Vinay Babu Minnakanti

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ABOUT VINAY BABU MINNAKANTI

I\'m a results-driven DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of hands-on experience architecting and managing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. From financial services to healthcare and enterprise IT, I’ve helped organizations accelerate their CI/CD workflows, reduce operational bottlenecks, and adopt cloud-native, DevSecOps-first practices. With a strong foundation in tools like AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Ansible, and Prometheus/Grafana, I’ve consistently delivered resilient and automated systems that support high-frequency deployments and zero-downtime rollouts. At my most recent role, I led infrastructure automation efforts that cut deployment times by 35%, increased system uptime to 99.99%, and embedded security tools like Checkov, Trivy, and SonarQube to proactively detect vulnerabilities pre-production. I specialize in designing modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC), orchestrating EKS clusters, implementing blue/green and canary deployments, and building monitoring dashboards that significantly improve MTTD and MTTR. My experience also includes deploying service mesh architectures like Istio, enforcing RBAC and network policies, and automating backup, logging, and incident response using tools like AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, Splunk, and Datadog. What sets me apart is my ability to bridge the gap between development and operations, driving cross-functional collaboration and promoting a platform engineering mindset. I’ve created scalable DevOps platforms that empower product teams with self-service CI/CD pipelines, standardized templates, and integrated security checks—reducing operational toil and increasing developer velocity. Beyond my technical strengths, I’m passionate about continuous improvement. Whether it’s reducing build failures by 40%, introducing automated disaster recovery, or promoting DevOps culture through knowledge-sharing sessions, I bring a mindset focused on automation, reliability, and security at scale. I hold certifications including: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate HashiCorp Terraform Associate Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Aviatrix Certified Multicloud Network Associate I’m currently open to new opportunities—contract or full-time—where I can drive digital transformation, cloud-native modernization, and DevOps maturity. If your team is scaling innovation, embracing automation, or evolving its platform capabilities, I’d love to connect and explore how I can help accelerate those goals. Available immediately for new roles for onsite,hybrid, remote roles.