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HARSHAVARDHAN MADDELA

Lead DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer
Hyderabad

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 8.6 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines using a variety of tools, including GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Azure, Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy (UCD), Nagios, Ansible, Docker, JFrog, Kubernetes, SonarQube and XL Deploy. Proven track record of leading teams to develop and optimize GitHub Actions for diverse technology stacks, ensuring robust and secure enterprise pipelines. Adept at migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, developing reusable workflows, and providing Jenkins as a service to a large customer base. Skilled in troubleshooting production deployment issues, enhancing security measures, and automating processes to improve efficiency and reduce redundancy.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lead DevOps Engineer

Optum
12.2021 - Current
  • Designed and authored enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, integrating diverse technologies to support scalable and reusable workflows.
  • Led a team in developing custom GitHub Actions (JavaScript & composite), automating critical functions to boost developer productivity and delivery speed.
  • Managed Jenkins infrastructure on Azure Cloud alongside GitHub Actions, ensuring seamless integration and operational excellence across legacy and modern systems.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Oracle
01.2021 - 11.2021
  • Designed and managed scalable, secure infrastructure on Azure using services like Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Vnet's, Subnet's.
  • Implemented automated deployments using Terraform, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and version control across environments.
  • Leveraged Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Azure Security Center to ensure high availability, performance, and compliance across cloud workloads

DevOps Engineer

Wells Fargo
03.2019 - 12.2020
  • Led the onboarding of applications into DevOps environments using Jenkins pipelines, supporting build/debug processes for Maven and Gradle-based apps.
  • Created and managed deployment processes in UDeploy, ensuring smooth rollouts across lower environments and resolving deployment failures efficiently.
  • Developed shell scripts to support deployment automation and configured application components across servers—bridging development and operations seamlessly

DevOps Engineer

Wipro
12.2016 - 02.2019
  • Led automation of build, deployment, and release processes on production servers—ensuring smooth and reliable delivery of applications.
  • Managed various phases of the SDLC, from gathering business requirements to preparing high-level technical and design documentation for development teams.
  • Provided ongoing support and maintenance, conducted regular health checks, and played a key role in testing and validating applications during server migration activities.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
Tirupati, India
01.2013 - 01.2016

Skills

GitHub Actions

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitOps

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Accomplishments

  • Awarded and certified on quick HA-Proxy software Load Balancer implementation successfully.
  • Out of 75 ideas from Nokia account, my idea (HA-Proxy SW LB) got selected and presented on celebrations of Novita awards & Excellence.
  • Rewarded with 500 Winner Circle points on successful completion of Global Maintenance Break Sanity checks for all application level and server level.
  • Appreciated with 1500 winner circle points for outstanding performance.
  • Awarded Talent in Spotlight at Optum Technology.

Timeline

Lead DevOps Engineer

Optum
12.2021 - Current

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Oracle
01.2021 - 11.2021

DevOps Engineer

Wells Fargo
03.2019 - 12.2020

DevOps Engineer

Wipro
12.2016 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
01.2013 - 01.2016
HARSHAVARDHAN MADDELALead DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer