System architecture · sheet 00

Praveen
Kankatala
builds the platform

CLOUD & DEVOPS ENGINEER

I turn complex infrastructure and operational problems into simple, scalable, reliable systems — and I document every piece of it in the open.

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Portrait of Praveen Kankatala Fig. 00 · Identity scan · The Engineer

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DRAWN BY
Praveen Kankatala
DISCIPLINE
Cloud & Platform Engineering
LOCATION
Hyderabad, IN
STATUS
● Open to Cloud · DevOps · SRE · Platform
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Sheet titleSystem Overview
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About the engineer

I enjoy building platforms that make engineering teams more productive. My work centres on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and operational reliability — the machinery that lets teams ship better software with less manual effort.

My approach is practical and hands-on: maintainable automation, clear deployment processes, clean integrations, and strong monitoring, so systems stay easy to run in real environments, not just in diagrams.

I believe the best way to learn is in the open, so my notes, labs, and reference guides ship publicly on GitHub — sixteen repositories and counting.

What I doDesign and support cloud infrastructure, automate repetitive engineering work, and harden CI/CD pipelines end to end.
How I workRepeatable patterns over one-off fixes. Everything versioned, everything observable, everything documented.
Where I'm goingDeeper into platform engineering and SRE — building golden paths that whole teams can walk.
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Sheet titleComponent Legend
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Legend of symbols used throughout this drawing set. Hover any component for its bill of materials.

AWSAWS
AzureAZURE
TerraformTERRAFORM
DockerDOCKER
KubernetesKUBERNETES
AnsibleANSIBLE
Ansible Automation PlatformAAP
JenkinsJENKINS
SonarQubeSONARQUBE
PrometheusPROMETHEUS
GrafanaGRAFANA
Argo CDARGO CD
GitHub ActionsGH ACTIONS
GitGIT
BitbucketBITBUCKET
PythonPYTHON
NginxNGINX
LinuxLINUX
Cloud & Platform
AWSAzureTerraformS3LambdaAPI GWEKSCloudWatch
Containers & GitOps
DockerKubernetesArgo CDGitHub ActionsGitOps
Automation & CI/CD
AnsibleAAPJenkinsSonarQubePythonPowerShellShell
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaAlertingLoggingTroubleshooting
Version Control
GitGitHubBitbucketRelease Automation
Systems & Linux
Linux AdminNetworkingNginxTomcatJFrogTrivy
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Sheet titleDelivery Pipeline · Experience
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Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

AWS · AZURE · TERRAFORM · PLATFORM OPS
  • Provisioned and scaled AWS infrastructure with Terraform, cutting manual configuration errors by 50%.
  • Ran production workloads across EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM, EKS, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch.
  • Built repeatable infrastructure patterns across multi-environment delivery workflows.

DevOps & CI/CD Engineering

JENKINS · SONARQUBE · ARTIFACTORY
  • Optimised Jenkins pipelines and cut deployment lead time by 70%.
  • Improved release frequency by 40% through better CI/CD execution and workflow design.
  • Wired code quality and artifact management into delivery, reducing production defects by 30%.

Automation Engineering

ANSIBLE AUTOMATION PLATFORM · PYTHON
  • Automated Linux and Windows patching, reducing patch cycle time by 35%.
  • Built Ansible playbooks for user lifecycle management and service workflows.
  • Eliminated 50% of repetitive service-desk tasks through automation.

Containers, Observability & Reliability

DOCKER · KUBERNETES · PROMETHEUS · GRAFANA
  • Containerised applications and supported Kubernetes deployments, reducing environment-related failures.
  • Monitored workloads, logs, and operational health to troubleshoot crashes and config drift.
  • Used alerting and dashboards to improve visibility and reduce critical incidents.
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Sheet titleDrawing Set · Public Repositories
praveenkankatala / aws-mastery

AWS Mastery

Hands-on AWS & DevOps reference — architecture, configs, troubleshooting, and labs for every core service, structured as a real learning path.

MIT · ACTIVEOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / ultimate-devops-interview-handbook

Ultimate DevOps Interview Handbook

Exhaustive, curated guide to cracking DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Platform interviews — Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, IaC, Linux networking and more.

GUIDEOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / terraform-handbook

Terraform Handbook

Infrastructure-as-code patterns in HCL — from first init to reusable modules and multi-environment delivery.

HCL · MITOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / kubernetes-learning-guide

Kubernetes Learning Guide

Structured path through Kubernetes — objects, networking, storage, and running real workloads with confidence.

GUIDEOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / argocd-from-scratch

Argo CD From Scratch

A field guide to Argo CD and GitOps — push vs pull fundamentals through production sharding, custom health checks, and a hands-on lab.

GITOPSOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / web-infra-fundamentals

Web Infra Fundamentals

Diagram-driven reference for how web requests actually work — ports, proxies, HTTP errors, SSL/TLS, plus Nginx, Apache, Tomcat & IIS configuration.

REFERENCEOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / docker-mastery

Docker Mastery

Container fundamentals to production practice — images, Dockerfiles, networking, and build optimisation.

DOCKERFILEOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / sonarqube-mastery

SonarQube Mastery

Hands-on SonarQube guide — from Docker/EC2 install to Jenkins & AWS CodeBuild pipeline automation.

MITOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / Jenkins-learning-guide

Jenkins Learning Guide

Structured path through Jenkins — controllers and agents, declarative pipelines, and wiring builds into real delivery workflows.

CI/CDOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / Ansible

Ansible

Playbooks, roles, inventories, and Jinja templating — configuration management patterns for real environments.

JINJA · MITOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / prometheus-grafana

Prometheus & Grafana

The monitoring stack end to end — metrics collection, PromQL, alerting rules, and dashboards that make systems observable.

OBSERVABILITYOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / Linux

Linux

System administration fundamentals — processes, permissions, networking, and the command-line muscle memory everything else runs on.

SYSADMINOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / git

Git

Version control from plumbing to workflows — branching strategies, history surgery, and shell-scripted automation.

SHELL · MITOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / Jfrog

JFrog Artifactory

Artifact management for delivery pipelines — repositories, promotion flows, and integrating Artifactory into CI/CD.

ARTIFACTSOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / trivy

Trivy

Security scanning for containers and IaC — finding vulnerabilities in images, filesystems, and configs before they ship.

GO TEMPLATE · MITOPEN ▸
 praveenkankatala / devops-build-tools-guide

DevOps Build Tools Guide

The build layer demystified — Maven, Gradle, npm, and how build tooling feeds packaging and deployment pipelines.

BUILD TOOLSOPEN ▸
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Sheet titleApprovals & Certifications
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APPROVED
SAA

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS architecture, scalability, high availability, networking, and security best practices — validated hands-on.

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APPROVED
CCP

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Strong foundation in AWS services, pricing, security, and cloud concepts supporting real-world DevOps work.

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APPROVED
AZ-900

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Azure services, governance, pricing, and core cloud concepts across enterprise environments.

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Sheet titleIssue For Construction · Contact
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Let's build something reliable

Open to Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Platform Engineering, and SRE opportunities. If you're hiring — or just want to talk infrastructure — the channel is open.

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