Sudeep Nag Vemulapati Distributed Systems • AWS • DevOps • Production Engineering
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience building scalable, resilient, high-availability distributed systems in financial and educational enterprise environments.
I build resilient cloud platforms that improve availability, reduce operational toil, and accelerate delivery.
Leadership approach, reliability mindset, and measurable production impact.
SRE Leadership
Expert in SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, root cause analysis, production hardening, and automation at scale, with strong emphasis on OpenTelemetry-based monitoring, Splunk-driven operational analytics, and AI-augmented engineering workflows.
Impact
Proven record of improving availability by 14%, reducing operational toil through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and strengthening system resilience using observability-driven engineering and Chaos experimentation.
Core Competencies
Hands-on strengths in cloud, observability, automation, and performance.
Cloud & Architecture
AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectEC2ECSLambdaS3RDSCloudWatchHigh AvailabilityDistributed Systems
* Clients served as contractor through USM Business Systems
Senior Performance / DevOps Engineer
USM Business Systems – Fannie Mae
Aug 2018 – Present
Architected and provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, increasing platform availability by 14%.
Established and operationalized SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, improving service reliability by 18%.
Implemented OpenTelemetry instrumentation for distributed tracing and metrics across microservices, expanding observability coverage and accelerating incident triage.
Led Splunk-based telemetry and log analytics to detect anomalies, correlate incidents, and drive measurable reliability improvements.
Applied AI-assisted engineering workflows to streamline troubleshooting playbooks, automate operational documentation, and accelerate reliability delivery.
Leveraged AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to design, build, and ship production-grade web applications — demonstrating end-to-end AI-driven development from architecture through deployment.
Directed production incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems for high-traffic financial systems.
Automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows using Jenkins, Python, and Bash, reducing manual operational toil.
Executed chaos engineering experiments to validate microservices resilience and fault tolerance under failure scenarios.
Partnered with cross-functional engineering teams to eliminate performance bottlenecks and improve latency and throughput.
Mentored junior and mid-level engineers on SRE principles, observability practices, and incident management, driving adoption of reliability engineering culture across the team.
Senior Performance Test / Systems Automation Engineer
Open to Senior SRE / DevOps / Production Engineering opportunities.
Recommendations
What colleagues & clients say — sourced from LinkedIn.
Aravindan Sairaman
Technical Lead · InfoSys / Fannie Mae May 2020 — was senior to Sudeep, same team
I had the pleasure of working with Sudeep in a MVP project as SRE. He is a technically solid engineer with good AWS skills and in other testing tools. He quickly adapts to change. He constantly updates his skillset and looks for opportunity to do things better and in an efficient manner. He is very good at automating things and is really passionate about his work.
Aravind Srinivasan
Senior Engineer January 2020 — worked on the same team
Had opportunity to work with Sudeep in Collegeboard. He was a terrific Performance engineer and extremely knowledgeable in his field of experience. Extremely friendly and good in guiding people with his experience.
Bahar Shad
President, CMIT of Alexandria — Cybersecurity + AI + Managed IT May 2018 — managed Sudeep directly
Sudeep is one of the smartest engineers that I have worked with in my career. He always is willing to take new challenges and calls them “opportunities for learning.” Sudeep’s high level of work ethics makes him a valuable asset for any employer who would hire him. If I had another chance, I would hire him again!
Devarpi Sheth
Distinguished Engineer, Capital One May 2018 — senior colleague, College Board
Sudeep and I worked on a critical project at CB, mainly IAM move to AWS cloud — supporting 2,000 req/sec on the service side and 300 req/sec for login. He was quick to understand all requirements and helped us find the perfect EC2 configuration with scaling settings. He was new to AWS yet learnt everything in no time. He is very detail-oriented — during Scorematch he completed the most complex data setup in a week that others spent almost a month on. Very smart, and will be missed dearly. It is a loss to CB. Good luck Sudeep!
Don Tidd
Senior Systems Engineer, The College Board May 2018 — senior colleague
We brought Sudeep to CB for his Performance Tuning expertise. His work within the team has been excellent. Very detail-oriented — he will get to the root cause of any performance issue. He was asked to work on a large portfolio of projects: business services, presentation applications, backend, database, gateways, IAM, AWS — including developing a framework for testing reports. Sudeep will consistently have a good solution. Hard to see him go!
Gregory Pursifull
Interests: capital allocation, risk/reward, technology delivery June 2018 — client at College Board
I have had the good fortune to work with Sudeep in the role of Performance Engineer at the College Board. Sudeep has excellent analytical and interpersonal skills. I have experienced his work modeling and preparing test plans, scripting, and reporting on a wide range of critical applications with unique non-functional requirements. These skills and experiences will make Sudeep an excellent fit in any organization attempting to measure and understand the limits of their application and service portfolio.
Jean Mack
Owner, Aria Solutions LLC May 2018 — client at College Board
I worked with Sudeep in regards to performance testing my team’s application. He is easy to work with and knew his job well. He had a lot of patience for re-running testing and re-trying things and I appreciated that. He was always thorough at recording performance information that we could review and showed persistence in getting the job done under tight deadlines. Thanks for your efforts, Sudeep!
Jim Zhang
Principal Software Engineer, The College Board May 2018 — worked on the same project
I worked with Sudeep on several performance test projects. He is very good at writing test scripts, troubleshooting, and publishing test reports. Our team is very happy with his performance.
Marie Godin
Scrum Master, The College Board May 2018 — was senior to Sudeep, same org
Sudeep is an experienced, goal-oriented, and highly motivated engineer. He is flexible when priorities change and drives projects to completion even with the tightest schedule. He works independently as effectively as on a team and willingly assists on important projects even when it’s not his direct responsibility. He’s both a great engineer and a great team member. Any company should consider themselves fortunate to have Sudeep on their team; we certainly have!
Tom Cerami
Engineering Manager May 2018 — client at College Board
Sudeep did performance testing for several projects under my portfolio and was a pleasure to partner with. He identified numerous opportunities for improvement as well as uncovering complex issues across multiple teams. His technical presentations were always well received and his ability to answer questions on the fly was greatly appreciated.
Umesh Yadav
Head of IT Strategy, Architecture & Business Delivery, The Nature Conservancy May 2018 — worked on different teams
Sudeep is very detail-oriented and committed to his deliverables. He is very technical and understands customer expectations around Performance Testing and Business scenario testing. He is a great team player and willing to help anybody. Great to know him.