Summary
Hari Vedam is an Ansible Architect with a decade of hands-on experience designing and operationalizing automation and cloud platforms for large enterprises. He has driven enterprise-wide migrations to Ansible Automation Platform, leading stakeholder engagement across hundreds of teams and achieving multi-fold adoption while cutting manual work from hours to minutes. His background spans front-end development, Terraform, Helm, event-driven remediation integrations (Datadog, Splunk), and Kubernetes proofs-of-concept to accelerate platform deployments in regulated environments. A former senior cloud engineer and infrastructure lead at Capital One and Discover, he blends developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation practices to scale teams and reduce operational risk. Based in Des Plaines, IL, he pairs an MBA with full-stack web training and a longtime passion for open source, startups, and travel—reflecting an engineer who balances technical depth with product and people-oriented thinking. Notably, he has repeatedly translated complex business requirements into auditable, enterprise-grade automation that improved resilience and 24/7 platform support.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Full Stack Web Developer, Full Stack Web Developer at Udacity
College of DuPage
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S, Computer Information System, B.S, Computer Information System at Eastern Illinois University
English, Telugu