Anirudh Vaka · Senior DevOps / Platform / SRE Engineer

Anirudh Vaka

Senior DevOps / Platform / SRE Engineer
Open to relocation worldwide with visa sponsorship, or fully remoteNotice period: 90 days (negotiable)

Professional Summary

Senior DevOps / Platform / SRE engineer with 3+ years operating production infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem Kubernetes — including building an on-prem Kubernetes data center from bare metal at 99.9% uptime for 1000+ customers. Promoted intern → DevOps Lead in under two years; now lead a team of 5 under an ISO 27001:2022-certified practice. Founder of two live AI SaaS products (PrepAtlas, HumanifyCV) with paying users. Strong on Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitOps, and FinOps.

Professional Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer — AICPA & CIMA Enterprise Platform

Nov 2024 – Present
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · London-based enterprise SaaS client · Remote
  • Led enterprise migration to GitHub Enterprise with label-driven GitOps workflows — reduced release errors ~70%.
  • Engineered PR-based ephemeral environments provisioning full AWS stacks (ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS) via Terraform — cut setup time from days to minutes.
  • Architected multi-region AWS deployment with Route 53 latency routing and active-active failover for global availability.
  • Built DevSecOps guardrails with Trivy + Grype shift-left container scanning across 200+ CI/CD pipelines.
  • Established observability and ChatOps (CloudWatch, Athena, Grafana, MS Teams) — reduced incident MTTR significantly.
  • Integrated ServiceNow REST APIs to automate change-management — CRs open/close in lockstep with deployments, eliminating manual ticket toil.

DevOps Lead — TimeChamp SaaS Platform

Oct 2024 – Present
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · Hyderabad, India · Hybrid
  • Promoted to Lead Oct 2024; running concurrently with the AICPA engagement.
  • Operate production on-prem Kubernetes cluster at 99.9% uptime — ~15 nodes, 100+ containers on Hyper-V at CtrlS Hyderabad data center.
  • Lead a team of 5 DevOps engineers; own architecture decisions, sprint planning, and on-call rotation.
  • Manage hybrid cloud workloads across AWS + Azure (AKS, VMSS, Blob Storage, Functions, Entra ID, Key Vault) with optimized backup and DR for SQL Server + PostgreSQL.
  • Drove ~25% monthly cloud cost reduction through FinOps — right-sizing, Reserved Instances / Savings Plans, biweekly cost reviews, and weekend scale-to-zero automation that idles all non-prod every Friday and restores it Monday.
  • Built an internal AI platform on the on-prem cluster — self-hosted open LLMs (Ollama: DeepSeek, Qwen), grounded RAG on pgvector, and an AI-in-SDLC auto-remediation pipeline (detect → diagnose → generate fix → PR → gated QA) that cut MTTR.
  • Designed corporate network: dual-ISP + SD-WAN on FortiGate 60F (active-active failover) — 99.9% office network uptime.

DevOps Engineer — TimeChamp SaaS Platform

May 2023 – Sep 2024
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · Hyderabad, India · On-site
  • Built production on-prem data center at CtrlS Hyderabad from bare metal — racked Dell PowerEdge servers, designed VLAN segmentation, configured FortiGate 200F with IPSec VPN and dual-ISP failover.
  • Led platform transformation from monolithic IIS to Docker + Kubernetes — cut release cycle time ~60% with zero-downtime deployments.
  • Implemented Cloudflare edge security (WAF, CDN, DNS, SSL/TLS) for production workloads.
  • Migrated legacy CI/CD (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy) to Azure DevOps — 200+ pipelines across product lines.
  • Built DR Validator — automated MS SQL backup + DR verification in C# / .NET with AWS S3 and PowerShell — eliminated silent backup failures.
  • Deployed centralized observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for logging, metrics, and alerting across the cluster.

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2023 – Apr 2023
Snovasys Software Solutions Ltd · Hyderabad, India · On-site
  • Built REST APIs in C# / .NET for internal product features.
  • Built HTML/CSS landing pages for product launches.
  • Rotated through support engineering; selected for full-time conversion to DevOps Engineer based on infrastructure work during the rotation.

Products & Side Projects

Founder & EngineerPrepAtlas (prepatlas.in)
Dec 2025 – Present

AI-grounded exam prep platform for Indian students. Built end-to-end on Next.js 15 + Supabase + pgvector + Anthropic Claude. Hosted on a $35/month AWS stack with Bubblewrap-wrapped Android TWA. 20+ paying users in beta. Engineering writeup at prepatlas.in/engineering.

Founder & EngineerHumanifyCV (humanifycv.com)
Jan 2026 – Present

AI text humanization + resume optimization SaaS. Production-grade auth (NextAuth v5 with email verification, TOTP 2FA backed by AES-256-GCM-encrypted secrets, WebAuthn passkeys), Razorpay payments with discriminated-union typed event handling, Anthropic Claude Sonnet, AWS SES transactional email, Sentry, 31 Jest/Testing-Library tests. Hosted on AWS ECS. 30–40 paying users.

Technical Skills

  • Cloud (AWS & Azure): AWS (ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, Route 53, IAM, multi-region), Azure (AKS, VMs / VMSS, Blob Storage, Functions), Entra ID + Key Vault, Azure OpenAI + Azure Speech, On-prem (Hyper-V, bare-metal Kubernetes), GCP (fundamentals)
  • Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (production, on-prem + cloud), Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, Ingress
  • IaC: Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible
  • CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, OPA (policy-as-code)
  • AI Infrastructure: Ollama (self-hosted LLMs), DeepSeek / Qwen, RAG on pgvector, Anthropic Claude API, AI-in-SDLC auto-remediation
  • Web & Caching: Nginx, Redis, AWS API Gateway, CloudFront
  • Networking & Security: Linux, Cisco switches, FortiGate (firewall, VPN, SD-WAN), VLAN segmentation, Cloudflare WAF, OIDC / IAM, TLS, Trivy / Grype
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, Supabase, MS SQL Server, MySQL, AWS RDS
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Sentry, Loki, OpenSearch, ELK
  • Languages: TypeScript, Python, C# (.NET), Bash, PowerShell, SQL

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
PBR Visvodaya Institute of Technology and Science, Andhra Pradesh, India
2019 – 2023 | CGPA: 8.3 / 10

Languages

EnglishC1 (Advanced Professional) · TeluguNative · HindiFluent

References

References available on request.