Achievements

Patent and selected highlights—visuals of inventions and recognition.

Platform engineer and cloud architect focused on building resilient, scalable platforms and developer tooling. Led cross-functional teams, accelerated CI/CD, automated fleet operations, and enforced Kubernetes governance—delivering reliable systems and measurable impact.

Experience Flows

A 3-DIMENSIONALLY NAVIGABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE IN AGRICULTURE

451630 • 2023 • Akhil Reddy Alakanty

A robotic device designed to perform semi heavy duty agricultural tasks.

LIVE PREVIEW

Professional Achievements

Gallery

Conference Talk
Developer Experience track

Achievements

Patent and selected highlights—visuals of inventions and recognition.

Experience Flows

Platform Engineer III • Ally Financial

April 2024 – Present • Texas, USA

Lead & Plan

CI/CD

Optimize

Kubernetes

Govern

• Led a 5+ member onshore-offshore team, managing end-to-end sprints and coordinating with leadership to drive efficient and timely platform deliveries.
• Enhanced system efficiency, minimized latency, and accelerated CI/CD pipeline execution by designing and implementing a robust cache management solution for GitLab Enterprise.
• Saved 40% of on-call hours by training a LaMa AI model with resolved ServiceNow tickets and deploying the model in Teams with a chatbot extension.

AWSAmazon EKSAmazon EC2KubernetesTerraformGitLab CI

Cloud DevOps Engineer • Wells Fargo

July 2023 – March 2024 • Texas, USA

Lead & Plan

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AI Assistant

Data

• Developed an AWS-based public cloud platform for 10+ teams using services like EKS, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Lambda, EFS, Glacier, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and Load Balancers with Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Implemented auto-scaling and high-availability architectures across multiple AWS workloads.
• Improved Kubernetes developer experience by implementing centralized container logging with Splunk and monitoring via CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and DataDog dashboards.

AWSMicrosoft Azure ADTerraformGitHub ActionsKubernetesAmazon EKS

Cloud Azure Devops Engineer • CDW

February 2021 – March 2023 • USA

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Govern

• Designed and implemented secure multi-cloud architectures for enterprise clients across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Led Kubernetes adoption projects including EKS/AKS deployments and multi-cluster management.

Microsoft AzureGoogle CloudKubernetesTerraformAnsibleGitHub Actions

Devops / SRE • Sense Electronics

July 2019 – February 2021 • India

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Govern

Automate Ops

AI Assistant

• Patched 1000+ AWS EC2 instances used as Kubernetes nodes via automated patch pipelines leveraging Bottlerocket OS and AWS Systems Manager.
• Developed enterprise CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, Gradle, and integrated container tooling (Docker, Helm).
• Improved infrastructure reliability with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.

AWSKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitHubGitLab

Software Engineer • Verizon

March 2017 – July 2019 • India

CI/CD

AI Assistant

Build APIs

Data

• Developed and maintained MEAN stack applications, leveraging MongoDB, SQL, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js to build scalable and responsive web applications.
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for seamless communication between frontend and backend components of MEAN stack applications.
• Ensured code quality and adherence to best practices by implementing unit tests, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.

AWSNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDBSQLJavaScript

A 3-DIMENSIONALLY NAVIGABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE IN AGRICULTURE

451630 • 2023 • Akhil Reddy Alakanty

A robotic device designed to perform semi heavy duty agricultural tasks.

LIVE PREVIEW

Professional Achievements

Led platform deliveries across onshore-offshore team
Managed end-to-end sprints and leadership coordination to drive timely platform outcomes at scale.
- 5+ engineers
- multi-squad coordination
LeadershipProgram Delivery
Accelerated CI/CD with enterprise cache strategy
Designed and rolled out GitLab Enterprise caching to reduce pipeline latency and improve developer experience.
- Faster pipelines
- Improved DX
CI/CDGitLabPerformance
LLM triage assistant for on-call
Trained on resolved ServiceNow tickets and deployed to Microsoft Teams, cutting toil and speeding incident triage.
- -40% on-call hours
AI/MLSRE
Patched fleet of Kubernetes worker nodes
Automated patch pipelines using Bottlerocket OS and AWS Systems Manager across production EKS nodes.
- 1000+ nodes
AWSEKSAutomation
Kubernetes governance with Kyverno
Enforced preventative security policies to block unauthorized deployments and risky configurations.
- Policy-as-code
- Improved security
KubernetesKyvernoDevSecOps
Hybrid cloud HA designs with progressive delivery
Architected blue-green and canary strategies with disaster recovery across clouds for high availability.
- Reduced downtime
- Resilience
ArchitectureHA/DR
Built AWS platform for internal teams
Provisioned multi-service AWS foundations (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront) as a product for engineering teams.
- 10+ teams onboarded
AWSPlatform Engineering
Verizon: MEAN stack applications and REST APIs
Built and maintained MEAN stack apps, designed RESTful APIs, enforced code quality with tests/reviews/CI, and integrated third-party services.
- MEAN stack (MongoDB, SQL, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js)
- RESTful APIs
- Unit tests & CI
- 3rd-party integrations
MEANNode.jsAngularJSExpress.jsMongoDBRESTCI/CD

