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Praveen Kumar Grandhi

AWS Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer

AWS Engineer with 5 years of experience managing production cloud environments and supporting business-critical applications. Strong expertise in AWS operations, cloud migrations, monitoring, and reliability engineering. Experienced in managing compute, storage, and networking resources ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Active contributor to AWS community workshops and hands-on training sessions.

Professional Experience

Building resilient cloud infrastructure and ensuring 24/7 operational excellence

June 2026 - Present

App/Cloud Support Specialist

Accenture Solutions Private Ltd • Bengaluru, Karnataka

Supporting cloud and application environments, ensuring operational stability, reliability, and performance across production workloads.

  • Providing application and cloud support for business-critical production systems
  • Ensuring high availability, monitoring, and incident resolution across cloud environments
  • Applying AWS operations and site reliability expertise to maintain stable, scalable infrastructure
January 2021 - June 2026

System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) • Hyderabad, Telangana

AWS Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer managing production cloud environments and supporting business-critical applications with focus on operations, migrations, monitoring, and reliability engineering.

  • Reduced recurring production incidents (~30/month) across AWS and hybrid environments through deep root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions
  • Built and maintained CloudWatch and Dynatrace dashboards monitoring 50+ servers, enabling early detection of performance bottlenecks and availability risks
  • Handled 50+ P1-P4 incidents per month across 5 applications, managing change and problem records end-to-end via ServiceNow (Incident, Change, Problem, CMDB)
  • Managed production AWS environments across IAM, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, ELB, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, and SNS
  • Executed SSL certificate renewals with zero downtime, and reduced false-positive alerts by ~30% through threshold tuning

Featured Work

Critical production projects demonstrating cloud architecture and reliability engineering expertise

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Mar 2024 - Present

Managed and supported production AWS environments with focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability. Led cloud migration initiatives from on-premises to AWS, supporting environment readiness, dependency analysis, and post-migration validation ensuring zero business impact.

EC2 Auto Scaling ELB VPC CloudWatch EKS S3 IAM Migration

Site Reliability Engineering

Jan 2021 - Feb 2024

Provided 24/7 production support and monitoring for hybrid cloud environments. Supported containerized microservices using Docker-based containers and pods, ensuring application availability and reliability. Collaborated with application teams for deployments and health monitoring.

Dynatrace Grafana Splunk ServiceNow Docker SSL Management RCA Python

Skills & Technologies

Comprehensive cloud and infrastructure expertise built through hands-on production experience

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Amazon Web Services

EC2 Auto Scaling ALB/NLB EKS VPC IAM
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Storage Solutions

S3 EBS EFS GCP Bucket MongoDB Lifecycle Policies
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Networking

VPC Design Subnets Route Tables NAT Gateway NACLs VPC Peering VPC Endpoints
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Monitoring & Observability

CloudWatch Grafana CloudTrail EventBridge Dynatrace Splunk SNS
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Security & Identity

IAM SSL/TLS Security Groups Certificate Mgmt Access Reviews
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SRE & Operations

ServiceNow Incident Mgmt Change Mgmt RCA SLA Monitoring Linux
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Containers & Automation

Docker Python Shell Scripting Git Postman Systems Manager

Workshops & Training

Contributing to AWS education through hands-on workshops and community initiatives

AWS Community Day - AWSCC MLRIT

2025

Served as workshop assistant to Avinash Reddy Thipparthi during AWS Community Day at AWSCC MLRIT, Hyderabad. Supported students in building GenAI-powered applications using Amazon Bedrock and hosting them using Amazon S3 static website hosting. Helped participants debug, understand service integration, and see their applications come live, making cloud learning practical and impactful.

Amazon Bedrock Generative AI S3 Static Hosting Hands-on Training

TECHVAAGANZA AWS Workshop

Jan 7-8, 2026

Presented extraordinary hands-on training on Amazon S3 during a 2-day AWS workshop at TECHVAAGANZA tech fest, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vaagdevi College of Engineering, Warangal. Received Certificate of Appreciation for delivering comprehensive S3 training to students.

Amazon S3 Workshop Instructor Hands-on Labs Community Training

AWS Student Community Day 2026

2026

Attended AWS Student Community Day 2026 at MJCET, Hyderabad — a day of learning across five speaker sessions covering Cloud Security, AI, and AWS services. Connected with mentors and fellow community members, staying active in the AWS community and continuing to learn, build, and grow.

Cloud Security AI AWS Community Networking

Success Story Podcast

Sharing my AWS learning journey and how I landed my role at Accenture

🎙️ Aviz Academy Podcast

From Preparation to Placement

Invited by my mentor Avinash Reddy Thipparthi to share my AWS journey — how I prepared, tackled interviews, and secured a role at Accenture. A grateful milestone in my cloud engineering career.

Watch the full podcast →

Education & Certifications

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Bachelor of Technology

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Institute of Technology & Science

2020 • 7.86 CGPA

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Generative AI Leader

Google

2025

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Certificate of Appreciation

AWS Workshop - TECHVAAGANZA

Vaagdevi College of Engineering, Warangal

January 2026

Contact Information

Let's discuss how I can contribute to your team's success

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Email

gpk474@zohomail.in

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Phone

+91 6300816100

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Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India