About

Raghavendra Rao Kanakala is an experienced DevOps/SRE professional with over 19 years of experience in various industries, including Financial Services, Identity Management, Editorial System, and Health Care. He possesses expertise in CI/CD setup integrating with Jenkins, Nomad, Mesosphere DC/OS, Anthos, GKE, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, GIT, Maven, Ansible, SonarQube, Artifactory, Nexus Repository, RunDeck, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Splunk. Raghavendra has extensive experience in supporting and configuring Salesforce Admin with streamlining Jenkins deployment through SFDX, admin configuration, and setup of Einstein Analytics jobs. Raghavendra has worked on Cloud Technologies AWS (Pipeline, ECR, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Route 53, S3, EBS, and VPC) and GCP (GKE) and has expertise in OnPrem migration from Mesosphere DC/OS to Anthos setup end-to-end along with monitoring integration with Dyntrace and Splunk. Currently, he is working as a Site Reliability Engineer at Apple, responsible for understanding the system of architecture, deployment & release cycle complexity, monitoring tools, and automation of the smooth release process for FlexiPASS. Raghavendra has worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at SAP, responsible for automating continuous integration with Hudson/Jenkins, integrating code coverage plugins with Jenkins to measure code quality, and integrating code with Sonar. He has also worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE) at Prudential Financial, where he was responsible for supporting and maintaining the infrastructure of P0 and P1 applications, building CI/CD pipelines, Blue-Green Deployments, Multi-region setups, and on-prem migration from Mesosphere DC/OS clusters to GKE on Anthos. Raghavendra holds a Master of Computer Applications degree from the University of Madras. His tech stack includes SRE, Jenkins, DevOps, CI/CD, Integration, AWS, Ansible, ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, Salesforce, Elastic Search, GCP, UI, QA, Spring, Terraform, Infra, Kafka, Spring Boot, Microservices, Software Engineer, AngularJS, Python, and Java.