Pradeep Ponnaluru

Pradeep Ponnaluru has over two decades of work experience. Pradeep is currently the Lead Solutions Architect at Highmark Health since 2021. Previously, they worked as a Sr Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies from 2018 to 2020, where they focused on platform modernization and research in Kubernetes and CI/CD. Prior to that, they held the position of Lead Solutions Architect at Highmark Health from 2012 to 2018. Pradeep also worked as a Lead Consultant at Capgemini from 2010 to 2012, a Principal Consultant at Cognizant Technology Solutions from 2006 to 2010, a Software Engineer at Satyam from 2005 to 2006, a Software Engineer at Peri Software from 2003 to 2005, and a Developer at AV System from 2002 to 2003.

Pradeep Ponnaluru completed their B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, spanning from 1997 to 2001. Pradeep then pursued an MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University from 2002 to 2004. Additionally, Pradeep has obtained various certifications throughout their career. These certifications include Advanced Terraform, Learning Ansible, Prepare for the Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer Exam, Serverless Architecture, Containers, K8s, and Istio on IBM Cloud, Getting started with Microservices with Istio and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, Reactive Architecture: Introduction to Reactive Systems, Certified Lead System Architect, Software Architecture Professional certificate, SOA Architect Professional, Certified Senior System Architect, and Certified System Architect. The obtained years for these certifications range from 2008 to 2022, with the most recent ones being acquired in 2022.