Alekhya Vankayala
Professional Summary
DevOps Engineer with 10 months of hands-on internship experience building CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure on AWS. Practical experience with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible to automate deployments, enforce Infrastructure-as-Code, and implement monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. Strong analytical background from data analyst and data science roles with SQL, Python and Power BI skills, enabling data-driven platform improvements and observability-focused automation.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Engineered Jenkins CI/CD pipelines integrated with Git and Maven to automate build, test, and deployment stages across multiple services, eliminating manual deployment steps and improving release reliability.
- Containerized applications with Docker and published images to Docker Hub; deployed and managed workloads on Kubernetes using manifests and Helm charts to enable scalable, repeatable rollouts.
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform (EKS, VPC, IAM, EC2) and implemented remote state management in S3 with DynamoDB locking to ensure reproducible environments.
- Implemented Prometheus metrics collection and Grafana dashboards to monitor CPU, memory and request latency; configured alerts to speed up incident detection and response.
- Developed Bash and Python automation scripts for health checks, automated validation, and rollback procedures to reduce manual troubleshooting during releases.
- Collaborated with development and QA teams to define deployment strategies, author Helm charts for environment parity, and streamline CI feedback loops for faster iterations.
- Designed Git-integrated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to accelerate build-test-deploy cycles and improve release consistency across staging and production environments.
- Provisioned and maintained AWS infrastructure including EC2 instances, IAM roles and CloudWatch monitoring to support scalable web applications and centralized observability.
- Automated server configuration and application deployments using Ansible playbooks to reduce configuration drift and enable repeatable environment setups.
- Introduced Docker-based packaging for legacy apps and integrated Docker Compose in CI workflows to standardize development and CI environments.
- Participated in production incident troubleshooting, analyzing logs and metrics to perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
- Authored infrastructure documentation and runbooks and shared CI/CD best practices with the engineering team to reduce on-call resolution time and knowledge gaps.
- Performed data variance analysis and validated SQL queries in MySQL to ensure 100% accuracy in data extraction for business reporting.
- Applied data cleaning and normalization techniques using Python and Excel to maintain dataset integrity and enable reliable downstream analysis.
- Designed and deployed interactive Power BI dashboards integrating Excel/CSV and SQL sources to provide cross-functional insights across departments.
- Built data models and optimized DAX measures to enhance dashboard performance and support faster stakeholder decision-making.
- Conducted ad-hoc analyses to answer business questions and translated findings into actionable recommendations for product and operations teams.
- Automated routine reporting tasks with Power Query and scripting to reduce manual reporting time and improve report consistency.
- Performed advanced analytics on AMCAT platform data using Python and SQL, improving platform performance by 15% and reducing code runtime by 20% through bug fixes and optimization.
- Built and deployed AWS-based web applications on EC2, implementing email validation and integrating sentiment analysis models to improve classification accuracy by 18%.
- Engineered an AI-powered video search engine using ChromaDB embeddings and exposed functionality through a Streamlit application for efficient subtitle-based search.
- Designed and optimized machine learning pipelines including preprocessing, training and evaluation to increase model reliability and reduce inference errors.
- Collaborated with product and engineering stakeholders to convert analytics insights into actionable product improvements and performance metrics.
- Maintained reproducible notebooks, documented experiments and automated data ingestion to accelerate iterative model development.
- Optimized retail inventory management using Python and SQL, increasing data accuracy by 20% through systematic cleansing and validation routines.
- Developed Power BI and Tableau dashboards to visualize inventory and sales performance, reducing reporting time by 25% and enabling timely decisions.
- Implemented automated ETL extracts to consolidate POS and inventory data, improving report timeliness and reliability.
- Performed root-cause analysis on stockouts and delivery issues, contributing to a 10% reduction in stockouts and a 5% improvement in on-time deliveries.
- Standardized data definitions and documented ETL processes to reduce discrepancies between systems and stakeholders.
- Presented findings and recommended supply chain process improvements to stakeholders to align inventory levels with demand patterns.
Education
Certifications
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