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# Harish Konala on Tal

## Headline

All things Reliability

## About

IT infrastructure professional with 10\+ years of proven expertise in distributed systems predominantly in Linux, AWS, VMware, Devops and SRE space\. I have demonstrated excellence in above areas and proven my ability to manage complex scenarios especially in time critical domains like Fintech and Artificial Intelligence\(AI\)

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

hugging face

ollama

openai

replit

## Work experience

Systems development engineer at Google, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

SRE Lead at Arcesium, Aug 2022 \- Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Divido, Feb 2022 \- Aug 2022 · 7 mos, India,  Maintained/created infrastructure needed for Divido white\-label BNPL\(Buy Now Pay Later\) platform in AWS  Managed the complete infrastructure using terraform  Upgraded the Kubernetes clusters for several environments as the platform is completely based on microservices architecture  Implemented CICD pipelines using GitlabCI by using GitHub as source  Monitored the infrastructure using Datadog and Cloudwatch\. Also used Elastic stack for Log analysis  Started brainstorming on implementing SRE principles in Divido environment

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Arcesium, Nov 2019 \- Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Implementing SRE principles to make the microservices application infrastructure scalable and reliable by participating in RFC reviews and conducting Production Readiness Reviews\(PRR\) • Dedicated 40\-50% of my efforts towards engineering to automate the manual workflows like Zero\-touch Disaster Recovery and implement new applications like Incident management tool to improve the efficiency and quality of the workflows\. These are mostly written in Python • Identification of top errors, reliability issues while performing the blameless incident postmortems to avoid repeat of incidents • Setup and maintain monitoring and logging for four golden signals Latency, Traffic, Errors and Saturation • Providing L3 escalation support to internal and external client for any technical issues regarding the platform on a 24x7 rotational coverage

Senior Software Engineer at Kore\.ai, May 2018 \- Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos, Hyderabad Area, India,  Written AWS cloud formation templates \(CFT\) to provision all the required infrastructure with highly customizable values to run Kore\.ai's conversational AI bot platform\. This reduced \~80% of the manual tasks while onboarding a new client  Written Ansible playbooks to configure the environment for application deployment by installing all necessary pre\-requisites  Automating the application deployments with Jenkins and automated enabling MongoDB replication etc  Handling L2 Operational tasks related the product platform including monitoring server health of different parameters \(CPU Load, Physical Memory, Hard disk, MySQL service and Http service\) using Monitis and Datadog\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada

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