Open to Relocate  ·  Virginia, USA

Yuva Sri
Vemulapalli

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer|

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, securing, and automating production-grade infrastructure across GCP, Azure, and AWS. I turn complex systems into scalable, resilient platforms.

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Yuva Sri Vemulapalli
5+
Years Exp.
3
Cloud Platforms
10
Certifications
4.0
GPA
Who I Am

About Me

I'm a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience designing, securing, and automating production-grade infrastructure. I thrive at the intersection of cloud, automation, and security.

Currently at Cognizant supporting Dollar Tree's cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform — building VPC networks, hybrid connectivity, global load balancing, and Terraform-automated infrastructure across multi-region architectures.

I hold a Master's in Computer Science from Virginia Tech (GPA 4.0) and a proven track record of reducing deployment times, improving security posture, and building systems that scale reliably under real-world load.

Beyond engineering, I'm passionate about AI-assisted research tooling, having built LLM-powered systems at Virginia Tech, and I actively contribute to community through volunteering and social impact work.

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Multi-Cloud Expert

GCP, Azure & AWS production environments

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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform modules & GitLab CI/CD pipelines

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Security First

IAM, RBAC, Zero Trust & compliance

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AI & Research

LLMs, RAG systems & NLP pipelines

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Observability

GCP Monitoring, Datadog & Azure Monitor

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Academic Excellence

MS Computer Science, Virginia Tech — 4.0 GPA

Career

Work Experience

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

Cognizant  ·  Dollar Tree (Client)

 USA

Aug 2024 — Present
  • Designed and implemented a VPC network across 3 environments using CIDR ranges and subnet segmentation, enabling the platform to support 30+ microservices and data pipelines without IP conflicts as the system scaled.
  • Built hybrid connectivity between on-premise data centers and Google Cloud using Cloud VPN and Interconnect, enabling secure transfer of daily inventory and transaction data for 200+ retail locations into cloud analytics pipelines.
  • Implemented global HTTPS load balancing and internal load balancers to route traffic across GKE workloads running in 2 regions, handling peak loads of ~15k requests per minute during seasonal sales.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, creating reusable modules for VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, and load balancers — reducing 600+ lines of repetitive configuration across environments.
  • Designed Disaster Recovery architecture for the DT Mobile App, collaborating with Senior Cloud Engineers and Google DR customer engineers, ensuring multi-region failover for Storage, PubSub, and Firebase.
  • Established VPC peering / shared VPC across 8 cloud projects, enabling centralized network management while allowing independent team deployments.
  • Troubleshot production networking issues on-call using VPC Flow Logs, Cloud Monitoring, and DNS diagnostics, resolving latency issues that affected customer-facing services during year-end sales.

Research Assistant — AI Full Stack

Virginia Tech

 Blacksburg, VA, USA

May 2023 — Aug 2024
  • Developed a Python-based AI assistant to analyze chemistry research papers using GPT-4 and Llama 3 LLMs, extracting key experimental details like reaction conditions and catalysts for faster literature review.
  • Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that allowed researchers to query uploaded papers and lab documentation using natural language, improving accessibility of technical information across the research group.

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)  ·  ASDA, Telefonica (Clients)

 Tamil Nadu, India

Jul 2021 — Dec 2022
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform across Azure environments, reducing deployment time by 60% and improving configuration consistency.
  • Implemented RBAC, IAM policies, and multi-factor authentication across cloud systems, reducing security risks by 45%.
  • Built serverless automation workflows using Azure Functions to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention by 40%.
  • Configured monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor and log analytics tools, improving system visibility and reducing downtime by 30%.
Academic Background

Education

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Master of Science

Computer Science and Applications

Virginia Tech  ·  Blacksburg, VA, USA

CGPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Work I've Built

Notable Projects

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AI Chemistry Research Assistant

A Python-based AI assistant that analyzes chemistry research papers using GPT-4 and Llama 3 LLMs to extract key experimental details like reaction conditions and catalysts — enabling faster, structured literature review for researchers.

