Summary
Naresh Rapaka is a Platform Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native, Kubernetes-first platforms and CI/CD systems for large enterprises across fintech, healthcare, and manufacturing. He architects and operates multi-region AWS and Azure environments, leveraging Terraform, AWS CDK, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions to enable GitOps-driven delivery with policy-enforced promotion gates. Comfortable in both backend and frontend stacks, he has delivered reproducible monorepo builds with Bazel, GPU-aware Kubernetes automation for ML workloads, and ML inference pipelines using SageMaker and Kafka. Naresh combines a strong security mindset—implementing least-privilege IAM, OIDC-based auth, and container scanning—with production observability via Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to meet strict SLOs. He pairs hands-on engineering (Go, Node.js, Helm) with platform design that accelerates developer velocity and reduces operational toil. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he holds a BTech in Computer Science and an MS in MIS and is known for turning complex infrastructure requirements into repeatable, auditable developer platforms.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at PRIST University - India
Master's degree, Management Information Systems, General, 3.5, Master's degree, Management Information Systems, General, 3.5 at Cleveland State University