Pramod Mekapothula

Software Developer

Pramod is a graduate student in Information Technology with a focus on Cloud Computing and Databases at Arizona State University(ASU).
My academic projects have provided me with opportunities to work with Web applications, Java, Python, Databases and Agile software development.
I have conceptualized, designed, developed and deployed various applications using AWS (Amazon Web Services) in my course projects.

About Me

  • Name: Pramod Mekapothula
  • Address: Tempe, AZ, USA

Objective

An opportunity to work and upgrade oneself, as well as being involved in an organization that believes in gaining a competitive edge and giving back to the community. I'm presently expanding my experience in Cloud Computing. I focus on using my problem solving skills to build good cloud solutions. I hope to enhance my skills in Infrastructure Automation and my knowledge of the Web, and become an honest asset to the organization. I am a good team player as well.

What I Do ?

I have worked as a Software Engineer. I have a love of problem solving, and I have lots of experience in the production of Cloud products and web applications.

  • Cloud Computing
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Java Development
  • DevOps
  • Algorithm Analysis and Design
  • Databases
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Resume

Education

  • 2017-2018

    Masters degree certificate

    MS in Information Technology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Graduate Student in Information Technology with specialization in Cloud Computing. I am currently involved in research in the fields of Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Automation.

    GPA 4/4

  • 2010-2014

    Bachelor of Technology

    Computer Science, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (NIT Surat), Surat, India

    The education focused on a vast range of subjects including OS, Databases, Networking, Linux programming, Algorithms, Software engineering. This was where I got interested in working on Cloud Computing. Did project on Cloud which deepened my interest towards research. During my time in college I also participated in plethora of programming contests.

    GPA 7.7/10

Experience

  • 2017-present

    Software Engineering Intern

    Edgenuity Inc, Scottsdale, Arizona

    • Worked as Cloud & Microservices programmer with AWS, Serverless framework and Docker.
    • Developed AWS Lambda functions and API gateway for migrating existing Translation Caching service to AWS.
    • Fixed high priority bugs and worked on containerization of application using Docker.
    • Following Scrum Agile Methodology and TDD Process.

  • 2017-2017

    System Administrator

    Arizona State University, Tempe

    • Developed Ansible scripts for end to end infrastructure automation.
    • Designing, deploying, configuring, monitoring and maintaining infrastructure on VMware.
    • Developed a Web portal to store inventory information and manage scheduled tasks status.

  • 2016-2016

    Software Engineer

    Unisys Corp, Bangalore, India

    • Developed Chef cookbooks for silent installation of Stealth Components, which include Enterprise Management server, Authorization server, Endpoints.
    • Reduced Stealth network setup time from 6 hours to 2 hours through automation including connecting and configuring Servers and Endpoints.
    • Developed Restful APIs, which were used by the Stealth CSA portal to communicate with the orchestration layer.
    • Actively coordinating with the on-site team in USA for smooth development activities, and daily status calls and sub-team meetings for code review.
    • Following Scrum Agile Methodology and TDD Process.

  • 2014-2016

    Associate Software Engineer

    Unisys Corp, Bangalore, India

    • Developed Orchestration for connecting Choreographer (SPC) with Amazon Webservices using the Dasein Cloud API.
    • Participated in design reviews, and identified and mitigated performance bottlenecks in systems while scaling. Diagnosed high-impact outages and drove Root Cause Analysis to fix software and network issues.

Skills

Cloud Computing

90%

Java

90%

Python

80%

Docker

85%

AWS

80%

Jenkins

85%

More skills

Automation (Chef, Ansible)
Algorithms
SQL
Git
Spark
Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Projects

Customer Simulation and Automation
  • • Developed Chef cookbooks for silent installation of Stealth Components, which include Enterprise Management server, Authorization server, Endpoints.
  • • Created VM templates for EM Server, Auth Server, various endpoints and created VLAN's , portgroups in VMware.
  • • Developed Restful APIs which were used by the Stealth CSA portal to communicate with the orchestration layer.
  • Technologies : Chef, PowerShell, VMware, python, Shell scripting.

Meetup Portal for ASU
  • • Built a fully functional meetup portal for ASU Polytechnic campus which will allow students and faculty to organize meetups for knowledge sharing.
  • • Technologies : Java, Jdbc, Servlets, Junits, Html, Css, JavaScript, Bootstrap.
Amazon Web Services application
  • • Used various services AmazonS3, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Memchache, Docker, Dynamo DB and created a web application for Login and registration.
  • • Created a VPC (virtual private cloud) and configured an EC2 Web Hosting Instance and an Auto Scaling Application.
Continuous Integration Pipeline for ASU Meetup Portal
  • • Developed CI pipeline covering the stages Code Quality (Sonar), Code Coverage (JaCoCo).
  • • Jenkins Build is triggered when a commit happens on ASU Meetup project which is maintained on GitHub.
  • • Technologies : Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, SonarQube, JaCoCo.
PyTranslator
  • • Used Python regex module to develop translator to convert TestPartner scripts for which support is ended to CodedUI (C#) scripts which had existing framework functions.
  • • Python Translator reduce scripts conversion time by 50%
  • • Technologies : Python, C#

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