# Stephen Paul Adithela > Senior DevOps Engineer @ Axon Networks | CNCF CKA | AWS Solutions Architect Location: Redwood City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephenpauladithela As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Axon, I maintain and optimize the CloudEdge product on multiple cloud platforms, using cutting-edge technologies and tools such as containerization, automation, and monitoring. I have successfully containerized existing monolithic Java and Python applications into microservices, and created and monitored deployment pipelines using Gitlab, Jenkins, and Kubernetes. With over 5 years of experience in Cloud Computing, DevOps practices, and Site Reliability Engineering, I have deployed and scaled various products and services on AWS cloud, such as Cloudcheck, which collects performance metrics of 15 million routers worldwide. I have also developed and maintained Python automation scripts, Ansible playbooks, and Terraform projects in GIT, and provided tier 1 and tier 2 on-call support for production incidents. I hold an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington. I am passionate about delivering reliable, efficient, and secure solutions that meet the needs and expectations of the clients and the users. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer (DevOps) @ AXON Networks Jan 2024 – Present | Irvine, California, United States ### Senior DevOps Engineer @ DZS Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Texas, United States • Reliably and efficiently maintain CloudEdge product on multiple Cloud platforms • Containerize existing monolithic Java and Python applications into microservices • Create and monitor deployment pipelines using Gitlab, Jenkins to k8s dev, test, and prod clusters • Develop and maintain Python automation scripts, Ansible playbooks, and Terraform projects in GIT. Peer-review pull requests and merge requests • Tier 2 on-call support for production incidents, root-cause analysis and post-mortem tracking ### Senior DevOps Engineer @ ASSIA, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Redwood City, California, United States ### DevOps Engineer @ ASSIA, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Deployed and scaled Cloudcheck product on AWS cloud to collect performance metrics of 15 million routers worldwide using Ansible and Terraform • Maintained data pipelines to systematically extract and store big data with high availability • Created multiple Mongo DB distributed sharded clusters and also helped upgrade Production DB versions with minimal downtime • Tier 1 on-call support for production incidents and monitoring using Grafana, and ELK Stack ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Bloomington, Indiana Area Science Gateway Research Center at Indiana University (https://sgrc.iu.edu/) • Open source contribution to Apache Airavata software and its components. • Developed and deployed the Django based group-based authentication application into production • Integrated CMS functionalities to enable Gateway Researchers to build, manage, and deploy their websites dynamically. • Enhanced the existing Ansible Playbooks and automated deployment infrastructure. ### Graduate Student Intern @ Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bloomington, Indiana Area Enterprise Systems Team at UITS at Indiana University (https://uits.iu.edu/) •Worked with the Enterprise Systems team to redesign a core application into a hybrid application using React and Redux. • Contributed to developing a secure gateway API using Java, SpringBoot, Postgres and Open JPA to serve data from IU Servers. • Unit tested every component and configured TravisCI to automate the testing during the build and deployment process. • Simplified the data management process for each school representative by building an application that can securely perform CRUD operations. • Wrote utility Scripts in Centos Servers to schedule timely log archiving. ### Web Developer Internship @ HCL Technologies Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hyderabad Area, India • Making essential changes to core PHP codebase, fixing efficiency issues and unit testing the Web Application. • Led an internal Hackathon of 5 people towards the completion of a Study Portal design to help students preparing for interviews. • Followed the principles and techniques of Agile/Scrum Software Development Life Cycle. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Indiana University Bloomington ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science GITAM Deemed University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephenadithela --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephenpauladithela JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephenpauladithela/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01