About

Keerthna Murali is a Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE) at Dell EMC with over 5 years of relevant experience. She is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) and AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (AWS CSAA). In her current role at Dell, Keerthna is responsible for ensuring the performance, uptime, reliability, and resilience of the company's systems. She has experience in managing infrastructure, setting up complete infrastructure for Vault, and creating infrastructure for monitoring using Terraform on GCP Stackdriver. Keerthna has also performed scheduled changes, migration, and upgrades, identified improvements to infrastructure and operational procedures, and automated manual processes. She has worked with development teams to handle operational requirements and maintained, executed, and created operational runbooks. Furthermore, Keerthna has optimized alert triggers and set up PagerDuty infrastructure for applications from scratch by creating Service event rules and Global event rules for alert notifications. Keerthna has previously worked at Keller Williams Realty, Inc. and Quest as a Site Reliability Engineer and DevOps Engineer, respectively. At Quest, she reduced 50% of the manual time by automating deployments using Jenkins and Ansible Tower. She also worked on the installation of Docker by creating custom Docker container images and configuring the deployable artifacts using Maven and ANTs. Additionally, Keerthna reduced 40% of the testing time by automating a smoke test process using bash. Keerthna has a Master's degree in Computer Science from California State University - East Bay and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University. She also has an Executive Masters in Information Systems Security from the University of the Cumberlands. Keerthna's tech stack includes SRE, AWS, test, infra, Docker, Ansible, DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, Microservices, and GCP.