Ranjith Kumar Tella

• Cloud Platforms & Orchestration
• Expert in Microsoft Azure with hands-on experience in deploying, managing, and securing applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) using ARM Templates and Terraform to standardize environment provisioning in insurance claim and policy management systems.
• Security Integration (DevSecOps)
• Integrated static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) application security testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools like SonarQube, Fortify, OWASP ZAP, ensuring compliance with insurance regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
• Implemented container security using Aqua Security and Trivy, focusing on hardened AKS images and pod-level security policies.
• CI/CD & Automation
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Groovy-based Jenkins pipelines, automating build, test, and deployment stages for core insurance apps (claims, underwriting, and policy systems).
• Experience creating and customizing Groovy templates for Jenkins shared libraries to enforce consistency across multiple pipelines in large-scale insurance projects.
• Containerization & Kubernetes
• Built, deployed, and monitored microservices-based insurance apps on Azure AKS, with Helm chart packaging, RBAC configurations, and network policy enforcement.
• Configured and maintained Kubernetes security contexts, PodSecurityPolicies, and Azure AD-integrated role bindings to meet insurance-grade security standards.
• Monitoring & Logging
• Integrated Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor for observability across insurance claim processing microservices.
• Configured centralized logging using Fluent Bit, Log Analytics, and Elastic Stack for audit trails and compliance.
• Compliance & Risk Management
• Applied security benchmarks like CIS for AKS and NIST 800-53 in DevSecOps pipelines to meet regulatory standards for financial and insurance services.
• Implemented policy-as-code using OPA (Open Policy Agent) and Azure Policy for governance enforcement.
• Collaboration & Agile
• Worked closely with actuarial, underwriting, and claims teams in agile environments, ensuring DevSecOps practices aligned with domain-specific needs and SLAs.
• Enhanced application performance by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing code.

• Worked on AWS Trusted Advisor and Reduced the AWS Cost based on Trusted Advisor Recommendations.
• Worked on Infrastructure as a Code IAC with Terraform, Automated AWS Infrastructure Deployment.
• Worked on AWS Route53, Maintained custom Domain records.
• Prepared Shell Scripts to Automate our Day to Day Operational Activities.
• Worked on Configuration Management Tool like Ansible, prepared Ansible Playbooks for Automation Deployment and Application Installations.
• Prepared Ansible Roles.
• Worked on AWS Inspector, Fixed the Vulnerabilities.
• Implemented High Availability Applications and Deployed the Resources in Multi-Availability Zones.
• Worked on AWS Load Balancers to Distribute the Traffic using Application and Network Load Balancers.
• Implemented AWS Automation with IAC tool Terraform
• Prepared terraform reusable modules and Templates for AWS services like ec2,s3,load balancer,cloudwatch.
• Environment: Red Hat Open stack for AWS, Docker, SonarQube, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus.
• Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
• Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
• Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.

• IT Cloud Admin DevOps) Project: BPI Philippines Responsibilities
• Created and distributed security approved Golden AMI CIS to all the AWS account.
• Generated CSV Reports for Cost optimization in AWS using Lambda functions of Under-Utilized Resources by following best practice rules
• Used Terraform to create Infrastructure in AWS and Jenkins to create instances in multi-cloud environments
• Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, creating a local cluster and deploying application containers
• Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and setting up the automated build on Docker HUB and installing and configuring Kubernetes
• Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy
• Used Terraform to deploy Docker Containers in Docker Swarm cluster for high availability
• Environment: Open stack Pack sack), Docker, Sonar Qube, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Jenkins
• Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
• Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.

