I look forward to leveraging my knowledge and expertise of architecting, design, and programming in applications design and development in a team environment that fosters creativity while providing opportunities for career growth and development. I am a multi-cloud architect and technical lead with 15 years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise web applications. I specialize in solutions architecture, cloud, DevOps, automation and security, with hands-on experience across AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. I enjoy translating complex business needs into scalable, secure architectures and leading teams to deliver high-impact results.

Sai Manoj Mannempalli

I look forward to leveraging my knowledge and expertise of architecting, design, and programming in applications design and development in a team environment that fosters creativity while providing opportunities for career growth and development. I am a multi-cloud architect and technical lead with 15 years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise web applications. I specialize in solutions architecture, cloud, DevOps, automation and security, with hands-on experience across AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. I enjoy translating complex business needs into scalable, secure architectures and leading teams to deliver high-impact results.

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I look forward to leveraging my knowledge and expertise of architecting, design, and programming in applications design and development in a team environment that fosters creativity while providing opportunities for career growth and development.

I am a multi-cloud architect and technical lead with 15 years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise web applications. I specialize in solutions architecture, cloud, DevOps, automation and security, with hands-on experience across AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. I enjoy translating complex business needs into scalable, secure architectures and leading teams to deliver high-impact results.

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Work Experience

Principal Solutions Architect at Team Rockstars IT
October 1, 2023 - Present
Designed and led end-to-end observability architecture using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats for large-scale telecom systems; partnered with DevOps, NOC, and engineering teams to define SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and proactive monitoring; standardized instrumentation patterns and SDK usage for logs, metrics, and traces; built end-to-end trace visibility across hybrid telecom systems, reducing MTTR by ~50%.
Solutions Architect at Shell International
September 1, 2023 - March 1, 2025
Architected and delivered end-to-end integration of subsurface and well data with the Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU), enabling unified data access across 10+ business units and reducing manual data retrieval time by 40%; translated complex business requirements into technical specifications using ArchiMate and Bizzdesign; designed scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS (EKS, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, PingID) with microservices, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code; established API standards, data quality validations, and security controls to ensure governance and reduce defects by 25%; implemented auto-scaling and cost optimization to achieve 20% monthly cloud spend reduction while maintaining 99.9% uptime; produced architectural artifacts to support stakeholder communication and handover.
AWS Cloud Architect at Nordcloud
May 1, 2022 - August 1, 2023
AWS and DevOps practice lead; architected and developed AWS infrastructure for Big Data solutions; mentored team members and led DevOps and security initiatives; supported migration assessments as part of AWS MAP and worked with ANWB and ECB.
Senior Software Engineer at Infor
December 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022
Developed cloud automation tools; assessed and triaged vulnerabilities using Rapid7 and Qualys; improved cloud security with Security Hub and WAF; collaborated with operations for requirements; evaluated new technologies through PoCs.
CTO – Full stack developer at Super Now
May 1, 2021 - Present
Defined technology vision and strategy; led MVP development and product strategy; contributed to GTM strategy; oversaw end-to-end app development, cloud infrastructure design, IoT integrations, and automation; led team mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
Manager Information Security and DevOps at Hitch BV
November 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021
Responsible for SOC2, ISO compliance, business continuity plans and procedures; managed customer stakeholder relationships.
Senior Software Engineer at Hitch BV
July 1, 2020 - November 1, 2020
Designed AWS architecture and infrastructure; developed DevOps roadmap and tools; collaborated with product, development and customer success; responsible for multiple customer AWS environments and incident management.
Senior Engineer at HERE Technologies (a Nokia company)
February 1, 2017 - July 1, 2020
Led Hitch project: AWS architecture and infrastructure; Terraform IaC; incident management; mentored team; customer integrations; implemented Lambda, Kubernetes; CI/CD via Jenkins; SSO with SAML; data migration and backups; database schema; go-to-market contributions.
Consultant Systems Engineer / Tech Lead at Agilon IT Consulting Pvt Ltd
September 1, 2014 - February 1, 2017
Led project development from requirements to Go Live; architected applications; mentored team; database schema; integrated AWS S3, EC2, CloudFront, RDS; developed SSO; led performance testing; optimized code and minified resources.
Software Engineer II at Mudra Innovations Inc.
October 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014
Developed modules, APIs; database schema, migrations and backups; integrated Google, Vimeo, Facebook, YouTube APIs; integrated payment gateways; developed a hybrid mobile app; managed team to meet deadlines.
Software Developer I at Hot Street E-Commerce Pvt Ltd (Gravy Train)
October 1, 2012 - September 1, 2013
Determined technical requirements; database schema design; feature development and integrations; web server maintenance.
Consultant at Usmania Dining
June 1, 2010 - September 1, 2012
Led requirements, architecture, and development; database design; frontend UI tweaks; integrated AWS services; performance improvements; Go Live.
Consultant at Flixhouse
June 1, 2010 - September 1, 2012
Video on Demand site built on WordPress; AWS S3/CloudFront for video streaming; plugin integration and optimization for faster page loads.
Developer at Database Migration System
June 1, 2010 - September 1, 2012
Fully automated application to migrate data between MySQL, Oracle, and MS Access; end-to-end development including UI and data processing.

Education

BE (Bachelors of Engineering) – Information Technology at Osmania University, India
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
AWS Certified SysOps Admin – Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
HashiCorp Certified – Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
HashiCorp Certified – Vault Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 10, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Professional Services