Ramaraju Vadapalli

Aws Devops Engineer

Community Dreams Foundation

Apr 2026 - Current (4 months)

• Architected EKS cluster infrastructure using Terraform with remote S3 state and DynamoDB locking, enforcing least-privilege IAM roles per node group to eliminate wildcard permissions across 3 environments. • Designed GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with environment-scoped secrets and Docker image signing via ECR, removing static credentials and cutting deployment incidents by 35%. • Integrated AWS Secrets Manager into EKS workloads via the CSI Secrets Store driver, replacing hardcoded env vars in 6 services and achieving zero plaintext secrets in pod specs. • Evaluated Kubernetes RBAC and network policies using Claude Code, identifying and remediating 4 misconfigured cluster roles before production rollout.

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Cloud Devops Engineer Intern

Maitsys Inc

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025 (4 months)

• Developed Python boto3 scripts to audit IAM users, rotate access keys older than 90 days, and enforce MFA across 40+ accounts, reducing credential exposure by 45%. • Constructed GitHub Actions workflows with Docker multi-stage builds and Packer AMI pipelines to automate artifact promotion from dev to staging, cutting release effort by 35%. • Provisioned EKS node groups, ALB Ingress controllers, and ExternalDNS via Terraform, integrating Route 53 hosted zones for service discovery across VPC-peered environments. • Configured CloudWatch Container Insights with custom metric filters on EKS workloads, surfacing CPU throttling and OOMKill events that went undetected for 24+ hours.

Cloud Engineer Intern

PHOENIX GLOBAL

Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 6 months)

• Administered Linux servers using systemd, SSH key-based auth, sudoers policy, and chmod/chown hardening to secure application environments across 15+ hosts. • Authored Bash scripts to automate log rotation, service health checks, and disk alerts via cron, reducing manual monitoring overhead by 30%. • Containerized three legacy applications with Docker multi-stage Dockerfiles, cutting image size by 40% and eliminating environment inconsistencies between dev and staging.

Cloud Engineer I

PHOENIX GLOBAL

Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 6 months)

• Deployed Kubernetes Deployments and Services on a shared cluster, configuring resource requests/limits and liveness probes to prevent CPU contention and reduce restart loops by 25%. • Applied Terraform to provision EC2 instances, security groups, and VPC subnets with tagged resources, enabling cost allocation and replacing click-ops provisioning across two teams. • Enforced Git branching with protected main branches, Conventional Commit checks, and PR review gates, reducing rollback frequency by 30%.

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