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About Me

Bala Bhaskara Rao Guntupalli​

Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer Multi-Cloud Solutions · AWS · Azure · GCP · Platform Engineering · AIOps

I'm a senior engineer and consultant based in Bengaluru, India, with 11+ years of experience designing, automating and running production cloud platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

My foundation is Linux, build and release engineering, and infrastructure automation. On top of it, I've grown into designing complete DevOps, platform and reliability solutions for enterprise workloads. I also bring Agentic AI, LLMs and RAG into cloud operations.

As a consultant, I get up to speed on a team's platform quickly and design solutions that fit it. I leave behind infrastructure that is automated, observable, secure and easy for the team to own.

Problems I Solve​

The challengeWhat I deliver
Slow, manual or failure-prone releasesAutomated CI/CD and GitOps pipelines with safe rollouts and quick rollbacks
Outages discovered by users, not alertsEnd-to-end observability, meaningful alerting and fast root cause analysis
Inconsistent environments across cloudsStandardized, reusable Terraform platforms for AWS, Azure and GCP
Kubernetes clusters that are hard to operateWell-run EKS, AKS and GKE platforms with Helm, Argo CD and service mesh
Growing cloud bills and sprawlRight-sizing, governance and cost optimization
Security left until the endDevSecOps practices: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, private networking
Repetitive operational toilPython automation and AI-assisted operations (AIOps)

What I Bring​

  • Solution design. I design cloud and platform solutions around availability, scalability, security and cost, not just individual components.
  • Multi-cloud depth. I have hands-on production experience on all three major clouds, so I can choose the right service for each requirement.
  • Production reliability ownership. I've handled on-call, incident management, RCA and SLA/SLO management for business-critical applications.
  • Platform standardization. I build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and pipeline templates that teams can adopt and scale.
  • Collaboration and guidance. I work closely with development, QA and operations teams and advise them on release strategy, Kubernetes and cloud architecture.
  • Modern AI skills. I build LLM-powered tooling, RAG pipelines, MCP servers and AI agents for engineering teams.

Roles I'm Suited For​

Senior DevOps Engineer · Site Reliability Engineer · Multi-Cloud / Platform Engineer · Cloud Solutions Engineer (AWS / Azure / GCP) · DevSecOps Engineer · AIOps / AI Platform Engineer

Technical Toolbox​

Amazon Web Services (AWS)​

  • Compute & containers: EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda
  • Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
  • Networking & delivery: VPC, Route 53, CloudFront
  • Databases: RDS
  • Security & governance: IAM, CloudFormation, Systems Manager, CloudWatch
  • Developer tools: CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline

Microsoft Azure​

  • Compute & containers: Virtual Machines, App Service, AKS, ACR, Container Apps, Container Instances
  • Storage: Storage Accounts
  • Networking: VNet, NSGs, Application Gateway, Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints
  • Security & identity: Key Vault, Managed Identities, Azure RBAC
  • Messaging & data: SignalR Service, Azure SQL
  • Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights
  • DevOps & AI: Azure DevOps, Microsoft Foundry

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)​

  • Compute & containers: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Artifact Registry
  • Storage & data: Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery
  • Security: Cloud IAM
  • Operations: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Build

DevOps & Platform Engineering​

  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, Cloud Build
  • GitOps & releases: Argo CD, Helm, Istio service mesh
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
  • Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Azure Repos
  • Operating systems: Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu), Windows Server

Site Reliability & Observability​

  • Cloud monitoring: AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Cloud Monitoring
  • Metrics & dashboards: Prometheus, Grafana
  • Logging: Grafana Loki, Promtail, ELK Stack
  • APM & alerting: New Relic, Datadog
  • Practices: SLA/SLO management, on-call, incident response, RCA, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning

Agentic AI & Automation​

  • AI: LLM APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, AI agents, AIOps
  • Languages & frameworks: Python, Bash/Shell, FastAPI, Streamlit

Certifications​

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

Let's Connect​

I'm open to senior DevOps, SRE, multi-cloud and platform engineering opportunities, as well as consulting engagements.