Vinay Kumar Vennu

Axel Wennergrens Väg 15 · Tyresö · Stockholm · 13539 · (+46)724686238 · vennuvinaykumar@gmail.com

I am a DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience that extends across DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Platform Engineering. Passionate about leveraging technology to deliver impactful results, I am driven by a focus on the bigger picture and thrive in dynamic environments. Beyond my core technical responsibilities, I embrace opportunities to lead, take on product ownership, and step outside my comfort zone to contribute meaningfully to team success. I am continuously seeking ways to innovate and collaborate, ensuring that the solutions I design and implement are robust, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Worldline AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Contributed to the development and operation of multiple infrastructure and shared services that supported a wide range of teams in building payment services handling millions of transactions daily. Experienced in on-call responsibilities and providing support.

February 2023 - Present

Cloud Native Platform Engineer

Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden (Group IT)

Was responsible for end to end delivery of a streaming data platform on AWS in the area of Smart manufacturing (Industry 4.0) leveraging different cloud-native infrastructure and platform services. Responsible for evangelizing DevOps/SRE principles and practices. Experience working as an Acting Scrum Master. Setting up development to production environments within the limited timeframe of 3 months, before going live. Guiding DevOps teams with building reliable services by defining SLIs, SLOs, Error budgets and different operational activities like toil, incident management.

November 2021 - February 2023

Cloud Infrastructure Developer

Ericsson, Göteborg, Sweden (Connected Vehicles)

Was responsible for developing and deploying scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure and microservices for Connected Car cloud platform on AWS and Azure in production environments. Experience working with different CNCF cloud native technologies related to monitoring, logging, Identity and access management, secrets management, service discovery etc. Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and achieving 50% lead-time by parallelizing the deployment of IaC components for CI pipeline. Supporting customer requests and operational teams by solving issues, bugs, tickets. Participated in on-site collaborations and handovers with teams in China and USA.

May 2018 - November 2021

Education

Blekinge Institute of Technology

Karlskrona, Sweden
Master's Degree in Computer Science
January 2016 - February 2018

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Hyderabad, India

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

August 2012 - January 2016

Skills

Programming Languages
  • Python, Golang (basic), Bash scripting
Cloud and Container concepts
  • AWS, Azure & GCP
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Kustomize
  • Monitoring, Logging, Service Mesh, IAM, Networking toolchains from CNCF landscape
Other tools
  • Source control and CI/CD: Git, GitLab, AzureDevOps, GitHub
  • Infrastructure automation: Terraform, Ansible
  • Frameworks: DevOps, SRE, GitOps, Agile (SAFe) ways of working
  • Linux, JIRA, Documentation and Presentation skills

Interests

Outside of my work as a DevOps Engineer, I love spending time outdoors. During the warmer months in Sweden, I enjoy running, trekking, and traveling to new places and countries.

When indoors, I indulge in sci-fi and thriller movies and TV shows, experiment with cooking as an aspiring chef, and dedicate a significant portion of my free time to exploring the latest advancements in cloud and DevOps technologies.

Awards & Certifications

  • Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Architect
  • Ericsson 2021 - Innovation and Excellence Award