Balakrishna Reddy

Cloud Devops Engineer @Thrivent Financial Services

US

Developed and maintained microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and Groovy, improving system performance and scalability by 30%, while reducing service downtime through efficient error handling and logging.• Designed and deployed containerized microservices using Amazon ECS (Fargate), improving application scalability and reducing deployment time by 40% through blue/green deployment strategies.• Implemented high-throughput data processing pipelines using AWS DynamoDB, achieving availability and reducing database latency by 60% for real-time applications.• Built resilient and scalable CI/CD pipeline design using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing build failures by 30% and enabling faster, consistent delivery of services to production environments.• Led the design of deployment strategies leveraging canary and rolling updates in ECS, ensuring zero-downtime rollouts for mission-critical applications with high user traffic.• Recognized for a high sense of urgency and proactive problem-solving, resolving critical production issues within 30 minutes, minimizing customer impact, and improving SLA adherence.• Streamlined operations and process automation through Python and shell scripting, reducing recurring manual tasks by 80%, and accelerating incident response and recovery time.• Managed relational databases including Oracle and PostgreSQL, writing optimized SQL queries, and performing MariaDB patching/upgrades, which improved system performance and data integrity across production environments.• Evaluated and resolved CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) by applying timely patches and security upgrades, reducing critical security risks by 60% in production environments

Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Kanpur University, Kanpur

Bachelor's degree

Clark University

Master's degree