Vara Bonthu
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVara Bonthu is a seasoned Big Data and DevOps engineer with nine years’ experience building production data platforms on AWS, specializing in Kafka streaming, Hadoop ecosystems, Scala, Python and Spark. He combines deep operational know-how—designing Hadoop and Kafka clusters with Terraform, CloudFormation and Puppet—with hands-on experience in AWS services like EMR, ECS, Lambda and EKS. An active open-source contributor, he has improved infrastructure automation for prominent AWS labs projects that provision Data & ML platforms on EKS and EKS Blueprints, adding CI workflows, IAM automation and CSI driver integrations. His background also spans databases and middleware (Cassandra, Oracle RAC, Fusion Middleware) and performance testing tools, enabling end-to-end reliability and scalability work. Based in Liverpool, he pairs a strong academic foundation from Andhra University and University of Madras with a practical focus on production-ready, testable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Andhra UniversityMasters Degree, Masters Degree at University of MadrasRCM High School
Github Skills (21)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
iks10
terraformer10
script10
infrastructure10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/data-on-eks
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
DoEKS is a tool to build, deploy and scale Data & ML Platforms on Amazon EKS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 537 reviews, 91 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vara primarily focused on automating infrastructure and improving the project's development and deployment workflows. They made changes to the GitHub workflow for the project's `tfplan` and for IAM policy generation. The commits also included modifications to delete log groups and add VPC endpoints. Furthermore, the user updated shell scripts for EMR EKS jobs.
rayamazon-eksamazonplatformseks
aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Configure and deploy complete EKS clusters.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 628 reviews, 269 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vara's commits primarily focus on infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation within an EKS cluster environment. They demonstrate expertise in managing Kubernetes add-ons such as VPC CNI, CoreDNS, and kube-proxy, automating their upgrades using shell scripts and kubectl commands. Furthermore, they refactored and enhanced the deployment of Kubernetes add-ons by restructuring the module. Their contributions also include integrating the FSx for Lustre CSI driver and Terratest for end-to-end testing, showing a strong focus on infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and testing within the context of an EKS cluster.
bottlerocketeks-addonsclustersingress-controllereks-fargate
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