Venkat Vankayala

About Venkat Vankayala

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Leader | OCI Certified | GCP Certified |…

Experience

1. Cloud Platform Dbaas & Infra

   Dollar General

   Jun 2023 — Present

   Leading a globally distributed team of engineers focused on building and scaling secure, automated, and cost-effective infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and MongoDB Atlas. Spearhead platform strategy for IaaS and DBaaS, overseeing Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform-driven provisioning, CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), and observability pipelines (Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace). Deliver production-grade database services across Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB Atlas, with HA, multi-region, and traffic-responsive elasticity. Defined and implemented SRE best practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident playbooks, chaos engineering, and automated rollback mechanisms. Led adoption of security tooling (Wiz, Snyk, SCC,SonarQube), data classification, and audit readiness aligned with SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and CIS benchmarks. Built cost visibility via BigQuery dashboards and automated budget alerts. Delivered Vertex AI pipelines integrated with BigQuery and Dataflow for real-time ML use cases. Foster team culture focused on innovation, transparency, and execution at scale.

Education

• The City College of New York

  Master's

  2006 — 2007

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• Weblogic
• Database Design
• Sql Tuning
• Ibm Aix
• High Availability
• Oracle Certified Dba
• Database Administration
• Sql*Plus
• Cluster
• Shell Scripting
• Oracle
• Itil
• Sql
• Linux
• Data Guard
• Operating Systems
• Oracle Rac
• System Administration
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Pl/Sql
• Databases
• Toad
• Aix
• Security
• Etl
• Disaster Recovery
• Replication
• Rman
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Data Warehousing
• Performance Tuning
• Db2
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Oracle Applications
• Hp-UX