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CHANDRASEKHAR SEETHAMRAJU
Linkedin.com/in/chandrasekharseethamraju/

C-Suite Leader and Techno-functional Evangelist; targeting senior leadership roles as (CTO/GM/Practice
Head / AVP/ VP/ Director) in DevOps, Cloud Operations, Database, SRE, Cyber Security, Head; preferably in
Hyderabad | Hybrid. (Immediate Joiner)

Profile Summary Key Impact Areas

A strategic techno-managerial professional with nearly 20+ years of Leadership
Strategic
diversified experience in driving vision and road mapping across DevOps, Development
Management
Cloud Operations, Database, SRE, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and AVP
Consulting
Site Reliability Engineering.
Versatile Digital and Business Transformation Leader with rich experience
Business Process DevOps, Kubernetes,
with a passionate approach toward transforming businesses to their next
Re-engineering Cloud, Cyber Security
version through Strategic and Digital Transformation.
DevOps Evangelist and competent technocrat experience in DevOps
Consulting, DevOps Implementation, Pre-Sales, Client Relationship, and
Test Process Consulting with building CoEs and capability Centers: Service Delivery Digital/Business
o Integration Centre of Excellence | Agile communities of practice | Excellence Transformation
DevOps & Cloud Engineering Capability Center.
Acted as Delivery Anchor; provided strategic direction regarding
technologies and solutions to the sales team, participating in CXO level Agile Lean Start-up
meetings to uncover opportunities, and developing relationships with the Methodologies
clients to help further sprint business.
Leveraged capabilities in acting as an Engagement Leader with impressive
success in implementing strategic solutions and driving transformations that Thought Stakeholder
reflect year-on-year success in Complex and innovative technology Leadership Management
implementations.
Multi-domain specialist: Banking, Pharma, Telecom, Intelligent Document
Processing, Cloud | Technology: DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Firmware,
Middleware & System Integration in Embedded Technology and Enterprise Soft Skills
Solutions area, Web Applications, SaaS, PaaS, Storage.
Expertise in Practice Development including new technology identification,
team skill development, automation, POCs, deal reviews, delivery, vendor
management, sales/presales, and idea generation.
Leveraged hands-on experience with latest technologies, algorithm, and
models such as DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Firmware, Middleware, and
System Integration in Enterprise Solutions area, Web Applications, SaaS,
PaaS, Storage. Key
Leveraged profound sensitivity to multi-national cultures; worked across Skills
the globe including India, Singapore, the US, and Europe.
Translated deep insights into operational & process changes for enhanced
customer experience; developed a customer-centric cost-effective support
strategy and leveraged diverse technologies to mobilize process changes.
An effective leader with proven capabilities in working with cross cultural
teams during the project phase; guiding team members and enabling
knowledge sharing among the team. Education & Credentials

Career Timeline (Recent 4) 2024: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Certification | ISB Hyderabad
2020: PGDITSM (Information Technology
& Systems Management) | Narsee
Monjee Mumbai
Jun’20- Jul’21- Mar’23- Jul’23- 2002: MCA (Computer Science) |
Jun’21 Mar’23 Jun’23 Feb’24 Nizams Institute of Computer Science,
Attapur, Hyderabad
RecVue India Altimetrik Foundation AI Ephicacy Life 1999: B.A. (Economics & Political
Pvt. Ltd India Pvt. Ltd. Sciences Analytics Science) | Human Resource &
Pvt. Ltd. Development (HRD), Narayanguda,
Hyderabad
Significant Highlights
Cloud: AWS, Oracle, Azure
CI & CD Tool: Jenkins, Tekton
Ticketing Tools: Jira, BMC Remedy, Service now
SCM Tool: GitHub, bitbucket
Packaging Tools: Helm
Containerization Platform: Docker, Kubernetes (Cloud Native)
Web & Application Servers: WebLogic, Tomcat
Build Tool: Maven(java) NPM (NodeJS)
Database: Oracle, Mongo DB, Aws Aurora, Aws Redis, Elastic Search
Testing Concepts & Operations: Junit, Sonarqube JMeter Selenium
IAAC: Cloud Formation AWS, Terraform
Configuration Management: Ansible
Operating System: Linus, Windows
Monitoring Tools: Data Dog, Prometheus / Grafana, ITRS, AppDynamics, Aws Cloud Watch
Workflow Tool: Camunda
Event Streaming Tool: Kafka
Queuing tools: IBM MQ
Big Data Ecosystems: Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, YARN, Hive, Pig, Zookeeper, Sqoop, Spark
Operations Support Tools: Pager Duty
Scripting: Shell, python
Log Analysis: Elastic Search, Logstash, KIBANA
On call: Pager Duty
Programming Languages: Python, Java
SOAR: TINES, SUMOLOGIC, SPLUNK
Cost Analysis of Kubernetes Cluster: Kubecost
Auto Resizing of Kubernetes Request Limits: Storm Forge, Granulate.io

