Ashok Valakatla

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer

10 years designing and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure on Azure and AWS. I specialize in Kubernetes platform engineering, Terraform IaC, GitOps with ArgoCD, CI/CD automation, and full-stack observability — building the internal platforms that let engineering teams ship faster without the ops overhead.

linkedin.com/in/ashokvalakatla

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

What I Write About

I publish weekly on the topics I work with every day in production environments:

Education

B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering

JBIT · 2012 – 2016

Certifications

Azure Certified DevOps Expert

Azure Certified Solution Architect

Azure Certified Administrator