Vinutha Prakash (she/her)

Software Engineer

Contact Details:

prakash.vi@northeastern.edu

vinutha.ap07@gmail.com

(617)-708-5657

About Me

I am a tech-savvy graduate student at Northeastern University pursuing a Master's degree in Software Engineering systems. With over six years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, I have honed my skills in programming, developing, deploying, and operating large-scale distributed software solutions.

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TECHNICAL SKILLS


  • Programming Languages : HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Python, Java, SQL, MySQL, Ansible, Terraform, C/C++, and Shell scripting.
  • OS : Linux (RHEL 6 or higher, Centos, Ubuntu), Windows Server -2012,2016.
  • Softwares : OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Dockers, Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker swarm, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Spinnaker, IBM Urbancode, Nexus, JFrog, Helm Charts, SonarQube, HashiCorp vault, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Grafana, Prometheus, NiFi, Flink, Cassandra, Azure SQL & Cosmos, VMware - vSphere, Kafka, Istio, xMatters, JIRA.
  • Methodologies : Agile, Kanban, Lean, DevOps, DevSecOps, MLOps, SAFe.
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My Work Experience


Lumen Technologies. Role: Infrastructure Engineer Intern

June 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Designed forecasting models like ARIMA, SARIMAX and created a WebApp using Python-Flask, MongoDB
  • Developed a clustering algorithm on Text data using Sentence Transformers and Scikit-learn


Walmart Global Tech (Prev. WalmartLabs). Team: Market Intelligence, Role: SRE.

April 2020 – August 2022


  • Created Design System - React, TypeScript, and Storybook, project scaffolding archetype, and Bootstrap theme that standardized the US across 20+ teams, saving the time and resources required for building new web pages with consistent web accessibility by 50%
  • Built multi-cloud consolidated solution (Azure + GCP) in 3 regions across the U.S and Kubernetes solution for Cloud-Native apps, instituted with an E2E pipeline, add-on monitoring, and alerting with DR and HA.
  • Lead and trained 10+ L1/L2 operation support engineers’ team during the Black Friday deals with 0% pipeline downtime which was also recognized for a team award.
  • Implemented the Dynatrace for the 100+ servers that helped to improve the performance of the applications by 10-15% and reduced the infra by 5%.
  • Programmed the email & on-call processor for prod issues using NiFi, Zookeeper, Jira, and xMatters which helped on improving MTTR and MTTD.
  • Developed microservices app tracing solution for monitoring using Jaeger, Splunk, Elastic search, and Grafana.


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Accenture. Team: Innovation hub - DevOps studio, Role: DevOps Engineer.

Nov 2018 – March 2020


  • Built Alexa Skills voice automation for CI-CD lifecycle and AWS cloud monitoring.
  • Developed E2E CI-CD solution for ASP.Net apps on Kubernetes with Windows node with Spinnaker and Helm.
  • Designed and implemented CI-CD pipeline solutions for SFDC, Python, Spring boot/Java, and Big Data applications on the Kubernetes platform. Also worked on Azure DevOps Pipelines and MLOps pipelines.

Capgemini.

Client: Cisco. Team: Software Release Automation, Role: SRE.

May 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Worked on Spinnaker CD 2.0 to shift to ‘Pipeline-as-Code’ and ‘Infra as Code’ accelerating Cloud-Native paradigms on GCP, AWS, Openshift, and Openstack environments transforming apps to Cloud-Native.
  • Documented P0/P1 runbooks along with self-healing of key flows.
  • Delivered Go-Live and Production releases of 1000s SOX and non-SOX compliance applications and provided 24/7 support by actioning on the reported incidents within the business SLA.


Client: Hewlett Packard. Team: Technology services R and D, Role: System Admin.

Aug 2016 - April 2017

  • Successfully launched an infrastructure of 2000+ VM using VMware-vSphere with ESX-integrated hypervisor and maintained with zero downtime along with on-demand infra provisioning on HPE clouds.
  • Provided Data-centre maintenance and troubleshot with zero downtime. On-demand infra provisioning on HPE clouds such as Load balancers and Sandboxes.



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EDUCATION

My Education


Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Master of Science in Software Engineering Systems.

Sep 2022- Present


Visvesvaraya Technological University, India

Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering.

August 2012- June 2016

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My Background


I started working right after my undergrad with Capgemini. I took up a role of a System Admin in Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TSS R n D team as my first client. I was responsible for Data-Centre operation, private & public cloud configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Continuing later, I worked for client Cisco systems as DevOps Engineer where I was building and deploying the applications. Also, maintained and supported the various Continuous Delivery tools and application lifecycle.


After that, I started working with Accenture Innovation Hub as a DevOps Engineer. I was involved in creating new POCs, pipelines, DevSecOps, serverless, cloud & microservices solutions. Subsequently, Walmart's journey began with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer roles in the Market Intelligence team.


My career objective is to become a Software Architect where I want to continue working with the advancement study in Principles and concepts for the design and case studies in understanding large-scale, complex software systems while exploring and experimenting further on a journey that embarks on the amalgamation of systematic, disciplined, quantifiable software development.



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My Competencies

  • Cloud and DevOps CI-CD.
  • Infrastructure Management.
  • Triaging and troubleshooting.
  • Capacity Planning.
  • Data Center administration and operation.
  • System and Application Monitoring.
  • Cost optimization.
  • Performance optimization.
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
  • Release Automation.
  • Vulnerability and risk assessment.
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Projects


Ecommerce Website

(AWS, Node.Js, Github, Terraform, Packer)

  • Architected and developed a highly scalable 3-tier e-commerce web application using Node.js and AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, Route53); implemented core functions like authentication, database connectivity and RESTful APIs
  • Built CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for automated testing, building, and deployment; leveraged Packer and Terraform to deploy to AWS ensuring scalability, high availability, and seamless integration


The ShowDB

(HTML, CSS, JS, NodeJS, Angular)

  • Developed a website, which provides information about all TV shows and movies using server-side scripting with NodeJS, Angular, Typescript, and TMDB API.


Polyglot:

(Kotlin, Python backend with Flask, SQLite, Android Studio)

  • Developed an Android app that allows users to compile source code. This app utilizes an online compiler, enabling users to write source code in 40 different programming languages on their smartphones.




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HONORS


  • Bravo Award for Operational Excellence by Walmart in FY21-Q3. (Sep 2021)
  • Walmart - Rookie of the year at India Development Center, (Nov 2020)
  • Accenture Celebrates Excellence Award in the Future-ready skills. (Dec 2019)
  • Certification of Appreciation - by Cisco, Enterprise Release Management Organization. (June 2018)
  • First prize, State level Paper presentation held at BIET, Davangere, KA, India. (March 2016)
  • First prize, in Extempore, Group discussion, and many more held at SIET, Tumkur, KA, India. (2014-2016)