Priyadarshini Velayudam

About Priyadarshini Velayudam

I am a Cloud Engineer and SRE with over 4 years of experience at Aras Corporation, specializing in building resilient infrastructure and optimizing software delivery. With a strong foundation in C#/.NET and SQL, I treat operations as an engineering problem, focusing on automation and system scalability.My background is unique: before pivoting into Cloud Engineering, I spent 4 years as a Technical Author in the aerospace industry. This experience sharpened my ability to translate complex technical architectures into clear, actionable documentation—a skill that is vital for modern DevOps environments.I am authorized to work in the U.S. and am always looking to connect with fellow engineers solving high-scale problems.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   Aras Corporation

   Apr 2022 — Present · Andover, MA, US

   Project Inception: Work with stakeholders to define technical requirements and project scope.Infrastructure Provisioning: Use Terraform and PowerShell, Kubernetes, Prometheus,Jenkins to build scalable and repeatable Azureinfrastructure from the ground up.CI/CD Pipeline: Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub for automated builds and deployments.Manage the final deployment to production, ensuring stability, performance, and a seamless customer transition.Act as the primary technical contact for customers, troubleshooting production issues and providing timely resolutions.Proactively handle infrastructure updates, patching, and scaling to meet new demands and security requirements.Optimized database performance by proactively investigating, debugging, and resolving critical production issues, minimizing downtime andensuring high availability.Engineered and defined database physical structures and functional capabilities to support evolving business requirements.Developed andmaintained robust data backup and recovery specifications and procedures, ensuring business continuity and rapid disaster recovery.Key member of the 24/7 DevOps on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and rapid incident response.Acted as the primary responder, decreasing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for critical production alerts.Lead incident response efforts and conduct post-mortem analysis for continuous improvement using Grafana and PagerDuty

Education

• Rivier University

  Master of Science, Computer Science

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2002 — 2007