Surendra K, MS

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer at Engage People

Surendra K, MS has a diverse work experience in the field of cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering. Their most recent role was as a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer at Engage People Inc., where they automated and built infrastructures using IaC (Terraform) and deployed containerized applications (Docker, ECS). Surendra also implemented cost management techniques on multiple AWS accounts to optimize costs.

Prior to that, Surendra worked at Autodesk, first as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer from April 2017 to December 2019, and then as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer from January 2020 to November 2021. In these roles, they focused on enabling development and engineering professionals by implementing and managing the organization's internal private cloud. Surendra also designed, developed, and improved a cloud infrastructure for enterprise cloud services.

Before joining Autodesk, Surendra worked as an AWS/DevOps Engineer at Samsung Electronics America from August 2016 to March 2017. In this role, they implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Jenkins and GitHub, migrated and maintained build and test environments in the Cloud Infrastructure, and managed network security using Security Groups and IAM.

Surendra's earlier experience includes working as a Linux System Administrator at HCL Technologies from January 2013 to June 2014. Their responsibilities included system administration and support of Unix Servers, Red Hat Linux, and CentOS, as well as creating shell scripts for automation and managing system processes.

Overall, Surendra has a strong background in cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, and system administration, with experience in AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Linux.

Surendra K completed their Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Swarna Bharathi Careers. The exact years of their undergraduate education are not provided.

Surendra then pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Michigan-Flint, completing their studies from 2014 to 2016.

Additionally, Surendra K has obtained several certifications, including being a Certified Blockchain Expert from the Blockchain Council (obtained in January 2021), a Professional Scrum Master I from Scrum.org (obtained in January 2021), a Microsoft Certified Professional from Microsoft (obtained in December 2018), a Devops Master from EXIN your ICT competence partner (obtained in December 2016), a Microsoft Certified Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate from Microsoft (obtained in January 2021), a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect from Google Cloud Platform Certified (obtained in January 2019), an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate from Amazon Web Services (obtained in January 2017), and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services (obtained in January 2017).

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  • Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

    December, 2021 - present