Project Description: The Idis is a “solution-oriented, big-data enabled flexi dynamic IT platform” to translate real-world data into math-visual evidence and actionable business intelligence in the life sciences industry It completely changes the industrial landscape by drastically reducing the time taken to gain valuable insights on largescale data from months to just a matter of weeks

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline CI/CD for higher quality software and code metrics
• Used Jenkins for automating Builds and Deployments
• Integrated SonarQube for Continuous Code Quality which checks bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, and Duplications in code
• Used Nexus Repository Manager for storing the history of all the artifacts of UI and JAVA
• Used Docker to create, deploy and run applications using containers
• Installed Nagios Monitoring tool for checking the host’s status and important services
• Created Swarm cluster in Docker for Multi-Containers of applications
• Used Ansible for Configuration Management, Application Deployment, and run a few Ad hoc commands on Remote Servers
• I had written Terraform scripts for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently in AWS
• Created multiple virtual machines using VMWARE ESXi and used PFSENSE as Software Firewall and Router as well
• Administering multiple clusters like Development, QA, and Production
• Adding and Removing Nodes to the Hadoop cluster and maintaining high availability of services
• Created Local Cloudera Repository for Hadoop Nodes and implemented a client-server model for NTP
• Implemented high availability for Impala using HA Proxy
• Enabled Kerberos for Hadoop cluster which provides security. Implemented alerting mechanism for GuardDuty and Health Events across Organization.
• Automated Patching setup with notifications using CloudFormation Stack sets across all Accounts
• Used AWS Config to get non-compliant resources to provide a pane to Security Team
• Used Cloud Custodian which is Opensource Cloud Security, Governance, and Management
• Created CI/CD pipeline for a Kubernetes Application in AWS
• Implemented an application in ECS with High-Availability across Regions
• Identified and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

• Implemented tools for software builds, source control, and release tracking and reporting on the UNIX platform
• Created multiple instances from AWS based on requirements and installed all the prerequisites for our application
• Maintained and administered GIT source code tool
• Support the code builds by integrating with the continuous integration tool Jenkins)
• Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution
• Used Docker for containerization with maximum utilization of server resources compared to virtual machines
• Automated in creating the latest Docker Images whenever code is committed in to the repository and re-run the containers with the latest code
• Maintaining Docker Hub with private repositories
• Setup notifications to the particular team when their specific service is down using Nagios
• Experience in setting up Chef Workstation, Chef Nodes, Chef Cookbooks, and Chef Recipes
• Environment: GIT, Jenkins, AWS, Chef, Shell, Docker, Nagios
• Followed AWS Best practices for most of the Resources to reduce the cost, complexity and enforce security at the Account Level
• Environment: AWS, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python Lambda), Cloud Custodian, Linux, Redis
• Reduced time-to-market, automating build, test, and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools.
• Established effective communication channels between development and operations teams for smoother integration of tasks.

• Project: Client Management Information System
• Responsibilities:
• Hand-coded website using HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and Angular JS
• Understand interprets and translates business requirements into the necessary designs and documentation
• Implemented two-way data binding using Angular Used AngularJS for developing single-page web applications and used ui-router as a dependency and configuring different state/route associating a controller for each state/route in the config function by providing state Provider, url Router Provider as dependencies
• Used to send request objects in POST request using resource to interact with Restful APIs
• Used custom directives and restricted it to Attribute level usage (in order to support IEB and isolated its scope from the parent template
• I had written factories for the HTTP calls and added it as a dependency for the controllers and directives whenever it is used
• I have a thorough understanding of scope and the ways we should follow to avoid Scope Soup and using emit and broadcast to fire events up and down the scope
• I understand how the Digest cycle works and also how to forcefully recompile the DOM
• Used filters for formatting the data to be displayed to End-user
• Using include directive to fetch, compile and include an external HTML fragment
• Used Gulp as an intuitive streaming build tool built on Node.js
• Designed responsive sites featuring flat, functional designs and CSS3 media queries
• Developed the Buttons like popup windows and the modal windows by using JQuery
• Environment: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Angular JS, GIT, Postman, Atom, Visual Studio, Node JS, Gulp
• Contributed creative ideas during brainstorming sessions that resulted in innovative solutions for clients'' unique needs.