Python GPT-4 Llama 3 NLP LLM
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RAG System for Research Labs

Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline allowing researchers to query uploaded papers and lab documentation using natural language queries — replacing keyword search with semantic understanding across a research group's knowledge base.

Python RAG Vector DB LangChain
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Multi-Region DR Architecture

Designed the Disaster Recovery architecture for DT Mobile App on GCP — global load balancing, multi-region failover for Storage, PubSub, and Firebase, collaborating with Google DR engineers to ensure zero-data-loss recovery objectives.

GCP Terraform Firebase DR PubSub
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Human Activity Tracking System

An audio narration system using computer vision, RNNs with LSTMs, and NLP to analyze live footage and describe events verbally. Features an alarm system for fall detection — useful for elderly care. Published in Scopus (2021).

Python LSTM Computer Vision NLP Google TTS
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Dengue Alert System

A health application that uses user-reported symptoms to identify dengue-affected areas, display statistics on impacted populations, provide safety recommendations, and locate nearby hospitals. Published in IEEEXplore (2020).

Machine Learning Health Tech Maps API
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Azure Serverless Automation Platform

Built serverless automation workflows using Azure Functions with Terraform-provisioned infrastructure for ASDA and Telefonica clients — cutting manual operational intervention by 40% and deployment time by 60%.

Azure Terraform Serverless Python
Technical Expertise

Skills & Technologies

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Programming Languages

Python Bash JavaScript Java
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Cloud Platforms

Google Cloud (GCP) Microsoft Azure Amazon AWS OCI
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DevOps & Automation

Terraform GitLab CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Podman Linux
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Networking & Security

VPC Design Cloud VPN Load Balancing Cloud NAT DNS IAM / RBAC Zero Trust
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Observability

GCP Monitoring Datadog Azure Monitor AWS CloudWatch VPC Flow Logs
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AI & ML

LLMs (GPT-4, Llama) RAG LangChain NLP Computer Vision LSTM / RNN
Verified Credentials

Certifications

Google

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Google Cloud Platform

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Azure Security Engineer Expert (AZ-500)

Microsoft Azure

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Identity & Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)

Microsoft Azure

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft

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CCNA 1 & 2 — Networking Fundamentals

Cisco

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GitHub Administration

Microsoft

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Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

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OCI 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate

Oracle

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Foundations of User Experience Design

Google

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AI for Everyone

DeepLearning.AI

Research

Publications

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Tracking of Human Activities

Scopus April 17, 2021

An innovative alternative to watching full-length videos to understand events at a location. The system leverages image processing, computer vision, RNNs with LSTMs, and NLP to analyze live footage and narrate scenes verbally using Google Text-to-Speech API. Features an alarm system to detect and alert human falls — especially valuable for elderly care.

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Dengue Alert Systems — A Life Savior

IEEEXplore September 22, 2020

An application that uses user symptoms to identify dengue-affected areas, displays statistics on impacted populations, and provides safety recommendations and nearby hospital information. Designed to serve as a real-time, community-driven health alert system.

View Publication
Giving Back

Volunteering

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Software Engineer (Volunteer)

Bright Mind Enrichment & Schooling

 Jun 2024 — Sep 2024  ·  4 months

Contributed engineering expertise to support the organization's educational technology initiatives.

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Yoga Instructor

Sree Yogam

 Apr 2024 — Jun 2024  ·  3 months

Taught yoga sessions for children, promoting mindfulness and physical well-being.

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NSS Activities Organizer

National Service Scheme (NSS)

 Jul 2017 — May 2018  ·  11 months

Held awareness campaigns in towns surrounding the college and organized a nonprofit campus event to mark Plastic Bag Free Day, promoting environmental responsibility.

Let's Connect

Get In Touch

Let's work together

Whether you're looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, have an exciting opportunity, or just want to connect — my inbox is always open.

vemulapalliyuvasri@gmail.com
Virginia, USA  ·  Open to Relocate
+1 (301) 550-1020

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