About

Rakesh Chowdari Maddineni is a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer with over 5 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently working at Cambridge Mobile Telematics as a Site Reliability Engineer, he is responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of the company's mobile telematics platform. In his previous role at Pearson as an Associate Cloud and Hosting Services Engineer, Rakesh was responsible for designing and architecting operational solutions for managing applications and infrastructure. He developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code deployment using Jenkins. Rakesh also automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbook and developed Ansible YAML scripts to configure remote servers. He refactored and engineered existing infrastructure practices by using microservices and serverless techniques using AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, which resulted in saving costs by 40%. Rakesh migrated products and services from legacy in-house servers to AWS, architected the initial infrastructure with Docker containers on isolated VPC with various AWS services. He also architected and designed multiple Terraform modules for network, databases (RDS), ECS cluster, etc., for building infrastructure, which were later adopted by many products across the organization. At Infralytiks, Rakesh worked as an AWS DevOps Engineer, where he automated the process of running Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to install/uninstall licensed software, move objects between S3, and visualize the data on the Web portal. He reduced costs by automating scheduled archiving of S3 objects to different classes using AWS Lambda and python scripts. Rakesh also developed multiple batch, shell, and python scripts to automate the data upload process to AWS for ease of UAV pilots’ usage. He built python automation scripts to apply scheduled OS patching on EC2 instances for security upgrades. Rakesh mentored two new team members and trained them on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices. He also developed and rotated the standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios and updated them with newly raised unique issues. Rakesh holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from SRM University. He has extensive experience in SRE, AWS, Mobile, Ansible, Jenkins, ECS, infra, Terraform, Python, Docker, New Relic, CI/CD, ML, MySQL, Microservices, DevOps, and Web technologies.