Sai Darahas Venigalla

DevOps • Site Reliability • Platform Engineering

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable and resilient cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure and OCI.

Currently at Caterpillar Inc., I design CI/CD platforms, operate Kubernetes at scale, and embed security into delivery pipelines and cloud governance.

Recent impact: +40% deployment frequency, −25% downtime, −60% security incidents.

Slough, UK • No sponsorship required • AWS / Azure / OCI • Kubernetes (EKS)

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  • Cloud platform engineering and Kubernetes operations
  • CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform & CloudFormation
  • DevSecOps, Vulnerability Management & Cloud Governance
CI/CD Platform Modernisation
  • Migrated Azure DevOps pipelines to GitHub Actions
  • Improved deployment frequency by 40%
  • Reduced pipeline runtime by 30%
Production Kubernetes Platform (EKS)
  • Managed EKS clusters supporting 20+ applications
  • Improved platform reliability and release consistency
DevSecOps & Security Automation
  • Integrated Prisma Cloud into CI/CD pipelines
  • Reduced security incidents by 60%
Software Engineer – DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering | Caterpillar Inc.
  • Location: Westminster, Colorado, USA
  • Duration: June 2023 – Present
  • Designed, deployed, and operated production-grade Kubernetes (EKS) platforms supporting 20+ services.
  • Built and maintained 30+ CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, increasing deployment frequency by 40%.
  • Led migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, reducing pipeline execution time by 30%.
  • Managed AWS infrastructure and improved system reliability, reducing downtime by 25%.
  • Integrated Prisma Cloud and vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipelines, reducing security incidents by 60%.
  • Improved authentication security by replacing PAT-based access with Azure Service Principals.
DevOps Intern – Digital & Analytics | Caterpillar Inc.
  • Location: Westminster, Colorado, USA
  • Duration: May 2022 – August 2022
  • Automated secret rotation using AWS Secrets Manager, achieving 100% compliance with credential rotation policies.
  • Developed CloudFormation templates that accelerated infrastructure provisioning by 50%.
  • Built and deployed the internal AuthentiCATor application, reducing authorisation turnaround time by 70%.
  • Aligned CI/CD authentication and secrets management with ISO 27001 security standards.
Graduate Research Assistant | University of Missouri
  • Location: Columbia, Missouri, USA
  • Duration: January 2022 – May 2023
  • Worked at the Mizzou Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure (CERI) Center on cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Collaborated with Plant Sciences and Health Informatics teams on IoT-driven precision agriculture experiments.
  • Contributed to the IMPRes web platform for active pathway detection using dynamic programming techniques.
  • Supported research proposal development and campus-wide cyber infrastructure initiatives.
CloudOps Engineer | Torry Harris Business Solutions
  • Location: Bengaluru, India
  • Duration: January 2021 – July 2021
  • Assisted Technical Project Managers with delivery planning, risk management, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Contributed to project scope definition, scheduling, and release planning.
  • Ensured smooth execution of CloudOps and release management activities.
Associate CloudOps Engineer | Torry Harris Business Solutions
  • Location: Bengaluru, India
  • Duration: April 2019 – December 2020
  • Designed and maintained CI pipelines for automated build and deployment of WAR, JAR, and EAR applications.
  • Installed, configured, and administered Oracle WebLogic Server and Apache Tomcat across environments.
  • Managed version control using Git and SVN; tracked issues via JIRA and BMC Remedy.
  • Troubleshot OS, network, and application-level issues to improve service reliability.
Associate CloudOps Engineer – Trainee | Torry Harris Business Solutions
  • Location: Bengaluru, India
  • Duration: October 2018 – April 2019
  • Trained in AWS fundamentals, middleware technologies, and SOA-based system design.
  • Gained hands-on experience with Bash scripting, Java, HTML/CSS, and Oracle Database.
  • Worked with tools including Apache ANT, Eclipse, JIRA, SVN, SOAP UI, and JUnit.
Intern | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • Location: Chennai, India
  • Duration: July 2017
  • Designed and developed a Student Database Management System using Java and MySQL.
  • Worked closely with the engineering team to understand enterprise software development practices.
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, OCI
  • Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
  • IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Languages: Python, Bash, Java
Masters in Science — University of Missouri
  • Major: Computer Science
  • CGPA: 3.96 / 4.0
  • Location: Columbia, Missouri, USA
Bachelor of Engineering — Sathyabama University
  • Major: Computer Science and Engineering
  • CGPA: 7.3 / 10.0 (First Class)
  • Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Sai Venigalla