Ulagaraja J

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

I architect, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure. Automating operations, optimizing cloud environments, and ensuring high availability. Love reading about Databases and APIs.

Core Competencies

Cloud Platforms

Expertise in AWS and Google Cloud Architectures.

Containerization

Docker & Kubernetes orchestration at scale.

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, ArgoCD and Jenkins.

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK , New Relic and Loki

Databases

Apache Pinot, Postgres, Redis.

Languages

Javascript, Golang, C++.

Experience

DevOps Engineer - II

Nextech
2025 - Present
  • Architected and implemented secure,scalable,reliable and cost effective cloud deployments.
  • Worked extensively with AWS services to handle applications in serverless environment.
  • Implemented comprehensive observability stack handling 10M+ metrics/day.
  • Guided team members in setting up and maintaining cloud environments.

Software Development Engineer - DevOps

Simpleenergy
2023 - 2025
  • Worked extensively with Apache Kafka, Apache Pinot to enable real-time streaming.
  • Migrated from AWS to Google Cloud and vice versa, ensuring zero downtime.
  • Developed a billing pipeline in AWS to query cost usage using AWS CUR, Athena and Glue.

Product Engineer - DevOps

Codingmart Technologies
2022 - 2023
  • Deployed and orchestrated microservices using MicroK8s, a self-managed Kubernetes distribution.
  • Configured NGINX as a reverse proxy efficiently and managed SSL certificate issuance.
  • Monitoring and optimizing application performance using Elastic APM.

Achievements

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