Priyanka Reddy Chukka

Texas A&M University

August 2022 - Present

Academic/Personal Projects

• Under Dr. Ruyle's guidance, Orchestrated AWS infrastructure with Terraform for scalable ML model deployment in wildlife conservation enhancing efficiency and governance.
• Under Dr. Misra's guidance, Enhanced spatial and spectral accuracy of hyperspectral images using deep neural networks, resulting in improved image quality.
• Under Dr. Yang's guidance, Optimized AUC scores using LibAUC library for medical image classification, surpassing benchmarks, particularly on limited datasets.
• Conducted CPU optimization through in-depth EDA, identifying bottlenecks and efficiency opportunities.

Fidelity Investments

Jan 2019 - Aug 2022

Lead DevOps/Software Engineer

• Cloud Computing:
• Rewrote Python codebase(50K+) in Golang and optimized legacy Postgres queries.
• Implemented async processing using Celery and RabbitMQ for virtual machine creation.
• Engineered Golang APIs, deployed on the Echo framework, to facilitate seamless VM provisioning across VMware and OpenStack platforms.
• Created comprehensive Swagger documentation for APIs enhancing clarity and facilitating seamless integration.
• Integrated Prometheus and Grafana dashboard for 100K+ servers, improving cluster insights and performance metrics visibility.
• Enabled Nagios monitoring on 60+ production clusters and 150+ non production deployment servers, ensuring reliability via notifications during downtime or deployments, resulting in a 25% increase in system uptime.
• Led POC for microservices migration to AWS using EC2, S3, EBS, ASG, API Gateway, and VPC.
• Developed Lambda function for data sync between Oracle and Snowflake using serverless architecture.
• Leveraged Nagios and Kibana for efficient troubleshooting and RCA during on-call production support.
• Effectively executed migration of 1K+ CentOS servers, including production Kubernetes, to Ubuntu 20.04 using Ansible and custom installations via Jenkins pipelines.
• Implemented self-healing for VM creation failures, leading to a notable 25% decrease in downtime during weekly deployment of Rancher on 1K+ servers.
• UnifiedAccessPro:
• Designed role-based access model and policies for business unit's Ansible projects, inventory and credentials using Ansible Tower and AWX.
• Implemented Blue/Green deployment using Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Rancher to onboard projects to AWX serving 1K+ projects.
• Maintained a Rancher-based autoscaling solution, boosting performance by 15% during peak traffic
• Provided training for operations team on Jenkins, Ansible and Docker.
• Partnered with operation teams to develop Kubernetes-based infrastructure as code solution, achieving a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 20% increase in system reliability.

Fidelity Investments

June 2017 - Dec 2018

Software Engineer

• Self-Service Patching Portal:
• Engineered end-to-end data pipeline for Oracle and Redis, deployment, analytics dashboard, proprietary APIs for integration, and Django backend.
• Configured Redis Sentinel architecture for failover and fine-tuned Oracle queries, ensuring efficient data retrieval and bolstering performance.
• Implemented Redis message queue pub/sub for backend services to refresh cached data and async order processing.
• Led CI/CD deployment workflow using Bitbucket webhooks, Jenkins, SonarQube, Karma, pytest across all environments, serving 50+ cloud-based enterprise projects.
• Established Rancher VM infrastructure 100+ projects, leveraging Jenkins and providing custom Docker and Ansible templates for seamless project onboarding. Designed to operate without the need for server maintenance, accommodating all Linux flavors.
• Packaged application into Docker images and designed architecture for deployment into Rancher.
• Recipient of the 'You've Earned It' award in 2020 for achieving an 80% reduction in deployment time and complete elimination of manual efforts through CI/CD optimization of an enterprise-level application.
• NodeJS CLI for Change Ticket Management:
• Created a Node.js CLI tool for operations team to manage change tickets and patching in ServiceNow (SNOW).
• Developed during the WannaCry ransomware attack to facilitate patching servers and prevent attacks.
• Recognized with the 'You've Earned It' award in 2018 for saving ~7 hours/day of manual work.
• Engineered pivotal microservices for multiple teams, spanning authentication, authorization, encrypted emailing, using Golang, AWS tools (SES, KMS, Lambda, Fargate), and OAuth 2.0

Fidelity Investments

July 2016 - May 2017

Executive Graduate Trainee

• Self Managed Application Repackaging Tool:
• Developed a self-managed application repackaging tool for Windows OS and custom packages using shell and .NET.
• Utilized WIX tool to bundle the application as an executable for customer installation.
• Developed frontend website using jQuery and backend using Node.js with SSO and OAuth authentication.
• Received best innovation award in 2016 for developing an application that innovatively reduced Server/Desktop packaging time by 70%.
• Built a real-time compliance dashboard for over 90K+ servers using AngularJS, NodeJS, and MongoDB, enabling 30% more efficient resource allocation and improving compliance management.
• Revamped auto-remediation for CPU and memory issues, resulting in an 80% reduction in incidents and contributing to a 30% improvement in system uptime, using .NET and Bash scripts.

NIT Warangal

Jun 2015 - Jun 2016

Academic Projects

• Mentored by IIM Ahmedabad and Google India, Winner of ISB Design Challenge, developed GPS-free position-reporting system for local buses, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% while providing real-time tracking.
• Under Dr. Yammani's guidance, implemented LSDF for power system data with contingency analysis using Python, Decision trees, RNN, MATLAB achieving 95% accuracy in load forecasting and ensuring grid stability.

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