Sai Kumar Thadepalli

Product: HotDocs, Document Automation Platform.
• Designed and implemented Azure infrastructure solutions including App Services (containerized), Storage Accounts, Key Vaults,
and Virtual Machines.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Bicep templates and integrated them with Azure DevOps pipelines for consistent,
repeatable deployments.
• Created PowerShell and Bash automation scripts to manage lifecycle operations
• Architected and optimized Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for faster build and release cycles, incorporating caching strategies
and parallel execution to improve runtime.
• Integrated SonarQube for automated code quality and security vulnerability scans, ensuring early detection and remediation
during the build stage.
• Containerized applications using Docker, creating lightweight and portable deployment artifacts.
• Currently leading the transition from App Services-based containers to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for improved scalability,
resilience, and workload orchestration.
• Built and maintained Azure Automation Runbooks to handle operational tasks such as automated VM shutdown/startup, stale
resource cleanup, and compliance checks.
• Developed reporting scripts to identify unused or stale cloud resources based on PRID tags and closed PR states, saving cloud
costs and improving resource hygiene.
• Implemented Key Vault integration for secure management of credentials, certificates, and application secrets.
• Created templatized CI CD pipelines for the deployments.
• Followed a shift left best practices to fail fast whenever security measures were broken.
• Partnered with development, QA, and security teams to create a unified DevSecOps culture.
• Enhancing my productivity by making use of AI tools like Chatgpt, DevinAI, Deepseek by incorporating them to repos and
performing PR reviews.

• Our Document Intelligence platform document digitization by manual tasks through ML/AI
technologies, effectively addressing business challenges.
• I support developers and the UI/UX team with their infrastructure and DevOps requirements.
• My expertise spans Azure Cognitive Services, managing code repositories, and enforcing best practices.
• I handle Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, including module management and version control.
• My role includes overseeing the initial deployment of Document Intelligence Platform (DIP) and seting up private endpoints
using Terraform.
• Optimize existing playbooks and workflows to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability for configuration management.
• Integrated playbooks into pipelines to ensure automated deployments of infrastructure and handling the deployment failures.
• Configuring CI/CD pipelines for the automated delivery of the code to lower environments to higher such as Dev/QA/UAT/Pre
prod/Prod environments efficiently.
• Handling errors in the production sites and helping developers to resolve the issues at application functionality level.
• Handled terraform for the infrastructure provisioning through GitHub actions integrating security best practices like wiz code
scanner.
• Configuring network components such as virtual networks (vNet), subnets, and private endpoints to ensure secure
communication within Azure.
• Managing storage accounts and providing secure access for developers to facilitate document processing.
• Keeping Jira boards updated with current tasks and track project deliverables.

• In my role, I have successfully led and executed numerous server & application migration projects, guiding organizations
through complex transitions from on-premises systems to cloud environments.
• Deployed and managed Azure Kubernetes clusters for various microservices-based applications, ensuring seamless
orchestration of containers at scale.
• Configured and maintained AKS clusters with multiple node pools to optimize resource allocation based on workload
requirements.
• Worked with development teams to containerize applications using Docker, ensuring smooth migration of legacy applications
into Kubernetes environments.
• Built CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, integrating automated container build and deployment pipelines
for applications on AKS.
• Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks and roles to automate configuration management, and orchestration tasks across
diverse environments.
• Leveraged Azure Pipelines for automating the deployment of containerized applications into AKS clusters, ensuring rapid and
reliable software delivery with minimal downtime.
• Integrated Prometheus and Grafana for advanced monitoring and visualization of cluster health, resource utilization, and
application performance.
• Developed and maintained Helm charts for multiple applications, enabling efficient deployment and versioning of Kubernetes
resources
• Created reusable Helm templates to define Kubernetes resources in a flexible manner, allowing application configurations to be
parameterized based on environments.
• Implemented security best practices in Ansible playbooks, including secret management and role-based access control, to
ensure compliance with organizational security policies.
• Used Helm install to deploy application manifest files (including Kubernetes resources like Pods, Deployments, Services, etc.)
directly to AKS clusters with minimal configuration.
• Leveraged Helm upgrade to update applications, ensuring seamless version upgrades and rollback capabilities without
downtime.
• Worked on cost management aspects during the migrations and monitoring the cost aspect by maintaining tags associated to
all the resources deployed in azure.
• Leveraged Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code, ensuring code consistency through version control
systems while adhering to best practices.

