Ashok Valakatla

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer

10 years of experience designing and operating production-grade infrastructure across Azure and AWS. Focused on CI/CD automation, Kubernetes platform engineering, observability, and Infrastructure as Code.

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Core Skills

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Helm GitHub Actions Jenkins Ansible Azure DevOps Azure AWS Prometheus Grafana Istio Knative Azure service Operator GitOps / Argo CD Python Linux

Experience

Aug 2024 – Present

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer

Backbase

Sep 2022 – Jul 2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cognizant

Dec 2019 – Sep 2022

Senior Specialist

HCL Technologies

Jun 2016 – Nov 2019

Cloud Engineer

Cloud4C Services

Education

B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering

JBIT · 2012 – 2016

Certifications

Azure Certified DevOps Expert

Azure Certified Solution Architect

Azure Certified Administrator