About

Saikiran Reddy Cheruku is an experienced DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is currently working as an SRE at VMware. Saikiran has a real-time working knowledge of various technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Ansible, Git, Terraform, Jira, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Kafka, Datadog, Linux, Confluence, and Zenoss. Saikiran's relevant experience spans over 7.87 years, during which he has worked with companies such as Lifion and F5. At Lifion, he was responsible for managing Lifion applications on AWS, maintaining infrastructure in Kubernetes, building the CI/CD pipeline for the platform, and setting up dashboards in Grafana and Prometheus for AWS cost usage monitoring. He also used Jira for sprint planning, Stash as a repository for storing scripts and backups of infrastructure configuration, Elastic Search and Kibana for logs, and Datadog for infrastructure monitoring. At F5, Saikiran managed F5 applications on AWS, deployed applications and services on Kubernetes using EKS under different namespaces using Helm, automated monitoring and deployment scripts using Python and Terraform, and set up complete monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. He also created unified Grafana for monitoring Kubernetes pods in AWS different regions, automated AWS billing alerts using Helm, and used Siebel for adding new users who signed up for F5 applications using the AWS marketplace. Saikiran holds a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from JNTU, where he studied from 2011 to 2015. He also completed his 10th grade from Gowtham Model School in 2009. Saikiran's tech stack includes SRE, AWS, Kubernetes, infra, Jenkins, Terraform, DevOps, Ansible, Python, Docker, Kafka, Elastic Search, and Search. In summary, Saikiran Reddy Cheruku is a highly skilled and experienced DevOps and SRE professional with a strong background in managing infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and setting up monitoring systems using various technologies.