• Designing and implementing azure solutions across a range of cloud models like IaaS, PaaS and integrated on-premises, on
demand workloads with the azure public cloud.
• Worked on Microservices for continuous Delivery environment using Azure, Docker.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for provisioning, configuration management, and deployment
automation.
• Worked on POC to automate the application deployment into containers like AKS.
• Created AKS clusters using the terraform modules. Had hands on in managing the upgrades for clusters.
• Optimize existing playbooks and workflows to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Design and manage Ansible inventories and variable files for complex environments.
• Implement consistent and repeatable deployment pipelines using Ansible, CI/CD tools such as ADO.
• Troubleshoot issues related to infrastructure deployment and configuration, identifying and resolving problems quickly.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track the status and performance of automated deployments.
• Involved in seting up a Microservice architecture for applications development and implemented high availability with azure.
• Extensively worked on Building and installing servers, creating multiple resources in Azure using terraform and Portal.
• Worked on Virtual networks and network security groups.
• Worked on seting up virtual appliances by creating images from VHD disk for cisco umbrella.
• Worked with version control, build & release management, and deployment of the solutions to the Dev, QA & Prod
environments leveraging Azure DevOps CI/CD tools sets integrating with visual studio.
• Deployed Kubernetes clusters on cloud with master/minion architecture and wrote many yaml files to create services like pods,
deployments, auto scaling, load balancer, services.
• Experience in JIRA for ticketing and defect tracking system and configure various workflows.

• Handed customer production environment and addressed cost optimization issues, VM latency issues.
• Worked on cost optimization solutions for managed disks.
• Configured the multiple interfaces for windows virtual machines on clustering needs.
• Handled network security groups for Virtual machines and Virtual Networks to maintain zero trust network.
• Mentoring team to ensure quality delivery and case handling.
• Maintaining and monitoring the provisioned azure infrastructure providing support to customer on infrastructure issues.
• Understanding customer requirements to adjust the VM and disk capacities based on request.
• Customizing the backup policies as per requirement. Monitoring backup jobs and restoring files/folders.
• Handled the DR activity drills performed every quarter.
• Seting up site recovery and worked on replication appliance setup and handled data replications to azure.
• Provisioning Virtual machines, Virtual networks, subnets assigning IP subnet ranges, creating storage accounts and containers.
• Maintaining technical POCs and sharing across team.

• Handled escalated issues, atending bridge calls for troubleshooting failures.
• Configuring Disk pools, Disk STU (Advanced & basic, Pure Disk), tape STU, robots/drive configurations.
• Handled around 130 Master servers heterogeneous environment, including NDMP, SQL, VMware, Oracle RMAN, VSS & File
level Backups.
• Installing/Upgrading NBU binaries on Master/Media/Client machines.
• Integrating data domain (OST) solution to NetBackup.
• Troubleshooting failures for Linux and Windows Platforms.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems in handling the files/directories cleanup and managing the disk utilization
issues.
• Tackled the disk performance issues in Linux file systems and ensured the alerting is in place when disk went underutilized.
• Designing, planning, maintaining a network-wide NBU architecture.
• Have command over configuring new tape drives to media servers and had knowledge on SAN Zoning requirements.
• Handling IBM & Oracle Tape libraries. (SL8500, L700. etc.) through consoles & ACSLS Servers.
• Decommissioning the Master, Media, and client servers from NetBackup.
• Driven a team of 30, which support successful end-end implementation of backup strategies.

• Server/Client installation on different platforms (Unix/Windows/Linux). Knowledge in managing Domains, Clients, Users
through AVAMAR Administrator console.
• Create and Manage Dataset, Schedule, and Retention Policy. Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups.
• Analyse Problems & escalate to appropriate Levels. Hardware /software fault detection and vendor liaison.
• Hands on working experience on EMC DPA. Planning, analysing and performance tuning of Backup infrastructure.
• Configuring backups to protection groups in networker master.
• Handling installations of networker clients, enabling backups to data domain