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title: "Suraj Thodupunoori - Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Suraj Thodupunoori, Site Reliability Engineer at Rubrik | Ex-Arcesium (D. E. Shaw) | AWS | Prometheus | Grafana | Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude code and claude."
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# Suraj Thodupunoori on Tal

## Headline

Site Reliability Engineer at Rubrik \| Ex\-Arcesium \(D\. E\. Shaw\) \| AWS \| Prometheus \| Grafana \| Docker \| Kubernetes \| Terraform

## About

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer with 6\+ years of experience and skills around AWS cloud \(EC2, RDS, S3, EKS, etc\., \), Database Monitoring, alerting and disaster recovery, SDLC and Infrastructure as Code \(IaC\) with Terraform\. I tend to follow practices which are embraced by the DevOps culture and I believe in automation of tasks which are repetitive in nature

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

claude

## Work experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Rubrik, Apr 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Arcesium, Jan 2022 \- Apr 2022 · 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Reliability Engineer at Arcesium, Jun 2020 \- Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Key Contributions: 1\. Scalable Database Monitoring Solution \- Prometheus, Grafana, Bunch of Exporters to monitor AWS RDS, Aurora RDS, SQL Servers hosted in AWS EC2\. 2\. Database Disaster Recover Solution \- SQL Server \(Recover 100s of servers in 10 minutes\)\. 3\. Improve Alerting and enhance alerting configurations to avoid duplicate alerts to reduce noise\. 4\. Automate frequent tasks to reduce toil \- PowerShell, Python 5\. AWS Cost Reporting and Optimization \- Attribute AWS Costs \(storage/compute\) among all the teams based on their utilization on each server EC2 / RDS / Snowflake and enforce new policies to optimize costs\. 6\. Streamline SDLC Process for team deployments

Reliability Engineer at Arcesium, Feb 2020 \- Jun 2020 · 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Key Contributions: 1\. Design and Implement Database Refresh \- Refresh 100s of TBs of data from Production to UAT environment for real\-time data testing using EBS Fast Snapshot Restores\.

Software Engineer at Chidhagni, May 2019 \- Jun 2019 · 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Osmania University

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