About

Krishna Bandi is a highly experienced AWS Cloud DevOps Architect with over 18 years of experience in architecting resilient, cost-efficient, and secure cloud solutions. With 7 AWS certifications under his belt, he is a visionary and self-motivated leader who is enthusiastic, supportive, and proactive. Krishna has a diverse skill set that includes Infrastructure as Code (IaC), serverless, data lakes, big data, Spark, EMR, Hadoop, RedShift, EKS, DDoS mitigation, CI/CD, continuous deployment, monitoring, and compliance solutions, VPC design, load balancing, auto-scaling, networking, system software development using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform Enterprise, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, istio, Vagrant, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Git, Gerrit, QEMU, Groovy, Python, Perl, UNIX Shell Scripting, C, C++, Java in Agile/SAFe environments. Currently working as the Lead AWS Cloud DevOps Architect at Discover Financial Services, Krishna is responsible for leading the AWS Cloud team, prioritizing the team's work and deliveries, working with other Enterprise Architects, Team Leads, Senior Managers, and Directors, advocating the best practices of CI/CD, embedding security right into the core of solutions design, automating cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, architecting and implementing resilient solutions that are highly available, cost-effective, and secure, implementing CI/CD across the enterprise, and advising the best practices of DevOps to development teams, managers, enterprise architects, and directors. Krishna has also worked as a DevOps consultant at Cancer Research UK and Satellite Applications Catapult, where he was responsible for supporting the ongoing operation of Big Data analytics solutions, designing and developing end-to-end data pipeline chains to deal with various types of data and ingesting the data into NoSQL DB, containerizing applications using Docker, configuration management, provisioning new HW, deploying applications using Ansible, and resources monitoring using Grafana, AWS CloudWatch. Krishna holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His technical skills include AWS, DevOps, Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, infra, Ansible, ECS, Spark, Docker, Hadoop, Jenkins, Microservices, Web, Software