Significant Highlights
Successfully designed & delivered secure Cloud & Devops solutions for major organizations such as IBM, Oracle, Tata
teleservices, AT&T, Cognizant, RecVue, Genpact, INFOLOB Solutions, Altimetrik.
Earned a reputation for designing cloud deployment strategies & Devops Strategies that mitigate risk while meeting
infrastructure, employee, customer and budgetary needs.
Advised software development teams on architecting and designing web interfaces & infrastructures that safely and
efficiently power the cloud environment.
Reduced overhead & infrastructure costs by 38 % by consolidating and deploying legacy applications to AWS cloud platforms.
Developed feature packages that included use cases, work- flows, requirements and functional specifications for hand-
off to development team.
Minimized process redundancies & learning curves by configuring business rules & transactions to fit organization's needs.
Worked on: AWS EC2 instances, S3, Glacierstorage, Elastic block storage (EBS), Availability zones, data management
lifecycle, Route53, VPC, Snowball, Elastic Cache (mem cached, Redis), Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, CDN, Auto scaling and
Elastic Load Balance.
Produced a comprehensive strategy using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Role for community platform
systems and successfully implemented the same setting precedence for other teams to follow suit.
Played a key role in building security model, VPC, Elastic IP for databases on Cloud platform.

Certifications
Certified DEVOPS Master
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Certified Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCSM)
Certified Tech Mahindra BIG DATA & BIG DATA Analytics
Certified TOGAF 9.1 Enterprise Architect
PRINCE2® Practitioner Certificate in Project Management
Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
Certified Oracle 10G Database Associate
COBIT5 FOUNDATION CERTIFIED
Certified Service Integration & Management (SIAM)
Certified ITIL V3 Cognizant
Certified Professional Oracle Database Specialist Cognizant
Professional Experience
July’23-Feb’24: Ephicacy Life Sciences Analytics Pvt. Ltd. as Associate Director DevOps
Client : Sycamore Informatics
Role:
Currently leading a team of 41 in Production Operations, playing a pivotal customer-facing role both internally and
externally.
Demonstrating strong communication and team management skills.
Taking full responsibility for managing SLA and uptime of Customer environments.
Implementing the SaaS Operations team's directions, goals, and deliverables as guided by Leadership.
Ensuring smooth operations of SaaS products and driving critical processes like Change Control, Problem & Incident
Management, Reporting, and key tools for Monitoring & Alerting.
Coordinating focus groups across teams for process and technical improvements, enhancing stability and reliability.
Leading Disaster Recovery and failover procedures, training, testing, and team readiness.
Managing incident-related communications and contributing to SaaS Operations Budget and KPI reporting.
Ensuring continuous improvements in SaaS Operations by developing platform services, improving automation, and
driving enhancements to DevOps processes.
Prioritizing security in operations by implementing best practices, representing operations in InfoSec meetings, and
obtaining/maintaining certifications.
Leading a high-performance Cloud/SaaS delivery team by reviewing performance, managing operations and issues, and
fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, delivery focus, and continuous improvement.

