About

Nithin Vangari is a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer and SRE with over 8 years of experience in the field. Currently working at Apple, he is passionate about DevOps and has expertise in CI/CD, Build & Release Management, and Configuration Management. Nithin's specialties include Docker, AWS, Spinnaker, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab, SVN, Nginx, NetScalar, Haproxy, Jfrog & Nexus Artifactory’s, and IBM UrbonCode Deploy(UCD). He is also proficient in Atlassian tools JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Confluence. Nithin has hands-on experience in various areas, including refactoring monolithic applications to microservices, leading application modernization projects, and application architecture projects. He is well-versed in Developer Productivity Engineering, including Infrastructure as a code, continuous integration, and automated deployments. He also has a clear understanding of modern Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. As a Release Engineer, Nithin is skilled in building, maintaining, and deploying web/SaaS applications. He is currently leading the CI/CD migration project at Apple, which is a 2.5-year-long project. Nithin has hand-held many teams on the Dev side and SRE side in migration to make it a success. He has migrated 150 services and its libraries from on-premise managed build infra to Apple Cloud Infrastructure and enabled a self-service model for devs from lower environments till production. In the past, Nithin has worked for Optum and JDA Software as a Senior DevOps Engineer and DevOps Engineer, respectively. At Optum, he automated and supported mission-critical large-scale infrastructure systems and services like Docker UCP, Openshift. At JDA Software, he designed a Common Build Framework for Java/C++ Based JDA Core Products and managed administration for CI and version control tools like Jenkins, GIT/Bitbucket, and SVN. Nithin holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Osmania University. His technical skills include DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, infra, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Bamboo, Ansible, Kubernetes, Microservices, Integration, Web, and QA.