Krishna Chaitanya Vadranam

Cloud infrastructure & DevOps leader

Krishna Chaitanya Vadranam

Designing secure, scalable platforms across cloud and enterprise infrastructure.

Profile

Enterprise IT professional with more than 20 years of experience partnering with application and infrastructure teams, including more than 10 years designing and implementing cloud solutions, hybrid architectures, migrations, automation, and DevOps platforms.

Hands-on architect and engineering leader experienced in translating complex business requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure while guiding cross-functional teams through delivery, operations, and modernization.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Intuit · Mailchimp

— Present

  • Design cloud and on-premises infrastructure for Mailchimp products, including secure connectivity and data center migrations.
  • Automate provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible, and Puppet; modernize legacy applications into containerized services on Kubernetes.
  • Build reliable delivery workflows with Jenkins, Argo CD, Kustomize, Artifactory, and RPM packaging, and maintain HAProxy, Nginx, and mail transfer infrastructure.
  • Lead major infrastructure features from design through post-launch monitoring, manage production incidents, and establish reusable deployment patterns and runbooks.
  • Mentor engineers and partner with senior technical and product leaders to balance scalability, security, cost, and delivery speed.

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Amazon Web Services · Professional Services

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  • Advised Fortune 500 customers through cloud infrastructure engagements, working hands-on as part of customer teams to deliver AWS migration and modernization programs.
  • Architected greenfield, hybrid, multi-account, multi-region, and highly available AWS environments using Landing Zone, Control Tower, AFT, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ECS, and EKS.
  • Automated enterprise infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Python/Boto, Lambda, and CodePipeline.
  • Designed global networking, security, monitoring, and identity solutions spanning AWS and on-premises environments.
  • Led application portfolio assessments, technical workshops, knowledge transfer, architecture reviews, and cloud migration roadmaps across complex organizations.
  • Created reusable internal code, pipelines, whitepapers, standards, and operating procedures for AWS teams and customers.

Sr. Systems Engineer

FOX Entertainment Group · Fox Cable Networks / 20th Century Fox Film

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  • Designed a large multi-account AWS platform and guided the migration of more than 40 applications to the cloud.
  • Established infrastructure-as-code and delivery practices with Terraform, Packer, Consul, Vault, CloudFormation, Jenkins, and Bamboo.
  • Implemented cloud guardrails, security controls, Kubernetes and Docker platforms, and a large Splunk environment in AWS.
  • Led escalations and operations across Linux, Solaris, VMware, storage, identity, automation, and data center migration programs.
  • Managed large-scale media infrastructure, including 10 PB Quantum StorNext file systems and enterprise storage platforms.

Infrastructure Architect

Xoriant Corporation · IDEA Solutions Inc.

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  • Owned multi-location data center infrastructure, development environments, enterprise networking, IT security, virtualization, storage, and operating systems.
  • Led migrations, performance tuning, capacity planning, patching, automation, and service operations aligned with ITIL practices.
  • Designed highly available VMware clusters and supported Oracle, MySQL, Apache, identity, and application development environments.

Infrastructure Architect

MGL Americas Inc. · New Jersey, USA

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Senior Systems Engineer

MGL · Mascon Global Ltd · India

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Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer — Associate
  • AWS Certified Advanced Networking — Specialty
  • AWS Certified Security — Specialty
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP5-DCV)
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
  • NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
  • EMC Information Storage Associate (EMCISA)
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • ITIL V3 Foundation