Karthik Orugonda
Senior Platform Engineer & SRE
15+ years in tech, 10+ years specialising in cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP. Expert in Kubernetes-based IDPs, Terraform-driven self-service infrastructure, and GitOps-driven CI/CD. Currently exploring AI Platform Engineering and MLOps infrastructure.
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Tech Skills
Cloud & Platform Infrastructure
Containers & Orchestration
CI/CD, IaC & GitOps
Security, Policy & Governance
Observability & Reliability
AI-assisted Engineering
Experience
15+ years building resilient infrastructure and empowering engineering teams
Staff SRE and Platform Engineer
Dec 2022 – PresentAldi Süd
- Contributed to a Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform, developing reusable IaC modules, Helm library charts, GitOps workflows and golden paths that standardised deployment patterns across multiple engineering teams.
- Established AIOps-driven observability using OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace, reducing MTTR and false positives by ~30% via alerting-as-code and SLO frameworks
Technical Lead - DevOps, Cloud & Platform
May 2018 – Nov 2022Rakuten
- Operated multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms and CI/CD systems supporting 400+ engineers across multiple business domains.
- Engineered resilient GitOps CI/CD pipelines enabling automated canary and blue-green deployments, and refactored Jenkins shared libraries used by 150+ teams.
- Spearheaded migration from legacy PaaS (Mesos/Marathon) to Kubernetes and then to Private Cloud across multiple business units, leading a team of 5 engineers.
IT Operations Lead & DevOps Engineer
Sep 2015 – Apr 2018Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Led a 25-member production operations team for high-traffic, enterprise e-commerce platforms.
- Automated legacy release pipelines and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2010 – Aug 2015Tech Mahindra
- Developed automated reporting tools reducing manual operational effort by ~30% for Vodafone UK backend systems.
Projects & Certifications
Highlighted work and industry-recognized credentials
Featured Projects
Enterprise AWS Infrastructure
Production-grade, multi-environment AWS infrastructure platform built with Terragrunt and Terraform. Fully DRY, secure, observable, and automated.
IDP & GitOps Architecture
Enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) blueprint for zero-touch onboarding and multi-tenant continuous delivery via GitOps.
FinOps Kubernetes Operator
High-performance Kubernetes operator designed to radically reduce cloud costs by intelligently scaling down non-production workloads during sleep windows.
App Library Helm Chart
Library Helm chart sharing standardized named templates for DRY generation of environment-specific ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Deployments.
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Education & Languages
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
CGPA: 7.2 / 10
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