event driven architecture using Kafka and built data pipelines using Nifi

Security & Compliance:

• Implemented OWASP SonarQube, OWASP Dependency-Check security testing and reporting
• Used Fortify for SCA and SAST, ZAP for DAST, X-Ray for container scanning, HCL Appscan for IAST
• Managed and developed Jenkins aspects including groovy scripts for configuration management
• Performed static analysis application testing using HP Fortify and dynamic testing using AppScan

Operations & Monitoring:

• Led OCI "solution packs" for operational troubleshooting (VMWare, FC Switches, Storage Admins)
• Worked on OCI / Service Now integration for CMDB gaps and incident management
• Configured Cloud Monitoring using OCI to monitor AWS and Azure cloud resources
• Configured, tested, and deployed firmware updates for DOCSIS-based cable modems and RDK-based gateways

Responsibilities:

• Implemented DevOps pipelines with Security models (OWASP) on CentOS server and incorporating security into VSTS/Azure applications
• Worked with Azure Key Vault to integrate the output via emails using SendGrid application on Azure
• Worked on ARM Templates based on XML and JSON, PowerShell and Database Packages scripts for creating resource groups
• Used Swagger as a Unique Identification service for API operations (GET, POST, PATCH)
• Deployed code on web application servers like IIS, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS
• Built microservices in Azure using API gateway and troubleshooting
• Created Health Check Pipelines for all CI/CD pipelines to identify pipeline issues
• Used Kubernetes to configure nodes and manage cluster configurations
• Executed workflow templates deploying Terraform and YAML scripts on target servers
• Deployed and managed J2EE JBoss Applications, installed, configured, and performed tuning
• Implemented content management using Oracle WebCenter & ImageNow
• Integrated JIRA with Confluence and Jenkins CI server for real-time issue tracking
• Configured Nagios to monitor EC2 Linux instances with Ansible automation
• Integrated HP Fortify tool with Jenkins in agile development process for SAST