Venkatesh Ganesan

About Venkatesh Ganesan

AWS Cloud Engineer, Results-driven Technical Lead with over 15 years of experience…

Experience

1. Devops Technical Lead

   Ornge

   Oct 2023 — Present · Cupertino, CA, US

   Designed and developed fleet management applications using Python (Flask, REST APIs, WebSockets) integrated with AWS cloud-native services (EC2, Lambda, S3, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, IoT Core, EventBridge, QuickSight) enabling real-time GPS tracking, telematics ingestion, and predictive maintenance workflows.• Built and deployed event-driven data pipelines with AWS IoT Core, Lambda, EventBridge, ensuring scalable, low-latency processing of vehicle telemetry data and supporting predictive analytics workloads.• Developed secure storage and analytics solutions using S3, Aurora (PostgreSQL), DynamoDB, powering dashboards in QuickSight and predictive ML models for fleet operations.• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, and automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for Python services and containerized applications.• Deployed and managed Docker containers and Kubernetes workloads (Amazon EKS) to orchestrate microservices, improving availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.• Enforced cloud security and compliance with IAM least privilege policies, KMS encryption, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Config, Security Hub, and automated monitoring using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, aligned with HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2 frameworks.• Optimized costs using AWS Cost Explorer, tagging strategies, monitoring tools, and implemented recommendations from Trusted Advisor and its REST API, improving scalability and resilience.• Migrated legacy telemetry systems into AWS cloud-native architectures, applying resource tagging, monitoring, and optimization strategies to improve cost efficiency, performance, and resilience.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define SLAs, compliance controls, and geo-fencing alerting across multi-region hybrid environments, ensuring operational reliability and governance adherence

Education

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science