Lakshman Katakam

• Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as rar, sar, war & ear from source code.
• Application Experience in Build tool like maven. Hands-on experience in creating, Terraform, cookbooks for cloud automation (AWS) and Application deployment automation.
• Configured security groups, Network Access Control List, Routing Tables. Working knowledge on Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI tools like Jenkins.
• Experience is using Tomcat, Web logic and Web Sphere Application servers for deployments. Extensively used Code Commit, Code Pipeline.
• Experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Creating EC2 Instances and configuring all web Services like EC2, SQS, SNS, Load Balancer, CloudFront, VPC, Security Groups, Certificate manager, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM through AWS Console.
• Written definition files for Kubernetes PODS, services, and deployments.

Project : British Telecom

DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad, India, July 2017 – Aug 2021 (4 Years)

Development & Systems Integration:

• Implemented and designed Spring Boot services for creating automatic incidents for Prometheus alerts.
• Developed backend applications with PL/SQL and worked with Advanced Queues for data processing between systems.
• Migrated Docker images using Python scripts and sent data to Elastic Cluster for reporting purposes.
• Created a python Application to send the data to Elastic Cluster for Reporting purpose.
• Managed branching in GitLab source repo for various services.

Virtualization & Containerization:

• Created and Setup the HA Kubernetes cluster and docker.
• Created Dockerfile for the various application.
• Formed Zalenium/Selenium Hub in K8s for testing the Frontend using WDIO UI framework.
• Deployed containerization on PostgreSQL, Neo4j DB in the Kubernetes cluster.

Continuous Integration & Deployment Solutions:

• Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab.
• Integrated and set up SonarQube for code quality analysis.
• Integrated and Created Minio for storing the secrets/certificates which is used in build and deployment part for services.
• Integrated Nexus Repository for storing the build artifacts.
• Created Spinnaker pipelines for Deploying the services into K8s Cluster.
• Experienced in implementing CM tools like Ansible.

Server Maintenance & Infrastructure Monitoring:

• Managing 100+ Linux servers & component provisioning & handling configuration & deployment of infrastructure & services across all environments.
• Implemented server maintenance, infrastructure monitoring, and alerting using ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Designed Monitoring Setup for K8s Infrastructure and Kafka and other tools using Prometheus Stack.
• Enabled the Email Alerting with Alert manager for Prometheus.
• Created a custom Dashboard and Dashboards for Infra metrics in Grafana.