Mar’23-Jun’23: Foundation AI, Hyderabad as Head of DevOps, Cloud, Cyber Security & MLOps
Role:
Led a Team of 15 DevOps, Cloud & Security engineers and monitored the server & application performance using one or
more Application Performance Monitoring tools: Datadog
Managed CI/CD pipeline build & improvement and leveraged. deep understanding of Data Loss Prevention solutions,
Identity & Access Management solutions (Including Privileged Access Management) and Cloud Platforms and Cloud
Security.
Implemented DLP (Data loss protection) Solution like E-SET / Managed Engine for DLP along with Key Cloak SSO
Application on AWS Infra for single sign -on & MFA.
Integrated SonarQube for Vulnerabilities & code fixes SAST (Static Application Security Testing & ZAP (OWASP) for DAST
(Dynamic Application Security Testing).
Enabled AWS WAF (Web Application Fire wall) on AWS infra to avoid DDoS Attacks.
Deployed Services on AWS infra like Inspector, Guard Duty, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, Route 53 logs, VPC logs, Cloud
watch logs, AWS Macie for Capturing Security incidents.
Implemented SOAR (Security Orchestration Automated Response) using TINES tool to automate closure of Security
Incidents.
Supervised ISO 27001 & SOC2 TYPE2 Audits and led ISMS implementation to train employees yearly for ISO 27001
compliance.
Designed, built & delivered cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructure.
Conducted DevOps Audit to implement best practices along with Cloud Audit of SaaS People & Data on AWS infra IAM /
IAM Identity Center for People access, Security Group Rules in bound & out Bound for whitelisting, WAF, WAF BOT, VPC,
Cloud Watch logs, Inspector Reports, Guard Duty Logs, AWS Config, S3 logs, Security Hub logs weekly.
Spearheaded SOAR incident resolution audit where TINES integration was done to close Security Incidents through
workflows & stories.
Ensured cost cutting by using open-source tool KUBECOST for EKS cluster on AWS to find recommendations and
implement them to reduce IDLE cost of the EKS cluster by adjusting the Request LIMITS of microservices.
Evaluated tools for SOAR like SUMOLOGIC, SPLUNK, TINES as SPLUNK, SUMOLOGIC were too costly used open-source
edition of TINES and for the AI/ML Data Science algorithms to run on AWS sage maker / AWS graviton custom-built by
AWS to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads.
o AWS Graviton is a 64-bit ARM-based CPU designed by AWS, an Amazon subsidiary; the first version was launched at
AWS's customer event, reinvent 2018.
Mentored the DevOps team by creating Learning Paths with Courses on Udemy to upskill.
Monitored appraisal for all Direct Reports and presented Decks to the CXO’s of Foundation AI with the new processes and
improvements done by DevOps team on a BI-weekly basis.
Provided roadmap & vision for the infra to scale up instantly by assisting team in creation of terraform script that can
span across AWS-AZs with fault tolerance & highly Scalable.
Introduced in Foundation AI tools like TINES, KUBECOST, DATADOG which were required for Security, Monitoring & cost
Savings, also Evaluated Granulate.io & Storm Forge for AUTO Resizing of the EKS cluster where FAI microservices were
hosted which can change the Request Limits of microservices based on historical data where IDLE time cost comes down
and efficiency of EKS cluster comes up to at least 70%.

Jul’21-Mar’23: Altimetrik India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad as Senior Engineering Manager Cloud, Devops, Data Engineering &
Cyber Security
Role:
Monitored server & application performance using one or more Application Performance Monitoring tools: App dynamics.
 Leveraged deep understanding of Data Loss Prevention solutions, Identity and Access Management solutions (Including
Privileged Access Management) and Cloud Platforms and Cloud Security.
Deep understanding of Data Loss Prevention solutions, Identity and Access Management solutions (Including Privileged Access
Management) and Cloud Platforms and Cloud Security.
Integrated SonarQube for Vulnerabilities & code fixes SAST (Static Application Security Testing & ZAP (OWASP) for DAST
(Dynamic Application Security Testing).
Enabled AWS WAF (Web Application Fire wall) on AWS infra to avoid DDoS Attacks.
Implemented SOAR (Security Orchestration Automated Response) using TINES tool to automate closure of Security Incidents.
Supervised ISO 27001 & SOC2 TYPE2 Audits and led ISMS implementation to train employees yearly for ISO 27001 compliance.
Led cost cutting by using open-source tool KUBECOST for EKS cluster on AWS to find recommendations and implement them
to reduce IDLE cost of the EKS cluster by adjusting the Request LIMITS of microservices.
Created RACI charts for on-premise Customers for our SaaS product to share the RISKS & Accountability.
Mentored the DevOps team by creating Learning Paths with Courses on Udemy to upskill and led Appraisal for all Direct Reports
Presented Decks to the CXO’s of Foundation AI with the new processes and improvements done by DevOps team on a BI-weekly
basis.
Rendered vision & roadmap for the infra to scale up instantly by assisting team in creation of terraform script that can span
across AWS-AZs with fault tolerance & highly scalable.
Introduced in Foundation AI tools like TINES, KUBECOST, DATADOG which were required for Security, Monitoring & cost Savings,
also Evaluated Granulate.io & Storm Forge for AUTO Resizing of the EKS cluster where FAI microservices were hosted which can
change the Request Limits of microservices based on historical data where IDLE time cost comes down and efficiency of EKS
cluster comes up to at least 70%.
Designed, built, and delivered cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructure.
Take full ownership of the DevOps discipline and drove managing all server/infrastructure related issues.
Managed the entire Operations Support shared services for the specified clients along with day-to-day client stakeholder,
deliverable expectations of the prod support team.
Actively participated in working with world class Cloud and Devops team for Novartis Project for 6months.
Spearheaded a team of 75 Devops & Cloud Engineers.

