Sai Charan Tumpuri

Cloud DevOps Engineer

3+ years designing, deploying, and scaling high-availability cloud systems on GCP and AWS — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability at scale.

Experience

DevOps Engineer II — Comcast (Sky)

Mar 2024 – Present Chennai, India
  • Designed and maintained Kubernetes-native CI/CD on GKE with ephemeral pod agents across 20+ pipelines, reducing idle compute by 30% and integrating E2E testing, artifact promotion, and vulnerability scanning.
  • Built TerraKit, an internal Terraform abstraction with project-isolated remote state, cutting infra ticket resolution time by 60% and unblocking 20+ downstream data pipelines.
  • Designed and deployed a production-grade FastAPI RAG platform on Kubernetes (GKE) using Deployments, StatefulSets, Secrets, PVCs, readiness/liveness probes, and resource limits, backed by PostgreSQL/pgvector, Prometheus metrics, and Docker CI/CD publishing multi-architecture images to GitHub Container Registry.
  • Led migration of 300+ GCP VMs from CentOS 7 to CentOS 9 with zero SLA breaches and decommissioned 40+ underutilized VMs to cut cost and CVE exposure.

DevOps Engineer I — Comcast (Sky)

Jun 2023 – Mar 2024 Chennai, India
  • Designed and provisioned scalable, secure GCP infrastructure using Terraform + Ansible, delivering zero-touch deployments via Cloud Build CI/CD and cutting deployment time by 60%.
  • Integrated InfraCost into GitHub PR checks for automated cost visibility, enabling proactive budget forecasting.
  • Rebuilt 30+ legacy projects and decommissioned obsolete VMs, producing runbooks for incident response and offshore knowledge transfer.

Projects

Aug 2026 – Present

AI-Powered Football Match Intelligence Platform

AI-powered football newsroom assistant that ranks live match events in real time and generates ready-to-use commentary with supporting stats, avoiding duplicate insights across a live dashboard.

  • Python
  • Next.js
  • Pub/Sub
  • Firestore
  • Docker

Mar 2026 – Apr 2026

CloudGate: GitOps-Driven Infra Self-Service Platform

Multi-cloud GitOps self-service platform automating AWS/GCP provisioning via Terraform and GitHub Actions, cutting manual DevOps tickets by 50%+, with a ticket-less frontend portal.

  • Terraform
  • GCP
  • GitHub Actions
  • Ansible

Jan 2026 – Feb 2026

CinemAI: Context-Aware Video AI Assistant

Full-stack video streaming platform with a real-time conversational AI agent powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash, using a 3-tier caching layer for ~1ms latency, deployed via Docker and GitHub Actions to Cloud Run.

  • LLM
  • React.js
  • Docker
  • Cloud Run

Certifications

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Google Cloud GCP
  • AWS AWS
Containers & Kubernetes
  • Docker Docker
  • GKE GKE
  • EKS EKS
  • Helm Helm
IaC & Configuration
  • Terraform Terraform
  • Ansible Ansible
  • Packer Packer
CI/CD & GitOps
  • Jenkins Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
  • Cloud Build Cloud Build
  • ArgoCD ArgoCD
Observability
  • Prometheus Prometheus
  • Grafana Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry
Languages & Scripting
  • Python Python
  • Bash Bash
  • Groovy Groovy
  • SQL SQL
  • Golang Golang
Data Platform
  • BigQuery BigQuery
  • Dataflow Dataflow
  • Airflow Airflow