About

Jayakumar Reddivari is a Staff Engineer at VMware with expertise in distributed systems, scale, and networking. He is currently working as a Developer at VMware-NSX ALB, where he is responsible for developing highly available web applications and RESTful services. He is proficient in Python and Go and has worked with Python web frameworks like Flask and Django, and Go-based frameworks like GORM. Jayakumar has experience with SQL databases and caches and has developed products on AWS and Google Cloud Services with Python and Go SDK modules. Jayakumar is an expert in troubleshooting complex production issues and has experience handling critical issues over customer calls. He has excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills. He has also automated CI/CD pipelines and has expertise in configuration management for deploying, configuring, and managing servers and systems. Prior to VMware, Jayakumar worked as an Automation Infrastructure Developer at AVI Networks, where he designed and developed automation infrastructure for various cloud platforms using Pytest and Robot Test frameworks. He conceptualized and implemented HTTP Traffic Tools addressing continuous traffic, multi-source, and multi-destination endpoints with real-time traffic analytics. He also enabled IPv6 for existing functional, smoke, and performance automation test suites and developed new test suites providing 100% coverage for IPv6. Jayakumar has also worked as a Software Engineer at Cisco, where he worked on Cisco Nexus 1000 Virtual Switch, designing and developing core automation infrastructure in various languages like Python, JAVA, and TCL. Jayakumar holds a degree in Information Technology from Mohan Babu University in Tirupati (Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College) and completed his SSC from Z.P. High School. He has a strong tech stack, including AWS, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Azure, Flask, Ansible, Terraform, Django, MySQL, Jenkins, and GCP. With 8.87 years of relevant experience, Jayakumar is a skilled engineer with a proven track record of developing highly available web applications and distributed systems.