Surendra Chatala

About Surendra Chatala

Cloud architect and DevOps Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and automating…

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer

   Shell

   Jul 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Responsible for deployment and operations of the OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe) data platform on AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability- Customized the OSDU release from AWS to meet shell-specific requirements and deployed it in shell environments- Designed and deployed highly available, production-grade EKS clusters using Terraform with support for multi-AZ and auto-scaling node groups- Managed and optimized EKS worker node groups (both managed and self-managed) using Karpenter for efficient cost and performance- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate EKS application deployments and cluster bootstrap- Managed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for building, testing, and deploying microservices to EKS and other AWS Services- Administered and maintained Apache Airflow in production environments, including DAG deployment, scheduler tuning, and worker node scaling- Tuned Airflow performance by optimizing task concurrency, worker autoscaling, and scheduling intervals- Automated Airflow deployments using Terraform, Helm charts, and Kubernetes manifests in multi-environment setups (dev, acc, prod)- Provisioned GCP resources using Terraform to automate the creation and management of different resources- Built scalable, secure, and highly available GKE clusters for hosting containerized microservices- Automated the deployment and configuration of GKE clusters using Terraform scripts, enabling rapid provisioning and consistent setup across development, testing, and production environments- Developed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub workflows to deploy applications and infrastructure on GCP and AWS- Integrated Dynatrace monitoring with Amazon EKS clusters to gain insights into containerized application performance and resource utilization- Deployed and managed Dynatrace OneAgent across diverse environments to monitor infrastructure, applications, and services.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2004 — 2008