About

Karunakar Raju is a skilled DevOps Engineer with AWS at Walmart Global Tech, with over 7 years of experience in Build and Release Engineering and DevOps. He has extensive experience in software configuration management, including project setup, build and release process setup, build automation, continuous integration, AWS, and DevOps. Karunakar is proficient in integrating source control mechanisms with build systems using SVN and GIT, creating and maintaining source code repositories using SVN, GIT, GITHUB, or GITLAB, and has a strong knowledge of GIT version control system. He has experience in writing and maintaining build management tools like ANT/Maven and C-MAKE, and has expertise in maintaining and monitoring daily builds and providing proactive support for ongoing releases by setting up new environments or resolving any build issues. Karunakar's skills also include extensive experience as a DevOps Engineer and CICD expert, managing docker orchestration and containerization using Kubernetes, and expertise in Linux (UBUNTU/RHEL), shell scripting, and Python scripting. He has good working knowledge of continuous integration tools like Jenkins/Hudson, and has configured multiple Jenkins jobs for builds and deployments, setting up distributed builds using Jenkins master/slave concepts, plug-in installation, and pipeline projects using Groovy script. Karunakar has expertise in setting up and configuring Tomcat and Apache, deployment of web applications in Tomcat, and has worked on configuration management tools like Chef. He has also worked on installing Docker using Docker toolbox, creating Docker images using a Docker file, Docker container snapshots, and removing images. Karunakar is well-versed in Amazon Web Services (AWS)-EC2, VPC, S3, AMI, SNS, Cloud Watch, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, IAM-Role, VPC, Subnet, EFS, and has experience in backup/restore, taking a snapshot of existing volumes and creating AMI from running servers, and restoring it in case of emergencies. Karunakar has a B.Tech in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from St. David School Hyderabad. His tech stack includes AWS, DevOps, Docker, Jenkins, Web, Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, Integration, Kubernetes, Python, Java, Ansible, test, qa, Mobile, infra, and Terraform. Karunakar has 7.87 years of relevant experience and has worked as a DevOps Technical Lead at