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Pavan Kumar Gade

Hyderabad

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and system administration. Expertise in AWS CloudFormation, EMR administration, automation scripting, and ELK stack implementation. Proven track record of improving deployment efficiency, resolving production issues, and enabling seamless data migrations. Skilled at collaborating with developers, support teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

AWS DevOps/CloudFormation Engineer

Florida Power and Light (NextEra Energy)
10.2019 - Current
  • Provisioned and automated AWS services (EC2, RDS, EMR, DMS, CloudWatch) using CloudFormation templates.
  • Administered EMR clusters for enterprise DataLake projects, enabling migration from on-prem Hadoop to AWS Cloud.
  • Configured auto-scaling and monitoring for EMR clusters, troubleshooting performance issues and optimizing cluster utilization.
  • Automated Talend job deployments on Linux EC2 using CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, reducing manual deployment efforts.
  • Developed Python-based Lambda functions for DMS task automation, Glue job provisioning, and S3 optimization reporting.
  • Collaborated with AWS Support to resolve cluster slowdowns and infrastructure bottlenecks.


Key Achievements:


  • Reduced deployment time by 40% through automation of Talend jobs.
  • Improved cluster stability by implementing advanced monitoring and troubleshooting processes.
  • Enabled seamless migration of data pipelines, ensuring business continuity during modernization projects.

ELK Stack/DevOps Engineer

OCLC
02.2017 - 09.2019
  • Built and managed Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) clusters to centralize log monitoring and analysis.
  • Designed Grok filters for Logstash to process Ezproxy logs and configured Ezpaarse for ingestion into Elasticsearch.
  • Automated daily log ingestion and system operations with custom Shell scripts.
  • Created Kibana dashboards and visualizations for real-time monitoring and analytics.
  • Collaborated with development teams to debug software/system issues and streamline deployment processes.


Key Achievements:


  • Improved system observability by implementing centralized log management using ELK.
  • Reduced manual intervention by automating log ingestion and system scripts.
  • Supported smoother releases by actively participating in risk analysis and deployment planning.

Education

Master’s - Computer Science

California State University

Bachelor’s - Information Technology

JNTU

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, RDS, EMR, DMS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Glue, Redshift, MSK)
  • Automation & Scripting: Python, Shell scripting, CloudFormation Templates
  • DevOps Tools: Jenkins (CI/CD), Git, Bitbucket
  • Monitoring & Logging: ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch
  • Data Migration & Integration: Talend, Hadoop to AWS migrations, DMS replication
  • Configuration & Deployment: Infrastructure automation, server provisioning, release coordination

Timeline

AWS DevOps/CloudFormation Engineer

Florida Power and Light (NextEra Energy)
10.2019 - Current

ELK Stack/DevOps Engineer

OCLC
02.2017 - 09.2019

Bachelor’s - Information Technology

JNTU

Master’s - Computer Science

California State University
Pavan Kumar Gade