Jayaprakash Alawala
Principal Containers Specialist SA at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolJayaprakash Alawala is a Principal Containers Specialist SA at AWS with eight years focused on cloud-native architectures, containers, and cost-optimized infrastructure. He progressed through specialist roles at AWS after a strong DevOps and platform engineering career at Cisco and Synamedia, where he led large-scale containerization, observability, and automation projects. Known for pragmatic execution, he has delivered high‑availability Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, built custom Prometheus metric exporters and fluentd integrations, and engineered soak/load frameworks that scaled to hundreds of thousands of devices. His background in embedded and multimedia systems at Texas Instruments gives him deep performance and systems-level sensibilities that inform cloud optimization and reliability work. Based in Bengaluru, he blends hands-on scripting and tooling (Python, Ansible, Salt) with strategic guidance for enterprise customers, often surfacing cost savings and operational efficiencies that aren’t immediately obvious. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed systems requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Intermediate MPC Maths Physics Chemistry (MPC), Associate’s Degree Intermediate MPC Maths Physics Chemistry (MPC) at Adarsha Junior CollegeHigh School X Class, High School X Class at APRS Doulthabad, Medak District, TelanganaBachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Osmania University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (43)
amazon-web-services10
kubernetes-deployment10
aws-cloudformation10
kubernetes-setup10
amazon10
autoscaling9
amazon-eks9
kubernetes-cluster9
aws9
nodejs9
kubernetes-node9
flexibility9
cli9
k8s9
kubelet9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jalawala/custom-kubernetes-scheduler
Feb 2021 - May 2022
This is a custom Kube scheduler which supports placing pods in a specific ratio amoing nodes using node labels
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 3 months
kubeschedulernodeskube-schedulerratio
jalawala/hardeneks
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
Runs checks to see if an EKS cluster follows EKS Best Practices.
Contributions:1 PR, 132 pushes in 6 months
eksrunskuberneteschecksaws
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