Vamshi Krishna Santhapuri

About Vamshi Krishna Santhapuri

whoami -os-affinity=\"Arch|Debian|RHEL\"-infra=codeCloud Security Architect | SRE | Kubernetes & Linux Deep-Dive SpecialistI’ve spent 14+ years navigating the stack—from enterprise Red Hat to the \"bleeding edge\" of Arch Linux. For me, architecture is more than diagrams; it’s the art of building resilient systems where code, kernel, and hardware align.I believe excellence is a magnet. I am an Architect by trade and a \"tech nerd\" by choice, looking for missions that fuel passion. I thrive where the goal is to find a better mentor and solve harder problems, rather than sticking to a passionless status quo.Cloud Operations & Orchestration: Management of massive EKS and OpenShift environments. Specialized in high-availability CloudOps, recovering crippled etcd clusters, and zero-downtime K8s upgrades.Data Integrity & Backup Ops: I’ve designed and automated mission-critical Backup Operations for Cassandra and PostgreSQL, ensuring RPO/RTO targets are met through deterministic, scripted recovery paths.Infrastructure as Code & Bare Metal: Expert in Terraform for declarative provisioning across cloud providers and bare-metal platforms like Packet. If it’s not in code, it doesn\'t exist.The Development Stack: Building solutions with Python and Django. My philosophy is rooted in automation; if it can be done twice, it’s already been scripted in a ton of BASH.Security & Hardening: Linux VM hardening (NIST 800-53/CIS) and the frontier of AI-Security. Implemented TOTP, integrated SAST/DAST into CI/CD, and built custom \"from-scratch\" Docker images.Linux Internals: Surgical kernel tuning on Debian, managing LVM/RAID, and config management engines. Whether it’s RHEL or Arch, the shell is my home.I lead through mentorship. Whether it’s writing scripts for self-service portals, performance tuning, troubleshooting or managing complex Ansible codebases, I believe a leader’s value is found in guiding others through technical hurdles.Status: tar -cvzf backup.tar.gz /mnt/data & & while true; do learn & & build; done & & terraform apply # pacman -Syu Let\'s connect if you → Are building or scaling cloud-native infrastructure → Care about security that doesn\'t slow down engineering → Want to contribute to or follow my OSS projects → Are working on something interesting in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering linuxcent.com medium.com/@rrskris github.com/rrskris

Experience

1. Architect

   HighRadius

   Mar 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• JNTUH

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  2006 — 2010