Sama Manikanta Reddy

Infrastructure & Configuration Engineering (ICE) Team — platform operations, reliability, and automation for JFrog Artifactory, Xray, Chef Automate, Packer, and Terraform infrastructure.

• Monitored platform health across Artifactory, Xray, and Chef Automate using PRTG and Splunk; investigated and resolved disk space issues, sensor failures, and alerting anomalies.
• Participated in on-call rotation as primary engineer; triaged incidents, drove resolution, and communicated status to internal customers.
• Investigated and resolved a Xray Docker network failure; performed root cause analysis, identified misconfigured Docker network settings, and documented remediation steps in operational runbooks.
• Designed and delivered an end-to-end Packer pipeline; identified network requirements, configured firewall rules on the Jenkins agent, and raised change requests for network connectivity approvals.
• Migrated JFrog Xray from Kubernetes to standalone VMs as primary owner; deployed and configured Xray from scratch across Lab and production environments.
• Automated Xray server installation using Ansible, reducing deployment time from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes and eliminating manual configuration errors.
• Implemented RBAC for Chef Infra Server and Chef Automate, enforcing least-privilege; audited admin group membership across Dev and Prod.
• Resolved high/medium Nessus security vulnerabilities across Artifactory, Xray, and Chef platforms; leading ongoing authentication redesign covering credential management and access control.

Self-Hosted Home Lab

devdrop.xyz — Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• Two OCI Always Free VMs: prod instance running services via Docker Compose (shared bridge network), and a dedicated runner VM executing Gitea CI pipelines in ephemeral containers.
• Configured nginx as a reverse proxy routing by domain name; used nginx stream module to proxy IKEv2 UDP (ports 500/4500) to the VPN container alongside HTTP/S traffic.
• Self-hosted technical documentation site using Zensical, auto-published on push via Gitea Actions CI pipeline with SSH-based deployment to the prod instance.
• Provisioned prod via Ansible (Docker, UFW, build env); UFW policy restricted to required ports only (22/tcp, 80/tcp, 443, 500/udp, 4500/udp).

Cloud Resume Challenge (Azure)

Azure Static Web Apps · Azure Functions · Cosmos DB · Terraform · GitHub Actions

This resume site. Static frontend with a serverless visitor counter backed by an Azure Function and Cosmos DB, provisioned with Terraform and deployed via CI/CD.

CGPA: 8.83 / 10 · Relevant Coursework: Computer Networks, Operating Systems