Hi, I'm Karthik Saladi
Cloud | DevOps | SRE Engineer
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About Me
I'm a versatile and impact-driven Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 4 years of experience across the Cloud, DevOps, and SRE landscape — delivering reliability and scale in real-world environments. My core strengths lie in Kubernetes and OpenStack, where I've consistently supported and optimized production-grade systems, including complex air-gapped and multi-tenant deployments.
I've driven SRE outcomes through effective incident response, postmortems, and observability improvements using tools like Cortex, Grafana, and custom alerting pipelines. I’m passionate about reducing operational toil, improving infrastructure with Terraform automation, and building internal tooling with Python and Next.js.
Whether it's optimizing AWS costs, managing hybrid workloads, or maintaining high availability in challenging environments, I approach each challenge with curiosity and accountability. I'm multi-cloud certified — holding credentials across CKA, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI — and thrive in fast-paced, collaborative teams that value reliability, scale, and continuous learning.
Cloud Computing
DevOps Automation
SRE Operations
Cloud Architecture
Work Experience
L1 Cloud Support Engineer
Platform9 Systems
Oct 2023 – Present
- Delivering enterprise-grade support for Platform9-managed Kubernetes and OpenStack workloads across multi-cloud and air-gapped environments.
- Led customer-facing incident response and zero-downtime migrations, improving SLA adherence and reducing MTTR.
- Automated SaaS environment provisioning using Terraform and Ansible to enable scalable, repeatable deployments formultiple tenants.
- Built Python-based tooling for cloud cost optimization, compliance automation, and database migration orchestration across GCP and AWS.
- Designed and deployed observability stacks using Prometheus (Cortex), Loki, and Grafana with dynamic service discovery and SLO-driven alerting.
- Embedded security best practices in CI/CD pipelines, including secrets management, TLS configuration, and automated vulnerability scanning.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to enforce cloud-native practices and uphold SRE principles such as toil reduction, high availability, and scalability.
Program Analyst - DevOps
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Dec 2021 – Oct 2023
- Contributed to cloud transformation projects by automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible on Azure and GCP.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters (AKS and GKE) for production workloads; implemented health checks, autoscaling, and rolling upgrades.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure Pipelines with integrated with security scans.
- Deployed centralized monitoring and alerting stacks to enable proactive observability for distributed applications.
- Applied DevSecOps practices by automating TLS enforcement, secret rotation, and vulnerability checks in container pipelines.
- Participated in the planning and execution of cloud migrations from on-prem to GCP/Azure, supporting service discovery and cutover strategy.
- Handled IAM configuration, service account policies, and SSL/TLS certificate management in cloud-native applications.
Frontend Developer Intern
PhysicsWallah
Aug 2021 – Nov 2021
- Built and maintained responsive UI components using React.js and collaborated with Product team to integrate APIs.
- Gained hands-on experience with component-based design, state management, and modern front-end development workflows.
Tech Stack
Projects
SaaS Lifecycle Automation Tool
Built a full-stack internal tool using Next.js, to automate provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of SaaS environments across customer accounts. Reduced manual operational effort by 60%, cloud cost by 22% and standardized lifecycle actions across teams.
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