I am a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable cloud infrastructures on AWS. I specialize in automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. I have partnered with financial institutions to design secure, highly available systems, focusing on observability, cost efficiency, and compliance. I enjoy automating manual processes, improving deployment speed, and delivering reliable operations in fast-paced environments.

Lavanya Rajeswari Gali

I am a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable cloud infrastructures on AWS. I specialize in automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. I have partnered with financial institutions to design secure, highly available systems, focusing on observability, cost efficiency, and compliance. I enjoy automating manual processes, improving deployment speed, and delivering reliable operations in fast-paced environments.

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I am a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable cloud infrastructures on AWS. I specialize in automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.

I have partnered with financial institutions to design secure, highly available systems, focusing on observability, cost efficiency, and compliance. I enjoy automating manual processes, improving deployment speed, and delivering reliable operations in fast-paced environments.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer at Bank of America
January 1, 2015 - November 5, 2025
Led migration of core banking applications from EC2-based monoliths to Amazon EKS, designed Helm charts and autoscaling strategies to improve performance efficiency by 40% and achieve zero downtime during rollout. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline with Blue/Green and Canary deployments, reducing release cycles from hours to minutes and enhancing rollback safety. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation; created modular templates for VPCs, IAM, and RDS to enable faster, standardized environment provisioning across teams. Administered Linux servers (Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu), managing users, permissions, cron jobs, package updates, and kernel tuning to maintain secure, high-performing systems. Implemented a unified observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, with OpenTelemetry tracing, cutting mean time to detect incidents by over 60%. Strengthened cloud security with IAM, Secrets Manager, an
DevOps Engineer at Citi Bank
December 31, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Re-architected legacy financial platforms for the cloud by designing secure, multi-tier AWS environments (VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups) to meet security and compliance benchmarks. Built CI/CD frameworks with Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, and SonarQube, automating builds and deployments to shorten delivery timelines from weeks to days. Implemented containerization with Docker and deployed workloads on Amazon EKS, enabling consistent performance and streamlined blue/green rollouts. Provisioned and managed infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, enabling one-click environment creation and configuration parity across cloud stages. Streamlined Linux administration (RHEL, Ubuntu) by automating user provisioning, patch management, and cron scheduling, improving reliability and reducing manual overhead. Built real-time monitoring and observability pipelines with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch; centralized ELK log analytics to support faster root-cause analysis during a

Education

at Saint Louis University
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025

Qualifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA -CO3)
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
GitHub Foundations Certificate
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
3DExperience Infrastructure Consultant Certificate
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services