Hello, I’m Abhinav Dasari, a results-driven Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating highly available cloud platforms that support mission-critical global workloads. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation, with a strong SRE mindset focused on SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and operational excellence. I excel at collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to bake reliability into system design, mentor engineers, and drive reliability initiatives across large-scale distributed systems. I am passionate about continuous improvement, cost optimization, and enabling zero-downtime deployments using blue/green and canary strategies.

Abhinav Dasari

Hello, I’m Abhinav Dasari, a results-driven Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating highly available cloud platforms that support mission-critical global workloads. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation, with a strong SRE mindset focused on SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and operational excellence. I excel at collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to bake reliability into system design, mentor engineers, and drive reliability initiatives across large-scale distributed systems. I am passionate about continuous improvement, cost optimization, and enabling zero-downtime deployments using blue/green and canary strategies.

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Hello, I’m Abhinav Dasari, a results-driven Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating highly available cloud platforms that support mission-critical global workloads. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation, with a strong SRE mindset focused on SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and operational excellence.

I excel at collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to bake reliability into system design, mentor engineers, and drive reliability initiatives across large-scale distributed systems. I am passionate about continuous improvement, cost optimization, and enabling zero-downtime deployments using blue/green and canary strategies.

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Cloud Engineer at Amazon
January 1, 2024 - Present
Own end-to-end reliability of mission-critical services across global AWS regions; define and enforce SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to balance reliability with feature velocity. Automate infrastructure provisioning and service deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, and build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Argo CD. Design and operate containerized microservices on Kubernetes (EKS) with blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments; implement multi-region self-healing and self-service tooling. Lead capacity planning, performance/testing, and security hardening; monitor health with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK. Drive cost optimization and ensure compliance (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR where applicable).
Senior DevOps Engineer at American Airlines
August 1, 2022 - December 1, 2023
Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for airline applications; automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates for consistent environments. Managed cloud/hybrid infra on AWS to support high-availability across global operations. Deployed Docker/Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) to support scalable, real-time workloads; built comprehensive monitoring dashboards with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and ELK. Implemented high-availability and disaster recovery strategies; supported 24/7 on-call incident response; enforced security practices to protect passenger data and operations compliance (PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC 2). Optimized capacity for peak periods and irregular operations; automated configuration management with Ansible/Chef/Puppet; implemented blue/green/canary deployments and standardized logging/tracing.
Software Engineer at Oracle
November 1, 2018 - December 1, 2021
Validated enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure components; performed functional, integration, system, regression, and performance testing across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments. Designed automated performance, load, and scalability tests; developed test strategies and validation frameworks aligned with cloud architecture and DevOps practices. Automated infrastructure validation and health checks integrated into CI/CD, reviewed IaC provisioning workflows (Terraform and templates), and validated networking/storage/DR configurations. Mentored junior engineers and collaborated in Agile/Scrum settings to improve reliability and quality.
Release and Build Engineer at Infosys
June 1, 2015 - October 1, 2018
Directed end-to-end release management for mission-critical financial applications; led performance testing and release validation teams; authored release test plans, deployment workflows, rollback procedures, and governance documentation to meet regulatory standards. Built production-like test environments for risk analysis and proactive issue mitigation; managed Linux/ Solaris/ Windows systems, VMware virtualization, and enterprise storage. Automated testing and deployment pipelines; ensured Agile/Scrum compliance, audit controls, and release readiness for secure, compliant deployments. Presented readiness assessments and risk evaluations to senior leadership.

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