Jun’20-Jun’21: RecVue India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad as Senior Manager DevOps

Role:
Managed P&L, Budgeting, Manpower Planning, Project Escalation Management & Project Delivery.
Developed & managed key internal/external client relationships and monitored client satisfaction in area of responsibility,
against service level agreement, and ensured achievement of key performance indicators/project milestones.
Managed a 30-member Team of DevOps and enforced Containerization orchestration with Kubernetes for HA, Load balancing
and DR.
Initiated cost savings projects by initiating the Migration of the App server from Oracle WebLogic servers to TOMCAT.
Enforced:
o Cloud Migration Project from Oracle Cloud to AWS Cloud.
o Blue-green Deployment Strategy for Deployment in Kubernetes on Cloud.
o Terraform for IAAC for Oracle Cloud AWS and Cloud Formation for AWS.
o ISTIO Service Mesh for K8 service Monitoring.
Led the project to migrate the Oracle traffic Manger to NGINX reverse Proxy.
Initiated the Projects of Upgradation of K8 clusters on Oracle Cloud from Version 1.16 to 1.19.
Enforced the Ansible tool for Configuration management and Terraform for the IAAC (Infrastructure as a Code).
Enabled AWS WAF (Web Application Fire wall) on AWS infra to avoid DDoS Attacks.
On AWS infra used Services like Inspector, Guard Duty, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, Route 53 logs, VPC logs, Cloud watch
logs, AWS Macie for Capturing Security incidents.

Aug’19-Feb’20: Infolob Solutions, Hyderabad as Database Manager

Role:
Managed a 40 member team of Database and Devops & Cloud.
Led evaluation/design/development/deployment of additional technologies & automation for managed services on AWS.

Feb’19-Jul’19 AT&T, Hyderabad, Telangana as Senior Technical Specialist

Role:
Managed a 35 member team of Database Devops & Cloud.
Collaborated with various team & management to understand the requirement & design the complete system.
Extended guidance for the classification, plan, implementation, growth, adoption & compliance to enterprise architecture
strategies, processes and standards.

Jun’16-Jan’19: TATA Teleservices, Hyderabad as Senior Manager

Role:
Led a team of 32 members managing databases of TTSL analytics team of 5 members of TTSL & Devops team of 5.
Guided the Analytics Team in developing good analytical models for customer churn out and also for recommendation
models for customers to migrate data plans based on usage and other criteria algorithms used are logistic regression,
deep learning artificial neural network & Apriori Algorithms, clustering of customers.
Jun’14-Jun’16: Oracle India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad as Principal Consultant
Role:
Worked as a Consultant for Cloud, Devops, BIG Data, Analytics Projects and Solution Architect for database; led a team of 33
members.

Oct’11-Jan’14: Cognizant, Hyderabad as Associate Operations Manager Hyderabad, Telangana

Projects Managed:
Oct'11-Mar'12: JP-Morgan Chase Bank
Apr'12-Mar'13: Wells Fargo Bank at client's Hyderabad
Mar'13-Aug'14: Credit Suisse Bank as Team Leader (managed a Team of 20 DBA's & Performance Tuning of the Databases)
Aug'14 to Jan'14: Pfizer Pharma

Jul’10-Sep’11: Genpact, Hyderabad, Telangana as Consultant

Jul’08-Jun’10: IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, Tamil Nadu as Operations Senior Lead Specialist

Feb’05-Jul’08: Sysbiz Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, Telangana as Trainee

Personal Details
Address: Plot 137, Tulasi Nilayam, Lalithanagar Street 8 Nagole, Hyderabad, Telangana 500068
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Telugu
Date of Birth: 25th May