Harshavardhan Nerella

About Harshavardhan Nerella

Cloud Architect with over seven years of experience in designing and building…

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   MassMutual

   Mar 2021 — Present

   Designing enterprise-wide cloud and technology architecture. Leading teams and assuring the technology supports the business needs. Design and implement the end-to-end solution for a mission-critical Kubernetes orchestration platform at the enterprise level using Rafay. • Obtained business and technology requirements from key stakeholders. • Selling the architecture vision to key executives and other key stakeholders. • Delivered technical presentations to management. • Vendor negotiation and management. • Mentored technology professionals, including interns and junior engineers. • Documenting the design of mission-critical systems in written, diagram, and presentation formats. • Leading teams of engineers and other key technology players. • Received multiple internal spotlight awards for commitment, accountability, and leadership. • Delivered technical training sessions for Cloud Engineers and CloudOps Engineers. • Functioned as a Subject Matter Expert for the Rafay SaaS platform. • Led project to design and implement an end-to-end Kubernetes environment. • Created a reference architecture for Kubernetes deployment, including (ALB, Secrets Driver, New Relic, Wiz, DNS, Vault, and Autoscaler). • Leading proof of concepts and brainstorming sessions for Cloud engineering solutions. • Deployed Terraform infrastructure as a code solution, optimizing Kubernetes deployment from 2 days to 2 hours. • Designed and developed reusable, clean, and well-tested Terraform modules to deploy infrastructure on the AWS cloud. • Implemented standardization measures for the EKS fleet, which involved adopting a new blueprint, incorporating add-ons, enabling control plane logs, setting up OIDC, and adopting the latest AMIs. • Collaborated closely with the streaming application team to implement AWS private link functionality. • Managing IP address planning for all development, non-production, and production AWS landing zones.

Education

• Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology & Research

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• Cleveland State University

  Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineer

• University of the Cumberlands

  Master of Science - MS, Information Technology