Harikrishna Muppalla

• Ordered supplies based on expected demand to keep stock within optimum levels.
• Conducted regular inventory checks to monitor stock levels and minimise waste.
• Developed and maintained a safe working environment by adhering to health and safety regulations.
• Collaborated with suppliers to negotiate prices, ensuring cost-effective purchasing of ingredients.
• Created efficient work schedules to ensure optimal staffing levels during peak times.
• Led team meetings to discuss performance, menu changes, and customer service improvements.
• Assisted restaurant management with pricing, providing information about ingredient costs and correct portioning.
• Monitored kitchen expenses and implemented measures to reduce costs without compromising quality.
• Implemented new menu items based on seasonal ingredients and customer feedback.
• Managed kitchen operations, including staff rota, stock control, and compliance with hygiene standards.
• Assisted in the recruitment, selection, and induction of new kitchen staff members.
• Supervised work of cooks and kitchen helpers helping to keep kitchen running smoothly.
• Completed regular inspections of work and food quality to verify conformance with specifications.
• Trained kitchen staff in food preparation techniques, safety protocols, and equipment use.

• Maintained high standards of food hygiene and safety in compliance with regulations.
• Maintained optimum temperature in ovens, grills and roaster to correctly cook foods.
• Maintained cleanliness and neatness of kitchen and storage areas in line with company and industry standards.
• Supervised kitchen staff, allocating duties and scheduling shifts to optimise workflow.
• Read recipes to understand ingredient needs and cooking requirements.
• Conducted thorough inspections of kitchen equipment, arranging for maintenance or replacement as necessary.
• Fostered a culture of teamwork and respect among kitchen staff, leading to increased morale and productivity.
• Assisted chefs with preparing ingredients, cooking dishes and plating meals on busy days.
• Organised ingredients at start of shift to prepare for expected needs during busy periods.

• • Monitored kitchen operations throughout service, confirming chefs completed orders to high-quality standards.

• Disinfected food preparation areas for improved kitchen hygiene.
• Handled multiple food preparation tasks simultaneously to support peak dining periods.
• Prepared vegetables before service times, washing, peeling and chopping varieties used in dishes.
• Followed recipes to achieve food quality and consistency.
• Disposed of kitchen waste and recycling appropriately.
• Prepared and cooked meals to meet daily service requirements in a high-volume kitchen.
• Prepped ingredients in advance to speed up cooking times during peak hours.
• Weighed ingredients for accurate portion control.

• Proficient in implementing and developing code in UAT/QA/Pre-prod and production environments through Jenkins.
• Experienced with UNIX, Jenkins, GIT, Production Support, maintenance and Perl Job Scheduling.
• Maintaining and monitoring CI/CD environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Production environments and maintain scale the fastest distribution cloud for smooth operations.
• Provisioning and maintaining private or public cloud services in a highly available and scalable production environments.
• Experience in Configuring, Deploying application artifacts on application stack on middleware tools such as Apache Tomcat, Web Server, Cloud and Hybrid environments.
• Managing and Deploying Services on Web Servers (Apache Tomcat), DB Server (MySQL).
• Building and managing AWS DevOps pipelines and GitHub actions by following the best practices and procedures.
• Experience with version control tools such as GIT and comprehensive knowledge of source controller concepts including branches, tags, merges, branch strategies, build/release and branch merge process.
• Experience in using Linux,
• Used Kubernetes to provide a platform for automating deployment, scaling and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts and managed containerized applications using its nodes, config maps and services.

• Worked closely with Business Analyst and Product Owners to gather the business requirements and propose the solution on DevOps tools.
• Worked with GIT as source code management tool for creating the local repo, cloning the repo, adding, committing and pushing the changes in the local repo.
• Worked on application continuous integration/deployments from QA to production and monthly releases based on the change management requests.
• Performing the health checks for the application at regular intervals for checking the status and monitoring the performance of the application system by using my Wizard Splunk tool and Kubernetes by executing backend scripts and SQL queries in LINUX environment.
• Developed continuous integration pipelines for enhanced code quality.
• Led cloud migration initiatives for increased storage capabilities.
• Monitored application performance and infrastructure health, implementing automated alerts for potential issues.
• Improved system stability to handle peak loads by load-balancing strategies.