sharan@sre:~$ whoami

Sharan Chenna

Site Reliability Engineer

sharan@sre:~$ curl -s -O https://www.sharanch.dev/resume.pdf


sharan@sre:~$ cat summary.txt

Results-driven Site Reliability Engineer with 4 years of experience in managing large-scale distributed systems. Specializing in improving system reliability, implementing robust monitoring and alerting solutions, and automating operational tasks. Skilled in incident response, performance optimization, and fostering a culture of blameless postmortems.


sharan@sre:~$ ls -l work-experience

Cloud Operations Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Feb 2024 - Sep 2025)

  • > Managed and scaled a provisioning API core to compute services, Improving reliability by over 15%
  • > Managed a fleet of 8000+ KVM Based Hypervisors end to end, Improved operational uptime by over 20%
  • > Automated routine tasks to reduce man hours by over 3 hours a week
  • > Designed and implemented a comprehensive observability stack using openTelemetry and Grafana.
  • > Worked closely with development teams and improve incident response processes, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous learning.
  • > Conducted RCA and blameless postmortems to avoid recurring issues
  • > Coordinate and document critical incidents to ensure rapid resolution and effective communication with stakeholders
  • > Optimized container images by using staged builds
  • > Used Terraform and Chef to automate patching across regions worldwide
  • > Devloped command line tools to ease Oncall Operations
  • > Manged CI/CD which are built on TeamCity
  • > Maintained software security by working closely with Dev team to ensure compliance

Associate Engineer - LinuxOps

CtrlS Datacenters (Apr 2021 - Dec 2023)

  • > Maintained and monitored private cloud infrastructure onpremises, ensuring 99.9% uptime.
  • > Developed scripts to automate routine tasks, saving over 10 hours of manual work per week.
  • > Contributed to on-call rotation and performed root cause analysis for production incidents.
  • > Setup Ansible automation pipelines for various enterprise clients
  • > Developed a monitoring dashboards using Zabbix agents
  • > Worked on VMware for provisioning of VMs
  • > Worked on SOC to Implement IAM
  • > Worked with LVM, NFS, Samba and CIFS

sharan@sre:~$ cat skills.txt

Infrastructure Automation

  • > Terraform, Ansible, Chef
  • > Docker, Kubernetes, OCI Build
  • > AWS CLI, OCI, GitLab CI/CD
  • > TeamCity, Jenkins (CI/CD pipelines)

Observability & Monitoring

  • > Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
  • > OpenTelemetry, Blackbox Exporter
  • > Zabbix, Node Exporter
  • > Log analysis, RCA tooling

Scripting & Ops Engineering

  • > Python, Bash, SaltStack
  • > Disk usage analysis, batch ops
  • > Custom CLI tooling for on-call
  • > Incident coordination & postmortems

sharan@sre:~$ ls -l projects/

Monitoring Stack Deployment

Proof Of Concept project for Terraform for Infrastructure Provisioning, AWS Provider, Ansible Automation, Docker for portability, Grafana Dashboards, Prometheus for PromQL and Node Exporter for metrics

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Jenkins CI/CD

Proof Of Concept project that uses Jenkins for CICD, This deploys a web app using flask and uses GitHub webhook payloads for triggering the Pipeline.

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Blogposts

Anecdotes from my work/study, Coming soooooooooon!

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