Surya Venkata Nagendra Kalyan Cherukuri

Site Reliability Engineer @ Prodapt | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CI/CD | Observability | 4+ YOE

Somerset, New Jersey, United States

About

Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable, reliable, and cloud-native systems. I specialize in automating AWS infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and improving system observability for distributed microservices. My work focuses on reducing operational toil, improving deployment velocity, and maintaining highly available systems with strict SLOs. Key expertise: • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) • CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) • Kubernetes & Docker-based microservices • Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, EC2, S3) Currently working on large-scale production systems for Verizon (client), focusing on reliability, scalability, and automation. Open to opportunities in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cloud Engineering.

Experience

  • Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer at Verizon
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Working with Verizon (client) to build and operate scalable, cloud-native infrastructure and production-grade microservices systems. • Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible for EC2 and EKS, reducing manual effort by 90% • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Artifactory to deploy Dockerized microservices to Amazon EKS, saving 15+ hours/week • Reduced operational toil by 40% by automating L1/L2 production issue handling using Python and Shell scripting • Implemented centralized logging and alerting using ELK Stack with Slack integration, eliminating 80% of manual monitoring • Improved system reliability using Prometheus monitoring and Kubernetes HPA, maintaining p95 latency under 200 ms • Built Kafka pipelines processing 2M+ events/day with minimal data loss (~0.1%) • Developed Airflow ETL workflows improving reporting performance by 40%

  • Computer Science Graduate Assistant at The University of Texas at Dallas
    Jul 2024 - May 2025 · 11 mos

    • Developed Python automation scripts reducing manual data processing effort by 20% • Built real-time web portal using React and Firebase supporting 150+ users • Automated AWS backups improving system reliability and reducing incidents • Created onboarding documentation reducing ramp-up time by 30%

  • System Administrator at Tata Consultancy Services
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Migrated legacy scripts to reusable Ansible roles, improving automation efficiency and maintainability • Managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, SonarQube, and Nexus, ensuring code quality and reliable deployments • Performed root cause analysis using AWS CloudWatch logs, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) • Implemented blue-green deployment strategy using Docker and NGINX, enabling zero-downtime releases • Integrated security scanning tools (AWS Inspector, Prisma Cloud) into CI pipelines • Built Grafana dashboards and alerts for proactive monitoring of system health