Srujan Akumarthi

Principal Engineer in DevSecOps
Email: [email protected] | Phone: +91 950 345 4780

Professional Summary

Experienced Principal Engineer specializing in DevSecOps with expertise in cloud infrastructure, security implementation, and scalable systems architecture. Proven track record in optimizing cloud costs, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining high-availability systems handling 100k+ requests/second.

Technical Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
  • Monitoring & Observability: ELK, EFK, Sentry, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus Grafana Stack
  • CI/CD & Version Control: GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins
  • Infrastructure: Terraform, Chef, Ansible
  • Databases: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Postgres,
  • Message Queuing: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS
  • Security: AWS-WAF, Cloudflare, PCI-DSS compliance

Professional Experience

Principal Engineer | CXScore

October 2023 - Present

  • Architected and implemented infrastructure for AI product deployment and operations
  • Established CI/CD pipelines and QA frameworks for LLM and AI models
  • Designed clickstream analytics architecture and contributed to LLM model development
  • Implemented comprehensive debugging and instrumentation systems
  • Enhanced system robustness and scaling capabilities for scanning operations

Principal Engineer | PagarBook

October 2020 - October 2022

  • Developed automated deployment and provisioning systems for operations
  • Implemented InfoSec compliance for neo-banking project using Cloudflare and AWS-WAF
  • Designed and deployed internal no-code engines for non-engineering teams
  • Built comprehensive observability system using OpenTelemetry and DataDog
  • Led team management and task delegation initiatives

DevSecOps Consultant | Self-Employed

August 2020 - October 2020

  • Provided cloud cost optimization for various AWS customers
  • Implemented PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure and monitoring frameworks
  • Developed IoT device infrastructure on AWS
  • Delivered architecture consulting and security implementation services
  • Clients included: Invideo, PagarBook, Juntrax

DevOps Engineer | Epifi

November 2019 - August 2020

  • Established base infrastructure using Terraform
  • Created automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins
  • Implemented infrastructure automation and monitoring solutions

DevOps Engineer | WebEngage

October 2016 - November 2019

  • Improved service uptime from 90% to 97%
  • Achieved 40% reduction in AWS costs
  • Managed MongoDB, Kafka, and MySQL clusters
  • Implemented environment reproducibility and configuration management
  • Automated deployments and error tracking systems

DevOps Engineer | Browserstack

March 2016 - October 2016

  • Implemented geo DNS setup across data centers using PowerDNS
  • Developed multi-environment automation systems
  • Optimized alert systems for improved actionability

DevOps Engineer | Tinyowl

April 2015 - March 2016

  • Scaled AWS services and implemented Chef-based service deployment
  • Established git workflow processes and monitoring systems
  • Managed system downtimes and developer onboarding

Software Developer | Pricebaba

September 2014 - April 2015

  • Developed e-commerce price comparison platform
  • Implemented web scraping and data aggregation systems

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
2010 - 2014

Notable Achievements

  • Scaled systems to handle 100k requests/second average
  • Managed MongoDB cluster of ~60TB
  • Administered Elasticsearch cluster of ~30TB
  • Handled Kafka processing of ~1 billion messages per second