Veera Venkata Akhil N

Data Analyst @Caterpillar Inc.

Chicago, IL, US

Drove adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps using Terraform to manage 60+ critical cloud environments, achieving a 70% faster environment setup and ensuring configuration consistency-> Automated and secured CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Docker, and ArgoCD, reducing manual deployments by 50% and improving release reliability for global development teams-> Engineered a cost-optimized microservices architecture leveraging EC2 and NGINX as a reverse proxy/load balancer, directly supporting the maintenance of platform reliability and scalability-> Integrated static (SonarQube) and dynamic (OWASP ZAP) security testing into the CI/CD pipeline to mitigate OWASP Top 10 risks, reducing security defects by 45% pre-deployment-> Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical backend services and administered the Linux environment, achieving 99.99% uptime and reducing Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) by 35% via proactive monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack)-> Collaborated frequently with cross-functional development teams to define technical specifications-> Performed smoke testing on newly deployed builds and participated in bug analysis and defect reporting-> Executed automated regression test cases on daily nightly builds and reports using TestNG-> Collaborated closely with team members to clarify requirements, reviewed test cases with cross-functional teams to ensure comprehensive coverage of functional specifications and use cases.