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I am a Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering production-grade solutions across Python backend development, cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps automation, data engineering, and full stack engineering. I have built FastAPI and Flask microservices, React/TypeScript frontends, distributed data pipelines with PySpark and Databricks, AI/LLM integrations using OpenAI and LangChain, and enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GCP GKE. I thrive in Agile teams, guiding architecture from API design to production observability and incident response. I excels at bridging DevOps, backend engineering, data pipelines, and AI-powered automation. I’ve led scalable cloud platforms, security hardening, and observability initiatives across enterprise SaaS products, delivering reliable, cost-efficient solutions with a focus on developer productivity and customer impact.…I am a Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering production-grade solutions across Python backend development, cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps automation, data engineering, and full stack engineering. I have built FastAPI and Flask microservices, React/TypeScript frontends, distributed data pipelines with PySpark and Databricks, AI/LLM integrations using OpenAI and LangChain, and enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GCP GKE. I thrive in Agile teams, guiding architecture from API design to production observability and incident response. I excels at bridging DevOps, backend engineering, data pipelines, and AI-powered automation. I’ve led scalable cloud platforms, security hardening, and observability initiatives across enterprise SaaS products, delivering reliable, cost-efficient solutions with a focus on developer productivity and customer impact.

Chakrapani Reddy Kolan

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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I am a Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering production-grade solutions across Python backend development, cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps automation, data engineering, and full stack engineering. I have built FastAPI and Flask microservices, React/TypeScript frontends, distributed data pipelines with PySpark and Databricks, AI/LLM integrations using OpenAI and LangChain, and enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GCP GKE. I thrive in Agile teams, guiding architecture from API design to production observability and incident response. I excels at bridging DevOps, backend engineering, data pipelines, and AI-powered automation. I’ve led scalable cloud platforms, security hardening, and observability initiatives across enterprise SaaS products, delivering reliable, cost-efficient solutions with a focus on developer productivity and customer impact.…I am a Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering production-grade solutions across Python backend development, cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps automation, data engineering, and full stack engineering. I have built FastAPI and Flask microservices, React/TypeScript frontends, distributed data pipelines with PySpark and Databricks, AI/LLM integrations using OpenAI and LangChain, and enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GCP GKE. I thrive in Agile teams, guiding architecture from API design to production observability and incident response. I excels at bridging DevOps, backend engineering, data pipelines, and AI-powered automation. I’ve led scalable cloud platforms, security hardening, and observability initiatives across enterprise SaaS products, delivering reliable, cost-efficient solutions with a focus on developer productivity and customer impact.

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I am a Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering production-grade solutions across Python backend development, cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps automation, data engineering, and full stack engineering. I have built FastAPI and Flask microservices, React/TypeScript frontends, distributed data pipelines with PySpark and Databricks, AI/LLM integrations using OpenAI and LangChain, and enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GCP GKE. I thrive in Agile teams, guiding architecture from API design to production observability and incident response.

I excels at bridging DevOps, backend engineering, data pipelines, and AI-powered automation. I’ve led scalable cloud platforms, security hardening, and observability initiatives across enterprise SaaS products, delivering reliable, cost-efficient solutions with a focus on developer productivity and customer impact.

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Senior Engineer, Cloud Platform & DevOps at Enghouse Interactive

August 1, 2023 - March 1, 2026

Senior engineer spanning cloud platform, Python backend, data, and AI/ML integration across enterprise SaaS. Led HashiCorp Vault HA clusters with auto-unseal; built production-grade EKS clusters; automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform modules and Ansible; designed cloud networking (VPCs, subnets, Transit Gateway) and Istio-based routing; implemented DevSecOps controls (SAST/DAST, image scanning, secret scanning, OPA/Gatekeeper); ensured SOC2 posture; built GitLab CI/CD pipelines with multi-environment promotion; integrated federated identity (Okta) and SAML/OAuth SSO; enhanced observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry; drove cost optimization and on-call reliability; developed Python FastAPI microservices and LobbyBot for Teams integration; implemented OAuth2/JWT security and service mesh encryption; built event-driven microservices with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB Streams, and RabbitMQ; created data validation and reconciliation processes fo

Software Engineer (Full Stack / DevOps) at Lifesize

November 1, 2021 - August 1, 2023

Full stack and DevOps engineer building an enterprise video conferencing platform on AWS Kubernetes infrastructure. Migrated 20+ production services from Elastic Beanstalk to EKS; implemented Kubernetes Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, HPA, and network policies; deployed HashiCorp Vault with dynamic secrets; engineered IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation; automated configuration with Ansible; implemented OAuth 2.0 and SAML-based enterprise SSO; integrated IAM Identity Center with Okta/Auth0; embedded DevSecOps controls into CI/CD and maintained SOC2/GDPR compliance; enforced Kubernetes admission policies with OPA/Gatekeeper and TLS via Cert-Manager; built backend services (REST/GraphQL) in Python; created video features like recording lifecycle, HLS packaging, and media uploads; implemented Redis caching and resilient patterns; built AI-assisted automation features using OpenAI.

Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer at Capital One

March 1, 2019 - October 1, 2021

Cloud platform and data engineering across regulated financial services. Led GCP-to-AWS migration (GKE, Compute Engine, BigQuery, App Engine, Cloud Functions) and re-architected workloads for Capital One AWS platform; established OnePipeline DevOps standard with Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines; defined reusable Terraform modules and S3-based remote state; authored CloudFormation stacks for standardized provisioning; engineered IAM least-privilege and secure multi-tier VPCs; deployed WAF/GuardDuty/Config/Security Hub; Implemented comprehensive monitoring (Splunk, Datadog, CloudWatch); built a greenfield data platform on AWS (EMR, Databricks, S3, RDS) and data pipelines with PySpark/Kinesis; added data validation and reconciliation layers for reporting.

DevOps / Linux Administrator at I2U Systems

June 1, 2017 - February 1, 2019

Foundation role spanning Linux administration, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Python scripting, and Docker containerization. Hardened production Linux servers (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu), automated deployment workflows, and application monitoring. Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; Dockerized applications and implemented automation for provisioning AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, EBS, ELB). Centralized logging and monitoring with Splunk, Nagios, and CloudWatch; managed DNS, SSL certificates, firewall rules, security groups, and VPN connectivity.