Shree Vallabh

About Shree Vallabh

Kubernetes Leadership: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA); led the migration of 400+ microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD. Standardized deployments and upgraded outdated charts across environments.Cloud Infrastructure (AWS,GCP,AZURE): Deep experience architecting, designing and maintaining infrastructure on AWS,GCP and AZURECI/CD & GitOps: Built and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Ansible. Embraced GitOps principles for reliability, security, and traceability across deployments.Observability at Scale: Architected full observability stacks using Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, and Alertmanager; exposed ingress controller metrics and tracked SLO/SLA. Migrated monitoring from Datadog to GCP for better control and cost efficiency.Monitoring & Logging: Extensive use of Grafana, Kibana, CloudWatch, ELK/EFK, Coralogix for metrics, tracing, and logs. Consolidated and cleaned up legacy alerting across Datadog and GCP.Cost Optimization: Saved over by downscaling compute resources, autoscaling Elasticsearch, cleaning GCP environments, and retiring unused infrastructure components.Incident Management: Improved MTTA, MTTD, and MTTR by standardizing on-call handovers, RCA documentation, and integrating follow-ups into agile sprint planning.Team Leadership: Led a team of five engineers, managing sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and executing high-impact infra and security projects.Security & Access Control: Enforced secure infrastructure practices through SSO rollout, VPN migrations, IAM restructuring, and proactive DevSecOps integration (AWS WAF, Shield, Cloudflare).Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure automation and environment consistency.Distributed Systems Expertise: Hands-on with Kafka, Redis Elasticsearch in production.Caching & Databases: Implemented robust caching solutions with RedisLabs and ElastiCache; managed MySQL (RDS), MongoDB, and Cassandra in production.Automation & Scripting: Skilled in Python, Flask, and Bash for developing tools, automating tasks, and integrating services.Virtualization & Containerization: Docker expert with deep Kubernetes and orchestration knowledge across AWS, GCP, and on-prem environments.Collaboration Tools: Effective use of Jira for sprint management, backlog grooming, and coordinating engineering execution with business priorities.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   apna

   Oct 2024 — Present

Education

• S.G.Balekundri Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering

  2009 — 2013