Pravalika Golconda
I’m a DevOps/SRE-focused engineer with 6+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native delivery pipelines and infrastructure platforms across AWS and Azure.
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I’m a DevOps/SRE-focused engineer with 6+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native delivery pipelines and infrastructure platforms across AWS and Azure. I specialize in CI/CD pipeline architecture, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes platform engineering, and GitOps practices, with a strong track record of improving deployment reliability and developer self-service while keeping production stable.
Over the past several roles at BMO Capital Markets, Wealthsimple, and Data Cognition, I’ve led automation efforts that accelerate software delivery end-to-end—from code commit through production—using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes on EKS. I also strengthen operational excellence with observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK), secrets management (Vault), security/compliance controls, and incident response practices, supported by strong Python and Bash automation for reducing toil.
- 7 years' experience
- Joined October 2026
Industry experience
- Financial Services
- Software & Internet
Work experience· 5 roles
Engineered and maintained GitOps delivery pipelines using ArgoCD and Helm for 250+ business-critical microservices on Amazon EKS across dev, staging, and production. Developed reusable Terraform modules for provisioning EKS clusters, VPC networking, IAM roles, load balancers, Route53, and monitoring infrastructure to standardize environments and accelerate provisioning. Standardized CI/CD across teams using GitHub Actions and Jenkins with automated code quality checks, security scanning, testing, artifact management, and deployment validation. Managed Kubernetes cluster lifecycle tasks including upgrades, node group migrations, and autoscaling optimization; implemented rolling strategies to maintain uninterrupted availability. Automated operational workflows with Python/Bash (health checks, compliance validations, and admin tasks). Built observability using Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager and Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash/Fluent Bit; improved troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. St
Designed and operated multi-region AWS infrastructure for mission-critical trading systems, implementing automated failover, Route53 health-check routing, and cross-region replication for continuous availability. Standardized infrastructure lifecycle management with Terraform, codifying VPCs, subnets, security groups, RDS, and load balancers into version-controlled modules delivered via GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Built and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines with environment promotion gates and automated rollback triggers based on deployment health. Managed MySQL environments for high-throughput workloads with backup validation, replication lag monitoring, query performance tuning, and DR runbook maintenance. Implemented auto-scaling (EC2 Auto Scaling groups and Launch Templates) to align compute capacity with trading volume while controlling cost. Created monitoring and alerting frameworks using Datadog and AWS CloudWatch with PagerDuty escalation; reduced detection/response latency by cor
Owned BMO’s enterprise observability platform for cloud-native and distributed microservices supporting 10+ engineering teams with unified visibility into infrastructure, application health, and Kubernetes operations. Automated deployment and lifecycle management of Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Loki using Terraform and Helm for consistent, version-controlled monitoring across environments. Configured Prometheus scrape pipelines, recording rules, and alerting rules across Kubernetes clusters and cloud resources; codified in GitOps repositories for auditability and repeatability. Implemented distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry to help teams identify bottlenecks and trace request flows across service boundaries. Built advanced Grafana dashboards for debugging, SRE reliability management, and leadership reporting. Reduced alert noise by 40%+ via threshold tuning to remove flapping and improve SLO-aligned signal quality. Defined and instrumented SLIs/SLO-aligned metrics acro
Education
Certifications and awards· 6
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