Prashanth Reddy Dudipala
Lead Devops Engineer @AppZen
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Devops Engineer @AppZen
San Jose, CA, US
Led CI/CD modernization with GitOps, orchestrating Jenkins (CI) on Kubernetes for build/test automation and self-managed ArgoCD (CD) for declarative, version-controlled deployments, ensuring scalability and faster releases.• Spearheaded observability platform uplift by integrating OpenTelemetry Collector, OSIS, and Amazon Managed Prometheus to centralize logs, metrics, and traces across microservices.• Drove AWS cost optimization, achieving significant savings via Reserved Instance modeling, log ingestion governance, and S3 lifecycle policies.• Built scalable Kubernetes/EKS platforms with Karpenter autoscaling, Linkerd service mesh, and multi-tenant ingress to improve reliability and efficiency.• Optimized Redshift spend by integrating Glue Catalog with direct Redshift connectivity and designing ETL pipelines to offload heavy compute workloads to Glue jobs.• Developed data pipelines for Snowflake, automating external tables and S3-backed shares to improve analytics delivery and governance.• Migrated observability workloads to OpenSearch Serverless, enhancing performance, security posture, and operational efficiency (published in AWS Big Data Blog).• Automated OpenSearch index management, versioning templates in Git, deploying via Jenkins pipelines, and creating automation jobs for reindex, rollover, index creation, and template lifecycle management.• Enabled AI model consumption across clouds, integrating GCP AI models and Bedrock models into workflows for financial report processing.• Managed Temporal server with Cassandra backend, delivering reliable workflow orchestration to automate complex business logic.• Administered ECS services with Jenkins CI/CD, maintaining Git-based source code pipelines for automated builds and deployments of containerized applications.
EDUCATION
University of Central Missouri
Master's degree, Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University
Bachelor's degree, Digital Techniques for Design and Planning
ABOUT PRASHANTH REDDY DUDIPALA
As a DevOps Architect at AppZen, I focus on modernizing CI/CD workflows with GitOps, utilizing Jenkins on Kubernetes for automation, and deploying with ArgoCD for scalable and version-controlled releases. My role includes leading observability platform enhancements through OpenTelemetry integration and optimizing AWS costs by implementing Reserved Instance modeling and governance practices. With a Master\'s degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Missouri and AWS Certified Associate Developer credentials, I bring expertise in building scalable Kubernetes/EKS platforms, implementing service meshes, and enhancing multi-tenant ingress. My work is driven by a commitment to innovation, efficiency, and reliability in cloud infrastructure and automation.
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