Rahul Choudhari

About Rahul Choudhari

Highly accomplished and results-driven Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cybersecurity expert, and Platform Engineer with 18+ years of experience architecting and managing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms. Proven ability to drive operational excellence through automation, leveraging tools like Wiz, Jenkins, Qualys, Python, and AI to optimize infrastructure and fortify security. Collaborative leader adept at delivering innovative solutions that align with business objectives and significantly improve system performance and reliability. Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve complex challenges and build resilient, secure, and efficient systems.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   Cisco

   Mar 2023 — Present

   AI-powered SRE : Augments human SREs to automate incident prevention, diagnosis, and remediation, using machine intelligence to ensure system reliability and performance at scale.• Cybersecurity Impact: Reduced critical vulnerabilities by 40% within six months by implementing Wiz-driven security posture management and automating remediation workflows with Python, significantly improving compliance and reducing risk.• CI/CD Innovation: Architected and deployed a fully automated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, accelerating deployment velocity by 60% and boosting release frequency by 30%.• AI-Driven Threat Detection: Pioneered the development and deployment of an AI-powered anomaly detection system using Python and machine learning, decreasing false positives by 25% and enhancing real-time threat identification.• Led the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure and scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP, ensuring high availability and performance.• Developed and implemented security policies and procedures to protect sensitive data and systems, ensuring compliance with industry regulations.• Automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.• Conducted regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests using Qualys and other security tools to identify and remediate security weaknesses.• Mentored and trained junior engineers on SRE, cybersecurity, and platform engineering best practices.• Improved incident response time by 50% by creating automated alerts and runbooks.

Education

• Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

  B.E., Electronics & Communication

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Vendor Management
• IT Service Management
• Chef
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Linux
• Unix
• Hardware
• Hp-UX
• Ibm Aix
• Openstack
• Ansible
• Virtualization
• Infrastructure
• Storage
• Cluster
• Hp Openview
• Sun Cluster
• Docker
• Storage Area Networks
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Shell Scripting
• Operating Systems
• Incident Management
• Veritas Cluster Server
• Databases
• Hp
• Solution Architecture
• Netbackup
• Openshift
• San
• Aix
• Data Center
• Clustering
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Servers
• Itil