Venkatesh Thula

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About Venkatesh Thula

DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting, automating, and optimizing secure, scalable cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Expertise in CI/CD pipeline development using BuildPiper and Jenkins, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, and container orchestration with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. Specialized in AWS cost optimization, achieving ~40% reduction in monthly spend through resource right-sizing, lifecycle policies, and Reserved Instances. Experienced in AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for large-scale database migrations from MySQL, RDS, and DocumentDB to Amazon S3 using full load and Change Data Capture (CDC) processes. Proficient in environment provisioning, automated deployments, and cloud monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana. Adept at building secure, highly available architectures aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework. Key Achievements: Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by ~40% through resource right-sizing, lifecycle policies, and Reserved Instances. Designed and deployed multi-environment CI/CD pipelines with BuildPiper and Jenkins, accelerating release cycles by 50%. Migrated multi-terabyte databases to Amazon S3 using AWS DMS, ensuring zero downtime and 100% data integrity. Automated infrastructure provisioning with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, reducing manual setup time by 50%. Managed and optimized Amazon EKS clusters for high availability, smooth upgrades, and efficient scaling. Built complete development, QA, and pre-production environments to support agile software delivery.