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title: "Sudhakar Dharmaraju - Engineering @ PhonePe in Chennai | Tal"
description: "Meet Sudhakar Dharmaraju, Engineering @ Phonepe! based in Chennai. AI stack includes claude."
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# Sudhakar Dharmaraju on Tal

## Headline

Engineering @ Phonepe\!

## About

I’m Sudhakar, an accomplished and startup Engineer with a passion for problem\-solving and technology\. I love strategic\-thinking and deriving a solution for the problems through engineering that goes beyond the surface to solve real business challenges and truly connected with people\. I strongly believe in RnD and trial and error methods are the best way to study and gain knowledge\. So, I also try to keep myself active and work on various self\-thought Interdisciplinary projects so, that I can explore a variety of mediums and domains with a focus on engineering solution and technology\. My thought process and methodology follows Function to form method, starting from pitching concepts till final results\. BLOG: https://medium\.com/@sudhakar\.dharmaraju

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

claude

## Work experience

Engineering @ PhonePe at PhonePe, Jul 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Software Engineer at Crayon Data, May 2021 \- Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Senior System Engineer at Infosys, Dec 2017 \- Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Chennai Area, India, Sys Eng @ infy \- RCL team Walmart division

Dev\-ops \(intern\) at VOONIK \- Every Woman's Personal Stylist, Sep 2016 \- Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore,India, DevOps at Voonik\. Managing production load of Voonik consisting of many microservices and creating cloud infrastructure automation\. Part of a team creating and managing custom in\-house tools \- automatic ticketing system \(newRelic \- jira webhook integration\) and slack alert system \- infrastructure as code to increase productivity and transparency using AWS cloud formation and terraform \- maintaining DNS records to connect user/internal requests to infrastructure using Route 53 Played a major role in moving static infrastructure to dynamic infrastructure by changing from the use of static IPs to dynamic service discovery for optimising cost using Haproxy and Consul\. Cost optimisation \- managed to reduce infra cost by developing in\-house dynamically delivering high\-quality responsive image managing tool and also migrated production from Akamai to cloud Flare CDN

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