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Platform Engineer III • Ally Financial

April 2024 – Present • Texas, USA

Lead & Plan

CI/CD

Optimize

Kubernetes

Govern

• Led a 5+ member onshore-offshore team, managing end-to-end sprints and coordinating with leadership to drive efficient and timely platform deliveries.
• Enhanced system efficiency, minimized latency, and accelerated CI/CD pipeline execution by designing and implementing a robust cache management solution for GitLab Enterprise.
• Saved 40% of on-call hours by training a LaMa AI model with resolved ServiceNow tickets and deploying the model in Teams with a chatbot extension.

AWSAmazon EKSAmazon EC2KubernetesTerraformGitLab CI

Cloud DevOps Engineer • Wells Fargo

July 2023 – March 2024 • Texas, USA

Lead & Plan

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AI Assistant

Data

• Developed an AWS-based public cloud platform for 10+ teams using services like EKS, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Lambda, EFS, Glacier, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and Load Balancers with Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Implemented auto-scaling and high-availability architectures across multiple AWS workloads.
• Improved Kubernetes developer experience by implementing centralized container logging with Splunk and monitoring via CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and DataDog dashboards.

AWSMicrosoft Azure ADTerraformGitHub ActionsKubernetesAmazon EKS

Cloud Azure Devops Engineer • CDW

February 2021 – March 2023 • USA

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Govern

• Designed and implemented secure multi-cloud architectures for enterprise clients across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Led Kubernetes adoption projects including EKS/AKS deployments and multi-cluster management.

Microsoft AzureGoogle CloudKubernetesTerraformAnsibleGitHub Actions

Devops / SRE • Sense Electronics

July 2019 – February 2021 • India

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Govern

Automate Ops

AI Assistant

• Patched 1000+ AWS EC2 instances used as Kubernetes nodes via automated patch pipelines leveraging Bottlerocket OS and AWS Systems Manager.
• Developed enterprise CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, Gradle, and integrated container tooling (Docker, Helm).
• Improved infrastructure reliability with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.

AWSKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitHubGitLab

Software Engineer • Verizon

March 2017 – July 2019 • India

CI/CD

AI Assistant

Build APIs

Data

• Developed and maintained MEAN stack applications, leveraging MongoDB, SQL, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js to build scalable and responsive web applications.
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for seamless communication between frontend and backend components of MEAN stack applications.
• Ensured code quality and adherence to best practices by implementing unit tests, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.

AWSNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDBSQLJavaScript

Achievements

Experience Flows

A 3-DIMENSIONALLY NAVIGABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE IN AGRICULTURE

Professional Achievements

Gallery

Conference Talk

Prototype Rig

Achievements

Experience Flows

Platform Engineer III • Ally Financial

Cloud DevOps Engineer • Wells Fargo

Cloud Azure Devops Engineer • CDW

Devops / SRE • Sense Electronics

Software Engineer • Verizon

A 3-DIMENSIONALLY NAVIGABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE IN AGRICULTURE

Professional Achievements

Led platform deliveries across onshore-offshore team

Accelerated CI/CD with enterprise cache strategy

LLM triage assistant for on-call

Patched fleet of Kubernetes worker nodes

Kubernetes governance with Kyverno

Hybrid cloud HA designs with progressive delivery

Built AWS platform for internal teams

Verizon: MEAN stack applications and REST APIs

Gallery

Conference Talk

Prototype Rig

Platform Engineer III • Ally Financial

Cloud DevOps Engineer • Wells Fargo

Cloud Azure Devops Engineer • CDW

Devops / SRE • Sense Electronics

Software Engineer • Verizon

Led platform deliveries across onshore-offshore team

Accelerated CI/CD with enterprise cache strategy

LLM triage assistant for on-call

Patched fleet of Kubernetes worker nodes

Kubernetes governance with Kyverno

Hybrid cloud HA designs with progressive delivery

Built AWS platform for internal teams

Verizon: MEAN stack applications and REST APIs