Keerthana Pulukollu is a Platform Engineer with nearly five years of experience in cloud architecture, DevOps engineering, infrastructure automation, and secure cloud transformation. She specializes in building scalable, reliable cloud environments and streamlining software delivery through automation, containerization, and CI/CD practices.
Her experience spans cloud and DevOps engineering roles at UHG (Optum), Capital One, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Across these roles, she has supported healthcare platforms and enterprise applications, designing and operating cloud infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure, with additional experience in Google Cloud Platform.
Keerthana’s expertise includes Kubernetes and Docker orchestration, infrastructure as code with Terraform and related tools, CI/CD pipeline design, and GitOps workflows. She has implemented DevSecOps controls, security scanning, identity and access management, and secrets management, as well as observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, and CloudWatch. Her work has helped improve deployment speed by 40%, reduce infrastructure provisioning time by up to 60%, and support systems with 99.9% availability. She also brings experience in Linux administration, networking, Python and Bash automation, and cross-functional Agile delivery.
Keerthana holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Missouri and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Panimalar Institute of Technology. Her certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, and DevOps Engineer Expert.