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karranikhil99/README.md

Hi ✋, I'm Nikhil Reddy Karra

Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer | Open Source Contributor | Platform Automation Specialist

What I Do

DevOps Innovator Specializing in Automation, Cloud Infrastructure, and Scalable Solutions:

  • CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
  • Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Provisioning: Terraform, Ansible, Python, Chef, Puppet
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift, Rancher, Kustomize
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Splunk
  • Analytics: Starburst, Trino, Snowflake, Hive, Power BI

Tech Stack

Tools I Love

  • Lens: Kubernetes cluster visualization and management made simple
  • Starship: Custom shell prompt built for productivity in DevOps
  • ArgoCD: GitOps-style continuous deployment for Kubernetes
  • VS Code: Powered by my custom Starburst Extension
  • Docker & Helm: Because reproducibility is king
  • Vault: For secrets management across cloud-native apps
  • Grafana + Prometheus: Observability combo I swear by

Fun Facts

  • Automated a 3-hour deployment down to just 10 minutes!
  • Code runs best with coffee and late-night Kubernetes debugging
  • I strum the guitar when I’m not wrangling containers
  • I’m deeply passionate about open-source & cloud-native innovation
  • I believe clarity = velocity, especially in production!

Work Experience

Company Role , Duration Highlights
Bank of America Team Lead – Starburst & OpenShift Apr 2025 – Present Helm deployments, Grafana Dashboards, Starburst, Trino
Bank of America Cloud/DevOps Engineer Aug 2024 – Apr 2025 CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker
Trino Software Foundation Open Source Contributor Jun 2025 – Present CLI Tools for Starburst
Python Software Foundation Contributor Mar 2025 – Present Published Starburst Scheduler
Sapphire Software Cloud DevOps Engineer Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 Terraform, OpenShift, CI/CD
Singareni Collieries DevOps Engineer Jun 2019 – Jul 2022 Spark, Kafka, Prometheus
Tech Indya System Engineer May 2016 – Jun 2019 Linux infra automation

Recent Blog Posts

  • Automating EKS with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide
  • Scaling Starburst with Kubernetes: Best Practices
  • Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana

Read more on my blog!

Contribution Graph

GitHub Stats (Real-Time)

Verified GitHub Contributions

  • 4,692+ contributions in the last 12 months (verified via GitHub)
  • 200+ merged PRs across public and private repos
  • 1000+ commits in open-source and enterprise projects
  • Contributor to: starburstdata, python, trino, and more

Connect with Me

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    Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

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    Starburst One Unified Starburst SQL Toolkit with Multi-Connection Support for VS Code

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  5. pystarburst-examples pystarburst-examples Public

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  6. trino.io trino.io Public

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    Trino website

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