Pradeep K Surisetty
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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SeniorPrakash Surisetty is a seasoned DevOps and cloud operations leader currently serving as AVP DevOps and CloudOps at Softeon, bringing 15 years of hands-on and leadership experience in building resilient, scalable infrastructure. He has steered multi-year cloud and IT operations programs at Manhattan Associates and other enterprises, shaping service-oriented architectures, incident readiness, and cloud migration strategies with a TOGAF-aligned governance approach. His track record spans large-scale virtualization, incident management, and cross-functional delivery, including leadership roles at Capgemini, CSC, and IBM, with a focus on aligning technical delivery to business outcomes and cost efficiency. An active open-source contributor, he has expanded OpenStack Rally for Nova testing and authored automated Linux test suites in autotest/autotest, applying Python-based test automation to real-world cloud platforms and KVM environments. He holds an Executive AI for Business program from IIM Lucknow (2024) alongside his BCA and MSc IT foundations, reflecting a blend of traditional IT leadership with modern AI-enabled decision-making. Based in Bengaluru, his career demonstrates a steady pattern of elevating operations maturity while keeping client outcomes and supportability at the forefront.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
kvm10
python10
testing10
linux10
laravelnova10
openstack10
ova10
test-automation10
qemu9
pytest9
benchmark7
benchmarking7
cin7
continuousintegration7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
autotest/autotest
Apr 2010 - Jul 2012
Autotest - Fully automated tests on Linux
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pradeep focused on developing and maintaining automated tests for the `autotest/autotest` repository, which is designed for automated testing on Linux. They added tests, including memory ballooning, watchdog, and smbios table tests, specifically targeting KVM environments. Their contributions involved writing Python scripts, modifying kickstart files for guest OS provisioning, and integrating stress testing. The user's work directly supports the automation and validation of KVM features.
pythontest-automationtestinglinuxautomated-tests
openstack/rally
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Rally provides a framework for performance analysis and benchmarking of individual OpenStack components as well as full production OpenStack cloud deployments. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:Pradeep primarily contributes to the OpenStack Rally project by adding new scenarios for testing OpenStack Nova functionality. These scenarios involve creating, suspending, resuming, pausing, unpausing, shelving, and unshelving servers. The user also modified existing tests and implemented unit tests to validate the functionality of the new scenarios. The contributions focus on extending the testing capabilities of the Rally framework for the Nova component.
individualbenchmarkingperformance-analysisrallyopendev
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