Hi ✋, I'm Nikhil Reddy Karra

Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer | Open Source Contributor | Platform Automation Specialist

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What I Do

DevOps Innovator Specializing in Automation, Cloud Infrastructure, and Scalable Solutions:

• CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Provisioning: Terraform, Ansible, Python, Chef, Puppet
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift, Rancher, Kustomize
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Splunk
• Analytics: Starburst, Trino, Snowflake, Hive, Power BI

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Tech Stack

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Tools I Love

• Lens: Kubernetes cluster visualization and management made simple
• Starship: Custom shell prompt built for productivity in DevOps
• ArgoCD: GitOps-style continuous deployment for Kubernetes
• VS Code: Powered by my custom Starburst Extension
• Docker & Helm: Because reproducibility is king
• Vault: For secrets management across cloud-native apps
• Grafana + Prometheus: Observability combo I swear by

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Fun Facts

• Automated a 3-hour deployment down to just 10 minutes!
• Code runs best with coffee and late-night Kubernetes debugging
• I strum the guitar when I’m not wrangling containers
• I’m deeply passionate about open-source & cloud-native innovation
• I believe clarity = velocity, especially in production!

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Work Experience

Company	Role ,	Duration	Highlights
Bank of America	Team Lead – Starburst & OpenShift	Apr 2025 – Present	Helm deployments, Grafana Dashboards, Starburst, Trino
Bank of America	Cloud/DevOps Engineer	Aug 2024 – Apr 2025	CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker
Trino Software Foundation	Open Source Contributor	Jun 2025 – Present	CLI Tools for Starburst
Python Software Foundation	Contributor	Mar 2025 – Present	Published Starburst Scheduler
Sapphire Software	Cloud DevOps Engineer	Aug 2023 – Aug 2024	Terraform, OpenShift, CI/CD
Singareni Collieries	DevOps Engineer	Jun 2019 – Jul 2022	Spark, Kafka, Prometheus
Tech Indya	System Engineer	May 2016 – Jun 2019	Linux infra automation

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Recent Blog Posts

• Automating EKS with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Scaling Starburst with Kubernetes: Best Practices
• Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana

Read more on my blog!

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Contribution Graph

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GitHub Stats (Real-Time)

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Verified GitHub Contributions

• 4,692+ contributions in the last 12 months (verified via GitHub)
• 200+ merged PRs across public and private repos
• 1000+ commits in open-source and enterprise projects
• Contributor to: starburstdata, python, trino, and more

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